Guess who’s giving a free show in Atlanta? Ms. Lauryn Hill!
But don’t come unless you plan on coming correct
Sike!
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Actually the Wed., March 30 concert at Center Stage is only open to those who previously purchased tickets to her show held three months ago at the same venue. In case you hadn’t heard, she arrived hours late for her Jan. 14 show — pretty much confirming all the notorious press coverage she’s ever received for making crowds wait insufferable amounts of time before taking the stage.
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Similar reports started up again, when, shortly after kicking off her current tour last December, she appeared at Brooklyn’s Music Hall in Williamsburg, where New York Times writer Jon Caramanica watched a would-be Lauryn Hill concert turn into a comedy of errors as fans impatiently waited for her:
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After a while a few cups and bottles arced through the air and landed onstage at the feet of her band, musicians sent to the slaughter, who’d been idly vamping along with the songs the D.J. was playing — anything to pass the time, really.
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Two fans in the front row hand-wrote signs: “You Just Lost One,” “This Is Insulting.” One of the keyboard players taped a reply on his kit: “I Was on Time.” Two fans in the front row hand-wrote signs: “You Just Lost One,” “This Is Insulting.” One of the keyboard players taped a reply on his kit: “I Was on Time.” When Ms. Hill finally took the stage a little after midnight — a few minutes after arriving at the club and getting carried over piles of snow on the street, one witness reported — she was primed for a fight.
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“Don’t do that. That’s disrespectful,” she told the fans with the signs, motioning with her finger to the exit at the back of the room, where she suggested they go.
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In the video above, you can see her chiding that same crowd, like a mother does a child, for being disrespectful when she finally took the stage.
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There were no such negative reviews (dismissive tweets notwithstanding) published after her Atlanta show in January, possibly because all advanced press requests were denied by Hill’s representatives. But in an attempt to preserve her musical rep, Ms. Hill wants to make up for arriving late anyway, according to this press release: