Carina Round is a singer songwriter originally from Wolverhampton who now lives and works in LA (that must be a bit of a change...) and I came across her because Gary Go wrote a song with her for her recent EP. I've seen Gary perform Backseat a couple of times and it's such a beautiful song I thought it would be be good to see Carina's version live.After a couple of good support acts - I particularly liked Reverso who are apparently predominantly from Ecuador (check them out here) - Carina came on stage with her band. Apparently they had only got together a few days before as her normal band were still over in the states but they came across as being pretty polished despite the problems with the set up and particularly Carina's mic. They also started stupidly behind schedule which made for a very late night for me but worth it.
I have to say that the music was a lot more rocky than I expected with quite a lot of shrieking but I did enjoy it, even though it wasn't my usual type of music. Carina herself looks like a porcelain doll - in fact a little bit like Sophie Ellis Bextor but with smaller eyes - but the noise that comes out of her lungs is pretty impressive. And Backseat was just lovely with some good audience participation:Carina's EP, Things You Should Know, is available to download now.
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