Both with us in the press centre and with the hall. Sound seems to have gone so we only got one vocal performance which was, shall we say, a touch ropey in a couple of places but, as people always remind me, it’s a first rehearsal but, when the sound had gone… Loic looked like he was having problems with the in ear monitoring and has dispense with a leather jacket between the first and second run through and looks a lot better.
I still think, though, that the look (which is all I can actually comment on up until right this second and they have turned it back on) is very black and white, literally, with him in black and the stage is in white… hellish if you have contrast issues on you screen, I get with him being in black and the backing singers in white, but it just looks lost on stage. They have also changed the arrangement of the song and Loic seems not to be 100% comfy with it, and I definitely aren’t. He seems to be interpreting his own way through parts of the song of his own accord which is also dangerous. The camera angles are very far away and they all look small on screen. This is not working on the TV either to be honest.
It’ll do well, but it needs to get a touch better in my opinion.