From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #549 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, April 9 2013 Volume 15 : Number 549 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] 2013 Set List [Jonathan Wilkins ] Re: [AVALON] 2013 Set List [Alan Heaton ] Re: [AVALON] 2013 Set List [Jocelyn Fiske ] [AVALON] 2013 Set List [JohnOBrien001@aol.com] [AVALON] BF at the Admiralspalast [=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_H=2E_S=F6tema] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 22:05:07 +0100 From: Jonathan Wilkins Subject: Re: [AVALON] 2013 Set List Wow! He's still surprising us. This is awesome. J Sent from my Ipad On 8 Apr 2013, at 21:43, JohnOBrien001@aol.com wrote: > Bryan Ferry kicked off his 2013 tour in Berlin tonight. The set list can > be found here:http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/tours_34.php > > Check out the Amy Winehouse track and also the last song of the show, It's > nice to see some songs that have not been performed for years and even > some being performed live for the first time. > > I wasn't at the show but I managed to hear the rehearsals and they sounded > great. > > J.O'B. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 15:17:50 -0700 From: Alan Heaton Subject: Re: [AVALON] 2013 Set List Very cool indeed! I've always loved Ferry's take on "It's My Party" (but have never heard it live, of course), and I am really intrigued to know how he would do "Move On Up." I always liked The Jam's cover of that song. I am sure this would be a great show to see. Cheers, Alan On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Jonathan Wilkins wrote: > Wow! He's still surprising us. This is awesome. > > J > > Sent from my Ipad > > On 8 Apr 2013, at 21:43, JohnOBrien001@aol.com wrote: > > > Bryan Ferry kicked off his 2013 tour in Berlin tonight. The set list can > > be found here:http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/tours_34.php > > > > Check out the Amy Winehouse track and also the last song of the show, > It's > > nice to see some songs that have not been performed for years and even > > some being performed live for the first time. > > > > I wasn't at the show but I managed to hear the rehearsals and they > sounded > > great. > > > > J.O'B. > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 01:16:16 +0100 From: Jocelyn Fiske Subject: Re: [AVALON] 2013 Set List That's a bonkers set! Move On Up? Blimey Curtis Ferry, where did THAT come from? Hope Back to Black's still in the set by the time we get it, Ferry's never hidden his admiration for Ms Winehouse but I never expected him to cover her live. As Jonathan says - lots of surprises, J Sent from my iPad On 8 Apr 2013, at 22:05, Jonathan Wilkins wrote: > Wow! He's still surprising us. This is awesome. > > J > > Sent from my Ipad > > On 8 Apr 2013, at 21:43, JohnOBrien001@aol.com wrote: > >> Bryan Ferry kicked off his 2013 tour in Berlin tonight. The set list can >> be found here:http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/tours_34.php >> >> Check out the Amy Winehouse track and also the last song of the show, It's >> nice to see some songs that have not been performed for years and even >> some being performed live for the first time. >> >> I wasn't at the show but I managed to hear the rehearsals and they sounded >> great. >> >> J.O'B. >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:43:38 -0400 (EDT) From: JohnOBrien001@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] 2013 Set List Bryan Ferry kicked off his 2013 tour in Berlin tonight. The set list can be found here:http://www.vivaroxymusic.com/tours_34.php Check out the Amy Winehouse track and also the last song of the show, It's nice to see some songs that have not been performed for years and even some being performed live for the first time. I wasn't at the show but I managed to hear the rehearsals and they sounded great. J.O'B. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 09:14:25 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_H=2E_S=F6temann?= Subject: [AVALON] BF at the Admiralspalast Well, you already have seen the setlist if you have chosen to. I had the chance to catch the concert yesterday and I must say it was nothing short of amazing. Sad to see some people on formus going "Oh dear. Apart from Another Time looks poor." - to which I would reply, listen to a complete gig first, then judge. It was by no means a "mostly-jazz" concert... but here are some details. The announcement of the gig's proceeding was undertaken by a radio moderator (of the ultra un-hip "Spreeradio") looking like a dolls' house bouncer, including bad jokes and apparently only basic knowledge of what was to follow - promising "Bryan Ferry himself singing all the Roxy Music hits" in the later part of the evening. I prefer not to comment that. Then on you go for the BFO, effectively directed and by Colin Good. Several tracks from TJA, after which BF strolled on stage to a rearranged version of LITD, followed by BFO with BF versions of The Only Face (brilliant!) and Reason or Rhyme. During the latter, the "rock band" performers came on stage, and the first "rock set" selection was... The Same Old Blues! I was amazed right from the point it started with the clavinet sound. During the rock-oriented material, the BFO became a mixture of great brass band section, second keyboards and second guitar, making clear that by no means was every song to be reworked into a jazz(-ish) format. BF's voice was high up in the mix, with all its subtleties, yet quite sonorous in its middle range during the louder sections, very good. Actually, I had expected maybe one or two surprises in the setlist and then by and large a greatest hits / recent favourites selection, but BF clearly took a risk here. Fortunately, the audience took quite positively to the Jazz Age versions after a few numbers, but Ferry did not aim to settle for crowd-pleasers, meaning that we got - for the most part - a selection of tracks from the first three solo albums, TBSB and my old favourite, Mamouna. Standout versions of That's How Strong My Love Is, ATAP etc. Several times I found myself in disbelief, listening to tracks like Chain Reaction or It's My Party in great arrangements, thinking: they are actually playing this - when I thought I would never get to hear those tracks performed (again). Even more surprises out of Bry's bag by the inclusion of Crazy Love, Amy Winehouse's Back To Black (performed pognantly by BF, showing that he is actually some form of great solipsist soul singer - were there such a category) and - as the final encore, Curtis Mayfield's Move On Up. The audience were up on their feet from LST onwards, clearly enjoying the lesser-known or unexpected songs. So, yes, we did get some of the Roxy / Ferry hits - though mainly in BFO versions. The remainder was a surprising focus on the Ferry solo back catalogue. An awesome gig - given you are a Ferry solo as well as a Roxy fan. I sincerely hope that he will retain many of the surprise numbers in the set for the UK leg of the tour. Frankly, at times I had wished for a moment to let the sheer excitement of having just heard such a rarely performed song to sink in for a moment. But that way, it was positively overwhelming. Our man, turning 68 in half a year, still excels at what he is doing, and although like most fans, I would love to hear new original material being released soon, this concert confirmed the depth of his back catalogue. Christian ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #549 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest