From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #555 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, April 15 2013 Volume 15 : Number 555 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] BF at the Admiralspalast [Evans Richard ] [AVALON] BF at the Admiralspalast [olivetreepl+mark ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:32:24 +0100 From: Evans Richard Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF at the Admiralspalast Great report - thanks On 9 Apr 2013, at 08:14, Christian H. Svtemann wrote: > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:13:45 +0100 From: olivetreepl+mark Subject: [AVALON] BF at the Admiralspalast Like Richard, this set list is encouraging me to get a ticket! The chance of hearing 'Another Time' live is very exciting: one of my favourite BF tracks, I've always wondered what it would have been like as a Roxy track. Mactheaxe ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:08:42 +0100 From: Jonathan Wilkins Subject: [AVALON] Johnny Marr / new tour Nice to see Roxy representation here: http://www.xfm.co.uk/onair/shows/the-mixtape-with-johnny-marr-show-1 Keep reading about the new BF tour being "the first since the Dylanesque tour." Does this mean the Olympia tour doesn't count? J Sent from my Ipad ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #555 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest