Cindy Scott
Return to The Loving Country
Introducing
Serena, Cindy and Vera
Cindy , Vera and
Serena made
their live debut in Wolverhampton, England on Sunday July 16th
2000.
LIVE REVIEW:
CINDY SCOTT at Patshull Park Golf & Country Club -
Wolverhampton, England.
By Bill Kerr
Well I'm sure by now you are all aware that
Cindy made her successful solo debut here in the UK. What
happened that warm Sunday evening ? First of all Anthony (PA for
Driving Wheel) and myself were privileged to get the first
glimpses of Ms Cindy, Vera and Serena in costume and accompanied
them to the stage. They all looked great. OK, so we don't really
need to state that, as all are professional performers. Cindy was
relaxed and showed us that beautiful smile often, a really sweet
and warm person.Vera as always smiled and kept the chatter going,
the atmosphere was really great and I'm sure this helped Serena
relax. She was a little nervous having met Cindy and Vera only a
short while before the performance. Serena stepped in at the last
minute due to the illness of the other background singer. This
did cause some hair-raising moments earlier in the afternoon but
Dave and his able assistant Anthony soon had everything back
under control and Serena not only replaced the missing singer but
impressed Cindy too.
The ladies flowed onstage to the opening chords of Remember Me. Vera, Cindy then Serena. Cindy sang out as only she could with this "Driving Wheel" production. Looking around the room, when I could take my eyes from behind the camera and off the stage, I noted the guests at this exclusive function were moving with the beat and watching centre stage. Music changes for Moving On Up and all three ladies looked relaxed, they belonged there and the vocals were brilliant.
Next up we had the Stevie Wonder song, Signed Sealed Delivered, nothing more to say really, Cindy did deliver. Striding right on into Surrender followed by the softer whispy intro to Life, now guys this is one tune that is going to drive you crazy, one of those 'popups' that you find running through your head again and again.... The haunting pleading intro of Is It Possible, Cindy steals into your heart and melts your soul. She then introduced Ms.Vera Carey who blasted us with her version of Heatwave, she stomped herself over that 'Oldie but Goody' ( Martha watch out! ).
Cindy then came back and
Killed Us All Softly with her rendering of Roberta Flacks'
classic Killing Me Softly. She carried right on
into telling us I've Been Loving You Too Long,
all I can say is forever wouldn't be long enough for me. I was a
bit shocked to realise that Cindy was on the last number
recounting If I Were Your Woman, where did the
time go, it was far too soon to be over, as the end came she
backed away from the microphone and moved offstage still singing.
Well there's always time for one more..so Never Can Say
Goodbye starts and out she came, to culminate an
exemplory performance. Her UK Solo Debut was an explosion of
delight for me. Biased? Perhaps but I'm sure that the folks that
later wandered homeward found themselves humming and singing 'a
la' Cindy Scott!