QNEWS REVIEW – ZIA at BGD07 Live Performance
Zia’s energy was electric as she took to this year’s Big Gay Day stage. I was amazed to see her tooled up with a bass guitar, not what I was expecting for entertainment on Gay Day’s usually Drag and DJ filled entertainment bill. Thus equiped she led us into the track Ritual. Her bass playing is great, strong and melodic, mixing plenty of slaps with very strong flow, really getting the crowd moving.
Zia then followed with the two tracks of ‘luuurve’, City of Lvoe (in which whe was joined on stage by a dancer with flaming orange hair) and Lucky Love. Both of the tracks are energetic dance music, with City of Love remixed by Craig Obey and Lucky Love remixed by Matt Foxon, Ken Sheppard, and one of Brisbane’s favourite’s, DJ Ish.
By this stage the crowd were really jumping, and when Zia announced a tribute to the late Billy Thorpe there were many cheers from the massess. Unleashing her successful single Underground, and joined onstage by two dancers it was enough to get everyone dancing.
Zia put on a brilliant show, with a good selection of tracks and planety of groove. If the response from her performance was any indication, her new tracks for 2007 should go off just as strong.
