Tony Hadley - July 11 2009

What a voice! One of my favorite concert venues, Claustre de Sant Domingo in Pollença, was the venue for this, the second of the Pollença Festival 2009 concerts. The concert was opened by the excellent Barcelona Jazz Orchestra with a couple of numbers which showed us (again) how good they are. (See the September 2007 entry) A total of 16 extraordinary jazz musicians who throughout the concert were really enjoying themselves.
Mr Hadley came on dressed for the occasion in a fitting black suit but would probably have been happier wearing shorts and a t-shirt as it was a little warm. But this did not stop him belting out same top jazz standards and letting us hear just how good a range his voice has got. One of the best vocalists I have heard live in a long while. He included three Spandau Ballet tracks in his set, Gold, True and to start with Only when you leave. The arrangement of True being very jazzy but still very good, whilst the other two being pretty faithful to the original Spandau versions. His performance of Gold was just brilliant showing it is not only in the writing but his voice which made this the incredible hit that it was originally in 1983 and the standard radio play that it has become over the years since then. It would be one of my Desert Island discs without a doubt.
A very accomplished performance by the Spandau Ballet lead singer just wish the audience would have got up on their feet a bit earlier so we could have bopped around a bit more.
Well done to Linda & Kenneth from Porto Colom, who were the Digame competition winners and who later told us they thoroughly enjoyed the concert.

They not only won two free tickets for the concerts but also 2 autographed Tony Hadley cd's thanks to www.mandolinmusic.co.uk Take a look at their site for all things Tony Hadley.