Glenn Tilbrook – 17 December 2011 – live at The Jazz Cafe, London

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Alex says:

18 December 2011 at 9:55 pm

(Until Mark writes one of his wonderful reviews)

We’re in London; it’s a cold crisp night December night and we’re walking along a beautiful dark canal to see a very warm Glenn Tilbrook, surrounded by masses of smiley people in the Jazz Café. What a perfect night! Nothing gets better than the man, guinness, gorgeous people and fantastic music.

I’m loving Steve Poltz, in fact I was probably more excited at the thought of seeing him perform again more than Glenn (am I allowed to say that?). It was just superb! Especially as Glenn came on with guitar to join in for ‘Dreamhouse’, swoon, just amazing! YAY, he played ‘Sewing Machine’, which had everyone in tears of laughter. It ended with ‘Cold German’, oh yes! I do hope he comes back soon!

So its been a little over a month since I’ve seen the tour, and it really has changed. There were still two sets, but with Glenn being joined by Simon and Chris throughout them both. With Glenn and Chris sharing, guitars, acoustic bass, uke and Indian Harmonium. The sets had much more squeeze, and far less experimental. Don’t get me wrong I loved every moment of it but was a little sad to see some of the format from early on disappear. The crowd however lapped it up, and there were some great banter between stage and crowd. I don’t think the lady behind us was very keen on the beards! We had ‘Loving you Tonight’, ‘Parallel World’, ‘Annie Get Your Gun’, ‘Pulling Muscles’, ‘Peters Got a Plan’, ‘Chat Line Larry’, the ever lovely ‘Ter-Wit Ter-Woo’ and lots more. A great miming of ‘Bing a Bong’, with all three dancing boy band style! Oh I almost forgot, ‘Introvert’, wow, how stunningly beautiful was that?! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Chris in the middle with guitar singing ‘Hello There’, and love Simon singing.

And so another evening comes to an end. Where we were delighted to have Steve Poltz back on stage for ‘Tempted’ and ‘Take Me I’m Yours’. Oh how I love ‘Take me I’m yours’, oh it’s fabulous with the iPad! A room full of very happy bouncy people!

It was lovely to meet so many lovely people. Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year – see you in 2012! x

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Mark says:

20 December 2011 at 12:42 pm

Alex, your review was delightful and spot on. I don’t have the mental capacity at the moment to add anything worthwhile except to say it was another wonderful GT evening with many many fine friends (and Steve Poltz is as great as i had been led to believe).
Oh, and Introvert. Sublime.

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1. Alex says:
  
  21 December 2011 at 8:05 pm
  
  I request a Blackheath review then please!!!
  
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JJB says:

26 December 2011 at 1:13 am

Sublime … my arse ….OK … the ‘real and ‘Honest’ view …. we’ve seen GT many times on his UK acoustic travels …. this was neither SOLO nor ACOUSTIC … we travelled 250 miles (from North Yorkshire) to see this performance … and frankly we were not impressed …. we expected Glenn SOLO … what we got was the most self indulgent set you could imagine …. a load of solo material that most of the crowd do not want to hear, old guys pratting abount with techology (i this i that … pods / phones / pads …. yawn yawn ..) … and a over rehearsed set list that the great man was never going to deviate from ….. Glenn is my hero (after Nick Lowe) and it could have been ‘party night’ …. with loads of squeeze and loads of imprompt covers … instead it was him and his mates fiddling with their new toys …. frankly … we didn’t pay to see ‘Chris Somebody’ singing a song that doesn’t even come close to a squeeze number …. sublime … nope … GT ….don’t be fooled by those who only give you good news … you are an unbelievable talent and should be recognised globally … don’t get lazy and stop surrounding yourself with ‘yes’ men … xxx JJB

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1. packetofthree says:
  
  3 January 2012 at 11:50 am
  
  Ouch! Well, what a shame you didn’t enjoy the show. I’m sure Glenn will be touring again in 2012 (it is the Neverending Tour after all) and he’ll be doing familiar format shows with all the singalong classics. You’ll love it, I’m sure.
  
  There have been loads of videos and reviews of the tour here on https://www.packetofthree.com to give people an insight into what to expect before they see the show. Please check back here often for dates and I’d love you to write a review of the next show you go to. It’s great to know what you thought!
  
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Neal says:

27 December 2011 at 9:07 pm

A very enjoyable evening that saw Glenn, Chris and Simon show that there is and will be life after and hopefully in conjunction with Squeeze.
Glenn exercised his right to perform solo material from the past and add brand new material for the pleasure of his fans. In case you were misled by the previous reviewer he also played Up the junction, Pulling Mussels, Goodbye Girl, Annie get your gun, Tempted, Take me I’m yours and is that love.
I really enjoyed the evening and judging by the queue for cd’s at the end so did majority of the crowd, eager to buy a memory of the show. As a fan I always want to hear new material as well as “the old stuff” Where does the artist go musically if he only plays the greatest hits set?
This was a great gig with a great atmosphere and personally I applaud any artist who takes the trouble to offer something new and innovative.

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1. Dave says:
  
  27 December 2011 at 11:25 pm
  
  Whilst everybody is entitled to their opinion, and everyone’s taste varies, for me I have to agree with Neal’s comments. A fair proportion of the crowd do want to hear his excellent solo material new & old, however there was a very generous offering of Squeeze material as well. Having seen 8 dates up and down the country, I can confirm that the set varied regularly and there was a fair sprinkling of ‘impromptu’ covers, and as an old wrinkly guy myself I loved the ipod stuff. JJB, we do however agree on Nick Lowe ! Happy new year to all !
  
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