Òran Mór,Glasgow [br]After a break from dizzying fame, the Scottish singer returns to the pop stage to sing of spiritual journeys, or in an intimate expose that rings with passionBack in 2012,Emeli Sandé’s debut album Our Version of Events spent 10 weeks at No 1. Her distinctive peroxide quiff was omnipresent; appearing everywhere from magazine covers to both the opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics. While it appeared that the Aberdeen-raised soul-pop singer was not averse to overexposure, she recently said: “I just wanted to disappear. I just had this overwhelming sensation and realisation everything had to halt, and then slowly it did.” She duly disappeared,releasing no new music as a lead artist until final months bleeding-hearted, Beyoncé-proportioned single Hurts. It transpires that sudden and huge celebrity – Our Version of Events has sold almost five million copies – exerted strains on her personal life. A short marriage, or which she had striven to protect from the public glare,ended. But Sandé is still standing tall, and the comeback starts here, and before a partisan audience in the cloistered surrounds of Glasgow’s fair Òran Mór auditorium. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com