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  5. A link to a review was added by michelle : Baby I'm Bored: Zero 7 - London Roundhouse - 9th October 2009 about 1 month ago
  6. A review with 3 stars was added by Gumgum2804. about 1 month ago

    "Whilst Zero 7 are officially the duo of Sam Hardaker and Henry Bins no one can deny that their finest and most successful work has been produced from their collaborations with the amazing Sia Furler, who was unfortunately unable to join them on this project due to continuing work on her fourth solo album.

    Taking that into account it was always going to be a daunting prospect to firstly record their first album without her and secondly reconstruct their live performance, which in the past had always relied heavily on Sia's personality, charm and extraordinary vocal talent.

    Album wise they certainly pulled it off with their new record Yeah Ghost being up there with their best work, maintaining 2006's The Garden's more upbeat focus, it's a collection of fluid, driving, rhythmic tracks with an almost pop, R&B slant to them.

    Live, however it was always going to be a struggle and it was clear from the start that the packed crowd here at the Roundhouse may have been a little disappointed to realise that tonight's gig would be sans Sia and it has to be said that it took a while for the crowd to settle as the band opened with a string of tracks from the new album. That said, new vocalist Eska Mtungwazi does have a brilliantly powerful voice, which while not as warm as Sia or Sophie Barker's perfectly suited the more up-tempo R&B styling’s of the new material.

    A beautifully subtle version of Home did sate the crowd's appetite for some of the old material with another new cohort, folk wunderkind Martha Tilson doing a fine job on vocals before Eska returned to the mic once more for an almost unrecognisable version of Destiny, changing the chill out anthem into a driving four four backed disco monster that for me didn't quite work, but with Hardaker and Bins using this tour as much as an opportunity to rework the Zero 7 live experience in Sia's absence as to promote their new material, I can understand why they would also try to reinvent their most defining moment with her.

    If this had been my first time at a Zero 7 gig then I’m sure they would have blown me away but as this was my fourth it was just a little disappointing that they didn't live up to those previous performances, losing alot of what made them so special as a live outfit, namely their warmth, soul and charm and replacing these with fluid efficient rhythmic vocal set pieces and dark bass driven instrumental excursions that didn’t quite capture the magic that I know they are capable of producing."

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  1. 20091006-194543-484429Gumgum2804 (about 1 month ago)

    Whilst Zero 7 are officially the duo of Sam Hardaker and Henry Bins no one can deny that their finest and most successful work has been produced from their collaborations with the amazing Sia Furler, who was unfortunately unable to join them on this project due to continuing work on her fourth solo album.

    Taking that into account it was always going to be a daunting prospect to firstly record their first album without her and secondly reconstruct their live performance, which in the past had always relied heavily on Sia's personality, charm and extraordinary vocal talent.

    Album wise they certainly pulled it off with their new record Yeah Ghost being up there with their best work, maintaining 2006's The Garden's more upbeat focus, it's a collection of fluid, driving, rhythmic tracks with an almost pop, R&B slant to them.

    Live, however it was always going to be a struggle and it was clear from the start that the packed crowd here at the Roundhouse may have been a little disappointed to realise that tonight's gig would be sans Sia and it has to be said that it took a while for the crowd to settle as the band opened with a string of tracks from the new album. That said, new vocalist Eska Mtungwazi does have a brilliantly powerful voice, which while not as warm as Sia or Sophie Barker's perfectly suited the more up-tempo R&B styling’s of the new material.

    A beautifully subtle version of Home did sate the crowd's appetite for some of the old material with another new cohort, folk wunderkind Martha Tilson doing a fine job on vocals before Eska returned to the mic once more for an almost unrecognisable version of Destiny, changing the chill out anthem into a driving four four backed disco monster that for me didn't quite work, but with Hardaker and Bins using this tour as much as an opportunity to rework the Zero 7 live experience in Sia's absence as to promote their new material, I can understand why they would also try to reinvent their most defining moment with her.

    If this had been my first time at a Zero 7 gig then I’m sure they would have blown me away but as this was my fourth it was just a little disappointing that they didn't live up to those previous performances, losing alot of what made them so special as a live outfit, namely their warmth, soul and charm and replacing these with fluid efficient rhythmic vocal set pieces and dark bass driven instrumental excursions that didn’t quite capture the magic that I know they are capable of producing.

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