Toulouse, Salle Nougaro (1995)

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TOULOUSE  (« Sud Ouest »)

Salle Nougaro

Peter KINGSBERY :

a man and a piano

Three agreements, Peter KINGSBERY played only three agreements of " Only the very best ". It is indeed little, too little and it was enough to disappoint certain fans of the singer of Cock Robin, come in particular for this English version of "Starmania".

Peter KINGSBERY will paradoxically prefer to play " What has feeling to be loved ", " that sticks better on my cheerfulness ".

It was the only dissonance of the evening, or almost, if we add the confession, ironic he is true, of KINGSBERY at the beginning of the spectacle: " I am sure that few people this evening know that I have just taken out a disc and I am there to say to you that it is indeed the case, then we are going to make a little « promo », it is obliged! ".

The rest ? Some sugar, some honey, some nectar, a crystal clear and clear music which pours of the piano, and a remarkable voice which drills the atmosphere felted by the room.

Peter KINGSBERY dared the risky test of the solo concert.

In the style of a William Sheller or of a Randy Newman, he cleared of responsibility itself of his faults "variety show"("varieties") by imposing itself the precarious exercise of a

single song recital in the piano. He sets a great deal of pleasure there (too) and shows to be an excellent instrumentalist doubled by an outstanding interpreter. It becomes the other thing than the voice of Cock Robin and takes a new dimension. We rediscovered a singer and a talented composer. It's the same for hits " as Just around the corner" or " The promised you made " which leave the pop directory and become deep, grave and hurting fragments.

The small more KINGSBERY, it is its complicity with the public, bound to his mastery almost completed by French, its acrid humor and especially its affection in Toulouse where he lived some time ago. It is here that he composed the third album of Cock Robin.

Of Toulouse, he kept a painful ankle (accident of squash) but especially friends musicians (« night birds » and passionate persons) who helped him to arrange some of his songs.

And when one " Go to it grandpa! " escapes from the public, peter answers " It is not the respect for which I look with them, we share the other thing ".

It is true we shall regret maybe " Only the very best " but " standing ovation " of « La Salle Nougaro " showed to Peter KINGSBERY that the Toulousian were not vindictive.