Faulkner gives it his all @ America’s Cup

As part of the America’s Cup that came to Plymouth in early-mid September, a whole host of entertainment performed throughout the week including the likes of Michael Collins (Britain’s Got Talent) and Mad Dog Mcrea, but the artist most people were extremely excited for was Newton Faulkner.

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Newton played on September 10th at 8pm and the much-anticipated crowd stood waiting in the sharp rain until finally the ginger-deadlocked dude emerged from the cover to take centre stage on Plymouth Hoe. With an acoustic in his arms, he was geared up to entertain the awaiting Plymouth audience that gathered in the pouring rainfall and chilly weather.

Faulkner performed an assortment of tracks from his debut ‘Hand Built By Robots’ and follow up album ‘Rebuilt By Humans’ as well as a couple tracks from new album (name unknown) that’s due to be released some time in 2012; such as ‘Badman’, ‘Dream Catch Me’, ‘U.F.O’ and ‘Robot Woman’ (new song). Every track that was performed received an immense response from the crowd and was shouting such things like “We love you!!” and one guy yelled “I want to eat your hair!” near the end of his set, which of course gained a load of laughs from everyone who heard because we weren’t expecting that at all.

Prior to performing his cover of ‘Teardrop’ by Massive Attack, Faulkner attempted to play the theme tune from Matilda (film), and because the track doesn’t make any sense he was having a little trouble with it but laughed the fact he wasn’t able to complete it. But hey, at least he attempted it in front of us all. Throughout each song, every individual who came to see him that night sang their hearts out to him and apparently you could hear us on the Hoe singing along from nearly quarter of a mile away!

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It’s safe to say that Newton Faulkner gained a lot of respect and pure love from the Plymouth audience who tried to bundle their way to the front or at least get a better view of him and some were a little upset when he left the stage, but all in all it was a simple yet excellent show he put on, which definitely illustrated his big talent vocally and instrumentally.