Ellie Goulding is a British singer-songwriter. She played a show in the Vienna Gasometer, with the support of Charli XCX and Matthew Koma.

Ellie Goulding’s show was short but awesome. Both the supporting bands weren’t my thing. But since I didn’t come for them but EG, all I can say is, whatever. She was great.

Matthew Koma

The first one to play was Matthew Koma and he really didn’t blow me away. I had listened to one song before the concert and thought that it was nice, if not very exciting, and that he had potential, but he lost me completely when he started talking about the “females” in the audience and said that he would sing a song about perverts that was all about watching girls in shorts at the beach or something. Nah dude, not with or for me.

Charli XCX

With Charli XCX, too, I had listened to exactly one song before the concert and I had thought that her music was more up my alley than Matthew Koma’s. But unfortunately she has a show that centers around her being an even more hypersexualized school girl than what is currently going on anyway, and she shakes her hips and throws her hair around and all I thought was, “damn, if you stopped trying to be so sexy all the time, maybe the whole singing thing would go better.”

At least this song she sings with Icona Pop was fun to dance and scream to. Definitely the best moment of the show.

Ellie Goulding

Ellie Goulding played a rather short show, but it was completely satisfying. Often when a concert is as short as hers you leave with the urge to see more and the disappointment that it wasn’t more. But her show was just right. In fact, I don’t think I would have wanted it to be any longer. Not because it wasn’t good, but just because it was the perfect amount.

She played all my favorites and she has a really great presence and energy on stage. It took her a bit to really start interacting with the audience, but once she did she was charming and always managed to make “you’re such a polite audience” not sound like an insult.

Summarising: I enjoyed the hell out of the Ellie Goulding part.

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A little anecdote: @finnporter and @thegrumpygirl_ (who also were at the show) came after the support acts and then wound their way through the crowd towards where the rest of us was standing. (Not really very much in the front, but not all the way in the back either.) And right next to us there were these two girls, I guess around 15, 16, probably at their first concert. And they were completely shocked that somebody would come into the crowd late when they had been standing there since 8pm [at least I guess pm, not am]! I swear, they were about to burst into tears of outrage. We probably ruined their very first concert experience just by behaving like everybody else at a concert. Poor things.
We then offered that they could stand in front of us, since we just wanted to stand together and during the entire show they stood without moving a muscle, just listening intently. It didn’t seem like they were enjoying themselves a whole lot. But maybe their next concert will be better…