I acctually agree with some of these points (I bolded them), cos at Little Noise it was beautiful to just sit there listening to his stunning voice and watch his beautiful facial expressions, that was a pure treat, But for a full on show I think he DOES have the balance spot on this time now I have seen the show a few times. He has a mixture of "sock it to them in the eye" songs and "STFU and hear this this voice man" songs.
I LOVE the book backdrop, especially his sketched animated face, when his eyes slowly open and stuff
I think every detail in his visuals are there for a purpose to tell a story HIS story, some of it I get some of it I havn't yet cos I'm probably missing it when I look or listen to my fave parts of the show or song etc. (It his ploy to make us want to keep going so we never get bored of it lol).
I have found his perfoming of his songs now has totally blown me away more than before I didnt think that it could. He's not just singing his songs, like in Dr John for example I get soooo many emotions and messages from his body language and facial expressions, he is trying and for me succeeding to show me what he wants us to see in his songs, it's kinda like what I FEEl when I hear a certain line or a particular way he empathizes ONE word maybe, is now much more potent when I see his facial expression or his body language or movements.
I totally ADORE that, it pulls me soo seep into what he's doing, just a little thing like the timing of the red lights during Golden and his performance of Golden in Manchester was the most heartfelt I have ever seen him do it, I told him so in Glasgow after I'd been a BG and he thanked me and said it was really nice that I remembered it so much cos he couldnt remember what he had done lol:teehee:, I think he was just SOOO into what he was doing that his movements just came naturally but they were exaclty what I would picture for the strong emotions that part of the song is expressing, fooking loved that, only found one little vid of it so far though.