From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #354 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, March 13 2008 Volume 12 : Number 354 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Metaphors [Richard Evans ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:53:55 +0100 From: Richard Evans Subject: Re: [AVALON] Metaphors Peter What time did they come on Richard Evans On 12 Mar 2008, at 00:10, Peter Dewey wrote: > Went to the show in Cardiff tonight. > > Very polished performance by a group of high musical ability. Nice > venue but only 40 or so in the audience. > > The Metaphors music seems to me to be a cross between AM's Resolving > Contradictions and the more ambient style of Music for the Senses. > The lack of crowd did not therefore take much away from the show as > it is music that requires some attention. It suits smaller venues > and would go well in a jazz club style environment. > > They played the tracks (or at least most of them) that are on the > web, as well as The Pride & The Pain (instrumental version, no slave > drivers!) Tara and Bitterwseet. Hazel Mills is a decent vocalist, > who also sang a couple of covers, All Tomorrows Parties and > Radiohead's Climbing Up The Walls. Apart from Loyang Tractor Factory > from Resolving Contradictions, I think they played some other stuff > off the forthcoming album as well as finishing on a rousing > instrumental featuring a solo from Julia Thornton. 75 mins in all. > > Enjoyable stuff and my 16 y o son (the youngest in the audience by a > long way) was quite impressed. > > PD > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #354 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest