Live: Sia – Corner Hotel
By Madeleine Heffernan • Apr 12th, 2009 • Section: Music, Reviews
Sia
Corner Hotel
March 29, 2009
If Sia is not one of the best singers around then so help me.
The lass from Adelaide impressed and depressed us in 2000 with her major label debut album, Healing is difficult. On her next albums, Some people have REAL problems, Colour the small one, and Lady Croissant, Sia showed a more playful side, and gathered thousands of new fans in the process.
While Sia earned her stripes over the past decade with a solid, diverse body of work, her collaborations pushed her into the spotlight, particularly in the UK. She gathered serious kudos for work with Zero 7, and her rather ambitious cover of Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’. Locally, she has recorded with Lior and Katie Noonan, and in the US, she is now working with Christina Aguilera and Natasha Bedingfield, after gaining huge exposure through cult TV show ‘Six Feet Under’ and some serious praise from gossip king Perez Hilton.
Entering the Corner Hotel stage wearing a glow-in-the-dark costume, Sia opened her set with ‘Buttons’, a decisive YouTube favourite.
Sia sang steadily through 90 minutes’ worth of tunes, including the lovely ‘Breathe me’, ‘Little black sandals’, ‘Electric bird’ and ‘The girl you’ve lost to cocaine‘.
While local covers have the potential to be aweful (Missy Higgins’ cover of ‘More than this’ is a recent case in point), but Sia made gorgeous work of The Pretenders’ already splendid ‘I’m going to sleep’ (written by Ray Davies of the Kinks). The fans lapped it up, with the ladies going especially wild for the goofy singer.
Soulful, energetic and ridiculously talented, Sia sounds great recorded but is much, much better in the flesh.
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