Floetry

Floetry Review:

The partners in crime, originally from SE 5 -Thornton Heath travelled all the way from Philadelphia, US to the heart of Camden Town to perform to a small but packed venue of Floetry fans in the famous Jazz Café for four days and for everyone who knows about Jazz Café would know how intimate the venue is.


The two South London ladies began their evening with the intro track to the Fo’ology album (“Blessed”). Walking down a set of steps Marsha (Songstress) was in a very elegant red dress, complimenting her new look and weight loss. Natalie (Floacist) who was dressed in casual jeans and white vest then followed her, a very extreme make over was evident, with her hair almost all shaved off dyed red matching her retro red shades aka The “Stunnas” and additional tattoos to her collection.


From the second the beat began to the outro of their evening the crowd, which Floetry referred to them as “family”, couldn’t stand still or stay silent, everyone was singing like there was no tomorrow both the ladies and men were hitting the high and low notes, with one person fainting, either from the heat or the overwhelming vibes of Floetry. It was without doubt a mind-boggling experience.


The twosomes definitely haven’t forgotten where they were from. Proud to be British, and stating to the crowd that they were happy to be “home”, they explained that all they need to say is that they are British when they are in the States and didn’t see the point of clarifying whether they were Afro-Caribbean or African as they were representing were they are from at heart, London.


They made you feel each beat and lyric. From the up beat tracks of “Floetic” to the classic lyrics of “getting late”, all I can hear around me were people saying their hairs are standing or they are getting shivers down their spine. A remix of “Superstar” was made with a Crunk feel and a drum and base beat switched up their usual style but enjoyed and appreciated by the audience. With the angelic and hypnotic voice of songstress and the Deep heart felt poetry and expression of Floacist everyone was moved and felt cosy as Floetry truly set the tone.


Interacting with the audience Floetry made the crowd finish of the lyrics to getting late, Marsha would say “I’m afraid” and the audience would respond with a very high pitched “Don’t be”, they also sang the infamous track “Butterflies” which was given as a present to Michael Jackson from Floetry themselves. Marsha kept on stopping and starting again claiming she can never do the beginning like MJ does which goes “One love”, the crowd sang the chorus over three times, shivers was the correct feeling that was running through me and the rest of the 100 and so people. To add a bit of a London vibe the crowd was made to sing a ‘Hooligan like” tone which made everyone laugh out loud while singing along.


Still with their comical talks, Floacist took everyone to the old days of childhood, being the dominant talker, she really made you feel like you were her friend as you can relate and know exactly were she was coming from. She sang the theme tune to Danger Mouse cartoon and proudly bigged up Andy peters and all four dogs in Blue Peters, which again had the crowd laughing.


The most memorable song was “Sunshine”, the song was so heart felt and moving to the extent that I spotted a few people tearing up as many could relate and feel what the duo had to say. The song was based on a person loosing their sunshine, sunshine being a soul mate or a loved one.


Astounding is understatement to begin describing the atmosphere. This defiantly wasn’t your average concert, it wasn’t just music and muffled voices from a bad mic, but spoken words of wisdom with light hearted joke where after two hours performance they didn’t get booed, which meant the crowd was beyond stratified as they couldn’t stop applauding and were very happy to be part of such an experience.


Almost all the recent concerts I’ve been to the artist has been booed and as I’m leaving the venue all I usual hear is a lot of dissatisfied people. However this was far from the case. The only negative criticism was the fact that I almost missed my last train.