 Hello, and welcome to Concept Reviews on Limelight. My name is Clota. And my name is Jamal. And we are going to be reviewing... Girl in Red. Last night, she was playing the Academy. I believe she was originally meant to play a different room in the Academy. But it was, like, bumped off. Yeah, because there was, like, demand for tickets, so they bumped her up to the biggest... I wish anyone the news of the Academy. The big stage in the Academy. Yeah. First, like, impressions of the gig? It was really good. Yeah? It was totally... I was thinking, like, the minute we walked in, what did we notice? There's just a lot of young people there. Yeah. Which is... Which is, like, a lot. And the whole bar, like, blocked off. But, like, black bags, so there was no alcohol. Which is fine, because you got to really enjoy the music. But, um, it was nice, though, because I went to... I remember... I remember Jack and Kenna. And that was an Academy. And... And it was in the smaller room. And that wasn't over 18, so I was 17 at the time, so I got to go. So that was really good. Like, I've been in the other position of being the young person that gets to go to a concert, and have a good time with my friends. So, I'm not hating on them. Um, they seem to have a really good time. They're really lovely. They weren't annoying. No, no, they weren't. So... And it was kind of nice to just, like... Actually just enjoy it, and not be, like, going back and forth to the bar, and, like, just kind of, like... Yeah, just trying to... Live it in the moment, like, it was... Exactly. Yeah, that was nice. Um... And we had a few drinks before. I hadn't done anything like that. Yeah. Um, but if you don't know anything about Girl of the Red, I honestly didn't know anything about her music. Yeah. And I got from her music that she was a lesbian, and that's about it. Well, a queer woman at least. Yeah. Um, but you know more about her. I did know more about her. So, I'll let you go with this one. So, she is from Norway. Her real name is... Very Norwegian. It's Marie-Olven Ringheim. I'm sure that's pronounced very differently. But... There you go. It sounded good. It sounded good. So, she originally... Because I just read her Wikipedia name before this, she originally started making music under the name... Lydia X on the same page. Yeah. Um, so she obviously just never wanted to go with her real name. Which is, like, fair enough. Like, if I was going to start, like, on the music scene, Claude, I'd read. It was just a very Irish name. Yeah. You know, if you're going to put it on like this, it's a national platform. You don't want to be, I don't know, not associated with your country, but just kind of be like a more general name. She transcends nations. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I think it was a smart choice. Yeah, I didn't know where she was from, even when she was on the stage. Like, I still didn't know where she was from until, I think, one of you said it to me. She toured with John Mayer. She mentioned the John Mayer tour during the concert. And everyone went, Whoo! And then she, like, commented on the tour. Yes. Like, no one was sure if she was joking or not. I don't think she was. I don't think she was joking. But basically, she said. This is like, turned into the gossip from Gail and Brad. Basically, she said that there was a bit of an issue with the tour and basically 20,000 Euro had been stolen from her to deal with her merchandise or something, that she hadn't got the money from her merch. It was like a very, like, small amount of time, but everyone was kind of like, Everyone was like, is she joking? And then she said afterwards, oh, I love joking with people. So, like, she... Her band looked very stressed. They're kind of like, You shouldn't say that. Maybe. But, um, you heard it here first, unless you were at Girl in Red, or she said it somewhere else. Yeah. And she also toured with Clara. And she is very much the same vibe as Clara. So I think that makes very, like, a lot of sense for her to tour. That in Dublin, like, once ago, they did that. Oh, wow. I was, like, not aware of Girl in Red at that stage. Like, she gave us a little snippet of a potential new song. Oh, yes. That was a great thing about the concert. Like, she was very much, like, chatting to, like, the crowd. And she was like, I don't know, guys. I don't know, like, will I try this? I don't know. And, like, she just, like, did a little bit of a new song. Yeah. And I think it was just deadly that she was going from, like, like, full on, like, indie rock, like, going crazy. And I'm just being like, okay, guys, so, um, so, yeah. She has the sweetest voice ever. But it was really strange because her songs are quite kind of dainty. Like, a little bit. I think they say I'm dainty. Dainty, but in, like, a rocky way. I don't know. In a rocky way, yeah. So she's singing, like, these really emotional songs, but she's proper, like, she head back and so on and so on. I really didn't think it would be, like, a rave concert. I don't know if it's a rave concert, but, like, one where everyone was jumping up to I, like, screaming the words. Like, I thought it'd be more of, like, a swaying kind of one, but she really gets the crowd going. Yeah. Like, she was, like, jumping all over the stage. Like, and, like, she, as well, I didn't realize she played her own instrument, as well. Yeah, that was cool. Which was really cool. And that way she was, like, going up to, like, all of the people in the band. Yeah, there was, like, two guitarists, as well as her. And she'd, like, go up and, like, just having a good time. Yeah, you could tell that they were, like, friends. Like, that's nice. Yeah. It was really nice. And she also, like, really connected with the crowd. And it was, like, a young crisis. Like, a lot of, like, really, like, fangirl-y kind of. Yeah. Like, I was kind of cringing for them, but I was, like, oh, they're sweet. And she wasn't, like, writing them off. No. Like, someone, like, shared it up, like, oh, I made you cupcakes. And she was, like, is that, like, she'd already mentioned that her, like, she had just eaten Indian? Yeah. And it was, like, coming up. I was just really, like... Like, the first thing that she said, she came out and just, like, I just wanted to open it. That's how she opened it. She was, like, oh, there's cupcakes? What was it coming up to? It was, like... And, like, someone gave her an Irish flag. Oh. And... And it is the... They're getting presents. And she's, like... Yeah. She was just a really nice presence. Of course, it's an adaptation of the novel of Rick Swing Wildflower. But we've taken the... Which is a huge part of Charlie's life. So we've put that to the forefront of the production. So the live band is going to be playing the mixtape of Charlie's life, which is the best. And, yeah. So it's basically going to portray Charlie's feeling in the different things, which we've had. Yeah. That's my job as a band. Yeah. So Lavoise Charlie is very much, like, a coming-of-age story, but it's kind of all in a different sense of we have our narrator Charlie, but it's to an anonymous source who's writing these letters to help him kind of, like, cope with, like, the kind of everyday struggles that, like, we've all had in the State Security School and that sort of thing. But there's kind of this underlying... Darkness is kind of underlying sadness to Charlie's life that you kind of only see in snippets. And I'm not going to ruin anything, but, like, you know, it goes into, like, friendships. It goes into first relationships. It's dealing with... It's the classic tale of, like, dealing with things that teenagers should never have to deal with. I found our most surprised when we sat down with the mixtape. It really feels like all of the songs were picked when he was writing them as if when he was writing a specific chapter. That was the song that stuck in his head because it feels very authentic. The music feels like it is what they would have listened to at the time and it is what he would have listened to when he wrote it. There's a specific scene where they're in a party and there's a U2 song that plays, and it's fantastic, but it also just feels like it fits in. Where sometimes a musical song, it's like, well, we have to get to the story, so we're going to put this here to get the story further. Whereas here, genuinely, it's just what they would have sung. It's what they would have listened to on the radio. They're so amazingly picked and they really just help aspects and help you understand the story far more than you would have expected. I grew up anyway with the musical theatre background, so Sam has a song from the Rocky Horror Picture show and as soon as I saw it, I'm like, yes, I love that. I don't do much singing in the actual show, but Charlie says that his favourite song is A Sleep by the Smiths, and I was definitely quite like Charlie when I was a kid of just shy and I went through an emo phase, basically. So I can associate quite a bit with the like sad sort of like, I don't want to be here type of songs and the ones that like, I don't know, I listen to like Evanescence and stuff and I've never listened to Smiths, but I can listen to A Sleep, I can definitely relate to Charlie in that way. I was adapting the script for like a theatre format. Parts were extremely natural, even though there was no dialogue, I could hear what was being said or like you knew in your head like, oh my god, I've heard this fight before, I've heard this conversation that's back with us before, so it was kind of easy that way to write it, but there were definitely times where I was like nearly poking from own experiences or like, you know, trying to keep those iconic lines in the show that the people know. That's so wonderful. It feels like the characters have jumped off the page. They think everyone is who we picked. Like, especially too, because some of them are not. And then they come out and they're speaking and it's Shanae McMullen, who's this bubbly, bright girl and she's playing a goth and yet somehow they're the exact same person. It's just fit so well, it's become a little family. And we've had a very short space of time to put on the show, so it's been rushed, it's felt like quite frantic, but it's wonderful at the same time because when you have such a wonderful group of people who are all so passionate about the One Project, it makes it so much easier.