A few months ago I saw an advertisement on Instagram for Zelda by Candlelight. The concert was a piano one, in an old church up in Leeds. I decided to go for it and book tickets. The tickets were £40 each for premium (front row) which to be honest wasn’t much higher than regular B or C tier tickets, so I got two. One for me and one for the lady.
The day arrived on Friday and we headed up to Leeds for the concert. Of course I dressed up… Leather suit it was. I decided against the leather shirt as well as it was rather warmer than I’d be comfortable in.
We sat outside for a few minutes until the doors opened. There was a front lawn with benches so it was really nice.
The concert was really good, but not brilliant. The pianist was excellent, the venue was lovely – but a couple of things disappointed me.
- The seats were not comfortable! The chairs were really hard, narrow, and squeezed too close together.
- It was an electric piano not a real acoustic one.
Two was my biggest annoyance. If you’re selling a piano concert for such a huge amount of money (250ish people in paying a lot of money) then surely a baby grand would not be off the cards? And not an electric keyboard inside an enclosure? We’ve had pianos hired in when I was running gigs. It’s not too difficult to do, and the companies deliver, tune, and collect!
Still, it sounded ok and I still enjoyed it; and I’d still go again.
You was gorgeous as usual in your leather suit. The venue was very interesting and elegant. Top bad about the SouthWest Airline style narrow and close seats.