"We reserved four seats at Jazz After Dark recommend by their website . When we arrived, it took several minutes to find our reservation no problem, it happens. But then it took more time to find us a spot which was strange, because we reserved four seats, in a tiny venue with mainly four seater tables, so I thought they would hold seats for everyone that reserved a spot apparently not and we ended up in a “side room” that was essentially behind the stage. We couldn’t see the band. Our waitress had to cross the stage every time she came to take an order. Kind of strange for paying 15£ per person to reserve seats. But it unfortunately got worse. Only part of the band was present at the start, and they just played some standards and did some fun riffs nothing amazing but entertaining nonetheless. And then the singer for the evening came on stage. There’s no easy way to say it, the singing was just quite awful. Off key, singing way beyond the range, reading the lyrics to every song off of an iPhone they had to their face the entire time. Making up the playlist as they went along, clearly no alignment with the band on said playlist, which ended up being more pop covers than anything to do with jazz. So after 45 minutes of witnessing a terrible singer, who had to read the lyrics as they were singing as if it were karaoke , and a jazz band poorly cover pop songs imagine someone that cannot sing well trying to cover songs by Whitney Houston or Adele.. we decided we had enough and simply left. It’s not clear to me if this awful singer was a one time thing. But it was clearly a random match of singer to band, without any alignments or planned set lists. The entire evening felt like below ameture level. And we paid 15£ drinks to witness it."
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