Went to see Rufus Wainwright at Symphony Hall last night, very good indeed.

The whole show seemed quite intimate, just Rufus at a piano.
The first half was him performing his new album in its entirety, with no applause by request, which made it a quite unusual experience to be honest, it feels quite weird to hear dead silence in a venue between songs...
The songs themselves, that I had never heard before, were excellent, very stark lonely songs, some of which understandably dealt with the recent death of his mother, Kate McGarrigle.

After an interval, the second set began, and was much more jovial, and he played some of his more lighthearted numbers, along with a generous helping of the Want Two album, which I seem to play far too often for my own good A very long concert, that never seemed tiring (he must have played 35+ songs) and ended with a touching cover of Kate McGarrigle's 'The Walking Song' at the end