The deeply emotive truths that pour from the lyrics of Southend based artist Amy Glover are truly something to behold. To see those truths falling from her lips in a live setting with her band Yes Today was both a beautiful and moving experience. Glover actually only started writing songs around a year ago, not that you would ever realise it from her arrangements, which are dazzling in their inventiveness and held together by a raw vulnerability which makes for an at times devastatingly powerful whole.
Credit must be given at this point to the wonderful players Glover has surrounded herself with who bring her songs so vividly to life. The rhythm section is fully in tune with her vision, ebbing and flowing but never dominating. Her vocals and delicate guitar work is supported by the hopeful melodies of clarinet and the heavier but no less beautiful shades of violin, and this contrast between light and darkness is seemingly at the heart of everything Yes Today do.
Halfway through, the band played a wonderful cover of Françoise Hardy’s Je t’aime which captured the entire room in a perfect moment, uniting us all as the late afternoon sun streamed in. Ultimately however, it was Amy Glover’s poetry and grace which won the day. These first steps could lead her to truly magical places, and it was an absolute pleasure to be a witness to a small part of that journey.
Yes Today is: Amy Glover Vocals/Guitar, Amy McKenny Vocals/Violin, Claire Keech Vocals/Clarinet, Roy Thirlwall Bass, Paul Stride-Noble Drums.
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