River isn’t a Christmas song? I’ve heard it all! :lol:

 

Sis got there before Marisha did!

‘River’ is most def a Christmas song!

It wasn't a great factoid to begin with, to say "Saviour's Day doesn't mention Christmas" - well what else could it be about...

 

He could have gone for: AIWFCIY is the first song to top the charts for the first time which has "Christmas" in the title since Merry Christmas Everyone.

Exactly Saviours Day is a Christmas yay Christmas number one clearly

I think anyone can be forgiven for wishing River never existed x

 

hahahaha well looking at its incredible re-entry position this week, this river has well and truly dried up...

While I do understand the speculation at the charting position of this song last year. I always loved her version and even played it for my parents this year with my dad adding it to his 'Christmas Playlist". Would love it/think it could become a Christmas classic if added to other streaming platforms and pushed. Its lovely :)

This is now finally out as a single on non-Amazon streaming and download sites :cheer: I had a feeling that might happen soon when it was announced on the tracklist of the new Now Christmas album.

Edited October 14, 20213 yr by gooddelta

Yay! I still really love this so I'm glad I don't have to only watch the YouTube video now to hear it.

hopefully it gets added to the Spotify Christmas playlists then otherwise it doesn't have any chance of being a regular in the December charts.

thats great news indeed

I’m surprised it took 2 yrs

wow... saw her in Hammersmith last night and she's so delightful!

It was an odd setlist on paper and I wasn't sure how much I was going to enjoy the show - I like the Brightest Blue album but haven't given it loads of my time, so the setlist having pretty much the entire album was slightly worrying! The past album tracks felt like odd inclusions when so many hits were missing as well, but honestly it was a REALLY good show and she had my full attention the whole way through (impressive as I was extremely tired and almost nodding off before the show began :lol:). I've got a new love for the album now and stuff like Only You and Aftertaste felt really well suited to the show. I think she still could've perhaps included even 2 or 3 more of the hits (On My Mind, Starry Eyed?) as the audience reacted best to the ones she included but otherwise it was great.

 

(did laugh at the woman sat in front of me... she looked disgusted as Worry About Me began and went to the loo :lol:)

the only odd ones for me were the 'Delirium' album tracks and 'Powerful' (and I guess 'Only You').

 

Doing the whole 'Brightest Blue' album was a mood! I wish more artists did that.

I would also have had a toilet break during Worry About Me tbh :D

 

It's quite normal to mainly do your new album + the old hits when you do a tour, thats the standard I'd say

You often find when an artist is a decade into their career, they play a smaller fraction of the new music to accommodate the hits. Don't blame Ellie for doing the whole Brightest Blue album but choosing old album tracks over hits was definitely interesting and unusual for a tour setlist from a major popstar.

i can't say i've ever really seen an artist (unless their just starting out) do a whole album in full, especially like Joseph said, 10 years in. I compare it to Will Young's show a few years ago - The Lexicon Tour - where he did about2 songs from the Lexicon album and the rest were all hits.

 

To think she didn't do some of her more well known hits: Starry Eyes, The Writer, Figure 8, Explosions, How Long Will I Love You, On My Mind, Your Song etc. On paper I don't think people may know a lot of these, but, when they heard they'd be like "oh yeah I know this one".

 

I mean she did do her biggest hits I suppose: Burn, Love Me Like You Do, I Need Your Love but to think she performed lesser known hits like New Love or Powerful were certainly choices (which I approve).

 

I still find the Lights situation fascinating, the fact it's a closer on her show when it absolutely bombed in the UK is still quite a magnificant thing... has there ever been an instance before when someones biggest flop in their home country is their biggest hit worldwide? Maybe Anastacia 'Left Outside Alone' and most of Kelly Rowland's career I suppose :lol:

Edited October 26, 20213 yr by dannjohn

some of my favourites do the new album in full

Phoebe Bridgers does it with her current album on the current tour

and Ben Howard does the same... Ben Howard is actually the extremist, he refuses to play old songs, if someone requests old songs he gets upsets

and has been known to even leave the stage

 

on the other side of the spectrum, Tori Amos didn't play any song from her last album when doing the album tour :D

Phoebe Bridgers does only have 2 albums currently to be fair! :lol:

I know :) but she plays the full 2nd album in sequence

 

I actually think it's very rare to play a new album in full at gigs even if you only have 2 albums