0 Paloma Faith LIVE!

I was blessed with the amazing opportunity to see Paloma Faith play in San Francisco on her first American tour. I adore Paloma Faith and her amazing style and I have blogged about her before here!

I immediately got myself and my brother(a fellow Paloma lover) tickets to go see her at The Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco. On the 18th of September 2012 we made our way up to San Fran. We arrived and waited for what felt like eternity for Miss Paloma. She emerged on to the stage wearing a beautiful dress and her hair up in classic Paloma fashion. She opened with the song Let You're Love Walk In, I was brought to tears within seconds. Her voice is beautiful and strong and her stage presences is so powerful! I was thrilled and moved when she went into her second song 30 Minute Love Affair, a fantastic song, she danced and the audience was obviously loving it! After that she chatted with the audience for minute and had no trouble being her charming self. 
Here is the video I took of the song 
and a bit of the chatting!If you 
watch at the 34 second mark she looks 

right at me and smiles! 

BEST MOMENT EVER!

The next song preformed was Agony, this song is powerful and seeing it live was like no other experience I've had. It was truly one of those moments where I simply stood in aw and absorbed the moment. Next she played Let Me Down Easy and of course it was beautiful! 

She than proceeded to play a song from her first album. the song was New York. The audience was in love, the room was bursting with voices that echoed the words "Her name was New York, New York". At one point she removed her ear piece and "free styled" it with the audience. It was so amazing hearing so much love and enthusiasm in that moment.

 Black and Blue was the next and this is a song that is so beautifully true that you cant help but but adore it. Paloma introduced the song by talking about how she wanted to create a song about life and not so much about love but a strong song about life. 

She introduced the next song by 
saying that she wanted to write about a 
modern love rather than the songs that 
are put out about how love supposedly is. 
She said it was how modern love really is. 

Here is the video

 

As her next song begin she kicked off her shoes and stood up on the grand piano. She went on and said that she doesn't like people who tell her what to do and that for the next three and half minutes we were to be completely free and we were. Everyone danced and clapped and sang to the beautiful up beat anthem of love and freedom!


She closed the show with the songs Blood, Sweat and Tears and Picking Up The Pieces. She of course received a HUGE encore from all of us in the audience. For her encore she did a breathtaking version of Etta James's 
song I'd Rather Go Blind and she 
closed with Streets of Glory.

It was one of the best nights of my life, Paloma came out after and signed autographs and took pictures with all of us. She was sweet, kind and beautiful. 


Here are some pictures from the show.

 The set list

 We got the set list and my brother 
got it signed!

  

My album she signed



I got to meet her quickly and get a picture, you know in the films when the main character goes to say I love you and its the perfect moment and they choke and everyone watching just goes "how could they be so stupid! It was perfect!". Well I now understand, I got to say one thing and just as I was about to say "I love you so much!" I instead choked and simply said "Thank you for coming to America". In all the night was amazing and Paloma is and will forever be my role model. She is strong, charming and a truly genuine person. 
I love Paloma Faith.

Me and Paloma!

My brother and Paloma!

Keep Rockin' and Rollin'

- Miss Youngblood