RY: hello! how r u?
me: (shocked/stunned. pauses) OH! great! thank you! thanks for comin!
RY: thank you! oh nice shirt!
me: (wide smile) thanks! bye!
RY: bye!
so this has been another FANTASTIC day for me. the first concert i caught in the Esplanade concert hall, and my first visit(successful one) to something from the Mosaic Music Festival. despite a few rough notes, Ms Rachel Yamagata more than made up for it with her smokey voice, candid talks, and jokes about herself. she didnt hide the fact tt she didnt know the word "pensive", and thought tt the noun for it would be "pension", but suddenly remembered tt "it's a word for money". she had toussled and unkempt hair, and Isaac said she got fat and her outfit was a lil la-ta. but it didnt seem like she nor the audience gave two hoots about it anyway. and tt's wat's great bout her, self-confidence without being arrogant, and with a sense of candid humour.
the esplanade concert hall is frakkin gorgeous. the lights. oh they're just SO beautiful. it sounded so good i felt like i was not in Singapore but prob in the Sydney opera house or something. gorgeous lights.
after the short performance (bout 1.5 hours), she had an autograph session. she took time to take pictures with everyone and make small chats, but because we're queueing near the end, and the session was limited to an hour, we cldnt get one-on-one pictures with her. Isaac let her sign his ipod nano skin, way cool! (dude if u're readin this, there's still space for DR! hahaha) the esplanade staff were very professional and nice, and the thing with western celebrities, they actually allow more personal contact with the fans. heck they didnt even let me take a pic OF Gary Cao Ge when i went to NTU. humph.
the session started with Letter Read, and ended with an encore performance of Reason Why with just the piano. i think tt song got some of them tearing, and many gave her a standing ovation after tt. i was quite surprised at how Singaporeans have become so open with their love. i saw a thousand plus people tt were truely here for the music and had a memorable evening, so gotta give the organisers props for a continually and increasingly successful festival. even outside the esplanade, it was buzzing with free shows and we were pleasantly surprised tt Spore does have a night life. we were also shocked at the number of ppl who came to support RY. who knew she was even famous here?! (we're still awed and cant get over the fact tt Damien Rice IS popular in spore, so much so tt his tics got snapped up on day 1 and we cldnt get our hands on it).
sadly she didnt sing I'll Find A Way, 1963 and Quiet.
and then it was supper at glutton's bar before heading home.
this is fantastic. i cant wait for next yr to come. i'm hopin they brin KT Tunstall!!! and Pong Nam!!! and Chet Lam!!! and at17!!! and Bjork!!!(but it'll be damn x and hot) and Joni Mitchell!!! muahahhahaa....
lalala i had a great night. more concerts plssssss!!!
snapshots while waiting for Isaac.
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