{"id":78221,"date":"2022-10-13T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T09:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=78221"},"modified":"2022-10-13T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T09:16:04","slug":"delta-dawn-lafayette-london-plays-host-to-australian-star-delta-goodrem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/10\/delta-dawn-lafayette-london-plays-host-to-australian-star-delta-goodrem\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Dawn: Lafayette London Plays Host To Australian Star Delta Goodrem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wednesday October 12th<\/sup> saw the grand return of Delta Goodrem to London. Historically this was her first actual London show \u2013 prior to this she had only done a nightclub show and a private intimate invite only gig\u2026 this however was her first live show available for eager Delta fans to purchase. The show was sold out within minutes of being on sale and led to a second show being announced (and a nightclub appearance pending). There\u2019s no denying Delta\u2019s impact and it\u2019s a been a long time coming.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Delta Goodrem at Lafayette London 12 October. Photo Credit: Daniel John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

She opened the show on current album \u2018Bridge Over Troubled Dreams\u2019 album track \u2018The Power\u2019 and immediately had the crowd energized with thrusting arm movements and bombastic vocals and throughout her (nearly) two-hour set, the energy did not dwindle. The set was a mix of popular hits like \u2018Lost Without You\u2019, album tracks from her current record. One of the more interesting aspects of Delta is how she\u2019s very self-aware of her own back catalogue and fans are the same. Whilst most enjoy hearing the hits, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m aware of an artist who unanimously with fans is so astute on B-sides and album tracks and this really highlighted during the “Bunkerdown Sessions” where people were shouting for all types of hidden gems. “Bunkerdown Sessions” \u2013 a moment she may have regretted, as this garnered loud cheers, but it was a fantastic moment because the audience were treated to some much deeper cuts \u2013 \u2018You and You Alone\u2019, \u2018Heart Hypnotic\u2019, \u2018Fragile\u2019, alongside a wonderful rendition of Whitney\u2019s, \u2018I Wanna Dance with Somebody\u2019 and Olivia Newton-John\u2019s, \u2018Hopelessly Devoted to You\u2019. The latter being much more heartfelt than potentially intended due to Delta\u2019s personal relationship with Olivia, and even playing her in a movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Delta Goodrem at Lafayette London 12 October. Photo Credit: Daniel John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The love for Delta was certainly felt among the crowd and from the singer herself, when she sang album track \u2018Dear Elton\u2019, a reflection of her love for all things UK and Elton John, features the lyric \u201cand maybe the crowd got tired and went home\u201d which she repeated and you could feel the resonance in the crowd as the reality was that in a twenty year career, this was her first UK show and the crowd certainly had not gone home!!!!! I think her level of honesty is something that really captures her essence – there was a real pin drop moment when she performed the 2020 beauty ‘Paralyzed’, a track that she wrote when she lost her speech in 2019. It single handedly has one of her best middle eighths, “stop and rewind”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Delta Goodrem at Lafayette London 12 October. Photo Credit: Daniel John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Delta\u2019s performance is energetic, cheery and enthralling. She really captures the audience\u2019s attention and continually throughout the show she had spontaneous moments \u2013 she sang a version of the Neighbours theme as someone shouted for it and also sang a very small minute of her Christmas song \u2018Only Santa Knows\u2019 again due to audience desires. She would often grab hands and kisses to the crowd which is a far cry from the COVID-19 precautions that were put in place during her 2021 Australian Tour, and it\u2019s quite an amazing feat for the audience to hear tracks like \u2018In This Life\u2019 and \u2018Sitting on Top of the World\u2019 sang in unison from the crowd in a country where the tracks weren\u2019t even really made readily available. Her 2007 album, \u2018Delta\u2019 was not even released in the UK at the time, so if you wanted a copy you would need to have purchased it from eBay and had it delivered from Australia (I was one of those people). This was before the days of Spotify remember! She treated the audience to covers of Kate Bush’s ‘Running up that Hill’ and Queen’s ‘The Show Must Go On’ and her voice sounded particularly fantastic on these but perhaps it’s because these are tracks were not that used to hearing so felt fresh and brand new and having her spin vocally on them really made them seem unique to Delta… and not many people can cover Kate Bush well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Delta Goodrem at Lafayette London 12 October. Photo Credit: Daniel John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The show was jam packed with hits and she closed the show on \u2018Wings\u2019 before returning for a fantastic performance of \u2018Born to Try\u2019 and reminded us why she was worth the wait and if we need to wait twenty years for another show. We\u2019ll be here. We won\u2019t get tired and go home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London’s Lafayette venue played host last night to Australia’s darling, Delta Goodrem. Tickets for the show sold out within minutes of going on sale, proving Delta’s impact. It’s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n

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