The combination of Union Chapel's famed acoustics and the bleak intensity of “Hospice” should have been a match made in Heaven, albeit a pretty depressing one with a propensity to make you cry, but alas, it was not to be. Whilst Peter Silberman's voice broke the heart at times and individual moments (especially “Wake” and “Epilogue”) almost met my, admittedly, impossibly high expectations, the whole was just too muted to fully capitalise on the opportunity. The drums seemed too brash with the more reserved performance, and the horns were underutilised, most disappointingly on “Sylvia”. That's not to say it wasn't a very good show, but it could have been so, so much more.
(Photo: John Gleeson (Flickr)
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