Post by greg on May 2, 2008 11:04:34 GMT
Just a hasty report on last night's Edinburgh Queen's Hall gig, to hold the fort until someone posts something better.
An excellent front row seat made for a good start (D13 proved to be Row 1 - wahay!). The venue, for anyone that doesn't know it (I didn't, until last night) is tiny - an old chapel with pews still intact, and a stage so small that the grand piano was too big to get out there. So the keyboards were (as Ian described them) 'crappy little ones' for one night only... This meant for a pretty uniquely intimate gig, with the boys almost at ground level about three yards away from me, and a really immediate and raw sound.
The set list was much the same as the most recent English gigs, except we didn't get the 'We Used to Know...With You there to help me' medley/seque - and instead got the band backing Special Guest Fish (ex of Marillion) doing a song listed on the setlist onstage as 'The Company...' (possibly 'the company I keep'??). Fish returned to do some impassioned 'No Way to Slow Down'-ing during the Locomotive Breath Finale, too - so was generally a good addition, and very popular with the locals (being a sasanach who just works in Edinburgh, I was struggling to translate some of the shouts of the 'hooway Jimmy' variety.
Anyway, just to endorse what some earlier reviewers have said of other nights. The band do seem to be on top form again. Martin is manhandling some raucous noise out of his electric guitar and Ian's voice is holding up wel., All in all a great gig. Roll on The Festival HAll final night!
Ian mentioned that Jeffrey H-H is listed as the guest at Blackburn, by the way. Should be interesting for those who are there. Full report please!?
Cheers to all,
Greg
(Usually in Nottingham)
;D
An excellent front row seat made for a good start (D13 proved to be Row 1 - wahay!). The venue, for anyone that doesn't know it (I didn't, until last night) is tiny - an old chapel with pews still intact, and a stage so small that the grand piano was too big to get out there. So the keyboards were (as Ian described them) 'crappy little ones' for one night only... This meant for a pretty uniquely intimate gig, with the boys almost at ground level about three yards away from me, and a really immediate and raw sound.
The set list was much the same as the most recent English gigs, except we didn't get the 'We Used to Know...With You there to help me' medley/seque - and instead got the band backing Special Guest Fish (ex of Marillion) doing a song listed on the setlist onstage as 'The Company...' (possibly 'the company I keep'??). Fish returned to do some impassioned 'No Way to Slow Down'-ing during the Locomotive Breath Finale, too - so was generally a good addition, and very popular with the locals (being a sasanach who just works in Edinburgh, I was struggling to translate some of the shouts of the 'hooway Jimmy' variety.
Anyway, just to endorse what some earlier reviewers have said of other nights. The band do seem to be on top form again. Martin is manhandling some raucous noise out of his electric guitar and Ian's voice is holding up wel., All in all a great gig. Roll on The Festival HAll final night!
Ian mentioned that Jeffrey H-H is listed as the guest at Blackburn, by the way. Should be interesting for those who are there. Full report please!?
Cheers to all,
Greg
(Usually in Nottingham)
;D