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     C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 104 Registered: 05-2005 |
Could n't resist it - going to drive up from London tonight after work. 200 standing venue should be a good contrast to the QEH. Any ideas what time RF will start - says 10pm curfew? I guess 8pm? Anyone up for a beer beforehand? Subject to traffic etc..... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2593 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am going to try and get to oxford 6pm ish, as you say, dependent upon traffic situation. i might try and find a pub nearby, and get to the venue close to 7.15. i'll have black rimmed spectacles, a black bomber jacket and will probably be carryiong a camera holdall with some top secret files in!. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 66 Registered: 08-2005 |
I'll be there (and at the QEH) - I'll be wearing a somewhat faded Go-Betweens Lee Remick t-shirt, long grey cord shorts, and carrying a small green Mambo bag (with camera in but no secret files). I'll look out for you, Spence - anybody with 2593 posts deserves respect! Aiming to get to Oxford around 6pm, traffic permitting. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 367 Registered: 01-2007 |
Last night started exactly at 7:45, there was a 10 minute intermission, which is 10mins nad we missed the first song with about 1/2 the audience! By the way he's on Mark Riley on tuesday Radio 6 Enjoy | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 67 Registered: 08-2005 |
Thanks for that, Frank. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 105 Registered: 05-2005 |
A quick dabble on google suggests....The Brickworks 182 Cowley Road - I accept no responsibility if its a dive but reviews sound ok! http://www.qype.co.uk/place/51915-The-Br ickworks-Oxford | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2596 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers c gull. I'll try to get there for 6ish. Si, I deserve not respect, but to be sectioned mate for that amount of posts. Isn't Padraig hot on the heels, not sure where kev is at... I'll look out for the mambo! | ||
| andy mackinnon Unregistered guest |
i've emailed the venue asking for stage times, will post here if i hear anything. am hoping they get the aircon working properly - went to see calexico a couple of weeks ago and half the gig was ridiculously hot until they found the switch for the aircon and the second half was very comfortable :-) mind you, that was in the bigger downstairs room at the academy so maybe that's all irrelevant. really looking forward to this tho | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Great night last night. First of all terrific to meet Spence, Catherine and Simon W. Really good company and great to find that people are as nice as they sound on the board. very small venue(200 cap) probably only 50-60 people there when they came on, filled up later on. Set list much as other nights, highlights for me -the shimmering guitar intro to Quiet Heart which brought tears to the eyes. -Hearing old GB favourites and feeling they are still very much alive 'She never had a nickname, but then nor had I'. I was kind of frightened of hearing the old stuff without Grant but with the new band it felt absolutely right. -I'm Alright - what a great song So much else, roll on Friday. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 68 Registered: 08-2005 |
Ditto to C Gull - great to meet you all. The band were on great form and it was Love is a Sign that brought tears to my eyes. And one of my all-time favourite lines is "She never had a nickname, but then nor had I". Genius. I'll post pics on flickr later (they won't be great – I'm s sub-editor not a photographer!) along with a pic of Adele's copy of the setlist, signed by Adele and Robert. Yep, 45 years old and still a fanboy at heart. And had a quick chat with Robert afterwards. Brilliant. See you guys Friday. I might go to Wagamama's beforehand, which is about 20 yards from the QEH, apparently. And one more thing I liked last night: the venue gave an accurate start time, and the band played around two hours or so, which I always reckon is about right. I've seen The Dandy Warhols and The Cure do three-hour sets but that's pushing it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2597 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll second that C Gull! T'was a joy to meet the two Simon's(and Simon W's wife) and Catherine (the most committed GB's/Bob fan I have ever met, go girl go!, I think I met jonathan and Austin too - Catherine???) Was a small gathering, which made it a perfect night. The band were flawless (apart from the usual Robert's starts a one string gitar solo, then decides he's had enough and goes Accapella!), Robert's peformance, it was a peformance, the guy should take the stage at the RSC, he was teriffic. Everyone played a blinder and the songs sounded the best you could ever hear them. From the oh so pretty Adele, who looked lovely with her semi acoustic bass (so suits her), to the wee lad on drums who looked like he was aged about 10!, and played so effortlessly, whoever found this lad deserves a medal, he so so suits the band, and Glenn, whose visual style (including the best hair sonce Bootsy Collins) really matched his playing ability and on-stage presence. As the board has said before, they all work well together, everyone knows its right. It was a GoBetweens gig for me, it didn't feel like a Robert Forster gig, i know Grant wasn't there, but he must've been smiling, as he probably has throughout this tour. I think its me that needs to get it together, in my excitement to rush and meet the board people at the brickworks, I forgot to pay my parking ticket and got fined a £100! And to add insult to injury I dropped my brand new Nikon SLR in the venue, after waiting patiently for 10 minutes with Catherine oustside to get a photo pass. Then on leaving the car park to go home I got shouted at by an irate taxi driver calling me a pri*k! Thank God the night was so great, or else i'd be on a MASSIVE downer today! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 69 Registered: 08-2005 |
Sorry to hear about the parking ticket - ouch! And second the comments on Catherine, that's what I call dedication. I considered doing what Catherine's doing, she's actually doing it. Good work. Certainly if I was rolling in money - or prepared to dip into my savings more (I'm a cheapskate) - I might have tried to make a couple of the dates in Europe. Performance wise, did anybody catch Robert in the early 90s. I can't remember the year, but he played the Orange in Kensington (I saw Grant there too, I think. Is the venue still open?) and the band now remind of the band he was touring with then, who I think comprised several members of the Bad Seeds and a German guitarist (I could be massively wrong on both counts, but hey, we're talking 15 years ago... | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 107 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love it when the day after a gig little bits keep coming back to you - several from last night have sent a shiver down the spine this morning. As Simon W says Love Is A Sign was breathtaking - I remember a GB gig a few years ago when Robert opened with this (solo?). Also Heart Out to Tender with Robert in full performing mode and finally a superb Darlinghurst Years - the way this built up to a crecendo. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 108 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon - funny that gig cat the Orange came back to me last night aswell. I remember really enjoying it but not much else - was this one of Robert's first solo tours. It was the opening day of the football season (blackburn home lost), a hot sunny day. I go past the Orange sometimes but I don't think it is still a venue. I seem to remember the german guitarist at Camden town (the underworld?)a couple of years later with Robert hamming it up massively to Outside the Circle?! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 70 Registered: 08-2005 |
Adele’s setlist - with original abbreviations Something Myself Spirit Love is a Sign Baby Stones If it rains The Evangelist Angels Demon Days I’m Allright ------------ Too much of one thing Clouds Born to a family Head full of steam Pandanus Sufing mags Quiet Heart Make her day German farm Darlo Don’t touch anything Did she overtake you Spring rain Here comes city --------------- He lives my life Heart out tender --------------- I can do Temptation 121 | ||
| andy mackinnon Unregistered guest |
thanks very much for the setlist simon, great to have it confirmed. lovely gig, impressively reverential crowd, wish i could go to more dates on the tour now - did robert say he'd enjoyed the gig? i was particularly impressed with how well the evangelist material came over live, did she overtake you was superb i thought. | ||
| Mick sharry Member Username: Sam_beckett Post Number: 1 Registered: 09-2008 |
Hi to all ,I am a returning member ,only saw the oxford gig advertised in our local free rag ,so drove from coventry ,shame I didn`t check this board before ,It would have been nice to have a drink with some of you Guys,I reconigse some of you from your description You could`nt fail to spot Simon in the shorts and T shirt ,I thought it was a classic gig ,Robert is such a strange one ,he really should have been an Actor ,It was touching when he did "Quiet Heart " one of grants songs ,was that the only grant song he sang ? Where did that song "Temptation " come from ? good to be back in contact | ||
| Matt Snowball Member Username: Headlight Post Number: 3 Registered: 06-2005 |
I don't think they played "I Can Do." The notes I jotted down don't show that it was played. Who can confirm? | ||
| Matt Snowball Member Username: Headlight Post Number: 4 Registered: 06-2005 |
Great Robert quotes from the night: When band got on stage: "We are the best looking group ever to play Oxford." After a few songs: "Please don't take offense to what I said earlier. We are the best looking group to play Oxford apart from Pink Floyd, 1966." | ||
| Svein Inge Saether Member Username: Springrain Post Number: 46 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Temptation" is "Temptation Inside Your Heart" by The Velvet Underground, surely? They did it in New York earlier this month. I'm trying to imagine it being the New Order song... | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 71 Registered: 08-2005 |
Mick, good to have you on board (I'm a regular attender here but don't post with the regularity of Spence and Pádraig - both over 2000 posts - or Randy at 1700). It's a very friendly board indeed. Pop on over to off-topic sometime, it's helped me find new bands to listen to (like House of Love - maybe not a "new" band, but one I missed when they were going). I too thought it was a classic gig, and both Adele and Robert seemed very pleased with how it went. Great sound, appreciative audience. With such a small venue you'd imagine there might be the temptation to go through the motions, but I think they were on top form. And I'm certainly looking forward to Friday at the QEH. And I always wonder whether Robert might have made it as an actor, as live he's as much a "performer" as he is singer. Matt, I'm not sure about whether they played I Can Do, I'm afraid. I think so, but wouldn't bet on it. And having a quick chat with Robert afterwards I complimented them not just on being the best looking band but having the best haircuts too (though that's partly jealousy on my part - 45 and with thinning, greying hair...), and old enough to be the drummer's dad. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 110 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't remember I Can Do - they were getting pretty near the 10pm curfew so may have cut it. Did you catch Robert of R6 last night? I heard Surfing Mags and Demon Days. I think he said Demon Days was a Grant song, Mick - I think that was the only other GM song then. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 486 Registered: 05-2005 |
It was great to meet everyone in Oxford - You're all far more handsome and fab than my imagination had you! BTW Spence, that wasn't Austin, that was "Some American Guy"!!  |