| Author | Message | ||
     Catherine Member Username: Cairo Post Number: 3 Registered: 07-2007 |
Well what a marvellous night that was - Robert did a fantastic job. To me the star of the show was his wife Karin doing all the Nico bits, eg Femme Fatale and All Tomorrows Parties. Hard to pick my favourite song, but they sure did a thumping version of White Heat. Just magical! | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 49 Registered: 10-2005 |
Uh uh ... I had wanted to be there ... What about a cover EP, by Robert and the band? (Live from this date, if recorded.) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1994 Registered: 05-2005 |
It'll be in the back of his Volvo mate! | ||
| allan kingdom Member Username: Allan_kingdom Post Number: 13 Registered: 04-2006 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1exbCIxB 1I Robert & band are really rocking out.. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1470 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, now THAT is fantastic! All the way to the distortion. Perfect. I hope he keeps doing these odd little events to amuse himself and everyone else. You folks in Brisbane are really really lucky. | ||
| allan kingdom Member Username: Allan_kingdom Post Number: 14 Registered: 04-2006 |
I found some photos too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholasodo nnell/2094611355/in/set-7215760340586287 1/ http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing. asp?navtyp=gls====297931&nbc1=1 http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search .aspx?EventId=78103970# | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 381 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh wow, even that 90 seconds or so was fabulous! I'm extremely jealous of you all. When that exhibition was in Ireland, Duke Special took care of the music - and while I like him, I doubt if he could have done such a blistering version of White Light White Heat. I'm sure his version of I'm Sticking With You would have worked though! | ||
| allan kingdom Member Username: Allan_kingdom Post Number: 15 Registered: 04-2006 |
Here's another one, There she goes Robert's playing a great looking guitar. A Hagstrom Viking I believe. | ||
| David Mayocchi Member Username: David_m Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2007 |
Special mention should also be made of Robert's version of Pale Blue Eyes, a wonderful choice beautifully performed. Though Robert said that the band had only four rehearsals for their two shows (Friday night official opening and Saturday for fans), there was a lot of attention to the details of the Velvet's recordings. I saw Adele as she was leaving and she said that the songs were easy to play as they were quite similar to The Go-Betweens. Her performance was great (as always), and the entire band had a wonderful chemistry. It was a fantastic performance and the $25 ticket also gave entry to the exhibition, which was the perfect way to frame the event. The massive exhibition catalogue has an short essay by Robert Forster, "Who Loves The Sun: The Velvet Underground and The Go-Betweens. As well as a full page colour illustration of the Able Label poster for Lee Remick, there is a photo of the band on stage at the Coorparoo School of Arts in 1978 and three pages of wonderful writing. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 139 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh that's so good. Forster's voice has the perfect tonality for Reed's songs, thank god it's blocked out the awful Blondie cover. More, more!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1474 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for the information David. Off to the Queensland Art Gallery book shop's website . . . . | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1475 Registered: 03-2005 |
For anybody who wants to get the catalogue--which IS available--the website is http://www.australianartbooks.com.au/ The book is 320 pages softcover, for forty Australian smackers plus shipping. Perfectly reasonable for an art book. I've already been trolling this website after getting a fantastic book on Howard Arkley at the store during my visit for the Forster shows. It's a very good and reasonably priced source for Australian art books. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 385 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for that Randy, I've just ordered it. I never got round to going to the gallery when I was there. I'm gradually building a list of reasons to make a return visit as soon as finances allow. Must add that to the list.... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 322 Registered: 04-2005 |
Seems to have a wonderful event. Anyone got the full list of songs performed? Listening to 'Foggy Notion' in the car last night: 6 and half minutes that never drag, the pure essence of guitar rock'n'roll. And Mo bashing those tom-toms. And somehow you feel that Robert doing those songs is going to be hell of a lot better than Lou these days. I went to 2 nights of the Velvets reunion and they were not good. Too much history? I had seen John Cale solo a few months before and he was much more enjoyable. In fact the best live Velvets I've ever seen was Paul Haig belting out 'Sweet Jane' with Malcolm Ross' country band in a pub in Edinburgh. So for the next Robert tour he can support himself, with Velvets covers as an opening act and then his own material? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 140 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah, Lou seems to have lost sight of just how good his first stuff was, and how to perform it. Forster certainly seems to regenerate the material in the right sort of way. Was there ever, by the by, a remastered version of Velvets Live 1969? That would have to be my all-time desert island rock disc, if I had to choose one. | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 50 Registered: 10-2005 |
Mine too (at least one of them desert island discs): "Live 1969". I have understood that the old cd version has one(?) extra song, but I stick to my 2 lp:s. Anyway: a remastered cd would be most welcome. I can see them, the boys in Orange Juice and GBs, listening to Velvet's "1969 Live" in Glasgow 1980, figuring it all out. | ||
| Svein Inge Saether Member Username: Springrain Post Number: 21 Registered: 08-2006 |
Amazing stuff. Sorry to everyone for dragging the Blondie song out in the open, by the way! :-) | ||
| David Mayocchi Member Username: David_m Post Number: 2 Registered: 12-2007 |
I am fairly sure this is the list of songs (from my notes and a couple of reviews). Waiting for The Man All Tomorrow's Parties Sunday Morning Femme Fatale There She Goes Again Pale Blue Eyes White Light, White Heat Lisa Says. | ||
| david pestorius Member Username: David_pestorius Post Number: 68 Registered: 08-2005 |
There was an on-line review on the Mess + Noise website, which I note is listed on this site's News page, but which seems to have now disappeared. This is a pity because the reviewer was absolutely spot-on in identifying the really interesting cover as 'White Light White Heat'. I only saw the first night (the Friday) of RF's two GoMA shows of Velvet's covers, but based on what I saw — which I observed was filmed, by the way — the version of 'White Light, White Heat' was the real surprise. Not to say, the other selections were not a treat to hear — more the Velvets than the Velvets themselves, in a way. But with 'White Light, White Heat' what you heard, I think, was not RF merely working himself into the song, but more a kind of updating that revealed the historical relation between the Velvets, the Talking Heads and The Go-Betweens. It reminded me a little bit of what he did with 'Here Comes A City' on the last Go-Betweens album. It had that very same urgency, which, incidentally, he combined with a very subtle, very simple, visual move where RF stood for much of the song at right-angeles to the stage, side-on, in profile. It sounds like almost nothing, I know, but to see it in combination with the moves in the song itself, was somehow just right. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 282 Registered: 11-2004 |
Friday night was spot-on - Robert didn't have to tweak his guitar playing style in order to delve into Lou Reed's rhythmic stylings ca. 1969. My favorite tune on the night would have to be 'There She Goes Again' and 'Lisa Says'. As for Live 1969, Mercury have (seemingly) done flat transfers from near mint LPs of the '74 release for their volume 1 and 2 releases of Live 1969 in the late 80s, and haven't looked back and bettered them since! Perhaps they don't own the master tapes. A great, great live VU record - until the Quine tapes came out. |