Glenn Tilbrook – 10 November 2005, Fleece & Firkin Bristol

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KayJay says:

4 March 2010 at 10:25 am

Review written after the fact……

Fantastic evening…one of the best, I’d say. Hot, sweaty, pretty much sold out, and a very appreciative audience…..really great to see quite a few more than usual singing along to the solo stuff and not just the Squeeze classics. Several changes to the repertoire……One Dark Moment, This Summer, Observatory, an acoustic Footprints on top of the bar complete with Lucy on double bass, One For The Road during the encore, and the wonderful Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys….er…Don’t Stick Around Too Long. Also somewhere in there…..Slap & Tickle, Take Me/Funky Town, This Is Where You Ain’t, Black Coffee (with all the backing vocals provided by the audience; started out acoustically on the bar, ended electrically on stage), Cash Machine, Hostage, Tempted, Goodbye Girl, Neptune, Parallel World, Up The Junction, Hourglass, Is That Love, Domestic Distortion, and probably others I’ve forgotten.
Stephen seems to have solved the keyboard stability problem….they barely moved despite having the crap knocked out of them. Good to see backing vocals being provided by t’others, it adds a depth to the overall sound that was perhaps lacking. Some absolutely smokin’ guitar solos by his
maestroness.
Almost 2 hours of organised mayhem (plus a break in the middle), overran the supposed 11 o’clock curfew by almost half an hour. As a result, Glenn was selling merch from his camper outside afterwards, and Stephen was hawking his EP with Cheese-Eating Surr…..sorry, Don’t Stick Around Too Long and four other tracks on it (a fiver, take yer dosh with you!), which both Lord
Large and G.Tilly kindly signed for me. I got my much-anticipated bearhug and kiss (be still my beating heart) and I went home. Still buzzing. And my ears are ringing. Probably won’t come down till the morning, when I’ll get all depressed that I don’t have any other gigs lined up. Maybe I’ll have to drag myself down to Southampton. On my own. (Looking for sympathy here) On account of dear hubby falling off a table, smashing his elbow up and having an op to screw it back together (yesterday) which will take weeks and weeks to mend so he won’t fancy a trip all the way down there…..
Or there’s Minehead……
Hmmmm….

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Glenn Tilbrook – 10 November 2005, Fleece & Firkin Bristol

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