Re: last night

[Paul Vallis <paulvallis@ho...com>]

I ought to know the Rita Lynch titles as I have her latest CD, but its one 
of those CDs I don't tend to play and look at the sleeve at the same time, 
so the titles have never wormed their way into my brain.  For those who 
didn't make it the first one, in the main set, was with the whole band 
including Dave Chapman playing mandolin.  The second one, at the start of 
the encore, was performed by just her and John Langley.  I saw them play 
an excellent set as a duo the other week at the Thunderbolt.  Rita seems 
right on form at the moment.

There was indeed, as someone else mentioned, a Gerard Starkie song in the 
set.  Rather good it was too.

Did anyone catch the supports?  I thought Bucky (who were on just before 
the Planes) were excellent, though I've seen them loads of times before 
and knew they would be.  Indeed they were on the bill at Rita's 
Thunderbolt gig.

The act before - was it John Hicks - had an unashamedly dated blues-rock 
sound but I thought it worked really well.  NW2 seemed to disagree on the 
night though.

I thought the Planes set really rocked.  Interesting song selection - 
really nice to hear the Applicant, but I'm not convinced its as corking a 
set-opener as they've had in the past.  The vocal mixes weren't always 
spot on (it took a while to get the backing vocals levels right, and then 
when Gerard and Rita took leads they weren't always loud enough.  
Nit-picking though really.  On the whole it was a stormer.  I can always 
live without Tree Full of Starling but then it gives me a chance to go to 
the loo mid-set.  By the look of the queue at the time several others 
thought the same!  Bury You Love really worked as the vocals were all 
settled by then, and Yr Own World really rocked.  I was quite a cacophony 
at times with up to five guitar players, but it really worked for me.  The 
theramin was a little unnecessary and intrusive at times but really worked 
at some points.  And big up to "our" Chris's bass playing - he's really 
settling in there, and even managed to cut through all the guitar mayhem 
with some lovely runs during Breaking In My Heart.  Can't wait for the new 
lp, if only for 25 Kinds Of Love (which has been in my head all this 
morning).

Apologies for not being as sociable as usual, but I was with my girlfriend 
and another old mate I hadn't seen for a while.

PV1

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> From: philip_rush@ye...fsnet.co.uk
> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 13:36:59 +0000
> To: blueplanes@bl...org
> Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] (no subject)
>
>
> Noone else know the Rita Lynch titles?
>
>
> On 5 Dec 2009, at 13:28, Nick Walters wrote:
>
> If you mean NW2 I was certainly there - danced like a loon to Huh! and 
> Spitting Out Miracles (I love those songs!) and engaged Death Mode for 
> Yr Own World, which brought on my asthma. Luckily the door by the stage 
> was open so I could go outside and recover... and engage in a bit of 
> passive "special" smoking if you see what I mean.
>
> GREAT gig, though it seemed shorter than usual.
>
> No Rodney (he was at a works do) or Angelo, but a lovely sweaty Wojtek, 
> who must be feeling his age, as he had to leave the stage to recover at 
> one point!
>
> NW2
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nathaniel Mumford
> To: blueplanes@bl...org
> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 1:18 AM
> Subject: [BluePlanes] (no subject)
>
> Applicant
> Up in a down world
> Huh!
> Angela carter
> 25 kinds of love
> What it is
> (rita solo tune)
> Bury yr love like treasure
> Spitting
> Tree full of starlings
> Surreal thing
> Jacket hangs
> Yr own world
>
> (another rita tune)
> Warhols 15
> Breaking..
>
> Quick summary: great gig, albeit in a different way to the usual Xmas 
> shows. Ie no ...and stones; no broken & mended etc. What we got was, as 
> chris advertised, several old nuggets. First couple sounded 
> umder-rehearsed; the applicant was a great call but missed a few cues. 
> 'what it is' was brilliant tho. Some youth playing superfluous guitar 
> was putting in admittedly nice vox. But the real triumph was ruth 
> cochrane on what I think was theremin...? It really lifted a couple of 
> tunes & in the morning I will remember which they were.
>
> No sign of phil H l? And not sure I even saw nick W in the pit? Where 
> were you all?
>
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