I am experiencing deja vu I feel like I just wrote a review, oh yea I did, last night oh the bother, I had to see him again tonight, oh yeah and there is another tomorrow!!!! (hehe)
The setlist did not change from last night, although for once he didn't crack the same jokes.
Atmosphere tonight was good, no tonight was great, no tonight was, was, was fucking greaaaaaaaattttt. Loads of energy from the crowd, as you will know if you have ever been in Glasgow that people here know how to have a good time, as they live in total depression all the time as this city blows chimps.
Tonight victims (so happy time). Tonight there was another two people up to sing, this time they were really good, no Ross your legend is intact, but they were good.
Sting: So how are you doing?
Victim: I think I am going to pee myself.
I think you get my drift of how this went. Overall, a really good show.
Venue: Scottish Exhibition Centre - Attendance: 10.000
For Ross, you should have been here pal, I miss ya. For Bill, I don't know why I am writing this as I know you are ignoring me at the moment (Bill is pissed of that he is not here so he says he will not read my email until next week, but I miss you also). For Antoni, I am only writing this part because you were so upset that I didn't mention you in yesterdays review. For Erwin, I got all of it this time, no dickhead security tonight.
Thanks for coming, thanks for listening, we'll see you again.
New since yesterday (from what he was saying): he has a portable wallpaper remover (or something suitably weird - I forget) on stage, emitting clouds of steam throughout the show. Apparently his throat got dry at Aberdeen, he asked whether he could have an on-set humidifier, they turned round to him and said "This is Scotland, we don't *have* humidifiers" so he's got a wallpaper remover instead. Looks like a stand with damp cloths on it. Looks weird when the lights catch the steam.
They did the acoustic version of YSTM (Sting: "Usually the drummer and the keyboard player spend the whole evening behind their instruments, so let's invite them down to the front of the stage. This is Vinnie Colaiuta, one of the best drummers in the world. He'll be playing the tambourine.") Kenny had a little dinky organ on his lap, couldn't have been more than three octaves, if that. Sting claimed it was the one he'd had since he was seven.
Filled hall, folks were standing by the fourth number.
Amusingly enough, both of them were happily married, the guy for 9 years, the woman for 7. Hence: "You've been married for 9 years, you've been married for 7. (Turns to the crowd) This song is about divorce". Although the guy did hit one of the long, loud notes rather cringeworthingly off-key.
Musically, Roxanne has improved *dramatically* since the Fleadh concert on Radio 1: the trombone solo has doubled in speed, changing from a rather slow, boring pedestrian almost oom-pa-pa solo to a seriously funky workout with some suitably blinding drumming from Vinnie. When the world is running down has changed as well: Kenny starts his usual amazing solo, giving it all he can, then suddenly they turn off the volume dramatically for a few bars, before building up again. Then he does it again. The second time Sting and Kenny went jazzy, almost bossa nova for a while. I was *seriously* impressed by this one: I was looking forward to hearing something as good as the Fleadh, I didn't expect something *better*. That he can carry on doing new stuff to When the world is running down is, IMHO, stunning.
I'm not sure what Demolition Man is doing in the set - it seems mainly an excuse to make a lot of noise, and by that point the crowd will react to anything very loud.
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