Foxes Live at Night & Day

Live music is well and truly back. After a really tough few years for our favourite singers, bands and venues, it is so good to finally be back gigging again. As soon as Foxes announced a mini tour, tickets where snapped up without a moment’s hesitation. The venue, Manchester’s Night & Day Café! Now this is a great quirky little venue in the centre of Manchester. If you have never been before then I really can’t recommend the place enough. Pop in during the day for food and drinks, with a great selection to choose from, served by really friendly staff that are happy to help. The manager really looked after us that horrible rainy day, so thank you for the fantastic hospitality.

The venue closes its doors for a few hours on gig nights to turn into a live music venue, quickly removing the tables and chairs to make space for the fans who are about to turn up for that nights entertainment. I just love small more intimate gigs like this, where you are literally against the stage and maybe a meter or so away from the singer or band performing…well, if you are quick enough to get in and get to a prime spot.

The support band, STRABE, were fantastic, Angelica Black’s haunting vocals fit the disco vibes well. One of the standout songs had to be their re-imagining of 90’s dance classic “Lady” by Modjo, this one had the crowd singing and dancing from start to finish. They also performed their new single “Life On Pause”, a real dreamy song, with lyrics that hit home perfectly. Check them out on Spotify HERE

Then came the main event, Foxes! After the disappointment of the original date being rescheduled, finally seeing Louisa walk out on stage was just amazing, it was well worth the wait. Louisa is a pocket rocket, she may be petite, but don’t let that fool you as she packs one hell of a punch, both vocally and physically. She belts it out hitting those big notes just as perfectly live, as she does on her albums, so hearing her live is no disappointment; her performance was everything you hope it would be and more. Match that with her explosive stage presence, dancing all around the tiny stage like nobody

is watching, feeding her energy to the hungry crowd, who lapped it up and returned it back to her spurring her on even more. As far as live performances go, Louisa really is up there with the best of them. She really loved being back on stage, unbelievably, for the first time in over five years! Not that you could tell, her show was perfection and her genuine happiness to be in front of a crowd, all loving her music, new and old, was clear for all to see. It could be seen in her face as she spoke to the crowd saying she “was buzzing” and being back on stage was “better than she hoped it would be”, the emotion was clear in both her face and her voice as she spoke to the crowd and that was just raw honesty, that really was a joy to see.

The Tour was to promote her new album “The Kick” but she played a great mix of songs, from all 3 albums and her recent lockdown EP “Friends In The Corner”. Out of the 18 songs it felt like it was just hit after hit, which it really was. “Youth”, “Let Go For Tonight”, “Love Not Loving You”, “The Kick”, “Sister Ray” and the emotional and personal song “Kathleen” to name a few, though for me, the song I was looking forward to the most was the acoustic version of “Clarity”, that song gives me goose bumps every single time I hear it, Louisa’s vocals are just out of this world and hearing it live just blew me away. The other highlight of the night was getting my vinyl signed and getting a quick snap with the songstress before the gig. Foxes new album, “The Kick” is out now available from foxes.ffm. to/thekick You can follow all things Foxes here https://iamfoxes.com/ Night & Day Cafe https://www. facebook.com/NightNDayCafe