Lloyd in Concert - Space Nightclub Sydney, 2009

Well I think calling this a concert review would be stretching it a bit. Would you consider 6 songs a concert? Hmmm. So anyways I arrived at Space after 9.30pm to a reasonably healthy crowd dancing around to the sounds of Victor Lopez – props on playing that Ricky Ross! What would you call the opposite of a sausage fest? Cos it must’ve been a 70/30 ratio girls to guys.

Now to my first issue of the night. Opening acts. I’m all for supporting local talent but seriously some of these acts made me question the use of the word talent in the description of these people as local talent. I’m pretty sure rhyming on beat is a bit of a pre-req to being a rapper or is this the kind of sloppy emceeing we’ve come to accept in the era of Kanye and Diddy? Can’t knock their hustle though as all acts gave it their all and there were definite glimpses of potential there so perhaps in 6 months time they’ll be running shit.

Also I didn’t get the 20 minute gap between acts it seemed to really drag the evening out especially seeing it was a school night and I was getting antsy once the clock hit 11.30. Meh just getting old I think!

Anyways Lloyd hits the stage after 12 to the deafening screams of the mostly testosterone deficient crowd spitting some intro track introducing himself as Lloyd. Yeah bro we know. Another observation. What’s with watching the concerts thru your phone? What I mean was more than half the crowd seemed to have their phone out recording the show rather than actually enjoying the experience for what it is.

Gotta say his voice sounds great live and by the time he kicked into ‘You’ and ‘Southside’ he had the crowd going nuts. Even leaving my usually staunch self highly impressed. The thing is I think he threw his knockout punches too early as those were by far his most famous tracks. Having said that tracks like ‘Pusher’ and ‘Bed Rock’ got a massive reaction which surprised considering they are fairly recent releases and aren’t actually featured on an album. It’s still a shame that he only did probably a verse and a half of ‘Southside’ before switching. Funny thing was he spent more time dancing around to Young Moneys ‘Every Girl in the World’ than he did singing his song.  He also managed to do ‘Get It Shawty’ and ‘Girls Around the World’ as an encore if you can call it that.

All in all rather disappointing for something billed as a concert perhaps if it had been stated that it would be a club set I think it would’ve been better, along with continuing the party on at Space rather than shutting down and moving the after party to a different club. Might as well have had the club show up at Trademark. Perhaps it’s more to do with Lloyds limitations within a club scenario as the majority of his songs are slow jams that don’t lend themselves so well to the dance floor. The man’s talent is without question and hopefully someday we will get to see the full repertoire it just didn’t happen this time.

Gotta say his voice sounds great live and by the time he kicked into ‘You’ Promotional Merchadise and ‘Southside’ he had the crowd going nuts. Even leaving my usually staunch self highly impressed. The thing is I think he threw his knockout punches too early as those were by far his most famous tracks. Having said that tracks like ‘Pusher’ and ‘Bed Rock’ got a massive reaction which surprised considering they are fairly recent releases and aren’t actually featured on an album. It’s still a shame that he only did probably a verse and a half of ‘Southside’ before switching. Funny thing was he spent more time dancing around to Young Moneys ‘Every Girl in the World’ than he did singing his song.  He also managed to do ‘Get It Shawty’ and ‘Girls Around the World’ as an encore if you can call it that.