Eliane at KK Thun

I’ve seen Eliane once some years ago as a support of DJ Bobo and could go to see her at KK Thun. I didn’t exactly know, what I had to expect on that evening, I hadn’t seen her since anymore. It was a pretty nice concert so far, but I don’t really have the need to go again.

I knew it was seated and I soon realized on location that I was defintively one of the few young ones in the audience. I’d say the average age was between 40-45 at least, even with the quite few children by comparing. I was thinking if this was the typical SRF audience, who watched the tv show back then, or why was the audience this older?

Eliane Müller won the second season of “Die grössten Schweizer Talente” (biggest Swiss talents) back in 2012. I’ve seen about 15mins of the first season and never watched it again after. But the young Luzern woman is obviously not just a casting winner, but pretty successful touring with her 3rd album “Bright Lights. She soon received gold for the album and her KK Thun concert was with only few seats left almost sold out. She’s been on tour with a big band, among them Christian Wild on keyboard (Pegasus, The Rabbis) and  Sandro Cadeddu at drums (Kino Kino), plus there was a string orchestra. The stage was very pretty with many bright lights, white flowers and a white bench. The band was also dressed very elegant. In the background there was her name in big lighted letters on the wall.

Eliane got nice songs like “Keep You Safe” [Video here], that she wrote for her little sister, or  “The Higher They Fly” [Video here] as well as “Venus & Mars” [Video here]. She mainly sings in English, but even partly in Italian. Next to her own songs there were covers by The Script, Lucio Dalla and Laura Pausini on the setlist. I esp. liked the italian songs as “Anello graffiato”. They seemed somehow more special than the English ones. She often sat at the piano herself, but also got accompaigned at times by the pianist or guitar player.

In between she sat down on the bench and invited a little girl to sit with her. She told about the first praline, that she created and could be bought with her merchandise. And she gave some to the little one of course. Very cute and likable, but the tellings and stories sometimes became a bit dragging.

For “Bight Lights” from the same titled album, she asked the audience to take out phones and lighters, what would have been fitting well with that song title. But, only a handfull of people followed her request and as I got to know later, that was compared to other places a lot. And this in the usually lame thun…?! I thought that was quite annoying and a pitty. And really can’t follow why the audience wouldn’t go along. Not possible that none got a phone or lighters?!

In her programme Eliane plays several uptempo songs, but while I was looking around in the hall, everyone was sitting on their seats rather stiff. The audience was pretty bad. And the rhythmic clapping along with some songs as if we were at Musikantenstadel, didn’t make anything better. It was a pop concert and Eliane still so young… I must have imagined the concert to be different somehow. And then there was even a break inbetween.

So yes, it was pretty nice, but with everything coing with it, I’ve seen it after one time.

Website: www.elianemusic.com

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