Does anybody know, if the are any reviews from the Bristol concert anywhere? I would so like to see/read one.
I didn't quite get it, but I think he wanted someone at stage that night! But maybe I'm wrong??

Here's the answer to your question BeWall....

http://www.contactmusic.com/ne...r%20at%20gig_1103382

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Here's the answer to your question BeWall....

http://www.contactmusic.com/ne...r%20at%20gig_1103382

Thank you, Kimpy, but its not what I'm looking for
This review have the right date on it - but I think the proposing was at a earlier date - in Norwich.
I want to know, if Paolo brought someone among the audience to the stage??! (And maybe he didn't!).

I think this was the second time Paolo helped a fan to propose to their girlfriend...the first time was a while ago...

These Street RE-ENTERS the UK charts at number 28

Oh yeahhhhhh

(This story was in the daily record yesterday but can only find that link to it)

Cool go paolo thats amazing how his 1st album is back in the charts.

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Originally posted by Paula.:
These Street RE-ENTERS the UK charts at number 28

Oh yeahhhhhh

(This story was in the daily record yesterday but can only find that link to it)

Well, I bourght four copies when I was in London last week - does that count

Way to go, mann

BeWall, you are so cool !!! Way to go. Cathleen

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Originally posted by Paula.:
These Street RE-ENTERS the UK charts at number 28

Oh yeahhhhhh

(This story was in the daily record yesterday but can only find that link to it)

Cool On this page you can see the album as number 28.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/albums.shtml

Paolo NutiniKEITH BRUCE, Arts Editor May 19 2009
Paolo Nutini Palace, Kilmarnock

****
Atlantic records founder Ahmet Ertegun, Paolo Nutini's early champion, would be proud, even if some of his successors at the label are said to be less than convinced. The remarkably-voiced Paisley lad has taken his voracious appetite for music and used it to fuel a new album of astonishing diversity. We'll see what the world makes of Sunny Side Up when it is released on the first of next month, but the eclectic mix certainly appealed to the diverse audience he attracted here, from the devoted young ladies at the front to the barn dancers further back.

His compact band has expanded to the Paolo Nutini Seven with Glasgow's veteran blues harmonica man Fraser Spiers making up half the brass section, alongside multi-skilled Welsh horn player Gavin Fitzjohn. This R'n'B review combo can turn its hand to calypso, the blues of Little Walter, a bit of ska (Ten Out of Ten) and the Cash-derived country of Simple Things with nonchalant ease. Nutini's musical mischievousness extends to a double-speed "patter" verse in that last one, and some even faster vocalese in his jive-trad curiosity Pencil Full of Lead, a clear cousin of last year's cover of King of the Swingers from The Jungle Book.

Alongside all these new flavours, there is still room for community singalongs to hits from These Streets, including Loving You, Last Request and New Shoes, and current single Candy is most clearly where the two eras come together. Although the pacing of the set needs a little work, if Nutini can take the screaming girls with him on his journey there really will be no stopping him.

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Paolo Nutini is at Inverness Ironworks tonight and the ABC, Glasgow, tomorrow.


http://www.theherald.co.uk/fea...5.0.Paolo_Nutini.php

Reviews (2009-05-18)
Single Reviews Released 18 May 2009

Paolo Nutini - Candy: A strong first single from Paolo Nutini's new album 'Sunny Side Up', Candy shows influences like Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and Smokey Robinson and fuses them into something completely original, delivered convincingly in Paolo's uniquely beautiful voice. I really like the song and can't wait for his album Sunny Side Up, which is released on June 1st - Just in time for summer. Paolo Nutini, for all that he can pen a decent song about buying shoes, fell firmly into that category. Or so I thought.

http://top40-charts.com/news/R...-May-2009/48484.html

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The Scotsman :
Music review: Paolo Nutini



« Previous « PreviousNext » Next »View GalleryPublished Date: 20 May 2009
By Malcolm Jack
PAOLO NUTINI ****

ALHAMBRA, DUNFERMLINE

AS THE band cued up another track from his forthcoming sophomore album Sunny Side Up , Paolo Nutini politely asked of the crowd: "Afore we start, z'it okay wi' you if we play a' these new songs?" Despite his pronounced Italian good looks and the unaADVERTISEMENTshamed worship of Americana in his singing voice and lyrics, Nutini remains deeply, disarmingly Scots at heart. In middle age, possibly long after the world has forgotten his name, he'll still pack out venues like this around his home country.

With Atlantic Records' seemingly concerted effort to transform him from boyish singer-songwriter to a man who deserves a place among the classic rock canon, though, Nutini and obscurity seem unlikely to meet for a long time yet. Old favourites New Shoes, Jenny Don't Be Hasty, an acoustic These Streets and particularly the charming Last Request are memorable pop songs, but those new numbers' rich arrangements and distinctive vocal performances stand out further than any sense of calculated radio suitability.

Playing before a grand swagged curtain and a band who looked like they'd just stepped ashore from a Mississippi steamer, the waist-coated, brown-brogued Nutini essayed grizzled Dr John swamp-blues during a cover of Willie Dixon's Mellow Down Easy , pure hoedown country throughout Growing Up Beside You , and followed up an apoplectic, fist-shaking raindance during Coming Up Easy with a version of the Coasters' Down in Mexico. His gruff, old-man voice is still an acquired taste, but this evidence suggests that these new songs have been designed to eke every last drop of soulfulness from it.

Thank you so much for posting these reviews. There were literally no reviews in the PNW after their tour. So it is wonderful to see how they are appreciated by fans and critics alike. Keep them coming. Can't wait til after the June release. Cathleen

Scots star plays kilmarnock.

The roadies checked and double checked,The wait seemed to drag on. Then at 9:45pm on came our favourite hunched scotsman,with Tuscany ,Bargo descent,Paolo Nutini to the grand hall kilmarnock on this showery sunday evening.
The audience was a mixed bunch ranging from squealing young girls,middle aged and youthful couples to big macho guys who all came to hear threads of rod stewart,70s style,mixed in with mick jagger moves and stature.

All this plus blues and soul tunes, you did not want to miss this gig.
We are privileged to have such talent appearing on out doorstep in ayrshire.
This is a young man whose vocals feature on such giant usa shows such as scrubs and greys anatomy as well as supplying soundtracks for puma ray ban ad campaigns.
The commercial giants have not failed to notice paolos appeal and catchy tunes.
Nutini hunches over as if the music is just pouring out from him like a river that you think is too fast for him to keep up.
Step in the river and then it flows ,However paolo never loses it his fabulous 6 sometimes 7 piece band are enthralled and play with such vigour and passion,again reminisent of seeing the faces live back in the apollo ,glasgow A band truly enjoying themselves.
But that is where the comparison ends unlike rod stewart of today paolo is a great songwriter His lyrics are like daisies written with such enthusiam. His debut album these streets was slightly more poppy than his follow up sunny side up.
The new songs felt more raw and deep rooted with,It appeared irish folk influnces I am sure in due course these new songs will be sang just as loud back to him as new shoes and last request were tonight from this lively audience.
Paolo loved every minute as the power of his lyrics came bounding back at him,His first ever gig in kilmarnock.
Paolo the passionate young man from paisley wowed the full house in kilmarnock and now sets off with some scottish in store appearences and gigs,festivals throughout the next few months taking him all over the world.
From atlanta to new york to switzerland.How lucky to have caught sight of him here in ayrshire before the rest of the world takes him over.

From my local paper - Ardrossan and saltcoats Herald.

Excellent, Saves me writing a review

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Excellent, Saves me writing a review

No way, Paulaaaaa