Soul Glo

Band: Soul Glo
Venue: Blue Diamond
Date: 8th august 2008
Reviewed By: Lyn Harder

Blue Diamond is such a well suited venue for Soul Glo, it’s as though the stage is made for this band. With many talented members, they need all the space they can get! Adorning the stage is Shirley in her stunning outfits and sexy heels surrounded by 8 males in black suits and pink ties. The way the boys are dressed it certainly allows Shirley to stand out as the front for the band.

Tonight we are treated to 3 sets, kicking off nice and early in the first set with an instrumental then songs include ‘kiss my neck’, ‘crazy’ which is sung by their bassist and is a great cover of this song and lastly in the first set ‘carwash’. The crowd reaps the bands energy and watches the band like someone looking for a muse.
Blue diamond is full of fashionable ladies and gents’ kicking their heels off to the music, and the dance floor is chockoblock with groovsters. Stunning dresses and suits set the scene with their cocktails, only things missing were umbrellas in the drinks!
Second and third set we hear ‘rehab’, ‘ain’t no other man’, split milk’, ‘Valerie’ which had the dance floor packed, and ‘more mess on my thing’. Bands that are covered include Metro Station, Jaci Velasquez, Big Daddy Kane and Dizzee Rascal.

Soul Glo give an amazing performance to the ambience of the night, the horn section giving divine treats of sound, the drummer providing back beats, keyboards twinkling in the night, percussion delivering the grunt and of course the guitars melting with the music. Shirley gives one hell of a performance with her soulful voice bringing the music together and including dance moves and womanly banter as the voice, front of the band.

The music of soul glo is funk and soul and one leaves a Soul Glo gig looking forward to the next journey with the band and their music.
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