Heavy Mithril: "Between My Legs," written as a "fantasy about being able to save your object of desire when the apocalypse comes, and bring him to some sort of hidden paradise.".Has Two Mommies: "Montauk" addressed to his daughter Viva note whose mother is Lorca Cohen, Leonard Cohen's daughter talks about how one day she will visit "your dad" (presumably Rufus himself) and "your other dad" (presumably Jorn).She was also the best man at his wedding. Gay Best Friend: He is this to Lorca Cohen, and they had a daughter via IVF.He's also written an entire opera in French with "Prima Donna".Gratuitous French: "Rebel Prince" has the first verse repeated in French halfway through the song, and Rufus lived in Montreal for much of his youth.He still manages to fool people in concert. Crucified Hero Shot: In the video for "Going to a Town" Rufus's character assumes this pose.I'm not going to explain it, just watch it. This version also contains a hilarious story about when Rufus actually met Leonard Cohen.
The Cover Changes the Meaning: His cover of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" changes.well, suddenly it sounds like its set amidst a casino underworld that's about to crumble and is having one last revel in its own shallowness and debauchery.Camp Gay: He even recreated Judy Garland's Apconcert (which is Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall) and performed a couple of numbers in Judy drag.The Cameo: Sister Martha Wainwright, Melissa Auf Der Mar, and Gwen Stefani (as the waitress) all show up in the video for "April Fools.".There's not much time for us to really be that angry at each other anymore. We're more reliant on your support than ever as the shift in consumer habits brought about by coronavirus impacts our advertisers.Neither of us is really that much older than each other anymore. Throughout, the audience were treated to covers of Neil Young’s Harvest, Leonard Cohen’s So Long, Marianne and Fairport Convention’s Who Knows Where the Time Goes, and while he may not have matched the beauty of the originals, he’s one of the few artists whose vocal power and precision allows him to get away with trying. Yet few contemporary singers have voices less in need of window-dressing than the son of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle. This was Rufus Redux, the stripped-back, low-key version, a taster of the promised big band spectacular. There are some beauties on the new record which stood out here alongside favourites like Going to a Town, including the amusingly-delivered ode to relative fame You’re Not Big, the mournful reflection on redevelopment and the environment Romantical Man, and Only the People That Love, conceived during the last American administration (“whatever that was… this is dedicated to everyone except one person”).
Practically, that meant a pianist, electric guitarist and double bassist backing Wainwright as a trio, with no more elaborate stage-dressing than the distinctive suits all were wearing, which he proudly noted were by the New York-based Glaswegian singer and design consultant Angela McCluskey.
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The plan had been to tour the original album with “a big ten-piece band and full sets”, but what we got here, the day after Wainwright’s arrival from LA and a bit of weary exploration of Edinburgh’s graveyards (including “Hume’s tomb,” he noted excitedly) was the Paramour version. The album (which was Grammy-nominated, at least) was released last summer, and when touring wasn’t possible, Wainwright re-recorded it live alongside some of his classic songs at the Paramour Ballroom in Los Angeles, for last month’s Unfollow the Rules: The Paramour Sessions album. “Then two things happened, Covid and James Taylor.” “I was also going to win a Grammy,” he noted here, with typically dry humour. In April 2020 Rufus Wainwright had intended to release Unfollow the Rules, his first traditional album-format collection in eight years, after experiments with opera and adapting Shakespeare’s sonnets. Rufus Wainwright, Usher Hall, Edinburgh *** A full rundown of Taylor Swift’s complete dating historyįresh from touring Edinburgh’s graveyards, Rufus Wainwright performed a stripped back, low-key set at the Usher Hall, writes David Pollock © Rufus Wainwright
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