Enchanting, genuine and highly entertaining are words that probably best describe Lay Low’s performance at the queer concert in Harpa last Friday – the first time she’s ever graced an audience with her presence at the concert hall.
After being a little hesitant and shy to begin with, asking the “foreign” guests to excuse her bad English – which was no need for – Lay Low and band took the stage with a storm, the singer and songwriter showing that she’s equally conversant in pop, rock, blues, country, punk, folk song and you just name it.
Each and every song started with a back story, adding even more depth to the whole performance, especially when Lay Low introduced two members of the band, a back singer as her girlfriend and the drummer as her former husband.
Unfortunately and to many a big disappointment singer Paul Oscar had to cancel due to a bad case of the flue. Household favorites in Iceland, Viggo and Violetta , who hosted the evening, were asked to to fill his shoes, and did so with (obvious) pleasure bringing glitter, glam and a lot of laughter to the show with a number of (mostly) musical hits – including Touch Me, The Girl From 14 G and The Time Warp which ended with a part of the audience rising up from their seats and dancing and singing from the top of their lungs.
Guests generally seemed to be very pleased with the show, part of them going straight off to a Northern Lights Tour and then later joining the rest at gay bar Truno (or Barbara, Laugavegur 22, Reykjavík) where the party went on for hours until late in the morning or just about the time when GayIceland correspondents felt it was time to go to bed.