Willowstone 2011 - Robyn G Shiels
Main Stage 3.15pm 听 Tweet: G-whiz it鈥檚 Robyn, Shielding his eyes from the sun. 听 What happened?: 鈥淲e鈥檙e going to play some nice songs for you.鈥听 And so they did.听 In what is a slightly strange setting for the often maudlin and melancholy tones of Mr Shiels, today accompanied by a band.听 It鈥檚 so gentle, unhurried and unassuming that it can seem a bit thrown together, which distracts from the quality of song-writing.听 The changing delicacy and quiet power recalls the likes of Bon Iver or quieter Devendra Banhart, in spirit, if not in practice, sparse, delicate song-writing brought to focus by the lack of accoutrements.听 鈥淲here Has All The Love Gone鈥 is carried by piano, a late night whiskey song if ever there was one, and seemingly the place has got colder as a result.听 Even the relatively up-tempo 鈥楢ll Hope Lay Dying鈥 isn鈥檛 exactly a happy song, and so the crowd are a bit nonplussed. 听 Shining Light: 鈥榃here Has All The Love Gone鈥 鈥 hurry up and record this please, so we can enjoy it more. 听 Meltdown: Probably Robyn himself.听 He鈥檚 bound to be suffering away from the dark, dank bars that are his spiritual home.听 If he melted, we wouldn鈥檛 be surprised. 听 Rating: 7/10 听 听
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