Glastonbury Festival - Doing the Rounds

Carina Round

Doing the Rounds

New Tent - Saturday

Recently signed to Interscope in the States and fresh off the back of her second album “The Disconnection” Carina Round, is on a mission.

She’s feisty, she’s focused, has a different guitar for every song and clearly is not to be messed with. She’s Polly Harvey’s bad ass little sis’ dressed in black (looking vaguely similar to the Scottish Widow perhaps); black must be the new black in the Black Country.

“What the f**k did you say?” she challenges a jester in the audience as she opens her set of powerfully emotive suburban blues with “Shoot”.

Untamed, critically acclaimed, her voice ignites on set highlight “Into My Blood”, “I wait all my life, just for the rush, the passing of fire, into my blood”. It’s in her veins you know.

‘Elegy’ also delivers. A smouldering, evocative, Texan/Tarantino swagger and “Let It Fall” is immense, a rampage of emotion.

Her band performed admirably, all the parts are in place, great songs written, and Carina Round has without doubt a stunning, exceptional voice. I couldn’t help feeling though that for all the fire in her blood something just didn’t quite ignite today. (I hate saying that, I’m a fan dam it). The sound really didn’t do her talent justice, simply not loud enough, not as overwhelming as her overwhelming music deserves. Shame. She’s great, she knows she’s great, everyone knows she’s great. She’ll have better days and I’ll bet she won’t be waiting long.

Martin J Williams

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