For some time I have been encouraging everyone to go see Cat Power who 'played' last night at Whelans in Dublin. If you took my advice I'm sorry. I'm very, very sorry. Please accept my most grovelling abject apology for I was so wrong.

What went wrong? Well it started well enough, she came out and told the audience a very long story about hitting her head and going to casuality in London, sang a song and then started into A good Woman from You are and it started. She kept stopping and starting, with endless back and forth with the sound desk. Eventually she finished the song - it has to be said that when she sang she sounded great, but...

That was the last song she sang. For the rest of the time she sat there telling increasingly incoherent stories about her New York friends, whining about touring, flying, people expecting her to sing after paying to see her in concert. At one point she started singing her story, which wasn't bad. Quite early on she told people they'd one minute to get their money back and then fast counted that minute, in fact she banged on about money most of the evening. Several times she accused people in the audience of 'saying mean things' about her and then conducted mini witch-hunts about who said that and what did they say - she'd make a great evil schoolteacher. The audience was so patient, in planty of places around Dublin they'd have smashed the place up faced with that kind of carry on.

Eventually I left after 90 minutes of this, life's too short to put with that. Maybe she was brilliant after that but I doubt it as she was getting increasingly belligerent and self righteous. She has done this before and I've read various attempts to understand why she does it but after seeing it in person in hindsight it's obvious that she never intended to play, she was the rockstar we were just the schmucks who paid to see her sing. Last night she kept saying 'I don't give a shit' and she really didn't.

Basically she was an arrogant spoilt brat intent on giving Dublin the finger last night. Whatever you do don't go see her in concert, you will be dissappointed

If she doesn't like touring she should stay at home, that would be the honest thing to do but I guess they don't pay you to do that, do they?

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