Vocalist Nicky Schrire (*), London-born, Cape City-raised, and now Toronto-based, hosted a London launch for “Nowhere Lady”, the primary album she has launched in a decade. Bruce Lindsay has reviewed it for us (hyperlink beneath), and Monika S. Jakubowska’s pictures of the gig on 1 August seize the pleased spirit of Schrire’s go to to London, within the firm of a top-flight band: Tom Cawley, Conor Chaplin, Chris Higginbottom and Rob Luft.

Sebastian writes: On this first image MSJ has caught a second when a joke, a smile about one thing is being shared by Tom Cawley (left) and Nicky Schrire (pronounced shreer-er). Schrire’s new album is a sequence of finely crafted autobiographical vignettes… every one has a meticulously constructed form and a intelligent lyric…. Nicky offers a whole lot of cautious thought to the development of units…

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…and but nothing is ever over-serious or self-absorbed, as a result of she can be blessed with an exquisite sense of humour, which she is unafraid to show again in on herself… plus a effective sense of communication, and a information of the way to deliver audiences in and to contain them.

Rob Luft and Chris Higginbottom present indicators of intense focus, however high bassist Conor Chaplin right here has his notably understanding and profitable smile.

Chris Higginbottom‘s mastery of texture, timbre, steadiness stays within the thoughts. With all of this band there’s a sense of being amongst mates. It’s all about respect, admiration, no weak hyperlinks… and pleasure.

I believe I’d have to go some place else now, and hunt down guitar-plus-piano being completed badly, in an effort to perceive fairly how effectively Rob Luft and Tom Cawley interacted and invariably left one another house. MSJ’s picture above captures their mutual belief and pleasure. And our remaining picture, the final in Monika’s sequence has that… “and breathe” feeling. For a job mightily effectively completed.

(*) Nicky Schrire is an everyday contributor to LJN

FIRST SET (all songs by Nicky Schrire until said)

Blackbird (Lennon–McCartney)
Nowhere Lady
Traveler
A Morning
Scorpionfish (Beatenberg)
In Paris
Preserve it Easy (duo with Tom Cawley)
Highlands (Nikki Iles)

SECOND SET

If I Would ever Depart You (Lerner/ Loewe)
Right here Comes the Solar (George Harrison)
Father
This Practice
All I Need ( Joni Mitchell)
Bless the Phone (Labi Siffre) – duo with Rob Luft
My Love

LINKS: Bruce Lindsay’s assessment of “Nowhere Lady”
Nicky Schrire’s web site