Re: Glasgow

["Mike" <mike@ma...plus.com>]

I've done a review of Friday for God Is In The TV:

https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2023/09/24/live-the-blue-aeroplanes-stere
o-glasgow-22-09-2023/

Mike M

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   2. Re: Glasgow (gareth james)
   3. Re: Glasgow (Phil Mason)
   4. Re: Glasgow (gordon.wilhelmi192)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:13:13 +0100
From: "Mike" <mike@ma...plus.com>
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Subject: [BluePlanes] Glasgow
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After April's cancellation, I'll admit I was worried most of the week
whether or not last night's show at Stereo would go ahead. But go ahead it
did, thankfully.

Gerard seemed to enjoy himself, even if he understandably didn't have the
same energy as previously. The set was a couple of songs lighter than in
recent years, but that's understandable too.

The sound was a bit aggressive, which affected all the vocalists to some
extent at different times, but, you know, guitars! 

Mike, Bec and Rita all had their own turns - M&B their current songs from
Culture Gun, but I'm not sure what Rita's was - fairly sure it wasn't the
previously played The High and The Mighty (the chorus might have been
variations on Who's in my head/ Who's in my bed). If anyone can update
setlist.fm with the correct song title, that would be cool.

Nick Jacobs guested on 'Warhol's Fifteen' and the encores.

Otherwise, it was a predictably great show and it was so good to see them
again.

Mike M




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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:41:22 +0000 (UTC)
From: gareth james <gtbcomps@ya...co.uk>
To: "blueplanes@bl...org" <blueplanes@bl...org>
Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] Glasgow
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 WTF???this thread has seemingly been dead for years and all of a sudden
Mike's email drops and I discover, from the website, that there was an 
album
out earlier in the year, and there were gigs to promote it which were
cancelled, and now rearranged, and Gerald's had cancer...?!?!?Also they're
playing in London this Friday I see....sadly I'm at a funeral all day and
evening....

I can't believe there weren't emails about it, so how have I've not seen
them???
tell me more more folks....what else have I missed?
gareth
    On Saturday, 23 September 2023 at 16:13:47 BST, Mike
<mike@ma...plus.com> wrote:  
 
 After April's cancellation, I'll admit I was worried most of the week
whether or not last night's show at Stereo would go ahead. But go ahead it
did, thankfully.

Gerard seemed to enjoy himself, even if he understandably didn't have the
same energy as previously. The set was a couple of songs lighter than in
recent years, but that's understandable too.

The sound was a bit aggressive, which affected all the vocalists to some
extent at different times, but, you know, guitars! 

Mike, Bec and Rita all had their own turns - M&B their current songs from
Culture Gun, but I'm not sure what Rita's was - fairly sure it wasn't the
previously played The High and The Mighty (the chorus might have been
variations on Who's in my head/ Who's in my bed). If anyone can update
setlist.fm with the correct song title, that would be cool.

Nick Jacobs guested on 'Warhol's Fifteen' and the encores.

Otherwise, it was a predictably great show and it was so good to see them
again.

Mike M


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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:07:33 +0100
From: Phil Mason <phil@ph...net>
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A hugely enjoyable show that picked up momentum as it went on. I thought
Gerard was looking healthier than when they played the ?Welcome, Stranger!?
gig at Broadcast in Glasgow in 2017. I hope that is genuinely the case.
The sound was, indeed, predictably muddy, but at least not as deafening as
the last time around. It would be great to see/hear them somewhere that
isn?t a minimally repurposed concrete basement. These sorts of venues are
fucking Dickensian, man, and better suited to the shoutier songs.
Up to eight members on stage, including Wojtek, whose dancing was not as
impeded as the audience?s, who had to contend with a sticky spilt-beer 
floor
(perhaps we can blame the Flock of Seagulls fans who were in the night
before for that). They have dispensed with guitar leads these days so the
weaving of the band members around the stage, especially, during Breaking 
In
My Heart, was achieved without technical calamity or personal injury. 
Liked it so much, I even bought a T-shirt.
More, please.

Phil
 

> On 23 Sep 2023, at 16:13, Mike <mike@ma...plus.com> wrote:
> 
> After April's cancellation, I'll admit I was worried most of the week 
> whether or not last night's show at Stereo would go ahead. But go 
> ahead it did, thankfully.
> 
> Gerard seemed to enjoy himself, even if he understandably didn't have 
> the same energy as previously. The set was a couple of songs lighter 
> than in recent years, but that's understandable too.
> 
> The sound was a bit aggressive, which affected all the vocalists to 
> some extent at different times, but, you know, guitars!
> 
> Mike, Bec and Rita all had their own turns - M&B their current songs 
> from Culture Gun, but I'm not sure what Rita's was - fairly sure it 
> wasn't the previously played The High and The Mighty (the chorus might 
> have been variations on Who's in my head/ Who's in my bed). If anyone 
> can update setlist.fm with the correct song title, that would be cool.
> 
> Nick Jacobs guested on 'Warhol's Fifteen' and the encores.
> 
> Otherwise, it was a predictably great show and it was so good to see 
> them again.
> 
> Mike M
> 
> 
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:42:31 +0100 (BST)
From: "gordon.wilhelmi192" <gordon.wilhelmi192@bt...com>
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Subject: Re: [BluePlanes] Glasgow
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Yep, the venue is a concrete bunker foreswearing sound acoustics vocally,
but the music, four guitars ballet dancing around each other, each with 
it's
own pointe, was just fine. Becs was particularly fine on some of the older
material, 'Bury Your Love' is always poignant. Missed the band when Nick
Jacobs was still a regular but it means so much to see that solidarity with
'Warhol's 15' etc. Last time I saw him at a gig with the band he delivered
'Severn Beach'. Everybody seemed to have such a good time. Gordy

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A hugely enjoyable show that picked up momentum as it went on. I thought
Gerard was looking healthier than when they played the ?Welcome, Stranger!?
gig at Broadcast in Glasgow in 2017. I hope that is genuinely the case.
The sound was, indeed, predictably muddy, but at least not as deafening as
the last time around. It would be great to see/hear them somewhere that
isn?t a minimally repurposed concrete basement. These sorts of venues are
fucking Dickensian, man, and better suited to the shoutier songs.
Up to eight members on stage, including Wojtek, whose dancing was not as
impeded as the audience?s, who had to contend with a sticky spilt-beer 
floor
(perhaps we can blame the Flock of Seagulls fans who were in the night
before for that). They have dispensed with guitar leads these days so the
weaving of the band members around the stage, especially, during Breaking 
In
My Heart, was achieved without technical calamity or personal injury.
Liked it so much, I even bought a T-shirt.
More, please.
Phil

On 23 Sep 2023, at 16:13, Mike <mike@ma...plus.com> wrote:
After April's cancellation, I'll admit I was worried most of the week
whether or not last night's show at Stereo would go ahead. But go ahead it
did, thankfully.
Gerard seemed to enjoy himself, even if he understandably didn't have the
same energy as previously. The set was a couple of songs lighter than in
recent years, but that's understandable too.
The sound was a bit aggressive, which affected all the vocalists to some
extent at different times, but, you know, guitars!
Mike, Bec and Rita all had their own turns - M&B their current songs from
Culture Gun, but I'm not sure what Rita's was - fairly sure it wasn't the
previously played The High and The Mighty (the chorus might have been
variations on Who's in my head/ Who's in my bed). If anyone can update
setlist.fm with the correct song title, that would be cool.
Nick Jacobs guested on 'Warhol's Fifteen' and the encores.
Otherwise, it was a predictably great show and it was so good to see them
again.
Mike M

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