Edinburgh<\/a> audience, while her unshowy, anonymous musicians – we only ever learn their first names – backed her up impeccably.\n<\/p>\n\n Read more\n<\/p>\n
\n The singer\u2019s current tour is entitled \u201cHeavenly Hits\u201d and the contents matched the label. This 90-minute set concentrated on a solo career that garnered 19 top 40 singles in the 1980s and 1990s (seven of them made it into the top 10 and Heaven is a Place on Earth famously reached the number one spot).\n<\/p>\n
\n After her punk beginnings in The Germs and her beat group breakthrough with The Go-Gos, Carlisle\u2019s subsequent solo career majored on glossy AOR and tonight\u2019s performance matched the sheen of the records she became famous for.\n<\/p>\n
\n This was a slick, polished, impressive performance. But there did feel something missing in its very smoothness. Carlisle\u2019s songbook is full of big hooks, singalong choruses and Hollywood-sized emotion, and yet in some ways this evening was all surface. Onstage, Carlisle is chatty yet unrevealing. We learn that Summer Rain is her own favourite among her songs, but that\u2019s about as open as she gets.\n<\/p>\n
\n It\u2019s as open as she needs to be, of course. It\u2019s not incumbent on anyone to expose themselves for our entertainment. But it did make for a frictionless evening.\n<\/p>\n
\n So much so that when she sang the only Go-Gos track of the night, Our Lips are Sealed, written by her former band mate Jane Wiedlin and the late, great Terry Hall, the controlled anger and resilience of the lyric stuck out for its agitated emotion.\n<\/p>\n
\n That was during her first encore. Carlisle returned for a second, during which she finally sang a track from her new covers album, Once Upon a Time in California; the Albert Hammond-Mike Hazlewood ballad The Air that I Breathe, a hit for The Hollies back in 1974.\u00a0 This was one final chance to show off that voice. A chance she took emphatically.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd you complete the heart of me,\u201d she continued, her hands now pounding her chest, \u201cOur love is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}