Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Originally published by L.S. Media. April 17th 2010.
Although Siobhan Fahey has been around the music scene since the early eighties, (originally with the pop friendly girl group Bananarama and then with the critically successful Shakespears Sister), the opening night of the tour seemed like the start of new career for this artistically creative woman.
Coming on stage, dressed in a silver, futuristic sci-fi outfit, she wowed everybody present by producing one hell of a gig. Opening the set with the vocally strong Heroine and Goodbye Cruel World Siobhan banished any fears of how she would come across on stage by being enigmatic and a true performer in every sense of the word.
Shakespears Sister released for the first time in five years a brand new studio album and it was from this that the majority of the set came from.
There may have been those who said that Siobhan could not survive as an artist without Marcella Detroit but as the band powered their way through tracks such as Pulsatron, Bad Blood and the superb A Man in Uniform, it was easy to see why Songs from the Red Room is considered to be the album where Siobhan came of age as an artist.
Skilfully playing with the audience with her incredible facial changes which showed off every emotion Siobhan must have been feeling as she lapped the audience’s reactions, they closed the night with My 16th Apology, Bitter Pill and the excellent I Don’t Care.
The band thrilled the assembled audience with the encores Your History from the 1989 album Sacred Heart and Hello (turn your radio on).
Siobhan seemed stunned to get a second call for more encores from a very loyal crowd and sheepishly acknowledged that she had one more song but the band hadn’t rehearsed it properly, they then produced a stunning version of the Bananarama song Really Saying Something.
Siobhan Fahey looks once again to be settled, happy in her work and enjoying life and on the basis of this one night in Liverpool there are many good times ahead for her and surely there will be no one that can deny her that.
Ian D. Hall