Glenn Tilbrook – 28 November 2006 – live at The 12 Bar Swindon

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KayJay says:

20 April 2010 at 9:53 pm

Written after I got home….

OK, I should be going to bed, but I’m buzzing….and having a bit of a hot flush……oh the joys of middle age!….. so to pass the time I’ll give my thoughts on the above.

Nice venue, though the parking was abysmal. Didn’t catch more than one song of the first support, but Brian Housten was good. Little Irish chap. Nothing wrong with that, I hasten to add. The place was packed.

Glenn was fantastic, on tip-top form. What more to say?
Alright. He was amusing, entertaining, his affable self, worked the crowd like a pro, but I did think he tailored the set more towards the Greatest Hits repertoire…..mainly because that’s what the audience seemed to want. They sang along loudly to most of the Squeeze songs, but in the main didn’t
seem familiar with the more recent stuff. The best bit for me was at the beginning of the second half, when he was joined by Nick Harper and they did Smithereens….started out well, ended in fits of giggles. An absolute joy for me, I haven’t seen them up on stage together for such a long time. Fashion report: suit, shirt and canvas trainer things. Hair….lots of it, in his eyes.

I have a setlist. I actually wrote it down, getting odd looks from a few people close by….mad obsessive thing to do, obviously! It’s the first time I’ve done this, and now I know why I don’t normally……I get too carried away and forget to write things down! I managed the first three songs, got engrossed, and missed the next four (I think), had then to try and remember what we’d had….and I still have a feeling I’ve missed something……

Anyway, we were treated to:
Cold Shoulder
Genitalia of a Fool (you can always tell those who haven’t heard this before….by the snorts of laughter….)
Is That Love
Piccadilly (with audience participation)
Melancholy Emotion (not sure if I like this one…..)
Annie
Parallel World
Take Me I’m Yours
Reinventing the Wheel
They Can’t Take That Away From Me (this was great!)
Slap & Tickle

Smithereens (Nick’s song, harmonised – not well, I have to say – by Glenn)
Goodbye Girl (with Nick, nifty guitar work from Mr H)
Black Coffee (with audience participation, handclaps, backing vocals etc)
Hostage
Some Fantastic Place
Voodoo Child (with intro about his paternity, plus brilliant guitar work, including the behind-the-head stuff……at which point he got his hair caught in the guitar strap……)
Untouchable
Up The Junction
Hourglass
Tempted

At this point, having said his thankyou’s and goodbyes, he laid down on the floor – too much hassle fighting through the crowd to come back for the encore, which was:
Electric Trains
Pulling Mussels
It’s Not Unusual (with The Glenn Tilbrook Dancers – don’t ask!)

It was a shame I’d forgotten to pick up the camera…..

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