Sandro Perri

Last night I saw Sandro Perri and his band play a half-full club in Berlin, and simply put, it was beautiful. Beautiful. In fact, I couldn't remember the last time I saw anything like it. The whole performance was based on the fact that the beauty was built and ingrained deep into the songs, so it didn't matter that the crowd was subdued, or that the place was quiet, or that it was the first Berlin concert I'd ever been to alone.
The gig opened with a solo version of 'Dreaming' which, apart from being my favourite song at the moment, is surely the greatest mostly-one-chord song ever. After that fine opening the night grew and grew, with bass played on wires and boxes, vocals that soared and swelled and many nimble songs, one after another. Excellent support act Mantler was also brought in to lend some soul to the wondrous mixture of sounds.
Afterwards, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of the tour-only EP, a handmade CD-R affair apparently limited to 200 copies, which is at least as good as the album, and features a gorgeous cover version of Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams' - one of my favourite songs, and something which was beautifully rendered as an encore by Sandro solo. As if you needed another reason to see a band this good.

Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)
Dreaming
Circles

20 MAY 2007 Geneve, CH Usine
21 MAY 2007 Strasbourg, FR Molodoi
22 MAY 2007 Lyon, FR Sonic
24 MAY 2007 Bordeaux, Heretic
26 MAY 2007 London, Red Rose
27 MAY 2007 Manchester, The Boats
28 May 2007 Milton Keynes, Queen Vic
29 MAY 2007 Hull, UK Adelphi
30 MAY 2007 Aberdeen, UK Tunnel
31 MAY 2007 Coventry, UK Tin Angel

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