Opening with the title song from their latest album, Notes & Rhymes, this is a set brimming with the kind of confidence which throws in favourites like Letter From America and Cap In Hand before an adoring audience can draw breath.
Swiftly we click through the emotional gears, with Let’s Get Married dedicated to a betrothed couple in the crowd. Another song from the new record, David Dempsey’s Sing All Our Cares Away, ups the emotional ante without cloying, and their most recent cover of Wreckless Eric’s Whole Wide World has the rafters ringing to its joyous refrain. I’m On My Way rides the momentum as the audience strap themselves in for a couthy thrill ride.
A few years ago it was exhilarating when Craig and Charlie Reid had the Glasgow Garage reverberating to the strains of Sunshine On Leith, and tonight it nearly takes the newly renovated roof off the Usher Hall.
New guitarist Zac Ware adds the Duane Eddy twang thang to favourites old and new, and their version of My Old Friend The Blues, which is a highlight of the encore.
It will be interesting to see if their version of Kings Of Leon’s Seventeen become a future live fixture, but for now their crowd pleasing repertoire will take some improving.
The Proclaimers
Usher Hall Edinburgh
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