Monday, February 17, 2020

 

The Who at Kingston

Banquet records are pulling of some major coups for their album releases.  Their venue is the nightclub Pryzm, a far from ideal venue for gigs but with a capacity of around 1000 or less.  One trend is for a band to do more than one show that evening.  Last year I saw Snow Patrol at the last of their three shows in a day for their re-recordings album.  In a bid to get their album to get to number one, the Who's management agreed for them to do four shows, two on Wednesday 12th Feb and two on the 14th.  Each one went on sale separately and sold out in 5-10 seconds.  I managed to get two tickets myself and through various contacts, (my brother and an ardent fan) a further two so I could attend all four shows.
 
I was not disappointed.  On the Wednesday it was the same 50 minute set each show, but each performance of each song was different in its own way.  Performing acoustically with a bassist and percussionist Daltrey and Townshend were on fine form, taking the advantage of the intimate nature of the venue to tell many fine anecdotes, including things about Bob Dylan, the local Bentall Centre and how the song Squeeze Box is viewed by both (PT "its a piece of ****!).  The Friday shows added Tattoo to the set, which incited more opinions of being a marked man.  The last show extended it to a hour and was the one we got closed to the front having worked out what to do at the switchover.
All gigs had very hardcore swearing which would surely rate an 18 certificate if it was released on a DVD and are going to rank highly at my year end review.
How do you follow that?  Well obviously go to a Who tribute band on the Saturday for some classic loudness.  Great stuff.

# posted by Rich @ 8:51 PM
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