Squeeze – 15 Nov 2010 – Reading Hexagon

Videos from the gig:

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11 Responses to "Squeeze – 15 Nov 2010 – Reading Hexagon"

Rob says:

15 November 2010 at 10:24 am

With a certain Paul Carrick playing at the Hexagon tomorrow (with no gig in his diary tonight – and a nice 4 days off after tomorrow) and Squeeze tonight – is there a small chance he may be tempted to guest tonight on Tempted ??????????????

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1. Rob says:
  
  16 November 2010 at 11:17 am
  
  No – Sadly not :-(
  
  Interesting switch of the order of the songs on the set list to move “Cool” forward and put “Muscles” at the end – a perfect song to end on – A good gig, only let down a little by the “slow” and obscure middle section. Large number of people swarming around the bar for the middle 4 or 5 songs !
  
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  1. packetofthree says:
    
    16 November 2010 at 3:03 pm
    
    So which were the songs in the middle section that the crowd didn’t respond to?
    
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    1. dandewey1974 says:
      
      18 November 2010 at 4:45 pm
      
      I was there as well and didn’t think the natives got too restive in the middle section! It was certainly far worse on the Domino tour in 1998.
      
      I guess there is quite a bit percentage of fans who won’t ever want them to stray from their Greatest Hits CD, or in some cases Singles 45 And Under!!
      
      Personally I was delighted to hear The Knack, Model, Hope Fell Down and Someone Else’s Heart!!
      
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2. hernando says:
  
  21 November 2010 at 6:55 am
  
  Speaking of Paul Carrack! I have an fyi…
  
  I “friended” him on facebook recently and I caught him on facebook chat a couple of days ago. I asked him: “Question: Will you be touring with squeeze next year?” to which his reply was “no, mate”. I asked him if i had his permission to share that with my fellow squeeze nuts, and he said “sure”.
  
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bhafcpaul says:

16 November 2010 at 2:32 pm

Brighton Centre, 31may1979 …
I remember this gig – they were supporting The Tubes and I rembember Glenn jumped down into the audience and walked about a bit whilst playing a brilliant guitar solo – can’t remeber during which song, but I remember thinking ‘cocky sod – must be good…’ and he was…..
cut to Reading, The Hexagon, 15nov2010.
….. thirty one years later ! and his playing and singing is still just as brilliant. I thought musically they were excellent last night, but personally not having seen them for about 5 years, I would have liked to have heard some songs from Domino, SFP and Ridiculous – I thought the middle section lost the audience a bit…great playing and singing from all though and the really nailed all the old favourites – absolutely note perfect.

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STEVE says:

16 November 2010 at 2:43 pm

Seen squueze tons of times, first concert Top Rank ,Reading. Line up was Squeeze, Edddie and the Hit Rods and i think Radio Stars(not 100% sure)
Must say they still give there all and sound great and to me they are simply great. The gig iN 15/11 at Reading was great, however i thought they lost it a bit in the middle of there set (A bit overindugent). I would like to have heard some older album tracjks such as Picccadilly and Inquintesance from East Side

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Squeezeliveblog says:

16 November 2010 at 3:51 pm

I seem to remember similar comments in the press during their 2007 tour about the middle of the set being slower. At the end of the day it is a balance, a lot of die hard fans would probably prefer to hear songs like Model and The Knack than all the hits.

I remember in the 90s seeing them at Shepherds Bush and everyone talking during Cold Shoulder… and some girl saying “play something we can dance too’. Which kind of annoyed me as i preferred hearing that than the more obvious stuff.

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hernando says:

16 November 2010 at 4:27 pm

i wouldnt mind hearing less of the well known tunes. this is one of the few bands that has a huge repertoire of their own music, and they must be accepted as that. When you think about it… Difford and Tilbrook, collectively, may have collaborated together on more music than some of the great songwriters whom they’ve been compared to have.

has their catalogue been shaded by singles? yes! someone on that side of the pond needs to get a cat like a huey morgan to SQUEEZE in a cat on the wall, there at the top, in todays room or mumbo jumbo once in a while on his radio show. all attractive tunes which wouldve done very nicely by their own merit with the public had they been released as singles.

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Frank says:

16 November 2010 at 9:47 pm

I would love to hear Vicky Verky, a great and very underrated song which I’ve never had the pleasure to hear live. Interesting to see the set list differences from the UK tour as opposed to the US tour.

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goodgrr says:

22 November 2010 at 3:47 pm

Hi here’s a link to some photos I took at Reading, should bring back recent memories of a good gig.

http://picasaweb.google.com/roger.goodgroves/Squeeze#

There’s also a review http://www.goodgroves.co.uk/Squeeze.html

Roger Goodgroves
http://www.goodgroves.co.uk

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