It's been 2 years, 6 months and 3 days since Sandi was last in Glasgow, but it's been 4 years and 4 months since she last graced the stage of the infamous King Tut's Wah Wah Hut.
Opening for Sandi was Edinburgh singer/songwriter Carrie Mac. Taking to the stage, she performed a selection of tracks including Love Curse, Heartbreaker (where she announced that she'd only ever played it live once before!), recent single Things I Wish I'd Said, Little Respect (a popular cover amongst fans where she said the crowd could join in if they wanted), Falling At Your Feet and finishing off with Like A Star. 
It wasn't long until the main act was ready to take the stage. Opening with two tracks from her latest release (Help Me and Stormy Weather) before heading into the familiar but yet different I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair). Rise As One is come next followed by the first visit to the Merchants and Thieves album in the form of Show No Concern.
Before heading into the next track, Sandi begins to tell the tale behind her next track (whilst tuning her guitar) about her moving to Tooting and about the man who always seemed to always be drunk but sang like Frank Sinatra even after 10 pints (which got the response from the crowd of 'So did Frank Sinatra'). This led into a track from her debut album Smile...It Confuses People in the form of Human Jukebox. From here it's seamless into another track from the same album, the beautiful Castles. 
After this quiet moment, the tempo (and noise!) level is raised as they head into Ain't That A Lot Of Love. Keeping the pace is This Ol' World with backing vocalist Lindsey taking the sections that originally Joe Bonamassa sang on the track and both her Sandi sounded great. Taking it down for the moment is I Owe You Zero before making some more noise with Heart Of Stone.
Another moment of reflection comes as Sandi describes the recording the next track with it's original artist, Buffy Sainte Marie and how it was a great honour to do so. It is of course Big Ones Get Away. After this beautiful performance, Sandi announces that they have a couple of special guests to join them for the next track and up hop Scottish hip hop duo Shy & DRS to perform the track Revolution before they and all but Sandi and guitarist Steve are left. 
She decides at this point it’s time to come down and join the crowd and see what it’s like from where they are and then begins the background on the next track; how she was trying to impress her now boyfriend Joe Bonamassa with the next track and hoping not to murder it seeing as it was one of his. This story leads us into I Need Your Love So Bad. After this, she hops back up onto the stage as the rest of the band join her for the last and title track to her latest album, Flesh and Blood. Of course it’s not the last track as after leaving the stage for a few minutes, they’re back to sing Runaway Train with some crowd participation involved.
Overall, it's great to see Sandi back in Glasgow. She called it her first homecoming gig (with Aberdeen & Edinburgh still to go at the time) and apparently Glasgow is the only place where she has full conversations with the audience during a set. It’s always interesting to hear the songs live because they never seem to be how they were recorded in the first place, but that is the draw of seeing an artist live. She seems more content now that she is doing her own thing. And of course a mention to Carrie Mac who said that she was nervous and didn’t know why. She had no reason to be worried
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