Picture by Prudence Upton NO MONO/TOTAL CONTROL Vivid Live, Joan Sutherland Theatre, June 1 & 2 Yeah, next door Solange was giving it, was killing it, on both nights. Or so I hear (don’t get me started, unless you want to see a grown man in tears). Her spectacle, her political drive and her emotional substrata the headline act for this year’s Vivid Live, at least until St Vincent pops up next week. No comparison then for these two capable-of-brilliance local acts, of barely a

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