After 8 years of waiting for TeedraMoses to grace a stage in Birmingham City, England (as all of her previous shows were in London which most of us never
knew about until afterwards), Birmingham finally got the chance to have a
night of our own with the beautiful and ridiculously talented Teedra Moses
herself.
When the tickets were released earlier this year and I caught
wind of the show whilst still living overseas, I made damn sure that the
time zone difference did not stop me from getting up at the crack of dawn to
buy my ticket, there was no way after all those years of waiting I was going to
miss this.
To sum the night up with Miss Moses as amazing would be an understatement.
It is very rare these days that you go to watch someone perform live and you are left
standing there with your jaw on the floor in sheer awe of such pure and ‘real’
talent, because let’s face it, anybody can be an artist these days talented or
not. But Teedra Moses brings talent to a whole other level. It is not often
that you go to a concert and the artist sounds exactly no wait, even better
than they do on their CD.
As a woman of soul with a whole lot of soul, Moses did not
over sing her songs unlike some R&B divas, which in my opinion allowed
every single person in the o2 Academy to sing
along with her, and boy did we sing. We all sang
our hearts out with passion, love and admiration for and with Ms Moses. We sang
each song as though we felt every single lyric because it felt so personal to
us all.
The way that Teedra interacted with the audience for the
whole night was just pure magic. The type of vibe that she had going on is a
vibe hard to find these days, but Miss Moses managed to create that vibe with her
charismatic and sassy character, and with songs that are going 8 years strong
or even older, that felt as new as the must have shoes of the season still
sitting in the shop window.
There are not many people that can release an album and
almost a decade later still be touring internationally off the success of that album. ‘ComplexSimplicity’ was not only the best R&B Album of 2004, it was
debatably the best R&B album of the decade, and still gives some of the
R&B albums released today, by new and old talent a run for their money.
Teedra did a good mix of new and old stuff and opened the
show by singing the UK’s very own Soul II Soul ‘Back toLife’, and at the end of the show she signed her CD’s and took pictures
with fans, and unlike some other celebrities who allow their names to be used
for after parties, Miss Moses actually attended and hosted hers.
I think it’s fair to say that our night with Teedra Moses
was everything and more that what we anticipated; it was well worth the years
of waiting and worth every last penny.
Love Sara (A Teedra
Moses fan from day dot.) .xxxx
