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Natalie Merchant Fan Reviews - Ticketmaster
Review 1 for Natalie Merchant
Terrible~Don't waste your Time & Or Money
Broome County Forum @
- Binghamton @
, NY @
- Sat, Mar 10, 2012 @
Favorite moment: The End @
Posted 03/12/2012
by Kelley1961
Location:Binghamton
My husband & I attended this event on Saturday March 10th at the Binghamton Forum.
Oh My GOD...No where on the Ticket Master site was it stated that this event was a Benefit Against Fracking in Upstate NY OR we would NEVER EVER attendedNot that were for OR against it-it's just that this was a night out for us..We seldom get away and then this.Guess speakers,petitions-and then Natalie began to cry during one of her songs..I would never recommend this to anyone....
Oh My GOD...No where on the Ticket Master site was it stated that this event was a Benefit Against Fracking in Upstate NY OR we would NEVER EVER attendedNot that were for OR against it-it's just that this was a night out for us..We seldom get away and then this.Guess speakers,petitions-and then Natalie began to cry during one of her songs..I would never recommend this to anyone....
Broome County Forum @
- Binghamton @
, NY @
- Sat, Mar 10, 2012 @
Favorite moment: The End @
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Review 2 for Natalie Merchant
Sucked
Cobb Energy Center @
- Atlanta/Smyrna GA @
Posted 07/21/2011
by HTASCP
Fist she slammed the the venue then she acted like she wanted to be anywhere else but here and then did those stupid poems.............just wow.
Cobb Energy Center @
- Atlanta/Smyrna GA @
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Review 3 for Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant new album
DPAC - Durham Performing Arts Center @
- Durham @
, NC @
- Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @
Posted 08/31/2010
by karcher
Location:Raleigh, NC
Love Natalie Merchant. hated this concert! If I wanted to go to a poetry class I would not have bought tickets to see her. Every artist plays some new music but to focus an entire evening on poetry to an unsuspecting customer is wrong. Please play your old music and put in a few poems but this felt like a bludgeoning with a sledgehammer.
DPAC - Durham Performing Arts Center @
- Durham @
, NC @
- Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @
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Review 4 for Natalie Merchant
Really Bad Poety Reading
DPAC - Durham Performing Arts Center @
- Durham @
, NC @
- Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @
Favorite moment: high kicks to show off panties at the end ~ so happy I was sitting in the back row. @
Posted 08/31/2010
by Chrissyxyz
Location:Durham
I didn't pay $$$ to hear Natalie sing children’s poetry and dance like a twelve year old child, who dances badly. This venue should have contained favorites to please her audience. Natalie was performing for herself, and seemingly would have preferred a mirror as opposed to an audience. As a performer, she should have at least sung the poems clearly so that we could grasp why she choose them, or provided the audience with the actual poems on the screen behind her, or on a pamphlet. This wasn’t a celebration of the poets that she loved – or else we would have gained something besides the main chorus of each poem. When an artist indulges oneself in a pretentious display she should warn the audience of her intentions prior to selling them tickets. I’ve been had.
DPAC - Durham Performing Arts Center @
- Durham @
, NC @
- Mon, Aug 30, 2010 @
Favorite moment: high kicks to show off panties at the end ~ so happy I was sitting in the back row. @
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Review 5 for Natalie Merchant
Seriously??
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre @
- Atlanta @
, GA @
- Fri, Aug 27, 2010 @
Favorite moment: leaving the show @
Posted 08/29/2010
by Anonymous
i love Natalie Merchant's voice...and it sounded as good as ever...but the show was awful...singing poetry...not one song you would know....terrible.
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre @
- Atlanta @
, GA @
- Fri, Aug 27, 2010 @
Favorite moment: leaving the show @
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Review 6 for Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant's concert was horrible!!!
Verizon Wireless Theater @
- Houston @
, TX @
- Sat, Aug 21, 2010 @
Posted 08/27/2010
by SNBD
We bought tickets to her concert because we loved her past albums and her voice. We didn't expect to ONLY see her new stuff. She seemed very into herself. Dancing around on stage like she was on drugs. It was very weird.
Even when we requested her older stuff, she waited till the end, only sang 2 of them, and they didn't sound good. We realize she is trying to promote her new album, but most people came to see her past albums.
Good luck with that nursery rhyme and poetic album! Not!!!
Verizon Wireless Theater @
- Houston @
, TX @
- Sat, Aug 21, 2010 @
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Review 7 for Natalie Merchant
Didn't need the poetry lesson
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
Favorite moment: Didn't have anything to do with Natalie. @
Opening act(s): none @
Posted 08/22/2010
by SaratogaGirl
Location:Saratoga
At least she played Gold Rush Brides and Wonder, but otherwise it was all new music based on children's poetry that the audience was largely unfamiliar with. I would have much rather heard her older music. Thought it was boring. Thank God for good beer and great company.
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
Favorite moment: Didn't have anything to do with Natalie. @
Opening act(s): none @
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Review 8 for Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant
Chateau Ste Michelle Winery @
- Woodinville @
, WA @
- Fri, Aug 6, 2010 @
Favorite moment: When it was over! I don't go to concerts to be schooled. Been there - done that! @
Opening act(s): none @
Posted 08/16/2010
by Anonymous
Location:St Michelle Winery
This was not the concert I expected at all. I have seen her before at the Paramount in Seattle and she put on a great show ... this one however was not! She played maybe 2 or 3 of her great songs and the rest of the time was devoted to songs based on old English children's poetry. I was bored to tears and I think the rest of the audience would concur!
Chateau Ste Michelle Winery @
- Woodinville @
, WA @
- Fri, Aug 6, 2010 @
Favorite moment: When it was over! I don't go to concerts to be schooled. Been there - done that! @
Opening act(s): none @
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Review 9 for Natalie Merchant
Disappointment
Spreckels Theatre @
- San Diego @
, CA @
- Sat, Aug 14, 2010 @
Favorite moment: When the drunk near me was escorted out @
Posted 08/15/2010
by DanWas
Location:San Diego
The first hour was weak with amateurish new material. The second part of the concert was better, but she forgot her own lyrics. The venue was smallish for such a well known artist and the staff appeared to be underprepared for the job.
Spreckels Theatre @
- San Diego @
, CA @
- Sat, Aug 14, 2010 @
Favorite moment: When the drunk near me was escorted out @
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Review 10 for Natalie Merchant
She Should play music not read poetry
Spreckels Theatre @
- San Diego @
, CA @
- Sat, Aug 14, 2010 @
Favorite moment: Getting a Beer @
Setlist: Blew @
Opening act(s): Would have helped @
Posted 08/15/2010
by Phlegls
Location:San Diego
Title syas it all - If she would play music she could double her ticket prices ! It is such a great venue but Im not into litening to poetry
Spreckels Theatre @
- San Diego @
, CA @
- Sat, Aug 14, 2010 @
Favorite moment: Getting a Beer @
Setlist: Blew @
Opening act(s): Would have helped @
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Review 11 for Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant self indulgent
Orpheum Theatre @
- Los Angeles @
, CA @
- Fri, Aug 13, 2010 @
Favorite moment: my favorite moment was the exit door @
Posted 08/14/2010
by lefttheconcert
Location:los angeles
This was the most self indulgent concert I have ever attended. This musician started her concert announcing that she would be doing her new material - okay, I have no issue with that. BUT, 13 songs into the concert she did not sing ONE of her songs from her old music. Every new song she did was a nursery rhyme done to music. While a few were nice to listen to, I believe most fans came to hear classic Natalie Merchant. For her not to play even ONE song was inexcusable. I was completely dissapointed and felt that it was a total waste of time and money. Needless to say, I won't be attanding another Natalie Merchant concert, ever.
Orpheum Theatre @
- Los Angeles @
, CA @
- Fri, Aug 13, 2010 @
Favorite moment: my favorite moment was the exit door @
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Review 12 for Natalie Merchant
Orpheum Theatre @
- Los Angeles @
, CA @
- Fri, Aug 13, 2010 @
Posted 08/14/2010
by Anonymous
Location:Los Angeles
Horrible setlist. New album is just Ok and the whole set was the new album. her "encores" were fine but not even close to enough.
Orpheum Theatre @
- Los Angeles @
, CA @
- Fri, Aug 13, 2010 @
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Review 13 for Natalie Merchant
wait until the next tour
Fox Theater - Oakland @
- Oakland @
, CA @
- Wed, Aug 11, 2010 @
Favorite moment: The encore @
Setlist: Mainly songs from her new album, children's poems... @
Opening act(s): None @
Posted 08/12/2010
by xtina411
Location:Oakland, CA
Although I LOVE Natalie Merchant, I wouldn't recommend this show to those who aren't in love with her most recent album, which is a compilation of adapted 19th and 20th century obscure poems about children. VERY CEREBRAL, and something nice to share with your kids, if you have some. It was difficult to wait so long (90 minutes) to hear her play some of her hold classics. The whole show minus the encore was basically this new album. If you don't like said album, it is quite a tragic disappointment to sit through. A signficant departure frmo her previous work.
Fox Theater - Oakland @
- Oakland @
, CA @
- Wed, Aug 11, 2010 @
Favorite moment: The encore @
Setlist: Mainly songs from her new album, children's poems... @
Opening act(s): None @
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Review 14 for Natalie Merchant
A Disappointing Snooze
Fox Theater - Oakland @
- Oakland @
, CA @
- Wed, Aug 11, 2010 @
Favorite moment: Wonder, which signalled the end of the interminable poetry lesson @
Posted 08/12/2010
by sfspider
Location:San Francisco
A staple in my regular iPod playlists, I love Natalie's voice and lyrics. This show was a tremendous disappointment, and I don't say that lightly. She spent the first hour and a half on songs from her new album - adaptations of old poems - talking at least as long as the length of each unremarkable song between to talk about the life and health of long ago poets. It was reminiscent of a freshman lit class, and it was almost as hard to stay awake. When she finally got around to playing some of her classic favorites, the band had largely left the stage, leaving us with a weak and tired, almost perfunctory performance. Despite the beauty of the Fox theater, and the incredibly gracious and welcoming staff there, the evening was a disappointment.
Fox Theater - Oakland @
- Oakland @
, CA @
- Wed, Aug 11, 2010 @
Favorite moment: Wonder, which signalled the end of the interminable poetry lesson @
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Review 15 for Natalie Merchant
english lit 101
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
Favorite moment: "I only have two more of these poems to go! followed by many cheers! @
Setlist: Motherland, I forget, blah - blah - blah, Throw us a bone or two (Carnival, Jack Kerouac, and end show with too long "I Thank You" @
Posted 08/10/2010
by ocd5
Location:Monterey Bay
I didn't know I was going to a college midterm prep class!
Artists who want to do special projects of interest to themselves and a certain subset of fans should consider desires of larger audience spending big bucks and travel miles before self indulging in two hours of boring, professorial intros to poem/songs of limited interest to the (I think) majority of the crowd.
Motherland started the night off with great vocals, downhill from there until encore, too little to late for reprieve.
Motherland started the night off with great vocals, downhill from there until encore, too little to late for reprieve.
Not saying artists should not pursue different interests and new material, but it should have been very much streamlined and mixed with other songs. A few of the poem/songs were actually not bad as individual efforts and would have been OK mixed with the vast available catalogue of great Merchant songs that a lot of people around us were pleading for by the end of the slide show.
Too harsh? Perhaps. Sorry, one of favorite artists, never seen before, just very disappointed.
Great band, great vocals, will hope for the expected great concert next time around.
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
Favorite moment: "I only have two more of these poems to go! followed by many cheers! @
Setlist: Motherland, I forget, blah - blah - blah, Throw us a bone or two (Carnival, Jack Kerouac, and end show with too long "I Thank You" @
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Review 16 for Natalie Merchant
Boring
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
Posted 08/10/2010
by Protea
Location:Los gatos
Such a disappointment! Wished she posted that this wasn't going to be a rock concert. This was a academic course in turn of the century childrens poetry (which was overall gloomy). Would of been more appropriate in childrens musical theater with actual children performing. Finally played 2 hits in the encore. Bored until the end!
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
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Review 17 for Natalie Merchant
Natalie neglected to play her REAL hits!!!!!!
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
Favorite moment: Spending time relaxing at the Mountain Winery venue before the show started. @
Setlist: 3 hits played, but unfortunately played rushed, acoustic and half-assed. @
Opening act(s): None, although any opening act would have done a better job than Natalie did in her forced-feeding show. @
Posted 08/10/2010
by SF360Modena
Location:San Francisco
Well where should I begin, let us begin at the end of the 1980's, when I first discovered Natalie's amazing voice with 10,000 Maniacs, it is was love at first song. I've stayed a fan of her music to this day and unfortunately I've never had the chance to watch her perform live until last night at the Saratoga Mountain Winery (my favorite concert venue ever!). She started her concert late and at first seemed confused with the stage set up and kept staring at different areas of the venue, but she and her band still managed to sound amazing.
Played a couple of good songs (none of her real hits like "Wonder", "Thank you", "These are the Days", etc) and then stopped and introduced her new album "Leave Your Sleep", which is based on 1800's & 1900's century children poems, very nice actually and told the audiance she was going to play "some" songs from the new album....that combined with a "power point" style screen presentation was actually very nice.....until I realized she was going to play her ENTIRE new album which ended up taking 85% to 90% of her total concert time on stage!
The peformance of basically every single song of her new album dragged on and on and on until she basically ran out of time and ended her show abruptly by just saying "good night." As expected, with only 15 minutes left before she had to shut-down the music by the venue's policy, she came back out to do a terrible, rushed & half-assed acoustic version of only 3 of her REAL HITS before she had to completely shut down.
I was VERY disappointed as I had SUPER high expectations from Natalie Merchant, the artist I waited over 20 years to see live! My God, I was in total disbelief of how Natalie managed to simply neglect and don't care about the major factor that made her the big star that she is, her real hits music.....The Weather, These are Days, Because the Night, Carnival, etc, etc etc.
By Natalie FORCE-FEEDING her entire new album to us and neglecting to play her beloved hits I felt like she slapped on the face me and every other fan who went to watch her play these wonderful songs that were not played (although she did play half-ass versions of Carnival & Thank You at the very end, when most people had already left).
Natalie Merchant, if for some reason you read these reviews and you are reading this one, you sadly disappointed this fan who has waited half of his life to watch you perform live......it was a very sad day for me indeed.
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
Favorite moment: Spending time relaxing at the Mountain Winery venue before the show started. @
Setlist: 3 hits played, but unfortunately played rushed, acoustic and half-assed. @
Opening act(s): None, although any opening act would have done a better job than Natalie did in her forced-feeding show. @
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Review 18 for Natalie Merchant
Natlie Merchant
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- 08/09/2010 @
Favorite moment: none @
Setlist: Songs of nursery rhymes @
Opening act(s): None @
Posted 08/10/2010
by Zuluwarrior
Location:San Jose, CA
I was very disappointed at her show. She is promoting her new CD. She didn't play any off her great older songs while I was there. It was like her show was show for her 4 year old kid. Songs about nursery rhymes...come on................. who wants to hear that unless you are 4 years old.
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- 08/09/2010 @
Favorite moment: none @
Setlist: Songs of nursery rhymes @
Opening act(s): None @
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Review 19 for Natalie Merchant
Powerpoint concert
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
Posted 08/10/2010
by MountainWhiner
I really like Natalie Merchant but this was a terrible concert. She played none of her previous songs from her solo career or from 10,000 Maniacs. Instead, she just did all new songs based on poems from her new album along with powerpoint slides about the authors. I liked some of her new stuff and was interested in the poems, but she just did it too long. It was basically the entire concert. The crowd got bored, restless and eventually just left early.
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
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Review 20 for Natalie Merchant
Skip Natalie Merchant
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
Posted 08/10/2010
by Anonymous
I've always loved Natalie Merchant but this concert is one to be missed. It includes a slide show and poetry reading - not what we expected or wanted. We've been to her concerts before and they were great. This one was not!
Mountain Winery @
- Saratoga @
, CA @
- Mon, Aug 9, 2010 @
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