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Olivia Dean Concert Notes

[AUDIENCE CHEERS] - [GENTLE SYNTH] [SYNTH SWELLS] [AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS] [JAZZ BAND PLAYS INTRODUCTION] [♪♪♪] [AUDIENCE CHEERS] [SHE VOCALISES] ♪ Mmm ♪ ♪ I took five on the way home ♪ ♪ Called you for a little peace of mind ♪ ♪ Was out lookin&#39; for some healin&#39; ♪ ♪ But then it seemed a little hard to find ♪ ♪ No man&#39;s an island ♪ ♪ Do you not see that I need you ♪ ♪ As you need me? ♪ ♪ A year, month, any weekend ♪ ♪ Is no match for my loyalty ♪ ♪ I&#39;m sweet, jumping to your defence ♪ ♪ Question, would you do the same for me? ♪ ♪ They say distance can make the heart grow fonder ♪ ♪ But for you, I wonder ♪ ♪ Cos if I&#39;m not by your side ♪ ♪ Are you still on mine? ♪ ♪ I was on the way down ♪ ♪ I&#39;ve been on my knees this whole week ♪ ♪ So when I need you most ♪ ♪ Will you be my echo? ♪ ♪ I was feelin&#39; drowned out ♪ ♪ Searchin&#39; for some sweet relief ♪ ♪ So when I need you most ♪ ♪ Will you be my echo? ♪ ♪ Will you be my echo? ♪ ♪ You don&#39;t have to move a mountain ♪ ♪ Just take a little weight off me ♪ ♪ Fix up and be about it ♪ ♪ Cos my love is not a one-way street ♪ ♪ They say distance can make the heart grow fonder ♪ ♪ But for you, I wonder ♪ ♪ Cos if I&#39;m not by your side ♪ ♪ Are you still on mine? ♪ ♪ I was on the way down ♪ ♪ I&#39;ve been on my knees this whole week ♪ ♪ So when I need you most ♪ ♪ Will you be my echo? ♪ ♪ I was feelin&#39; drowned out ♪ ♪ Searchin&#39; for some sweet relief ♪ ♪ So when I need you most ♪ ♪ Will you be my echo? ♪ ♪ Will you be my echo? ♪ ♪ Will you be my echo? ♪ ♪ Oh, will you be my echo? ♪ ♪ Mmm, mm-mm ♪ ♪ I was feelin&#39; drowned out ♪ ♪ Searchin&#39; for some sweet relief ♪ ♪ So when I need you most ♪ ♪ Will you be my echo? ♪ [SHE VOCALISES] ♪ Will you be my echo? ♪ [AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS] Hello, everyone! [PIANO PLAYS A FLOURISH] Hello! Can I have a beer? Is there a beer anywhere? [AUDIENCE WHOOPS] - [SHE LAUGHS] Um, oh, my God. We made it, guys. We&#39;re all in this room together. Listening to music. Smiling at each other. It&#39;s nice. Yeah, I&#39;m Olivia Dean. [AUDIENCE CHEERS] Oh, the beer came! Thank you! Goodbye to the horns. Goodbye to the horns for now. Um, it&#39;s such a pleasure to have the horns with me. It&#39;s crazy, like, a lot of these songs were written with all these horn arrangements that I&#39;d done and I&#39;d never been able to do them live with a horn section so this is really special. - [AUDIENCE CHEERS] You can hear it as it&#39;s supposed to be tonight. Um... OK. The next tune... is my new single and it&#39;s called<i> Be My Own Boyfriend.</i> [AUDIENCE SCREAMS] And, um... it is a song about loving yourself unconditionally. Being in a relationship is so nice, it&#39;s super nice but also, you&#39;re whole by yourself. You don&#39;t need another half. Yeah. This is a song for when you need to feel like that. ♪ Oh, I can&#39;t do this anymore ♪ ♪ I don&#39;t wanna get involved, no ♪ ♪ With all these men I&#39;m so much better than ♪ ♪ Maybe it&#39;s a little cold ♪ ♪ But I think I could play the role cos ♪ ♪ No one can love me the way I can ♪ ♪ Catch me out in Paris on my ones ♪ ♪ Stay up dancing &#39;til the dance is done ♪ ♪ I got me, I don&#39;t need anyone ♪ ♪ Hold me close ♪ ♪ Love myself the most ♪ ♪ Lately, I&#39;ve been just what I need ♪ ♪ Stole my heart and I&#39;m gonna be my own boyfriend ♪ ♪ Be my own boyfriend ♪ ♪ Lately, I&#39;ve been just what I need ♪ ♪ Be my baby, I&#39;m ♪ ♪ Gonna be my own boyfriend ♪ ♪ Oh, I could save myself the stress ♪ ♪ Wear the trousers and the dress, yeah ♪ ♪ Girl, you look so goddamn good tonight ♪ ♪ And I say that with my chest ♪ ♪ You and me could be the best ♪ ♪ I can do whatever, whenever the fuck I want, yeah ♪ ♪ Love myself the most ♪ ♪ Lately, I&#39;ve been just what I need ♪ ♪ Stole my heart and I&#39;m gonna be my own boyfriend ♪ ♪ Be my own boyfriend ♪ ♪ Lately, I&#39;ve been just what I need ♪ ♪ Be my baby, I&#39;m ♪ ♪ Gonna be my own boyfriend ♪ ♪ Be my own boyfriend ♪ ♪ Be my own boyfriend ♪ ♪ Be my own boyfriend ♪ [♪♪♪] - ♪ Ha-ah ♪ ♪ Ha-ah ♪ ♪ Ha-ha-ha, ah ♪ ♪ (I&#39;m gonna be my own boyfriend) ♪ ♪ Be my own boyfriend ♪ ♪ Lately, I&#39;ve been just what I need ♪ ♪ Be my baby, I&#39;m ♪ ♪ Gonna be my own boyfriend ♪ [AUDIENCE SCREAMS] Wow, you guys are so loud! Thank you so much for singing along. We enjoying ourselves, yeah? It&#39;s good? [AUDIENCE CHEERS] - OK, cool. Um... This next one came out in lockdown. I recorded the vocals in my bedroom and I shot the music video in my garden. So it&#39;s got a very special place in my heart for that reason. And it&#39;s about missing someone that you love. I think we can all relate, we&#39;ve been through it this year. [♪♪♪] ♪ I wanna fall into arms like lovers do ♪ ♪ I&#39;m missing my sweet something ♪ ♪ I wanna talk with you, but this phone won&#39;t do ♪ ♪ Cos I need you here 100 ♪ ♪ Baby, come home, I got it bad for you ♪ ♪ I&#39;m no good alone at three in the afternoon ♪ ♪ Baby, I need more than a word from you ♪ ♪ Can&#39;t stop singing your song ♪ ♪ It always plays when you&#39;re gone ♪ ♪ I made you a coffee, I don&#39;t know why ♪ ♪ Thought I heard the doorbell a couple times ♪ ♪ Running on restless, how silly I ♪ ♪ Somehow our room don&#39;t feel the same ♪ ♪ Without your love, it&#39;s just a space ♪ ♪ And every hour is overtime ♪ [AUDIENCE CHEERS] ♪ Baby, come home, I got it bad for you ♪ ♪ I&#39;m no good alone at three in the afternoon ♪ ♪ Baby, I need more than a word from you ♪ ♪ Can&#39;t stop singing your song ♪ ♪ It always plays when you&#39;re gone ♪ ♪ Hey, how&#39;s your day been? ♪ ♪ Boy, you save me on the daily, oh ♪ ♪ You are some supernatural high ♪ ♪ Can&#39;t say no ♪ ♪ Oh, how the day goes ♪ ♪ Oh, how the day goes, my love ♪ ♪ Baby, come home, I got it bad for you ♪ ♪ I&#39;m no good alone at three in the afternoon ♪ ♪ Baby, I need more than a word from you ♪ ♪ Can&#39;t stop singing your song ♪ [AUDIENCE CHEERS] Thank you. Now I&#39;m going to move seamlessly to the keyboard. [AUDIENCE WHOOPS] [NOTES PLAY] - Yep, it&#39;s working, cool. Um, OK, now I&#39;m gonna play a new song that nobody&#39;s heard before except everyone last night but that doesn&#39;t matter. Tonight is a new night. And, yeah, it&#39;s funny my last EP was definitely like a breakup EP. I was kind of processing the breakdown of a relationship and it was sad. And then I was like, I&#39;m not gonna write any more sad songs and then the pandemic happened and I was like, oh, OK. I&#39;ll work with what I&#39;ve got. No, but it&#39;s not that sad, this song. It is about... I think maybe when I was a little bit younger I thought that I needed to be in this really tumultuous relationship, and, like, it was gonna be really dramatic and sexy and whatever and actually I was just unhappy. And I think I&#39;ve decided now that I just want to fall in love in a normal and just ordinary and beautiful way. I think ordinary things are very beautiful. So this is a song that exists in that world of thought and it&#39;s called<i> Slowly.</i> [CHORD PLAYS] I&#39;m gonna put my ear in so I can&#39;t hear anyone. Sorry, bye, OK. [♪♪♪] ♪ Down in Margate, had a sip of you ♪ ♪ And it went straight to my head ♪ ♪ I could&#39;ve opened up, cried and almost been myself ♪ ♪ But I took the piss instead ♪ ♪ Cos I find it hard ♪ ♪ Hard to be soft ♪ ♪ Stop saying I&#39;m perfect ♪ ♪ When clearly I&#39;m not ♪ ♪ Just need to catch ♪ ♪ Catch my breath ♪ ♪ Go slowly, slowly ♪ ♪ I know you&#39;re not supposed to know me ♪ ♪ But I only see it when you show me ♪ ♪ Slowly ♪ ♪ I&#39;ll have to teach you how to hold me ♪ ♪ So go on, hold me ♪ ♪ Remember when you called us both a cab ♪ ♪ And forgot you had your bike ♪ ♪ And the whole way home ♪ ♪ I thought how&#39;s he keeping up with me ♪ ♪ He must be really into me ♪ ♪ As I fight ♪ ♪ The urge to fly ♪ ♪ Cos I find it hard ♪ ♪ Hard to be soft ♪ ♪ Stop saying I&#39;m perfect ♪ ♪ When clearly I&#39;m not ♪ ♪ Just need to catch ♪ ♪ Catch my breath ♪ ♪ Go slowly, slowly ♪ ♪ I know you&#39;re not supposed to know me ♪ ♪ But I only see it when you show me ♪ ♪ Slowly ♪ ♪ I&#39;ll have to teach you how to hold me ♪ ♪ So go on, hold me ♪ ♪ And maybe I&#39;ll be fine this time ♪ ♪ And I&#39;ll let you see me in the light ♪ ♪ Yeah, maybe I&#39;ll be fine ♪ [AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS] This piano is now seamlessly going to move off-stage. You&#39;re not even gonna notice it go. The horns are gonna return. We&#39;re gonna sing one more sort of sad one and then it&#39;s fun for the rest of the time. Sound good? Sound good? Amazing. This next song is the title track of my last project and it&#39;s called<i> What Am I Gonna Do On Sundays?</i> [AUDIENCE CHEERS] - [♪♪♪] ♪ What am I gonna do on Sundays? ♪ ♪ You&#39;d throw the curtain wide ♪ ♪ And I wouldn&#39;t mind, the sky of only clouds ♪ ♪ Sheltering in that subway ♪ ♪ We&#39;d proper painful laugh ♪ ♪ And see how long we make a tenner last ♪ ♪ I&#39;m gonna miss you ♪ ♪ Having something to say about everyone ♪ ♪ Ruining my joke coming up with a better one ♪ ♪ And leaving all this might be easier said than done ♪ ♪ But it&#39;s a fight that you could have won ♪ ♪ You can keep the rain ♪ ♪ But let me have the Sundays, yeah ♪ ♪ That&#39;s something I can&#39;t bear to lose ♪ ♪ No need to pretend ♪ ♪ That all we had was Sundays ♪ ♪ We had our share of Mondays too ♪ ♪ I thought you&#39;d fight a little harder for me ♪ ♪ I thought you&#39;d fight a little harder for me ♪ ♪ Tired on the train this morning ♪ ♪ Who am I gonna tell &#39;bout my day from hell? ♪ ♪ Who&#39;s gonna talk me down? ♪ ♪ I&#39;ll mostly miss the boring ♪ ♪ The walk from your house ♪ ♪ To that caff you&#39;re always on about ♪ ♪ But too bad, couldn&#39;t see what you had in front of you ♪ ♪ I did what I had to do ♪ ♪ So you can keep the rain ♪ ♪ But let me have the Sundays ♪ ♪ That&#39;s something I can&#39;t bear to lose ♪ ♪ No need to pretend ♪ ♪ That all we had was Sundays ♪ ♪ We had our share of Mondays too ♪ ♪ I thought you&#39;d fight a little harder for me ♪ ♪ I thought you&#39;d fight a little harder for me ♪ ♪ Mmm, fight a little harder for me ♪ ♪ I thought you&#39;d fight a little harder for me ♪ [AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS] OK. [SHE GIGGLES] Now we&#39;re gonna do a new one that might be on my next project. Depending on how this goes. If you hate it, then maybe not. Um, it&#39;s called<i> Cross My Mind.</i> [♪♪♪] ♪ Know I read your text ♪ ♪ And it ain&#39;t hard to reply ♪ ♪ But I ain&#39;t ready yet ♪ ♪ Too many reasons, give me reason not to try ♪ ♪ Yeah, I could run to you ♪ ♪ But then they&#39;d all see me fall ♪ ♪ You&#39;re a love I don&#39;t wanna lose ♪ ♪ And too many reasons and no reason not to call ♪ ♪ And I&#39;m only making it harder ♪ ♪ I love it when you cross my mind ♪ ♪ Know I&#39;m thinking about ya ♪ ♪ I love it when you cross my mind ♪ ♪ But sometimes I forget what I need ♪ ♪ If you can&#39;t get hold of me ♪ ♪ Remember I told ya ♪ ♪ I love it when you cross my mind ♪ ♪ It don&#39;t come easy to me ♪ ♪ Though I seem in control ♪ ♪ You said I&#39;m hard to read ♪ ♪ But it&#39;s hard for me ♪ ♪ I can&#39;t even read myself sometimes ♪ ♪ And I&#39;m only making it harder ♪ ♪ I love it when you cross my mind ♪ ♪ Know I&#39;m thinking about ya ♪ ♪ I love it when you cross my mind ♪ ♪ But sometimes I forget what I need ♪ ♪ If you can&#39;t get hold of me ♪ ♪ Remember I told ya ♪ ♪ I love it when you cross my mind ♪ [♪♪♪] Thank you. [AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS] Thank you. [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CONTINUES] OK. I&#39;m gonna cry, so you have to stop now. Um... OK, we have two more songs. Oh, I&#39;m gonna cry now, that&#39;s sad. Um, we&#39;re not gonna do that thing where we say... we go off and then we come back on. Like, it is just two more songs. So enjoy them, OK? This one, I like to think of it as a positive breakup song. And it is about sometimes you love someone loads and you&#39;re growing together, you&#39;re growing, growing, growing and then you just do all the growing that you can do together and you have to go separate ways but accepting that can be the hardest part. [AUDIENCE CHEERS] [♪♪♪] ♪ Call me up to meet you ♪ ♪ Static on the phone ♪ ♪ Normally I need you ♪ ♪ This time I don&#39;t wanna go ♪ ♪ Lately I been growing ♪ ♪ Into someone you don&#39;t know ♪ ♪ You had the chance to love her ♪ ♪ But apparently you don&#39;t, no, you don&#39;t ♪ ♪ So even if I could, wouldn&#39;t go back where we started ♪ ♪ I know you&#39;re still waiting wondering where my heart is ♪ ♪ Pray that things won&#39;t change but the hardest part is ♪ ♪ You&#39;re realising maybe I, maybe I ain&#39;t the same ♪ ♪ And what you&#39;re waiting for ain&#39;t there no more anyway ♪ ♪ Held you up so highly ♪ ♪ Deep under your spell ♪ ♪ Your opinions would define me ♪ ♪ This time I made some for myself ♪ ♪ Cos lately I been certain ♪ ♪ There&#39;s no further to go ♪ ♪ Yeah, you had the chance to love me ♪ ♪ But apparently you won&#39;t, no, you won&#39;t ♪ ♪ So even if I could, wouldn&#39;t go back where we started ♪ ♪ I know you&#39;re still waiting wondering where my heart is ♪ ♪ Pray that things won&#39;t change but the hardest part is ♪ ♪ You&#39;re realising maybe I, maybe I ain&#39;t the same ♪ ♪ And what you&#39;re waiting for ain&#39;t there no more anyway ♪ ♪ And it&#39;s OK ♪ ♪ I&#39;m not gonna remember you that way ♪ ♪ You say I&#39;m different now ♪ ♪ Like that&#39;s so strange ♪ ♪ But I was only 18 ♪ ♪ And you should&#39;ve known that I was always gonna change ♪ ♪ So even if I could, wouldn&#39;t go back where we started ♪ ♪ I know you&#39;re still waiting wondering where my heart is ♪ ♪ Pray that things won&#39;t change but the hardest part is ♪ ♪ You&#39;re realising maybe I, maybe I ain&#39;t the same ♪ ♪ Ain&#39;t there no more ♪ ♪ I ain&#39;t there no more ♪ ♪ Ain&#39;t there no more ♪ ♪ I ain&#39;t there no more ♪ ♪ Ain&#39;t there no more ♪ ♪ But the hardest part is ♪ ♪ You&#39;re realising maybe I, maybe I ain&#39;t the same ♪ ♪ And what you&#39;re waiting for ain&#39;t there no more anyway ♪ [AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS] Thank you. This has honestly been just so amazing. I hope you&#39;ve had fun, cos I&#39;m having the best time. Um, thank you for being here and getting through the last year and a half. It&#39;s been fucking awful, so, you made it. Well done to yourself. And, um, yeah. One more song, let&#39;s do it. This is called<i> Reason To Stay.</i> [AUDIENCE SCREAMS] [DRUMSTICKS TAP] ♪ You&#39;ve given your statement ♪ ♪ The place and the time ♪ ♪ You said, &quot;A misunderstanding that&#39;s all it was&quot; ♪ ♪ And I should believe you ♪ ♪ We can&#39;t build love on a lie ♪ ♪ But I&#39;m starting to doubt you, I wonder why ♪ ♪ If you say you love me, don&#39;t go and waste my time ♪ ♪ If you want my love, you better mean it ♪ ♪ One of these days if you can&#39;t behave ♪ ♪ I&#39;m leaving if you leave me no reason ♪ ♪ If you say you love me, don&#39;t go play on my mind ♪ ♪ If you&#39;re promising me, you better keep it ♪ ♪ One of these days if you can&#39;t behave ♪ ♪ I&#39;m leaving if you leave me no reason to stay ♪ ♪ It&#39;s cool to be honest ♪ ♪ It don&#39;t cost you to care, ya know ♪ ♪ And trust is a virtue that we should share ♪ ♪ And I&#39;d never deceive you, I hope you treat me the same ♪ ♪ But I&#39;m starting to question what you say ♪ ♪ If you say you love me, don&#39;t go and waste my time ♪ ♪ If you want my love, you better mean it ♪ ♪ One of these days if you can&#39;t behave ♪ ♪ I&#39;m leaving if you leave me no reason ♪ ♪ If you say you love me, don&#39;t go play on my mind ♪ ♪ If you&#39;re promising me, you better keep it ♪ ♪ One of these days if you can&#39;t behave ♪ ♪ I&#39;m leaving if you leave me no reason to stay ♪ [♪♪♪] ♪ Give me a reason to ♪ ♪ I need a reason to ♪ ♪ Give me a reason to ♪ ♪ I need a reason to ♪ ♪ Give me a reason to ♪ ♪ I need a reason to ♪ ♪ If you say you love me, don&#39;t go and waste my time ♪ ♪ If you want my love, you better mean it ♪ ♪ One of these days if you can&#39;t behave ♪ ♪ I&#39;m leaving if you leave me no reason ♪ ♪ If you say you love me, don&#39;t go play on my mind ♪ ♪ If you&#39;re promising me, you better keep it ♪ ♪ One of these days if you can&#39;t behave ♪ ♪ I&#39;m leaving if you leave me no reason to stay ♪ ♪ One love can&#39;t be, ah ♪ Thank you very much, everyone! [AUDIENCE CHEERS] - [♪♪♪♪] I&#39;ve been Olivia Dean. You&#39;ve been you. Can we get a hand for the band? We&#39;ve had... Desch on the keys. [AUDIENCE APPLAUDS] Finn on the bass. [♪♪♪] Joel on the drums. And the horns... [BAND PLAYS OUTRO] [AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [MUSIC CRESCENDOS] [AUDIENCE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS]