#TPau25 Official Tour Blog 2013: Isle Of Wight Festival

Isle Of Wight Festival 2013

It was announced earlier in the year that T'Pau would be performing at the Isle Of Wight Festival 2013. All of the gigs in the #TPau25 Tour 2013 are as important as each other, but the Isle Of Wight Festival-Wow!! This is big!! Carol said it was "an honour" to be asked to play on the island, especially as it coincided with the #TPau25 Tour!! and said "it's like a city here!"

The artists performing at the event, which ran from 13/06/13 to 16/06/13, was like a 'who's who' of music!! Included in the line-up was :

The Main Stage

The Stone Roses
Paul Weller
Emeli Sande
Jake Bugg
Bon Jovi
The Script

The Big Top

Happy Mondays
The Farm
Ellie Goulding
Rizzle Kicks
Fun
Levellers
T'Pau
Little Mix
Blondie

Carol's influences in music has always included Blondie, and T'Pau were to appear on the same stage as her!!

Promotion

Once it was announced that T'Pau, along with a few other artists, had been added to the festival line-up, there was yet more press to be published mentioning Carol and the band!!

Birmingham Mail 19/02/13

Daily Echo 19/02/13

Eastern Daily Press 19/02/13

The Scotsman 19/02/13

Evening Express 18/02/13

The Press & Journal 19/02/13

The Argus 19/02/13

Here's a banner promoting the latest performers :

By the way, the Tim Burgess above, next to T'Pau, is the one from The Charletons' fame and not T'Pau!!

Carol on ITV Meridian talking about The Festival

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The article mentioning T'Pau in the Isle Of Wight Festival programme.

Heart & Soul

Valentine

Secret Garden

China In Your Hand (Full fan version)

Carol being interviewed by Sarah Champion of Absolute Radio

Below is a review of T'Pau's performance at the Isle Of Wight's Festival, as featured in the 'on-line' publication : 'Isla Magazine' - Official magazine for the Isle Of Wight Festival 2013, produced by students from Southampton Solent University.

The review begins, as most reviews including Carol begin, mentioning the "powerful voice" and "mass of red hair" and the fact that she is the "distinctive icon of T'Pau". Carol has always had this ability to captivate her audiences and 'draw them in', as much now as she did 25 years ago!

It took Carol just 3 lines of the opening song 'Sex Talk' before the Big Top tent was full of dancing festival-goers. The tent was packed to capacity!

Carol said to Sarah Champion of Absolute Radio that she was a little nervous beforehand because this wasn't an 80's festival like Rewind or Here And Now and the people there weren't necessarily there to see her, but as the tent was full to its capacity of around 5000, Carol had nothing to worry about!!

Carol was "dressed in a leather coat that she refused to remove in the name of style, despite the temperature", and had the audience "clapping and chanting without a falter in her vocal performance".

The review goes on to say "Carol's voice is as faultless as ever as she goes from soaring choruses to low pitched growls to a hushed whisper".

The number of people that have said, whether it be on the T'Pau25 Official FaceBook page, or on Twitter or at the gigs themselves, that Carol's vocals are as strong as ever, and that, they most definitely are!!

"It was the performance of 'Heart And Soul' where Carol really showed what she was really capable of. She commanded the audience with ease and even had the security guards dancing along!"

The review mentions how the band has stayed "remarkably youthful" in the 25th anniversary, "possibly due to the addition of lead guitarist James Ashby, despite being dressed in a suitably 80's skin-tight leopard print shirt, at 23 he wasn't even born when the band released their first album!!"

It was inevitable that 'one' song would "get the biggest reaction". "When the first bars of 'China In Your Hand' were played, everybody prepared their lungs for a full-on sing-a-long. With the Big Top at maximum capacity, thousands of voices nearly ran the risk of drowning out the band!!"

You could tell Carol was very proud to be up on that stage as the band had "killed it". She was very honoured to be asked to play at the festival and said "I do lots of festivals, but I've never done one like this before. It's like a city here!"

Review of T'Pau at Isle Of Wight Festival