| Author | Message | ||
     C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 111 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just spoke with the box office who advise 7:30 on stage tonight.30 mins acoustic set, interval and will end at 10:30 Don't be late! | ||
| Gee Member Username: Gee Post Number: 23 Registered: 11-2005 |
That is ridiculously early. "Will nobody think of (those of us with) the children?!" | ||
| Adrian P Member Username: Adp Post Number: 32 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks C, that matches the message warning of the early start that I got from Robert's website a few days ago, although I think that said it was a 10pm finish. Either way, will be good to get back home at a sensible time and avoid paying overtime to the babysitter! | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 112 Registered: 05-2005 |
Another fun night, same set as Oxford I think except RnR Friend replaced Baby Stones and I Can Do instead of Temptation. A bit too much to drink -and vague recollections of talking to Glen's daughter about Albery Wadonga and his hair and I seem to have Robert's autograph on my ticket sum up the night. Hope you got back ok Catherine. Good to see you again Simon. My head hurts too much to type anything else! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 80 Registered: 08-2005 |
Good to see you too. I did have a quick chat with Stewart Lee at one point - I don't know him but reviewed his book (very positively) for the magazine I work for - SFX. He's a big fan, said that the Go-Betweens fan club was one of only two he ever joined (and I never thought to ask what the other was). Another good night. Simon | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 81 Registered: 08-2005 |
And Simon, the Flickr link does work. Honest! Cut and paste the whole line rather than clicking on it. For some reason it doesn't highlight the whole line when you click on it. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 113 Registered: 05-2005 |
yes - got it working now - just can't get that download that Spnce found working - you would n't believe I work in IT - I am somewhat technilogically chalenged | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 82 Registered: 08-2005 |
The download link is very slow - my computer at work took around 3 hours to download it, at 11kps! And I'll probably be in trouble on Monday for doing so... | ||
| Kate Member Username: Kate Post Number: 2 Registered: 08-2005 |
Fantastic gig, I was front row centre and got a CD signed and a photo with Robert afterwards - I am a very happy bunny! I also spotted Stewart Lee during the interval - great to know he's a fan. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 374 Registered: 01-2007 |
Who is Stewart Lee? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2603 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lee and Herring, google them, they were good, but Lee is better. ] Sounds like Bob and the guys/gals were good too! | ||
| Michael McKeown Unregistered guest |
Wow! Just back from a weekend in London and the highlight was, naturally, Robert and the band on Friday night...great venue, superb performance and a wonderful set list...'Head Full of Steam' was a real highlight for me, but then again, there were so many...the band were truly excellent...I have to say Matthew's drumming was a total revelation - the boy is so enthusiastic and you could see Adele and Glenn feeding off it...Robert was Robert, funny, affecting and his usual slick-moving self...at last he's got that Blake Carrington look he's always been after and now it's natural...so, until Belfast on the next tour (I live in hope!) thanks for another memorable evening. | ||
| Andrew Ashbridge Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 7 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stewart Lee wrote the liner notes for one of the reissues | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 33 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stewart Lee has been writing music reviews for the Sunday Times for a few years. He is also a huge Fall fan and their compilation 'A Past Gone Mad' was compiled by him (and is very good). I saw him at QEH and he appears to have aged rather splendidly into Richard Burton. | ||
| tyroneshoelaces Unregistered guest |
That's funny. My wife said 'that's Stewart Lee' while we were standing in the beer queue. I did that thing of trying not to show I was looking at him, which made me very conspicuous, and told her very confidently that he looked too old and a bit porky to be him. Sorry Stewart. | ||
| Mark Raychell Unregistered guest |
Great gig all round! Nice to be somewhere where the quality of the sound wasn't going to be an issue. Personal favourite was Heart Out to Tender, not just for the song which sounded great but because it gave Robert a chance to camp it up in style! | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 189 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice review in today's Guardian by Maddy Costa: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep /30/popandrock Robert Forster QEH London 4 out of 5 stars By Maddy Costa The audience at the QEH are braced for an emotional evening. After all, this is Robert Forster's first London show since the unexpected death two years ago of Grant McLennan, his sparring partner and bandmate in the Go-Betweens. Yet McLennan's name is mentioned only once, in passing. Forster isn't here to mourn his friend. He is here to art-pop-rock. His two-hour show gathers songs from every stage of his 31-year career and gets pacier by the minute. Initially it's just Forster and an acoustic guitar, playing songs he wrote with the Go-Betweens; he's such an arch personality that the intimacy feels surprising. Gradually, he is joined by his three-piece band and introduces material from his latest solo album, The Evangelist. Just as you begin to feel McLennan's absence, something eerie happens: they play Demon Days, a song McLennan was working on when he died. It is fragile and melancholy. But as the show gains momentum, you get the winning impression that Forster - always the showman in the Go-Betweens - enjoys being centre of attention. Introducing German Farmhouse, he says the song captures "every movement, every gesture" he made between June 1989 and June 1992: listening to its strutting, angular, self-assured music, you see exactly what he means. Playing Head Full of Steam and Spring Rain, both released in 1986, he seems rejuvenated: he is celebrating being alive. The one moment of sentimentality comes when he sings another McLennan composition, Quiet Heart, from the Go-Betweens' album 16 Lovers Lane. He chooses it above his own song from the same album, Dive for Your Memory. And no wonder: its lyrics - "Deep down I'm lonely, and I miss my friend" - might have been too much for him to sing, and us to hear. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 164 Registered: 05-2005 |
J - 5 ! All the things I read here and there are very promising. Can't wait to speak about tits with Adele. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2610 Registered: 05-2005 |
Trou, this beats my inability to spell correctly hands down mate! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 232 Registered: 10-2006 |
A beautiful evening, even if it did take forever for the audience to trickle in then trickle out again after the short first half. Is British punctuality a thing of the past? Rf really seemed to enjoy himself and was in droll & splendid voice as well as essaying some interesting spasmic dance steps. "He's so elegant," said my wife, "Are you sure he isn't gay?" Loved the harmonies on Spring Rain and 121. Just a great pop band. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 377 Registered: 01-2007 |
Stuart, my wife commented he was "fey". | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2611 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert has always been fey, he can do fey like no one else! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 359 Registered: 04-2005 |
Based on a gig of RFs at the 13th Note in Glasgow many moons ago, a friend described him as the 'campest hetrosexual man alive' | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 115 Registered: 05-2005 |
Trou Please do let us know what Adele's view is! | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 156 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fey sounds like it should be the female version of gay. I learned a few things at that gig, not least that Adele is from Lancashire - thought she was an Aussie, but just never bothered to check it out. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 166 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's probably the reason why she noticed that there are no tits living in Australia...  |