MELISSA!

[semperfiona]

I've had the tickets for weeks, but somehow couldn't quite believe we
were really going...Last night was the show. She sang and played for
nigh three hours, interspersed with chatting about her life and music. I
do wish they'd had her voice miked louder. Especially when she was just
talking, and the band were playing quietly behind her, it was very
difficult to hear her words.

But MELISSA!

At the beginning of the show, she told everybody she was going to play
for two and a half hours, and that no one was to leave early on account
of work tomorrow: "You don't have to be at work until noon. It's the
Melissa excuse." Very few people did (leave early), in fact, and we
weren't among them. We sang along and shouted and screamed with glee
until the very end. I'm completely exhausted this morning.

But MELISSA!

She played a wide selection of songs from both old albums and new ones,
enticing the audience to shout and sing along. "I wanna fall in love"
was not one of them, sadly for Tammie and me. I kept hoping, all the way
to the last encore. Someone's car stereo was playing it in the street as
we returned to our car, though.

But MELISSA!

I've never seen so many dykes in one place at one time. Tammie tells me
that's because I haven't been to Michigan [Womyn's Music Festival].
Maybe in a year or two.

Comments

[faedrake.livejournal.com]

Very cool, I'd love to see her in concert. I saw her on Oprah recently talking about her recovery, it was very inspirational.