Suzanne Vega review

As my fellow festival-goer next to me says, Suzanne conjures up images of Grenwich Village the moment she opens her mouth, and she does, she’s steeped in it. 99.8 Fahrenheit degrees is the perfect opener and a fair chunk of the crowd clearly have all three of her earlier albums in their possession. She’s fuzzed it up a bit with a blurry guitar to accompany her acoustic, and well tamed bass and drums.

Marlene Watches From The Wall is perfectly sung and many of the crowd know it word for word. By the time Left of Centre starts we have a clap along bass line and Suzanne’s warmed up now removing her black jumper to reveal she’s in red. But still masked in her Beat sunglasses.

When Heroes Goes Down really warm the crowd up, my eight year old who has never heard her loves her and so clearly do the audience. She offers to tell us a long tale as she’s heard we’re a very mellow crowd and captivates and enthrals with the Queen and the Soldier.



She then pays homage to last night’s headliners The Who with a passionate performance of Behind Blue Eyes which goes down a storm. The E-bow comes out for newer tune The Pilgrimage which is also tremendously delivered and Blood Makes Noise gets the crowd off the floor and dancing.

There’s a flutter of appreciation from the crowd as the first notes of Luka start and her final song is of course Tom’s Diner with us all doing the do do doo bits and she sings it a cappella and everyone claps the bassline. It’s a great tune and we don’t waver building to a crescendo we call out for more as it was over far too soon.

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