"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 4/12/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 42 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth watching. Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott concert reviews describe live shows and performances as joyful, soulful, enjoyable, nostalgic, thunderous, upbeat, and infectious.
Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott set a price cap of £30 per ticket for their current tour. They wanted to keep prices as low as possible during a cost-of-living crisis in the UK and railing against greed in the music industry.
Manchester Calling duo Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott certainly made up for the heavy postponement of their previous Dublin concert dates by delivering a stellar medley of new and classic tracks alongside special guests Deacon Blue and Declan O'Rourke.
During the first Covid-19 lockdown, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott were the very first artists to promise to say thank you to NHS Staff and Care Workers with three free concerts, and last night they made good on that promise as they took to the stage at The Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham.
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott play a magic mix of new and old songs and aren't afraid to play the classics from The Beautiful South and The Housemartins back catalogues
Its subject matter may spark debate, but tunefully The Lord Is a White Con was a fine upbeat number to kick things off, its infectious piano groove starting up before Heaton and Abbott came out on to the stage to the sound of thunderous applause.
However, apart from the extra security checks to get into the building (standard these days since the Manchester atrocity) there really doesn’t seem to have been much work done inside.
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