k.d. lang continues her Australian Watershed tour with three shows in Melbourne this week. Following a recent set in Perth, Perth Now said that despite the autumn chill, there was a warm reception all around at this "magnificent" set. "Long live the queen," the paper declared, saying k.d. "is charm personified ... When she soared through the chorus of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' it was like you were hearing the song for the very first time."
k.d. lang continues her Australian Watershed tour with three shows in Melbourne this week. She was in Western Australia this past weekend for an outdoor concert at Perth's Pioneer Women's Memorial in Kings Park on Saturday. Perth Now's Polly Coufos said the despite the autumnal chill, there was a warm reception all around at this "magnificent" set. Hails Coufos: "Long live the queen."
"Ms Lang is charm personified," writes the reviewer, who continues:
When she soared through the chorus of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" [from k.d.'s Nonesuch debut, Hymns of the 49th Parallel] it was like you were hearing the song for the very first time. That's saying something when it's a song you've known like the back of your hand for more than 20 years. The goosebumps may have been caused by the rapidly falling temperature but I don't think so.
Coufos reports that, with a set "heavy with tracks from her latest album, Watershed ... there wasn't one song that didn't fire and not a moment where the energy lagged."
To read the concert review, visit news.com.au/perthnow.
