Review - de Roma in Antwerp

Review of de Roma in Antwerp - Wednesday 31st March 2010

I was lucky enough to be gifted tickets to a Luka Bloom concert last night ... and you know what?
He's even better in person, on stage.

My goodness, that man is a superb entertainer. He had his 'sold out' Antwerpen audience in the palm of his hand and he took us through songs that talked of "powerful rain and powerful sex", he covered nationalism and emigration (a song which is also performed by Christy Moore, another singer I've loved for years).  The Beslan siege (a piece of music that came as the Beslan story unfolded on tv in front of him one night.) and there was a beautiful song about an Algerian in Ireland.  He sang and he talked and he was absolutely superb.

There was so much more, a high-energy performance ... two hours of pure pleasure.  So much amusing talk. And one of his guitars had died earlier in the evening, so he had picked up a new one from down the road and he seemed so delighted with the audience he named it after the delicious old city theatre he was performing in ... de Roma (which is another whole story in itself.)

If you have the opportunity to hear this man sing and talk, you must. You'll see it in his lyrics perhaps ... over on his website. That's all. You. Just. Must.
www.DiMackey.com