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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3480 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ed Kuepper and Chris Bailey are playing a three state residency in May, with gigs each week in Sydney, Brisbane and May. http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/loca l/23199/Bailey-and-Kuepper-reunited-on-t our.htm | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1933 Registered: 10-2004 |
Wasn't there some news last year about Kuepper working with the Bad Seeds? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3482 Registered: 05-2005 |
He still is Jeff. Maybe Nick's not paying him enough or working quick enough! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3556 Registered: 05-2005 |
It was a mostly great show. Ed is very cool. Chris is not. More some other time. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1956 Registered: 10-2004 |
"Ed is very cool. Chris is not." Padraig, this made me laugh out loud, for some reason. Maybe because, to put it politely, I'm not surprised! I can't wait to hear more! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3557 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, sorry it has taken me so long to get back here. It has been one of those weeks. Ed played electric guitar throughout. Chris switched between acoustic and bass. They both sang, but generally on separate songs. They did not play any Saints songs from when they were both in the band. Almost all of the songs Chris Bailey sang were from the post-Ed Saints era (a friend told me this. I don't have any of the post-Ed Saints albums). The songs Ed sang were from his solo career. The Way I Made You Feel from Honey Steel’s Gold was a highlight for me. The cover of The Kinks’ Last Of The Steam Powered Trains was great. So was their take on Send In The Clowns, which was the last song before the encore. I wondered if Ed insisted on Chris singing this as some kind of joke. They mostly played very well together, but they were occasionally let down by Chris Bailey's Whitney tendencies. He has a great voice. He doesn't need to do that. Ed has a very limited voice but always makes the most of it. The fought on stage. At first I thought they were hamming it up (like Bailey's vocals), but then realised that no, they meant it. After one early, florid, Bailey rant about Kuepper which got a laugh, Ed responded calmly in his low rumble: "He practises these lines in the dressing room before the show you know... Notes flying everywhere..." It was hilarious. I can't imagine them ever doing this again so I'm very glad I saw it. I just wonder why they did it. It surely can't have been the money? The Vanguard only hold 150 people and the tickets weren't that expensive. The venues they played in Melbourne and Brisbane were almost certainly bigger, but probably not by that much. A great and entertaining night overall. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 303 Registered: 02-2007 |
Padraig I saw them at Troubadour Thursday night. Small venue paked. Prob a coupla hundred hard to tell. Chris' voice was great while it was awfully hard to heard Ed clearly at times. Brilliant cover of Dylan's Hollis Brown to open the show. Seemed to be doing solo songs each taking it in turn although more of bailey's songs than Kuepper's. When this venue's full you cant actually see the performers so stood at back and just listened. No real fireworks on stage Padraig from what i could tell. Enjoyable evening. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3558 Registered: 05-2005 |
Maybe they made up after Wednesday night's show David! Or maybe they were just better behaved in front of the hometown crowd! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1959 Registered: 10-2004 |
Thanks for the reviews! I cannot imagine why they would not play any early Saints material. That just boggles the mind, you know? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2352 Registered: 03-2005 |
It makes sense to me. It was "Bailey and Kuepper" so they played their post-Saints material. Maybe they wanted a chance to see what it would have been like to have continued working together beyond "Prehistoric Sounds." Maybe they're just sick of doing the old Saints songs together. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1960 Registered: 10-2004 |
I didn't know they had been doing old Saints songs together in the first place. But why get together just to play songs they can each play just fine on their own? No, still doesn't compute for me. I mean, it'd have been like Nick Cave and Rowland S. Howard reuniting to play Bad Seeds and These Immortal Souls songs. Or Grant and Robert getting together to only play each others' solo songs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3564 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, there were three or four original Saints reunion gigs in Australia in the past couple of years. Unfortunately I did not see them though. I would not have thought that playing the old songs in four gigs and some rehearsals was enough to put Kuepper and Bailey off playing them together again, but who knows? It was still great to see them regardless of what they played. No-one could ever accuse them of pandering to the audience though. |