I saw the fab Caroline Rose last week which was about the most fun I’ve had with my clothes on in a long time. The show had the same wild energy of her videos and Caroline was as sassy and entertaining a front-person as I’ve seen. She’s also a darn good guitar player and the band were tight as a pair of skinny jeans, cooking up a sound that had me bopping like a happy idiot.
The set list drew almost entirely from her Loner album — one exception being a great cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” — and Caroline introduced every song as “our favourite” which she meant as a joke but I thought was also a fair reflection of how good all the songs on the album are.
I like it when bands make an effort with presentation and even though this was in a tiny, tiny club, the stage was decorated in red roses and stuffed animals, and the band were wearing a mix of Devo-style overalls and retro Adidas gear. Caroline herself came on in a red fur coat carrying a giant strawberry balloon which she tossed into the crowd where it spent the rest of the show bouncing around on our heads.
As usual I was too busy enjoying myself to shoot any video and there aren’t any decent quality ones from the show online, so here’s one from earlier on the same tour.
It seemed sort of fitting with the loopy mood of the evening that at some point a girl in the audience took off her bra and threw it on stage. She was standing next to me and I think she’d had a few too many Zinfandels. Caroline got her up on stage, gave her a hug, and spent the rest of the show wearing the bra over her t-shirt. Kids today, eh?
Seeing Wolf Alice tonight!
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