{"id":6939,"date":"2014-12-10T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loud-clear.co.uk\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2019-11-13T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T12:08:53","slug":"ben-howard-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loud-clear.co.uk\/edinburgh\/ben-howard-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Howard (Live)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to be among the 2000 (or so) people that crammed themselves into Edinburgh&#8217;s Usher Hall, eager to spend a cold, wet Saturday night with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loud-clear.co.uk\/ben-howard\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ben Howard<\/span><\/a> and his amazing band. We&#8217;d had to wait a while since falling for his amazingly soulful sound but it was absolutely worth it.<\/p>\n<p>The venue was\u00a0perfect.\u00a0Even Ben, mentioned how lovely it was. And the\u00a0gig itself turned out to feel slightly like an out of body experience\u00a0with the crowd alternating between mesmerised-into-silence and almost-taking-the-roof-off appreciation. There was however, a bit of banter between some songs with (an obviously having a good time) Ben. It turns out that he likes a drink!<\/p>\n<p>Recent album, I Forgot Where We Were is quite a departure from his first and I get the impression that the new, slightly downbeat but incredibly intense songs might have left some fans of his previous work a little confused. Personally, I adore it and hearing it performed live was a real pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I01_UbNd3xY\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">This show<\/span><\/a> was recorded at The Bataclan, Paris on December 1st and it&#8217;s the closest thing I can offer you to the real thing. Prepare to be amazed at how good it sounds even when squeezed through the wonder of the interweb&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>p.s. I must mention support band\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HissGoldenMessenger\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Hiss Golden Messenger<\/span><\/a>\u00a0who were surprisingly enjoyable and looked like they were having as good a time as the crowd!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to be among the 2000 (or so) people that crammed themselves into Edinburgh&#8217;s Usher Hall, eager to spend a cold, wet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ben Howard (Live) - 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