On Tuesday the 18th of November I went to Glasgow to see Jack White at the SSE Hydro. It was the first time I'd been to the Hydro since it opened last year. The same venue had been used the MTV EMAs he week before so I had been expecting the venue and stage to be enormous and elaborate, however upon arriving it felt a lot smaller than how I'd imagined it. The stage, following Jack White's aesthetic was fairly modest and stripped back, the only props being a set of lights bearing the triple stripe motif from his new album Lazeretto, and an old fashioned television.
There was very little dialogue between Jack and the audience, with the exception of a man who came on stage before the concert to request that everyone put their phones away and refrained from taking pictures, which tied into Jack's traditional style. Surprisingly the majority of the audience respected this request which was a nice change considering nearly all the concerts I've been to since the dawn of the smartphone era have been impossible to go to without having to peer over a sea of iphone screens. Because of this it felt like Jack had a stronger connection to the audience despite not interacting much, because everyone attention was focused on the stage instead of their phone screens.
Jack played several tracks from his range of past groups and projects, starting with Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground from his days as The White Stripes finishing with Steady As She Goes from The Raconteurs.
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