Re: last night

["Nick Walters" <nickw@bl...co.uk>]

Well it's not something people will, generally, love. Like Sylvester McCoy 
and dog turds.

NW 2
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Abi Marchant 
  To: A Discussion list for The Blue Aeroplanes 
  Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 10:21 PM
  Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] last night


        I hate the credit crunch :(

        --- On Sat, 5/12/09, Paul Vallis <paulvallis@ho...com> wrote:


          From: Paul Vallis <paulvallis@ho...com>
          Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] last night
          To: "Blue Aeroplanes List" <blueplanes@bl...org>
          Date: Saturday, 5 December, 2009, 14:48



          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

          ________________________________
          > 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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