Concert Going

by Mark on Friday, 11th September, 2009 at 9:02 am

It’s a while since I’ve posted. Must be because of the concert-going. I’m having too much fun to be posting blogs.

Last month we went to see Bill Bailey in Glasgow. I’ve seen the DVDs and watched BB on television but this is the first time that I’ve seen the man in his natural environment – a packed theatre. I was not disappointed. Mr Bailey is either a comic genius or from another planet. In either case, he is immensely entertaining and it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening. The down-side is that I seem to have a Bailey-meme somewhere in the depths of my psyche that was activated by the live experience. I found myself looking at the world from the Bill Bailey perspective for weeks afterwards and was unable to prevent myself voicing this point of view, much to the bewilderment of the earthlings around me.

This week, we were back in Glasgow to see the Fleet Foxes. My son Simon introduced me to these Seattle-based musicians earlier in the year and we were quite excited to see that they had made it to Scotland. It is so nice to find some genuinely new music and even nicer to discover that the makers of this music are talented enough to carry it off live. I’d even go so far as to say they sounded better playing to an audience than they do on the recordings. If they come your way, go and see them. You won’t regret it.

Now we’re back in the mood for live performances, we are looking forward to hearing Howe, Squire and White featuring David and Wakeman in November, at the Usher Hall, and, we hope, Them Crooked Vultures also in Edinburgh, in December. I can’t wait!

Twitt