I now regret giving up my tickets for the Ida Maria show at Mercury Lounge. Seems that she gave a killer performance the night before causing her to lose her voice. Coming from Norway she still exhibited pure energy and it’s obvious that she pours her heart out for every song. As the show went on she physically and musically deteriorated onstage but still pushed forward. I felt sorry for her as her voice continued to crack and screech on every song and then breaking strings on her guitar. Despite the poor music set you can still taste the intensity she put out. It was obvious that she was exhausted and her voice was spent but the crowd got her to play “Stella” for the encore. I think we’ll be hearing about her in 2009.
MusicSnobbery was at the Mercury show. Good writeup & pics here.
And you should check out her video for “Oh My God”