Crowded House Last Night
Posted by yankeeragu on 30 November 2007 - 12:28pm.
I went to see Crowded House last night @ the Manchester Arena and very good they were too...and made two hours just fly by, with much less general larking about and 'tween song badanage than the Bristol show back in March.
Most embarrassing moment for me however was bumping into Matt Sherrod outside the venue and mumbling "ere, you're the drummer aren't you?" [d'oh!] Bless him for the very nice man he is, he said "that's what they call me" and promptly held out his hand and introduced himself...
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Crowded House in Manchester
God bless Neil Finn. He knows who the real music lovers are!! His request as to whether there was anyone from Liverpool at the gig was met with a quick but (suprisingly) loud response from large sections of the crowd. Hopefully when the dock arena in Liverpoool city centre is finished, we might see them there as well, assuming they're still going as a unit by the time it's finished. Great gig and nice caravan as well!!
saw 'ver House' in Dublin on monday night
and have to agree, they really still have it. They were effectively dared into combining 'Lester' and 'Recurring Dream' into a mash-up which they did quite well, managing to segue into 'Everybody's Talkin' by Nillsson as well. The covers of 'Hey Good Lookin' and 'Revolution' (the latter originally by some gang of unheard of scousers) were great to hear, and it was quite simply a joy to hear old stuff and 'new album' material sit side-by-side in the setlist.
House Covers
you got covers??? blast! we had nothing but House songs the whole evening...looks like I'll be buying the recoding from that night's show too :P
sadly you won't
i was gutted to get the mail from the crowded house mailing list telling me that recordings would be available, but Dublin was not on the list. i mailed the outfit who were donig the recordings and they said that they didn't record Dublin. See the National Stadium where the gig was, holds only 1200 people, so there's no guarantee of the requisite number of discs being sold to make it worthwhile. No bloody excuse, mind...discs are passé nowadays anyway - they should be offering flac/mp3 downloads!
Tuesday in Belfast
It sounds like the set list changed completely from Monday to Tuesday.
We didn't get any covers, but we did get some Split Enz songs on request from JD in the audience.
Tim
Has Tim Finn joined his younger brother for any of these dates?
Wish I had been there, sounds a ball.
Crowded House Live
Saw them at the NEC on Monday and in doing so I witnessed the second worse support act I have ever had the misfortune to see! The wife's broken ankle meant that it was either a painful hobble back to the bar or sit and endure Duke Special - appalling art-school "retro" ironoic glam rock pastiche - aka. bloody awful pretentious crap. The only thing I've ever seen that beat it was supporting Paul Heaton a couple of years back - Departure Lounge - couldn't play, couldn't sing and the charisma of Alan Partridge on a bad day.
Finny rescued it, a true pro who can connect even in such a cavernous inpersonal expanse - they were brilliant in every sense of the word.
Terrible support
I was there too - God the support were as terrible as CH were great!
I especially enjoyed the 30 seconds of Ray Charles.
In fact I'd go further and say the support were even worse than 'Rosie Oddie and the Oddbods' who I had the 'experience' of seeing supporting the utterly fabulous Blockheads a couple of weeks ago
Duke Special
You didn't like Mr Special? I've seen him several times now as a PSA [ perpetual support act ] to the likes of David Ford & Gemma Hayes and have grown rather fond of his particular brand of musical noodling...
Duke Special and the subject of accents when singing
I've seen Duke Special on a couple of occasions also, and I wonder if any of the people who didn't enjoy it felt this way because of the quite strong Irish accent he sings in?
It's very weird at first to hear people sing in an accent - I love Deborah Conway's album "String Of Pearls" and the Missy Higgins record, "The Sound Of White", but both of them took some time for me purely because I had to get past the Australian accent.
Re: the Tim Finn question. I have to wonder if some people don't realise that he was only with them for one album? Not you in particular, just that it doesn't seem to be general knowledge.