# Whitney. The Cluny. 6.11.16

- Link: https://newcastlegigs.com/2016/11/12/whitney-the-cluny-6-11-16/
- Published: 2016-11-12T20:33:21+00:00
- Author: nails

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Earning their title, in the British press at least, as’bright new things’ of 2016
Whitney travel to Newcastle on the final lap of a sell out UK tour in support of
this years Light Upon The Lake album.

Leader singer and co-songwriter Julien Ehrlich (tonight appearing hooded and a shoe-
in for [Elliot Taylor](https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=elliott+et&espv=2&biw=1024&bih=613&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL8vXOhKTQAhVDVRoKHWxkDnEQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=ugzzKCCRJutOXM%3A))
leads the 6 piece band in the difficult task of replicating an album that splices
together the pop sensibilities of 70s fm gods Fleetwood Mac & Supertramp, with lo-
fi recording production last heard (with such confidence) on ‘White album’ era Beatles.
Dead easy then…

Ehrlich delivers both the falsetto and the dead-pan humour, trumping the crowd with
his ability to hit a high note, and also the should-be-easy-to-answer question of‘
so what is Newcastle famous for?’.

There is silence from the crowd to both.

Presumably for different reasons.

The music delivers well; providing a Sunday night soundtrack that is pop- but the
cool kind- not the _actual_ pop kind.

The year gets longer and the nights get darker, what will the bright new things 
do next; when they aren’t so shiny and new?  The same I hope.

 

 

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