Energetic Leo Sayer
/ ' Bv NEVIN TOPP Sayer seems preoccupied with dancing and used the whole of Christcjujrch Town Hall audiloraim stage to prove it in his* secund show last evening:
.Singing songs such as 'pancing The Night Away,’’ T Know You Can Dance,” jut "You Make Me Feel Like IJaucmg.” he seemed to nave an inexhaustible supply >r "energy that primed the Mtfience into giving a standig- ovation at the end of .be" concert.
7* His zany humour, too. »as infectious, as were his attempts at dancing, at times rite the short person’s ver- 1 ■lorf of Mikhail Baryshnikov] wTmuch as Rudolf Nureyev, le" even attempted ai Kadow plav on stage with -fingers, which was al) to that the show must { i>pn.
slower and newer naterial was more approbated. particularly the i -oustic song. "'Raining In i’v Heart.” which apparently tad never been attempted
rfore. w'hile “When I Need i'ou” won the applause the tuccessful song deserves.
’ The disco songs. “Easy To] Love” and “You Make Mei ; Feel Like Dancing." were 'also a success. ! The surprise of the even-. 'ing in introducing the group! 'was the drummer. Frank] Gibson, of Auckland, who 'was regarded as New Zea- ■ Hand’s leading drummer be-; [fore he went to London last! | year. It was also unusual for'
la performer to compliment [the sound and lighting tech- ' nicians, but that is what Sayer did, even if he had jthem working hard when he I wrestled with microphone I stands and danced from one I side of the stage to the other. I Leo Sayer put a lot of I “work” into the show, and I the audience repaid his efi forts with lots of applause.
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Press, 29 May 1978, Page 6
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