Gabrielle - A Place In Your Heart [new album]

[cwej]

Announced her 2025 tour today - is going to be playing the O2 arena for the first time ever which seems… brave of them?! But I guess they know how much she’s sold in her previous venues and hazarding a guess that reducing the tour dates and putting a couple of bigger venues in might pay off.

 

[Maria Magdasheena]

Announced her 2025 tour today - is going to be playing the O2 arena for the first time ever which seems… brave of them?! But I guess they know how much she’s sold in her previous venues and hazarding a guess that reducing the tour dates and putting a couple of bigger venues in might pay off.

They are SO blacking out the top tier...

 

[cwej]

They are SO blacking out the top tier...

Ha ha! I’m absolutely sure of it! But it’s still pretty cool.

I sometimes wonder how she’s managed to have the career she has… you don’t see Dina Carroll or Des’ree or any of the other 90s pop singers enjoying anything like the success she still has 30 years on.

 

[Maria Magdasheena]

Ha ha! I’m absolutely sure of it! But it’s still pretty cool.

I sometimes wonder how she’s managed to have the career she has… you don’t see Dina Carroll or Des’ree or any of the other 90s pop singers enjoying anything like the success she still has 30 years on.

Yeah but DINA'S GONE DEAF and Des'ree's got her pottery, so...

 

[Shoat]

To be fair, even back in the 90s, Gabrielle was always a commercial tier or two above Dina.

Des doesn't need to worry about touring. Whenever she's short of a few bob, there's always someone to sue for plagiarism!

But I do think the Masked Singer gamble really paid off for Gabrielle - one of those acts that everybody has a lot of goodwill for when they think of her, but they just need a reminder of her existence now and then!

 

[Halli]

She did Graham Norton last night with the new singal? will have to catch up..

 

[cwej]

Yeah and had a lovely couple of minutes on the sofa afterwards. Came across really well.

 

[VoRonika]

She WAS predictably lovely, but unfortunately her performance led me to the conclusion that this new single really isn’t very good.

 

[rhythm tim tagi dim]

As she gets older covering her eye with her hair piece must get quite challenging, I was impressed how it didn't move AN INCH despite how much she moved her head back and forth.

 

[Funk About Things]

The new single is rubbish I want very much to still like her music. Hopefully the album will have more to offer.

 

[Halli]

As she gets older covering her eye with her hair piece must get quite challenging,

I don't think hair pieces get shorter as you get older...

 

[cwej]

She WAS predictably lovely, but unfortunately her performance led me to the conclusion that this new single really isn’t very good.

I actually liked it quite a lot more hearing it live funnily enough.

 

[Dizzy Inner Smile]

I like the new song, it was quite instant with me but vocally I don't think she sounds her best on this one

 

[VoRonika]

Next single. This feels a bit more classic Gabrielle.

 

[Funk About Things]

I really don't like it. It came on my music radar and at first I thought it was one of those fake producers that attach themselves to artist profiles to get streams. The production sounds so CHEAP. I wish she would flirt with her R&B roots just a little bit...

 

[FetchFugly]

The song is pleasant but yes it sounds like a demo they just left as it was.

 

[Iguana]

This is quite boring

 

[cwej]

Sorry appears to have been remixed quite a lot for the album - much more punchy as it goes into the chorus (especially the 3rd chorus - 80s sounding electric guitar and big strings) - heard it played in this interview around 1 hr 20 mins in.

Lucy Owen - with Rhod Gilbert and Gabrielle - BBC Sounds

Lucy Owen brings great music and guests to your Saturday, plus music quiz Connect Three.

www.bbc.co.uk

Gabrielle saying she's considering bringing the eye patch back. I really hope she does. It's such a small thing, but it absolutely marked her career despite only wearing it for that one year.

 

[GALA]

Can she have it say "sorry out now (and it's been remixed)" on it?

 

[Dizzy Inner Smile]

Best Gabs song you ask? Dreams and don't you forget it x

 

[cwej]

Two best songs on the album for me are Good Enough (with Mahalia) and Feel. The latter has a lovely melody on the chorus that just conjures up a real ache of the heart.

Overall obviously it’s not a massive departure though Change and A Place In Your Heart do provide the slightly rockier sound and Good Enough and Taken Over sound far more r’n’b than we’re used to from Gabs. The rest are mostly mid-tempo/ballady love songs as you’d expect.

 

[Funk About Things]

I thought this was a terrible album. Just chock full of plodding, maudlin ballads.

I just keep harking back to songs like Going Nowhere and Because Of You and thinking, would it really KILL her to give us just a couple of midtempo groovy bops that made her famous in the first place?