Post by Aqualung55 on May 17, 2008 6:08:41 GMT
Having enjoyed Cambridge Corn Exchange so much, finding out Peterborough Broadway was "sold out" was a right bugger, until my mate Damo managed to get back row, circle seats! If you have been to the Broadway, you'll know it is a good old fashioned style cinema, an old Odeon, which Peter Boizot (founder of Pizza Express, former Chairman of Peterborough United, and general local boy made good/invested his wealth in the town/gone a bit potty these days) spent a good few million into making a really fine theatre, which went bust within a year, but was taken over and thrives on a diet of tribute bands, "songs from the shows" type events, comedy nights, Jimmy Carr ,Lenny Henry at one end of the scale, Ken Dodd and Jimmy Jones at the other. Oh and from time to time, top notch bands. I saw Tull here two years ago when Lucia Micarelli played her awesone violin. Seeing Tull do Kashmir with her was a Stevie G - Tull highlight memory. Then again, I was at the legendary Tull gig at Cambridge Corn Exchange years ago, when Martin's amp blew up, and we were treated to 20 minutes of Tull unplugged whilst the crew fixed it.
So.....despite being on the back row, we had an excellent view. The Broadway has an expansive stage, and the lightshow I'd seen in Cambridge was as good as before, if the back projections weren't quite so sharp. Tull couldn't, if you take their whole 40 years, be said to be predictable. However, on a tour these days, they tend to stick with what's been rehearsed and not waver much from a basic set list. So in these internet days, a vist to any one of a hundred websites would have given you an inkling into what to expect. Sadly - and Damo is pissed at this, as it is his favourite song - Witch's Promise, present in earlier dates in the tour, was absent at Peterborough as it was in Cambridge.
In Cambridge though, we were treated to Mick Abrahams, and although relative to where he lives, Peterborough ain't far, he didn't show up. That said, I had bought his CD in Cambridge and he told me he wouldn't be at the Broadway.
Jon Noyce was, though. Whice meant we got to hear what Ian Anderson described as a "song on which Mr Noyce played when we did it in the studio." Hence we were treated to Dot.Com, which if you are one of those who weren't too fussed on when it first came out, deserves another listen, as the music is, I feel, excellent, and at Peterborough, sounded very fresh. Anderson played his Indian bamboo flute, and Noyce added superb bass. Noyce never moved about much on stage, but compared to Dave Goodier, he is a dervish! Better watch out here, for fear of triggering another "what was the best Tull line up?" debate.
So, for posterity, and if my memory stacks up, the set list was -
My Sunday Feeling, Living In The Past, One For John Gee, So Much Trouble, A Song For Jeffrey, Nursie, Sossity/ Reasons for Waiting,,Serenade To A Cuckoo , A New Day Yesterday (incl. Kelpie), Bourée - (Intermission) - For A Thousand Mothers, We Used To Know/With You There To Help Me, Dharma For One, Heavy Horses, Dot.Com, Farm On The Freeway, Thick As A Brick, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath
Again, with Heavy Horses long being a favourite of mine, it was great to hear it in full, and not part of a medley. Dharma for One was tremendous, and a sold out show watch greeted with as "wild" a reception as a Tull audience will give you these days. Fair to say, at the end, a standing ovation.
In the vain hope that they read this, and given we were in row M, seats 3-5, I would like to say huge thanks, not, to the two couples in front of us, who got up for toilet breaks and more drink throughout the show, and, the more pissed they got, the more they talked.
In a way I was disappointed that 20 odd stone, six foot Damo didn't lose his rag, as he told me afterwards, and stuck one on the bloke, or at least busted his large conk!
So, that's it for me for another year. Jools Holland at Newmarket and Elbow at Delamere Forest beckon, but who know, I might win the lottery later this year.
In which case, see you in Budapest, for a hot night.
Ste Greenall
Huntingdon
aka aqualung 55
So.....despite being on the back row, we had an excellent view. The Broadway has an expansive stage, and the lightshow I'd seen in Cambridge was as good as before, if the back projections weren't quite so sharp. Tull couldn't, if you take their whole 40 years, be said to be predictable. However, on a tour these days, they tend to stick with what's been rehearsed and not waver much from a basic set list. So in these internet days, a vist to any one of a hundred websites would have given you an inkling into what to expect. Sadly - and Damo is pissed at this, as it is his favourite song - Witch's Promise, present in earlier dates in the tour, was absent at Peterborough as it was in Cambridge.
In Cambridge though, we were treated to Mick Abrahams, and although relative to where he lives, Peterborough ain't far, he didn't show up. That said, I had bought his CD in Cambridge and he told me he wouldn't be at the Broadway.
Jon Noyce was, though. Whice meant we got to hear what Ian Anderson described as a "song on which Mr Noyce played when we did it in the studio." Hence we were treated to Dot.Com, which if you are one of those who weren't too fussed on when it first came out, deserves another listen, as the music is, I feel, excellent, and at Peterborough, sounded very fresh. Anderson played his Indian bamboo flute, and Noyce added superb bass. Noyce never moved about much on stage, but compared to Dave Goodier, he is a dervish! Better watch out here, for fear of triggering another "what was the best Tull line up?" debate.
So, for posterity, and if my memory stacks up, the set list was -
My Sunday Feeling, Living In The Past, One For John Gee, So Much Trouble, A Song For Jeffrey, Nursie, Sossity/ Reasons for Waiting,,Serenade To A Cuckoo , A New Day Yesterday (incl. Kelpie), Bourée - (Intermission) - For A Thousand Mothers, We Used To Know/With You There To Help Me, Dharma For One, Heavy Horses, Dot.Com, Farm On The Freeway, Thick As A Brick, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath
Again, with Heavy Horses long being a favourite of mine, it was great to hear it in full, and not part of a medley. Dharma for One was tremendous, and a sold out show watch greeted with as "wild" a reception as a Tull audience will give you these days. Fair to say, at the end, a standing ovation.
In the vain hope that they read this, and given we were in row M, seats 3-5, I would like to say huge thanks, not, to the two couples in front of us, who got up for toilet breaks and more drink throughout the show, and, the more pissed they got, the more they talked.
In a way I was disappointed that 20 odd stone, six foot Damo didn't lose his rag, as he told me afterwards, and stuck one on the bloke, or at least busted his large conk!
So, that's it for me for another year. Jools Holland at Newmarket and Elbow at Delamere Forest beckon, but who know, I might win the lottery later this year.
In which case, see you in Budapest, for a hot night.
Ste Greenall
Huntingdon
aka aqualung 55