| Show plays for audience at In The Venue L I Arthur Canales Contributing Writer Hundreds of fans gathered outside In The Venue in inthe inthe inthe the frigid cold weather for Regina sold-out sold concert Lines wrapped around the building several times around even spilling to the middle of the road much to the dismay of the concert security The concert was scheduled to start at 6 pm p.m. but there was an hour delay and they would not let people enter the venue until 7 pm p.m. The venue was a small compact room and the hundreds of people were packed like sardines and being squeezed and pushed to the point of suffocation The set up on stage was mostly bare besides s a piano and a few microphones and a guitar After people were inside the lights dimmed and the opening act appeared on sf stage ge I The Opening act was Only Son a one-man one band He played some acoustic songs on his guitar for the first half of his act and afterwards jokingly told the audience that his band could not make it so he had to be accompanied by his He turned on his and out poured the thc second half of his set filled with a cascading waterfall of drums and guitar After the opening act there was wasa a delay again The audience grew antsy as they waited for to appear on stage Ten minutes later a small person ran in the middle of the stage wearing a hoodie The mysterious figure turned around and waved at atthe atthe atthe the audience The audience roared as soon as they realized it was She smiled and began to tap on her microphone and sang an A Cappella song titled Aint No Cover After that she thanked everyone for coming and told the audience that it was her first time in Utah That brought some applause and bowed and took her grey sweater off to reveal a striped sequined top that glittered as it reflected the warm stage lights She smiled sat down on the piano stool and began singing her song On the Radio As soon as sang the whole venue stood still and hung to her every word She took a break from the piano after a few songs and sang two songs with her electric guitar That Time and Bobbing for Apples As the concert went on there were several loud audience members who drowned out the singer much to the dismay of the concert goers stopped the song she was playing and replied I ask you to please be quiet Im I'm just a shy girl with a quiet piano Thank you The audience members continued to make noise when she yelled I mean it Shut the f up to which she quickly added Lovingly I mean that lovingly I just have ADD and it is hard for me to focus on what Im I'm doing onstage then continued with her set With the venue being so small there was an intimacy between the audience and the performer and when begins to sing Several audience members tried to ask her questions between breaks She smiled wide and said saidI I dont don't know what to say I keep saying hi but I know that's lame She later stated she is still in awe every time she sees so many people in the audience and showered the audience with Thank as the show progressed As the concert went on the noisy audience members continued to disrupt and one again had to pause for the noise to die down She replied There arc are people that want to listen to the songs Salt Lake C City ty tyis is a beautiful city and it you want to hang out then get the f P out of here The audience roared in applause as she continued with a abrand abrand abrand brand new song titled Small Town Moon The encore is what really had the on their toes The audience roared when appeared back onstage again and began singing her song Fidelity a fan favorite After the song she thanked her opening act Only Son and called him to appear onstage on stage As soon as he was onstage to the surprise of It he audience he grabbed a microphone both bothof bothof bothof of the singers did a duet with Only Son beat boxing k me r percussion while Sp her song Hotel sang After Hotel thanked her one again audience and closed dosed her set with her song Samson were very pleased at how the concert turned outI outI out I really liked the show replied a University of Utah student She played all of my favorite songs It was great Did you hear all that noise coming from the bar chimed another student It was so annoying but Regina handled it really well The show was amazing Only Sons Son's album The Drop From the Top and album Begin to Hope can be found in most major record stores or can be purchased online in the store |
