somersaulter | rachael yamagata. march 17.

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rachael yamagata. march 17.

I meant to do this last night, but I had a massive headache from all the excitement and the caffeine. But what a night! We heard her sing, met in in person, took a photo and got our albums signed!

Set:

Letter Read
Collide
What If I Leave
Be Be Your Love
Paper Doll
Would You Please
Meet Me By The Water
Under My Skin
Worn Me Down
Sunday Afternoon

Encore:
Reason Why

Sorry, the photos suck. Cameras weren't really allowed and my friend told these kinda sneakily with her camera phone. And we got quite bad seats too. Bah. But.

It was such a wonderful concert and Rachael is all kinds of awesome. She's funny, cool, and talented! And her shows are really energetic and fun at parts and suitably soft and quiet and touching at times. She started the show with Letter Read, a powerful rock out song, and then Collide, which is one of my favorite songs on her EP. The arrangement was slightly different and I must say, I love the live version better. Then it was What If I Leave, a song which I think is on her next studio album, which she mentioned should be released this spring/summer. She went on to explain the basis of the new song and ended up swearing, and then she said something like "I told myself I won't swear during the show, this being Singapore and all, but I also have this policy of being true to myself." Talented, and with a cool personality!

She then went on to play Be Be Your Love. She first played the tune on the piano and most people recognized it straight away and cheered so loud. She was surprised we knew it by the first few notes and told us to sing the first line. I could have sworn almost the whole of the concert hall went "if I could take you away". Okay, maybe not everyone. Did I mention the concert hall was fully packed? I believe it was a sold-out concert.

Honestly, I'm not too sure about the sequence of the rest of the set anymore, but it was something like I wrote above. I knew she was wondering if we knew Would You Please when she started the tune on her guitar since she wasn't sure if the EP was released here, but some guy in the crowd yelled out the title. I was as surprised as she was because (guilty) I didn't recognize the song even though I have the EP. I really didn't know there was even another hardcore fan out there. Didn't think she was as well known here. Me? I knew her way back in 2004. I included one of her songs in my Draco/Hermione fanmix way back then, and I remember debating whether to get her album or to save up for the then upcoming Half Blood Prince book. I bought both in the end. Heh. I suppose her fan base here has been slowly building up. Alright, back to the concert.

She also played Meet Me By The Water, a beautiful song. She went too high on the vocals a few times and she laughed it off. I think she's the only person on earth who can go out off tune and still have people enjoy it. After that song, she made a joke about smoking and points out that's why we should all not smoke and also mention Singapore could use her in a campaign against smoking, given our strong policy against it. She also mentioned the durian (an Asian tropical fruit known for its acquired smell/taste), but she didn't know what it was called. She called it the fruit with the spiky shell or something. I just love her for knowing Singapore like she does. Felt like she really like our little country. She even mentioned she was thinking of getting an apartment here! I suppose she's joking, but how cool would that be? Hee. But she did mention she wanna come back here, so yay!

And there was the powerful Worn Me Down, which she asked us to all sing along to the chorus. That was awesome fun. And then she performed her second new song, Sunday Afternoon. I knew that song was performed live somewhere else before, but I never heard it before. It's now my favorite song. The lyrics are gorgeous (there's blood on my feet as I'm walking away). It started out slow, and slowly rose and ended with head-banging rock. I wish they would release a recording of that soon. It's really amazing!

She left the stage after that but being the pesky audience we are, we demanded ENCORE and she came back out to play Reason Why solo on her piano! Told you she's awesome!

And then it was the autograph session! We literally raced out of the concert hall and across the Esplanade's foyer to the place where they were holding the session because it was only one hour and we didn't want to get stuck at the back of the line. And no, of course we weren't the only ones. There were quite a lot of crazy fans running around. It was crazy. But fun.

She was sweet and cool and amazing and gorgeous. I'm the one in the green Rolling Stones shirt. That's my best friend on the other side. Yes, I know, I should have gotten my contact lens. But this post is about Rachael. Yes. She wore black all over, even black nail polish. Did I mention she was sweet and cool and amazing and gorgeous?

And here's the autographed album cover!

Gosh. What a night. I can't wait for her new album. I swear I'm just gonna eat it up. Heh. And if you managed to read every single thing above, I love you.

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AWWE that sounds so amazing. I'm glad you had fun - and got to even meet here! :D

Yep! Thanks. It was just amazing. =D

Glad you had such a great time. Reason Why is my absolute favorite Rachel Yamagata song. The stripped down version must have been amazing.

Thanks! Yeah, it was so good. *le sigh*

That sounds like so much fun. I can't wait to go to a concert again.
You got an autograph, you lucky duck.

Yep! I'm a lucky duck! =P

Wow! You're so lucky! =]

Yeah I really am. I'm so glad for that. =)

Don't worry about the pictures.hehe my 30stm pictures are blurry.

That's awesome. You got her autograph and a picture taken with her.:) I'm happy you had a kickass time.

LOL. Yeah, concert photos are so hard to take. =P

Yep. Thanks! It was truly awesome. =)

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alwaysavingme.livejournal.com - 2007-03-19 00:20 (UTC) - Expand

Oh, I'm so jealous!!! But I'm glad you had fun. Sounds like a kick ass concert, and she sang all the songs I love. I'm happy for you, thanks for the pics and all!

Yep. It was so kickass. I hope you can get to see her in concert someday. =)

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berrymcgregor.livejournal.com - 2007-03-19 16:27 (UTC) - Expand

wow. I am kinda jealous, even though I don't know anything about this woman except her name :P I like your purse. you should post a bigger picture of it :P

My purse? =D

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spy-time.livejournal.com - 2007-03-19 20:27 (UTC) - Expand

wow! i wish i could've been there
i actually have a recording of sunday afternoon, i uploaded it here on ysi for you.

thanks for the report and the pics!

Yay! Thank you so much! You just made my day! =D

I'm glad you were well enough to go and have such a nice time. Thanks for the pic spam!

Thanks! =)

Woo! What a great night! I'm so glad you had so much fun! You know, I've never actually listened to Rachael Yamagata (don't throw stones! =P), but she sounds like such a cool person I'll have to check her out. I love that she actually had an autograph session, as most musicians just hightail it out of the arena. That's so cool!

*picks up stones* I will throw them if you don't check out her. =P I think I uploaded her album in my big ass music post, link should still work.

Yep, I heard she stuck around longer than the one hour scheduled for signing. Coolness.

How cool! I loved reading your reviews of all the songs :)

*le sigh* It was just so awesome. =)

That sounds awesome.

I haven't heard of her, or her music methinks (but I'm in America, thus I might have). It looks cool though.

You should definitely check her out if you get the chance. =)

Oh dude that is so awesome, I'm glad you had such a fun time. ANNND now I will be listening to her all day long :)

Thanks. Yay! =D

Oooh yes, THE post! *g* Sounds like a great concert! And you got to meet her too! *gasp* That is so awesome!

Yep! It was so awesome! I hope she goes over to your country soon so you can get to see her live. =D

that is so cool! she seems so awesome id love to see her live :DDDD im glad it was awesome :)

Yep, truly awesome. I do hope you get to see her live someday. =)

That sounds so much fun!

Yep! It was! =D

OMG! ::twirls you round & round:: You're SO lucky! I ♥ Rachael's music SO much, especially Worn Me Down, it's my absolute favourite song of hers. I too, used it in a few mixes!

& you = SO CUTE! Love your top!

Yeah, it was such an amazing experience. I do hope you get to see her live one day. =D

Heh. Thanks!

I LOVE BE BE YOUR LOVE (OF COURSE WE KNOW!)
I WISH I HAD GOT A PHOTO TOOOOOOO, hahaha I'm delayed excited and TYPING IN CAPS (excuse that), though I'm still all I DIDN'T GET A PHOTO
Tristan's concert was much quieter hahaha, as in she just went back for like ...10secs lol

Late random reply. You know, it feels so surreal now. Ha. Oh, and I saw some of Rachael's performance uploaded on YouTube already. You should go check them out.

And you should be happy to know I'm officially hooked on Bones. Up to ep 10 now. That christmas episode, and the one before that, sealed the deal for me. =P

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somersaulter.livejournal.com - 2007-03-28 18:51 (UTC) - Expand

Im glad you had a good time at the concert! *hugs* It sounds awesome.

Late reply. =P

Yep, it was so awesome. Somehow it feels so surreal now. Heh.

It sounds like you had an awesome night! And that picture of the three of you together is so damn cute. I definitely have to check out some of her stuff now, she sounds like she has some great music. : )

Sorry for the late reply. =P

Yeah, you should definitely check her out. I have her album uploaded already, if you're interested I can get you the link.