Alexander Stewart w. Alex Webb Trio @ The Sage.

Alexander Stewart (vcl); Alex Webb (pno); Gary Crosby (bs); Andy Chapman (dms).
(Review by Lance)

I felt that the support act to Ms Warwick deserved more than the typical ...earlier on so and so opened the show etc.. this was a strong performance in its own right.

Stewart is often compared with Michael Bublé and there are similarities. However, just as there once were and still are a thousand Sinatra clones - of which Bublé once was one - the Canadian has now found his own voice and Alexander Stewart is pretty damn close to finding his.

His performance tonight was confident and assured despite being confronted with a near capacity audience waiting eagerly to hear Dionne Warwick. That he won the majority over was proved by the queue waiting to buy signed CDs in the interval. I don't think I've seen a support act do so well at The Sage. On the strength of tonight's performance I think Stewart could easily pull a Hall Two crowd at the venue.

And what of that performance? What did we hear?

If You're Not Really Here; Two Marvellous For Words;You Don't Know Me; an original, The Back Seat of my Car; Moonglow; Baby You Can Drive My Car; Call Me and Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover.

Alex Webb provided some tasty piano accompaniment and Crosby and Chapman had a couple of moments in the sun.

Talking to Alex Webb (pictured left) he confided in me that I posted their first ever review after a gig at The Spice about 3 years back - and the rest is history...

Photos.

Lance.