Concert Central

The True Colors Tour for the Human Rights Campaign rolled into Boston with some amazing talent ready to dance the night away in the spirit of equality and community. Those themes embodied much of the political message of the night, and variously, performers weighed in with their own messages of encouragement. Beth Ditto, of [...]

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Cyndi Lauper is otherworldly. There is no other way to describe her performance. To the opening chords of Hole in My Heart, she stood behind a white ceiling-to-floor curtain, visible only by her silhouette before she came out on stage adorned in a wide umbrella hat decorated in rainbow color stripes and long [...]

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I had heard Debbie Harry was deliciously awful, so I was disappointed that from afar, her act sounded pretty good. Up close, however, her act was another story altogether.
Debbie Harry moved like a glacier across the stage, bouncing in place like a bobble head for long periods of time and then drifting to other points [...]

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Seeing Rufus Wainwright live solo, and seeing him perform backed by a seven piece band are quite different experiences. So tonight, he walked out on stage backed by an entourage, and launched into a rousing version of the song Release the Stars from the album of the same name. He was wearing a [...]

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The Dresden Dolls are the kind of band that cannot be described by mere words, but I’ll try anyway. One half Amanda Palmer and one half Brian Viglione, they are self-described as a punk cabaret. It’s a fitting, however limited, description. They came on stage calmly. Amanda was outfitted in fishnet stockings [...]

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Margaret Cho started her night as hostess of the True Colors Tour subdued by saying frankly, “We’re all happy Jerry Falwell is dead.” Yes, that was subdued. Cho was happily inserted between each band while the crew changed sets behind her with marvelous efficiency, giving us small chunks of her stand-up routine that [...]

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The Gossip had the unenviable task of opening for the True Colors Tour in Boston, MA promptly at 6pm. They got a rousing introduction by host Margaret Cho, who effusively praised lead singer Beth Ditto. Of the crowd, half of whom hadn’t arrived yet, most weren’t at their seats when The Gossip launched into [...]

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Erasure’s 45 minute set during the Boston stop on the True Colors Tour came near the tail end, just as the sun had set. Though the five hour equality lovefest was never dull, the timing of Erasure’s disco-tinged, non-stop rotation of familiar dance hits was a welcome boost of energy.
They stuck to their biggest [...]

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