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The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold, Zoot Money, Nov 2016

The Manfreds Maximum R&B
Special Guests: P.P. Arnold / Zoot Money

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The Concert Hall, Poole Lighthouse

Friday 2nd December 2016 19.30

Paul Jones – vocal, harmonica
Mike d’Abo- vocal, keyboards
Tom McGuiness – guitars, mandolin, vocals
Mike Hugg – keyboards, drums
Rob Townsend – drums
Marcus Cliffe – bass guitar, vocals
Simon Currie – saxophones, flute, vocal
with
P.P. Arnold – vocals
Zoot Money – keyboards, vocal

Showtime: 3 hours (including 20 minute interval)

SET LIST (lead vocals and soloists noted)

The One In The Middle – Paul Jones
Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James – Mike d’Abo
Sha La La – Paul Jones
My Name Is Jack (John Simon) – Mike d’Abo
Piano intro – Mike Hugg
Oh, No, Not My Baby – Paul Jones
Angel of The Morning (Chip Taylor) – P.P. Armold
The First Cut Is The Deepest (Cat Stevens) – P.P. Arnold
It Takes Two (Mickey Stevenson, hit for Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston)- P.P. Arnold & Zoot Money
It Never Rains But It Pours (Zoot Money, Colin Allen for Jimmy Witherspoon)- Zoot Money
Big Time Operator – Zoot Money
5-4-3-2-1 – Paul Jones
Fox On The Run (Tony Hazzard)- Mike d’Abo
Put It Where You Want It (The Crusaders) – Paul Jones / Simon Currie / (Fox Rap) – Mike d’Abo
Smokestack Lightning (Howlin’ Wolf) – Paul Jones

interval

Handbags & Gladrags (Mike d’Abo– hit for Chris Farlowe, Rod Stewart) – Mike  d’Abo
Pretty Flamingo – Paul Jones
Bright Side of The Road 
(Van Morrison) – Mike d’Abo & P.P. Arnold
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye (John D. Loudermilk) – Paul Jones & P.P. Arnold
Bring It On Home To Me (Sam Cooke) – Zoot Money, P.P. Arnold, Mike d’Abo
It Should Have Been Me (Ray Charles) – Zoot Money
Ha Ha Said The Clown (Tony Hazzard) – Mike  d’Abo
Piano solo piece – Mike Hugg
Come Tomorrow – Paul Jones
Build Me Up Buttercup (Mike d’Abo- hit for The Foundations) – Mike  d’Abo
When I’m Dead & Gone (McGuiness – Flint) – Tom McGuinness
Drum Duet – Mike Hugg & Rob Townsend
The Mighty Quinn (Bob Dylan) – Mike d’Abo
Do Wah Diddy Diddy – Paul Jones
Harmonica solo, into White Christmas / Do Wah Diddy Diddy – Paul Jones

encore
Lean On Me (Bill Withers) – Paul Jones, Mike d’Abo, P.P. Arnold, Zoot Money
If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Bob Dylan) – Paul Jones, Mike d’Abo, P.P. Arnold, Zoot Money

I saw The Manfreds in April this year, just ten miles away at the Regent Centre in Christchurch. The Manfreds is the basic line up, while The Manfreds Maximum R&B adds Mike D’Abo (from Chapter II) and guests.

The combination is magic for me … I did the Toppermost articles on Manfred Mann, P.P. Arnold and Zoot Money quite separately over the years. I would have gone to see any one of the three. ‘But you saw The Manfreds in April!’ said my wife. Yes, well in 1963 I saw Zoot Money every week, with much the same set and I never got tired of it. Manfred Mann has also marked significant musical moments for me, from the dark downstairs Disques A Go Go club in Bournemouth, to their Southern TV series demonstrating what R&B was.  I laboured long and hard trying to work out the bass part to Watermelon Man as a teenager. Then Pretty Flamingo was my 1966 girlfriend’s favourite song, and it must have been one of Mike d’Abo’s very first gigs with the band at Hull University in January 1967 where I met my girlfriend of the next four years. I’m told that they thought it was such a poor gig that they refunded part of their fee (a first time and last time any band ever volunteered this, I was also told), but in my memory it shines as a fabulous set.  Between Manfred Mann, and then Coulson, Dean, McGuiness, Flint’s Lo & Behold album they turned in my favourite covers of Bob Dylan songs. Everything about the band has good vibes for me.

I also wanted to see the expanded band again. It’s remarkable that the two lead vocalists are up there working so cheerfully together. As recounted in The Toppermost article, HMV (EMI) put all their money on Paul Jones when he left the band for his solo career, and abandoned the rest. They signed with Fontana instead, found Mike d’Abo from Band of Angels and sailed on blithely with even more hits. My main question was how many of my Toppermost tens was I going to hear. Mike d’Abo opens up their later “Chapter II” repertoire (though Paul Jones always does Mighty Quinn on the 6-piece shows). Of course Mike d’Abo would have had to sing the Paul Jones earlier hits onstage in the late 60s. Now they divide it pretty strictly by original lead vocal. I thought both Paul Jones and Tom McGuinness were admirably self-effacing in this expanded show.

It’s a value for money show. The Manfreds, yet another “heritage artist” (see also Paul Simon recently) shows up all those younger bands with their 80 minute contractual obligation sets, by playing for 2 hours 40 minutes plus a 20 minute interval. It was the final date on the Autumn 2016 tour.

A minor surprise was no mention of local hero Zoot Money’s Bournemouth origins. He was in my older sister’s class at primary school, though we Bournemouth lads were afraid to venture far into Poole in the 60s. Odd, Poole is now more salubrious by far in the evenings. In fact while Manfred Mann (working from the Portsmouth area) were playing the sweaty Disques A Go Go in Bournemouth, Zoot Money was headlining at the far larger and more prestigious Pavilion Ballroom, with its sea views.

They certainly know how to bookend the show, with The One In The Middle recast for the current band, and with a lot of humour, then If You Gotta Go is a natural final song to send the audience into the night.

The interesting new element was projection on a large screen behind them throughout. In some bits it was abstract, others like pink flamingos for Pretty Flamingo were illustrative, as were water droplets for Mike Hugg’s sublime piano solo piece. Most unusual, and even mildly disconcerting was old black and white TV footage of them performing the same songs which they were singing now. Sometimes it almost synched, at others it was video footage from the era, like a very good Mighty Quinn promo clip I had never seen before, or P.P. Arnold singing on the German Beat Club (which I’ve seen on YouTube). I did wonder how it feels singing in front of your nearly fifty year younger self on a large screen. In Paul Jones’ case it reinforces his uncanny lack of ageing. I enjoyed seeing the “Manfred” jackets on Do Wah Diddy Diddy. I had one myself at the time, always worn with a polo neck sweater. The swinging London clips were fun.

After The One In The Middle, an EP title track,  they switched to Mike d’Abo for Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James (UK #2) … the real strong example of having 1960s Mike d’Abo footage playing right behind Mike d’Abo 2016.

Click. Straight to Paul Jones for lead vocal on Sha La la (UK #3).

My Name Is Jack (UK #8) is the bizarre John Simon track from the You Are What You Eat OST. The projected video is even more bizarre. From the Toppermost  article:

Albert Grossman, manager of both Bob Dylan and The Band, liked Manfred Mann so much (they were earning him money) they were invited to see a preview of the Peter Yarrow film You Are What You Eat. McGuinness recalls: We were invited by Albert Grossman to see a screening of the Peter Yarrow film, You Are What You Eat. Which we thought was awful – definitely a period piece. But at the end we said there is one good song. That song was John Simon’s idiosyncratic My Name Is Jack.

On the TV mimed version they look a bit too flowery poppy in Dave Dee mode, but that is the song, and the lyrics are flower power anyway … the Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls was the nickname of the seedy San Francisco hotel where parts of the movie were filmed.

Last time around in April, Paul Jones said that Oh, No Not My Baby was the only one where they broke the rules of making songs recognisable in comparison to the original.Mike Hugg led in with a jazzy solo piano pice, then the song itself was jazzier than the Manfred Mann 1960s recording, or the Maxine Brown original version.

P.P. Arnold (as ever) was my favourite part of the show … in a pink dress in part one and a cream dress in part two. I recalled how Zoot Money always mocked Tony Blackburn (his 1963 support act) for wearing a blue sequin jacket in one set and a gold one in the other. All I can say is the costume changes both looked far better on P.P. Arnold. She did the expected two first, Angel of The Morning and The First Cut Is The Deepest, both great songs, and in both cases she did the definitive versions. Simon Currie played a sax solo direct to P.P. Arnold in First Cut Is The Deepest. As in 2003, she totally eclipses the versions by Sheryl Crow, Rod Stewart and Keith Hampshire.

From Toppermost:

Angel Of The Morning is a Chip Taylor song. Evie Sands recorded the first version for Cameo-Parkway, only to find the company collapsing around her before it got airplay. Billie Davis covered that version in the UK. Then Merilee Rush picked up on it and got an American hit, before P.P. Arnold did the fourth and greatest version. It was also on her album Kafunta.

P.P. Arnold has a new album as Band of Sisters in preparation. I would have loved to hear more recent songs, like Different Drum or Beautiful Song, but it was not to be.

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Beautiful Song: P.P. Arnold, autographed copy from forthcoming “Issues” CD.

P.P. Arnold introduced Zoot Money who duetted with her on Marvin Gaye / Kim Weston’s great It Takes Two. When Zoot was playing keys (mainly with an organ sound), Mike d’Abo stayed on keys too, but Mike Hugg moved to a snare drum and we had a twin drummer sound with Rob Townsend. Mike Hugg played drums and vibes in the original line up.

Zoot continued with It Never Rains But It Pours, written with Big Roll Band drummer Colin Allen for Jimmy Witherspoon. He bemoaned the fact that the Manfreds were playing their non-stop hits through the tour while he had had only the one.

Big Time Operator was that hit, which came next (UK #25, August 1966). He said it was an ode for Donald Trump. In both cases, I’d have liked to bring his vocal mic up a tad. The lyrics are worth it.

A rapid 5-4-3-2-1 switched us back to The Manfreds.

Fox On The Run was introduced by d’Abo as “1967”, an error also on the live double album Live-Four-Three-Two-One, though it’s corrected there. It was December 1968. From Toppermost:

 According to Mike D’Abo, it’s Manfred’s favourite record of all their recordings. Tom McGuinness says of Fox On The Run: We changed it around quite a lot. We couldn’t make it work without shifting keys. The Band’s “The Weight” was an especially big influence on us. The “like a fox, like a fox … on the run” lines were meant to sound like “take a load off Fanny – and put the load right on me”. It was written by Tony Hazzard, who had also written Ha! Ha! Said The Clown for them.

The video clip had them running around in 1968, leaping about with a taxidermy fox, as one did in those days. On stage, we had that interesting Paul Jones on harmonica / Simon Currie on sax blend which somehow sounds like a large horn section. They were quoting Put It Where You Want It while Mike d’Abo did what I can only describe as a Fox On The Run Rap.

The first half ended with a full force spectacular version of Smokestack Lightning, a Paul Jones harmonica and Tom McGuinness guitar showcase (with a plug for his Radio Two show). The Howlin’ Wolf song opened their first LP. and I remember them demonstrating it on Southern TV … and then trying to play it. Very good indeed.

After the interval,  Handbags and Gladrags started and ran halfway with just Mike d’Abo singing and accompanying himself on beautifully played keyboard, with Paul Jones playing harmonica next to him. The band arrived halfway. Everyone knows it from The Office opening titles … and The Stereophonics, Rod Stewart and Chris Farlowe versions. D’Abo wrote it, and one of Manfred Mann’s biggest errors was in failing to record it for themselves at the time.

Pretty Flamingo (UK #1) is obvious as the first strums of Tom McGuinness’s switch from Stratocaster to acoustic guitar takes place. Toppermost again:

The sound of 1966 for me. A UK #1 too, though less successful elsewhere. It summed up the “pre-1967” growing mood. With The Rolling Stones Paint It Black at the same time, there were John The Baptist hints of the Summer of Love in the song. Her hair glows like the sun and her eyes can light the sky were taken as innocent, though a year later it would have been psych. It came from mainstream commercial songwriter Mark Barkan (so it was innocent), and allegedly it was intended for The Drifters. This was recorded in the era when Jack Bruce was bass guitarist, so is his biggest British single hit.

Van Morrison’s Bright Side of The Road  is on the new Manfreds CD, done here as a Mike d’Abo / P.P. Arnold duet. I’m prejudiced having seen Van do it many times. I thought it lacked the indefinable bounce of Van’s band, tough P.P. Arnold’s vocal was very welcome.

Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, a John D. Loudermilk composition was a more successful duet, this time with Paul Jones and P.P. Arnold. It was once a countrified classic with that “country got soul” crossover. Artists as diverse as Andy Williams, The Casinos, Bettye Swan, Glenn Campbell, 5th Dimension and recently Joss Stone have done it. I’d have guessed the Joss Stone from 2012 was the current inspiration. Beautifully taken by both.I had been hoping for It’s Gonna Work Out Fine, as done by Ike & Tina Turner, then covered by Manfred Mann as the duet (as in 2003)  but different and unexpected is good.

Zoot Money returned for Sam Cooke’s Bring It On Home , regaling us with the account of how he did it as a B side to “Good”, and The Animals picked up on it, did it as an A side and registered a 1965 UK #7 hit with it. Bastards, he added. Then Zoot was a member of Eric Burdon & The New Animals a couple of years later. Zoot, P.P. Arnold and Mike d’Abo took verses on it.

It Should Have Been Me gave us more anecdotes, with references to Big Roll Band guitarist Andy Somers. I’m sure Zoot has expanded the lyrics. Toppermost again:

It Should’ve Been Me sums up Zoot’s career in its title. It really should have been him. This was the point when he should have done as well as Messrs Fame and Price … this one was the title track of the studio album, and it’s one he still does nowadays. The original was Ray Charles’ first chart hit on Atlantic Records. Like Big Time Operator, it’s a semi-comic complaint: It should’ve been me with those real fine chicks! He was doing it back in 1963 too.

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The Book of Life … I’ve Read it: Zoot Money, 2016 CD

Ha Ha Said The Clown (UK #4) was another opportunity to catch old video footage. Always a nice song.

It led into Mike Hugg’s Piano Solo piece. Everyone except Rob Townsemd left the stage, and the quality of the innovation reminded me of Garth Hudson. Beautiful piano sound with unusual places to visit in the melody.

Come Tomorrow (UK #4) was always Paul Jones (successful) attempt to match the likes of The Walker Brothers at the time. While it’s no a song I would choose, it really shows how he can still hits the notes. Simon Currie’s soprano sax solo in this was especially memorable.

Build Me Up Buttercup was written by Mike d’Abo for The Foundations (UK #2, late 1968). To be frank, I loathe the tune, mainly because once I hear it I can’t get it out of my head for three days. It’s beyond annoyingly catchy, though I guess that was always the point of it. He sings it well, they singalong with gusto … but if only I could get it out of my ears tonight.

I think we had all been wondering when Tom McGuinness’s post-Manfred Mann career would get an airing. They saved When I’m Dead & Gone till late and put it in this prominent slot … justifiably because it was a bigger hit than either P.P. or Zoot ever racked up … UK #2. We knew it was coming as soon as Tom picked up his mandolin.

The Drum Duet has Rob Townsend on he full kit, Mike Hugg on snare and shared bass tom-tom (he moved into second drummer role when Zoot was onstage too). As one who doesn’t like drum solos, I enjoyed their interplay very much.

The Mighty Quinn (UK #1) is a major singalong, returned to Mike d’Abo. I have to say Paul Jones was self-effacing throughout, staying in the background others sang. See Toppermost for more on how they got this basement song.

Do Wah Diddy Diddy  (UK #1) is their REALLY big singalong.  See how those number one hits are rolling into this set. It’s a cover of The Exciters, but made UK #1. There’s something about the wide, comfortable and spacious Poole Lighthouse Concert Hall that seems to mute singsongs compared to those smaller more intimate community theatres in Christchurch and Wimborne. I’m sure the audience was as enthusiastic, but the hall is too large to “raise the rafters” with audience participation, so it felt cooler. The band left the stage, and Paul Jones segued into a driving harmonica solo, which morphed into White Christmas (on harmonica) with the audience joining in. Then it was into an incredibly rapid solo harmonica demonstration and back into the original Do Wah Diddy Diddy,

The encores, Bill Withers’ Lean On Me and Bob Dylan’s If You Gotta Go featured all four vocalists. That was kind of expected on a soulful Lean On Me, but a particular delight was P.P. Arnold and Zoot Money taking verses on If You Gotta Go. We failed to get Marcus Cliffe’s bass solo piece tonight, but we did get his excellent bass guitar intro to Lean On Me.

Instant standing ovation.

OVERALL SOUND QUALITY

The Concert Hall at Poole is set up for symphony concerts. It’s large and airy, or cavernous, and doesn’t lend itself well to rock bands nor singsongs (in spite of Paul Jones’ sterling efforts) as well as The Regent, Christchurch or The Tivoli, Wimborne. The sound on isolated solo examples was excellent … Paul Jones’ harmonica, Mike Hugg’s solo piano. Mik d’Abo’s keyboard at the start of Handbags & Gladrags, Zoot Money’s Korg keyboard set to Hammond sound, Simon Currie’s saxes every time, Tom McGuinness’s guitar solos, the drum duet, Marcus Cliffe’s bass run into Lean On Me. BUT when everyone was playing, you couldn’t distinguish instruments with  any clarity. It happens in this symphony hall. I’ve heard stellar classical and jazz here, but the acoustic may be too live for amplified rock. They were way clearer than Van Morrison with Linda Gail Lewis, or than Bellowhead, but on the blend, sound was not premier league. very good, but never at Paul Simon / Leonard Cohen levels.

RELATED REVIEWS ON THIS BLOG:

  • The Manfreds – 2016  Regent, Christchurch
  • The Manfreds 2011 Tivoli Wimborne
  • The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold 2003 Bournemouth Pavilion
  • Zoot Money Poole Lighthouse 2005
  • Sandy Denny Tribute with P.P. Arnold Basingstoke
  • Dave Kelly, Maggie Bell, BBQ (with Zoot Money) Tivoli Wimborne

SEE ALSO MY LONGER GENERAL ARTICLES ON MANFRED MANN, P.P. ARNOLD & ZOOT MONEY (with “Top Ten” selections), which may repeat some points

MANFRED MANN
http://www.toppermost.co.uk/manfred-mann/
P.P. ARNOLD
http://www.toppermost.co.uk/p-p-arnold/
ZOOT MONEY
http://www.toppermost.co.uk/zoot-money/

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      • Cat Ballou
      • Catch Us If You Can
      • Custer of The West
      • Darling
      • Deadfall (1968)
      • Doctor Zhivago
      • Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
      • Far From The Madding Crowd (1967)
      • Georgy Girl
      • Girl On A Motorcycle
      • Gonks Go Beat
      • Harper (aka The Moving Target)
      • Help!
      • Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
      • How I Won The War
      • I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘Is Name
      • If ….
      • Just For You
      • Little Fauss & Big Halsy
      • Live It Up!
      • Medium Cool
      • Modesty Blaise (1966)
      • Morgan – A Suitable Case For Treatment
      • Nevada Smith
      • O’ Lucky Man!
      • Performance
      • Petulia
      • Play It Cool
      • Poor Cow
      • Privilege
      • Six-Five Special
      • Some People
      • Sparrows Can’t Sing
      • Summer Holiday
      • Take A Girl Like You
      • Ten Little Indians
      • The Bofors Gun
      • The Carpetbaggers
      • The Chalk Garden (1964)
      • The Chase (1966)
      • The Devil Rides Out
      • The Family Way
      • The Fast Lady
      • The Ipcress File
      • The Knack … and how to get it
      • The Magic Christian
      • The Magus
      • The Party (1968)
      • The Party’s Over
      • The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
      • The Small World of Sammy Lee
      • The Swimmer (1968)
      • The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
      • The Trap
      • The Yellow Rolls-Royce
      • The Young Ones
      • Theorem (Teorema)
      • Tom Jones
      • What A Crazy World
      • Wonderful Life
      • Work Is A Four Letter Word
    • It was fifty years ago in May …
    • John Wetton Tribute
    • music
      • 45 rpm records …
        • Leon Rosselson
      • Anglicana … and Americana
      • Anti songs
      • Broadside: Bellowhead
      • Concerts
        • 70th Party …
        • ABBA Tribute / BSO
        • Al Stewart
        • Albert Lee
        • Allen Toussaint
        • American Queen Ensemble
        • Andy Williams
        • Animals & Friends / Steve Cropper
        • Art Garfunkel
        • Bap Kennedy
        • Bellowhead 2.2013
        • Bellowhead 2014
        • Bellowhead 2016
        • Bellowhead 7.2013
        • Bellowhead 7.2015
        • Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2011
        • Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2013
        • Bob Dylan – 2022
        • Bob Dylan 2002
        • Bob Dylan 2006
        • Bob Dylan 2017
        • Bonnie Raitt, Hyde Park 2018
        • Brian Wilson
        • BSO: Coming to America
        • BSO: Triumphal Elgar
        • Carole King – Hyde Park
        • Chris Rea
        • Chuck Prophet & Stephanie Finch
        • Cliff Richard 2018
        • Crosby, Stills & Nash
        • Dave Kelly, Maggie Bell, BBQ
        • Don Henley – Hyde Park
        • Dr John
        • Eliza Carthy
        • Emma Swift
        • Emmylou Harris
        • Fay Hield 2013
        • Fay Hield 2014
        • Fay Hield 2016
        • Fleetwood Mac 2003
        • FLIT
        • Garth Hudson 1999
        • Garth Hudson 2007
        • Glen Campbell
        • Glenn Tilbrook
        • Gospel in West Helena
        • Grupo Lokito
        • Hal Wilner Leonard Cohen Project
        • Hall & Oates
        • Ian Felice 2018
        • James Taylor 2014
        • James Taylor, Hyde Park 2018
        • Jimmy Cliff
        • Joan Baez
        • John Cale Paris 1919
        • John Cale, Brighton 2011
        • John Lydon
        • Johnny Flynn, Hyde Park 2018
        • Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings
        • Jonathan Wilson
        • Joni Mitchell’s Hejira and Mingus
        • Joyce Cobb
        • Judy Collins – 2020
        • Judy Collins 2010
        • Judy Collins 2013
        • k.d. lang
        • Kiefer Sutherland
        • King Crimson – 2018
        • KT Tunstall
        • Legends: Joanna Lumley, Twiggy, Lulu
        • Leonard Cohen Aug 2013
        • Leonard Cohen July 2009
        • Leonard Cohen Nov. 2008
        • Leonard Cohen O2 2008
        • Loudon Wainwright III
        • Louise Goffin – Hyde Park
        • Lulu
        • Margo Price
        • Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
        • Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
        • Michael Kiwanuka – Hyde Park
        • Michelle Shocked 2001
        • Natalie Merchant
        • NKOTB
        • P.P. Arnold 2019
        • Paul Simon & Sting 2015
        • Paul Simon – Hyde Park 2018
        • Paul Simon 2016
        • Paul Simon Nov. 2006
        • Paul Simon Oct. 2000
        • Preston Shannon
        • Raghu Dixit
        • Raghu Dixit
        • Ralph McTell 2016
        • Richard Thompson 2017
        • Rita Coolidge
        • Rodriguez
        • Roger Chapman
        • Roger McGuinn
        • Rufus Wainwright
        • Sam Lee & Friends
        • Sandy Denny Tribute
        • Saving Grace
        • Seth Lakeman 2014
        • Shawn Colvin, Hyde Park Review
        • Simi Stone
        • Simon & Garfunkel 2004
        • Simone Felice – Oct 2015
        • Simone Felice 2011
        • Simone Felice April 2012
        • Simone Felice April 2014
        • Simone Felice July 2013
        • Simone Felice November 2014
        • Simone Felice Sept 2012
        • Simone Felice- Oct 2016
        • Sly & The Family Stone
        • Spiers & Boden 5.13
        • Spiers & Boden, 6.13
        • Spiers and Boden 2014
        • Steeleye Span
        • Suzanne Vega
        • Symphonic Pink Floyd
        • Taj Mahal
        • The Australian Pink Floyd
        • The Band
        • The Bleedin Noses
        • The Bootleg Beatles 2018
        • The Bootleg Beatles 2022
        • The Cactus Blossoms
        • The Civil Wars
        • The Decemberists
        • The Delines
        • The Demon Barbers
        • The Foundations
        • The Full English
        • The Grand Ole Opry
        • The Imagined Village
        • The Manfreds – 2016
        • The Manfreds 2011
        • The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold 2003
        • The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold, Zoot Money, Nov 2016
        • The Mastersons, Hymn For Her
        • The Mavericks
        • The palmer james group
        • The Platters
        • The Searchers
        • The Transports
        • The Unthanks 03.11
        • The Unthanks 04.2012
        • The Unthanks 10.2012
        • The Unthanks 12.11
        • The Unthanks 2.2015
        • The Unthanks 2019
        • The Unthanks 2022
        • The Unthanks 5.2017
        • The Waterboys
        • Thea Gilmore
        • Tom Jones
        • Van Morrison
          • Van Morrison 1998
          • Van Morrison 1999
          • Van Morrison 2000
          • Van Morrison 2001
          • Van Morrison 2002 Jan.
          • Van Morrison 2002 Oct.
          • Van Morrison 2003 Jul.
          • Van Morrison 2003 Sep.
          • Van Morrison 2005 Mar.
          • Van Morrison 2005 Nov.
          • Van Morrison 2007
          • Van Morrison 2012
          • Van Morrison 2013
          • Van Morrison 2019
        • Ward Thomas, Hyde Park
        • Zawinul Syndicate
        • Zoot Money
      • Gigs, venues and prices
      • HMV. His Master’s Voice silenced?
      • Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
      • Music From Big Pink – 50th anniversary
      • Names, Scribble & Numbers
      • Nancy Sinatra
      • Note of Hope (Woody Guthrie)
      • Phil Everly RIP
      • Rock pictures
      • RoseAnn Fino
      • Shadows In The Night
      • Thank You For The Muzac
      • The Band reviews & pictures
      • The Beautiful Old
      • The Village Green Preservation Society
      • The Weight – covers
      • Twelve Songs For Christmas 2013
    • rants
      • 100 Days Plus and Counting …
      • Driving Me Mad …
      • A Fishy Story
      • A Legal Matter
      • A Post-Brexit Vision
      • Agatha Christie: Deduction in a dell’arte mask
      • Allergies … and lawyers
      • Baby Boomer v Wokeperson
      • Barcodes
      • Beaujolais Nouveau …
      • Best of 2011
      • Best of 2012
      • Best of 2013
      • Best of 2014
      • Best of 2015 – music
      • Best of 2015 – Theatre
      • Best of 2016 – Music
      • Best of 2016 – Theatre
      • Best of 2017 – Music
      • Best of 2017 – Screen
      • Best of 2017- Theatre
      • Best of 2018 – Music
      • Best of 2018 – theatre
      • Best of 2019 – Concerts
      • Best of 2019 – Theatre
      • Best of 2019- Music
      • Best of 2020
      • Best of 2020- Music
      • Best of 2022 – Music
      • Best of 2022- Theatre
      • Cars are cars
      • Chorizo is Vile
      • Christmas Markets
      • Christmases long past …
      • Civil Wars & Statues
      • Climate Change: my rant
      • Communication skills: Leaders TV debate 2015
        • Opposition Leader’s Debate, 16 April 2015
      • Crisis at the Cash Register
      • Culture Shock Bourbon Street
      • Cycling in London (and elsewhere)
      • Encounter: Saul Bellow
      • Eurovision 2022
      • Fawlty Towers and Tall Poppies
      • Flags and anthems
      • Football nicknames
      • Free Broadband in Every Packet!
      • Guilt and innocence
      • Hail, hail, the first of May
      • Howards End is a blur
      • In the April Garden …
      • In The Days of Covid-21
      • In the May Garden
      • Jangle Bells: shopping for Christmas
      • Jumble Sales
      • Land Of My Mother’s
      • London-centric theatre
      • Mail v Guardian
      • Major Brylcreem or My adventures in the CCF
      • Matinees
      • Not an amazing grace
      • On The Road: Information overkill
      • Parent and child spaces
      • Poppies
      • Princely Names
      • Quaint hotels
      • Remember, remember …
      • Secondhand Christmas
      • Shrink wrapping albums
      • Sloppy fiction?
      • Someone will call you back …
      • Sound … and Fury… at The Globe
      • SS-GB – Mumbling soundtracks
      • Supermarket check-outs
      • Surveys
      • Testing in schools
      • The “Poldark” Effect
      • The 2019 watershed?
      • The 70s were crap
      • The Building Behind Me …
      • The Cheerful e-bay seller
      • The Curse of The Crawleys: Downton Abbey Series 10
      • The Decline of Bournemouth
      • The End of Deference …
      • The Famous Five – by Paul F. Newman
      • The four day week?
      • The Great War
      • The Hacking Cough
      • The Long & The Short Of It
      • The March of The Halloumi Fries
      • The Shakespeare Cod-Piece
      • The Stitch Up
      • View From The Queue
      • What happened to car CD players?
      • What’s happened to air travel?
    • stage
      • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Cheek by Jowl
      • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Wanamaker
      • 8 Hotels
      • A Damsel in Distress
      • A Little Hotel On The Side
      • A Mad World My Masters
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – BBC TV 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Bridge 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Filter 2011
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Grandage 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Propellor 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2011
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Selladoor 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill 2018
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill Tour 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Young Vic
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bath 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Globe 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Headlong
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare
      • A Midsummer Nights Dream – Handspring 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016 Revisited
      • A Number
      • A Streetcar Named Desire NT Live
      • A Taste of Honey
      • A Very Very Very Dark Matter
      • A View From The Bridge
      • A Woman of No Importance
      • Abigail’s Party 2013
      • Absolute Hell
      • Ah, Wilderness!
      • Albion
      • All My Sons
      • All New People
      • All’s Well That Ends Well – RSC 2013
      • All’s Well That Ends Well- 2018
      • All’s Well That Ends Well- RSC 2022
      • Amadeus – 2014
      • Amadeus – NT 2017
      • American Buffalo
      • An Enemy of The People
      • An Ideal Husband 2018
      • An Ideal Husband- 2014
      • Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2013
      • Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2017
      • Antony and Cleopatra – Globe
      • Antony and Cleopatra 2012
      • Arcadia
      • Arden of Faversham
      • Around The World in 80 Days
      • As You Like It – Globe 2015
      • As You Like It – Globe 2018
      • As You Like It – National 2015
      • As You Like It – RSC 2019
      • As You Like It RSC 2013
      • Awful Auntie
      • Bakkhai
      • Balletboyz: The Talent
      • Barber Shop Chronicles
      • Bartholomew Fair
      • Beauty & The Beast (Ballet Theatre UK)
      • Before The Party
      • Birthday
      • Bitter Wheat
      • Black Comedy
      • Blithe Spirit
      • Blithe Spirit – Bath 2019
      • Blood Wedding
      • Blues For An Alabama Sky
      • Boudica
      • Bring Up The Bodies
      • Broken
      • Candida
      • Cardenio
      • Carmen Disruption
      • Caroline or Change
      • Comedy of Errors – Globe
      • Comedy of Errors – RSC, 2021
      • Comedy of Errors NT 2012
      • Comedy of Errors RSC ’12
      • Communicating Doors
      • Comus
      • Copenhagen
      • Coriolanus – NT Live
      • Coriolanus – RSC
      • Crazy For You
      • Curiosity Shop
      • Cymbeline – RSC
      • Cymbeline – Wanamaker
      • Dancing At Lughnasa
      • Death Of A Salesman
      • Deathtrap
      • Dedication
      • Dido, Queen of Carthage
      • Dinner With Saddam
      • Doctor Faustus
      • Don Carlos
      • Don Juan in Soho
      • Don Quixote
      • Doubt – a parable
      • Dream
      • Dunsinane
      • Echo’s End
      • Educating Rita
      • Edward II
      • Electro Kif
      • Endgame / Rough for Theatre II
      • Eyam
      • Fallen Angels
      • Fantastic Mr Fox
      • Far
      • Farinelli and The King
      • Fences
      • First Light
      • Flare Path
      • Follies
      • For Services Rendered
      • Forests
      • Fortune’s Fool
      • Forty Years On
      • Fracked! Or Please Don’t Use The F-Word.
      • Frankenstein – NT Encore
      • French Without Tears
      • Funny Girl
      • Future Conditional
      • George’s Marvellous Medicine
      • Girl From The North Country
      • God of Carnage
      • Gypsy
      • Hairspray, The Musical
      • Half A Sixpence
      • Hamilton
      • Hamlet – Cumberbatch
      • Hamlet – Globe 2014
      • Hamlet – Maxine Peake
      • Hamlet – NT 2010
      • Hamlet – RSC 2016
      • Hamlet RSC 2013
      • Hamlet- Almeida / BBC 2017
      • Hamlet- Young Vic 2011
      • Hangmen
      • Harlequinade / All On Her Own
      • Harlequinade / All On Her Own – review
      • Hay Fever
      • Hecuba
      • Hedda Gabler
      • Hedda Tesman
      • Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 RSC
      • Henry V – 2018
      • Henry V – Jude Law
      • Henry V – RSC 2015
      • Henry VI – Rebellion
      • Henry VI – Wars of The Roses
      • Henry VI: Three plays
      • Hobson’s Choice
      • Hogarth’s Progress
      • Home
      • Home, I’m Darling
      • Hysteria
      • Imogen (Cymbeline) – Globe 2016
      • Importance of Being Earnest 2010
      • Importance of Being Earnest – Suchet, 2015
      • Importance of Being Earnest – Watermill
      • Importance of Being Earnest 2014
      • Importance of Being Earnest- 2018
      • Inala
      • Institute
      • Into The Hoods – Remixed
      • Ivanov
      • Jack Absolute Flies Again
      • Jeeves and Wooster
      • Jerusalem
      • Jerusalem – 2018
      • Jitney
      • John Gabriel Borkman
      • Julius Caesar – Globe 2014
      • Julius Caesar – RSC 2012
      • Julius Caesar – RSC 2017
      • Ka
      • King Charles III
      • King John – Globe 2015
      • King John – Rose, 2016
      • King John – RSC 2019
      • King Lear Frank Langella
      • King Lear – Antony Sher, RSC 2016
      • King Lear – Barrie Rutter
      • King Lear – David Haig
      • King Lear – Globe 2017
      • King Lear – McKellen 2017
      • King Lear – Russell-Beale
      • Kiss Me Kate
      • Kunene and The King
      • La Bête
      • Lady Windermere’s Fan
      • Leopoldstadt
      • Life of Galileo
      • Little Shop of Horrors
      • Local Hero
      • Long Day’s Journey Into Night
      • Love
      • Love For Love
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost – 2018
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost- 2016
      • Love’s Labour’s Won
      • Love’s Sacrifice
      • Love, Love, Love
      • Macbeth – Globe 2016
      • Macbeth – McAvoy 2013
      • Macbeth – National Theatre 2018
      • Macbeth – Tara Arts
      • Macbeth – Young Vic
      • Macbeth RSC 2018
      • Macbeth, RSC 2011
      • Macbeth, Watermill 2019
      • Macbeth- Chichester 2019
      • Macbeth- Wanamaker 2018
      • Mack & Mabel
      • Malory Towers
      • Man and Superman
      • Mary Poppins
      • Me and My Girl
      • Measure for Measure – Globe 2015
      • Measure for Measure – Young Vic
      • Measure for Measure RSC 2012
      • Measure For Measure- RSC 2019
      • Medea NT live
      • Miss Julie / Black Comedy
      • Miss Littlewood
      • Mojo
      • Monsieur Popular
      • Mrs Warren’s Profession
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2017
      • Much Ado About Nothing – NT 2022
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Old Vic 2013
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Rose 2018
      • Much Ado About Nothing – RSC 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing- Northern Broadsides
      • Much Ado About Nothing- RSC 2016
      • Much Ado About Nothing- RSC 2022
      • Much Ado About Nothing- Wyndhams 2011
      • Murder On The Orient Express (stage)
      • Murder, Margaret and Me
      • My Brilliant Friend (play)
      • My Night With Reg
      • Neighbourhood Watch
      • Nell Gwynn
      • Nice Fish
      • No Man’s Land
      • Noises Off
      • Obsession
      • Oklahoma! – Chichester
      • Once
      • One Man, Two Guvnors
      • Othello – Globe 2018
      • Othello – RSC 2015
      • Othello NT 2013
      • Othello- ETT 2018
      • Othello- Wanamaker 2017
      • Othello- Watermill 2022
      • Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
      • Our Man in Havana (musical)
      • People
      • People Like Us
      • Pericles
      • Peter & The Starcatcher
      • Peter and Alice
      • Peter Gynt
      • Peter Pan (pantomime)
      • Peter Pan Goes Wrong
      • Photograph 51
      • Pitcairn
      • Plastic
      • Platonov
      • Playing Cards 1: Spades
      • Plenty
      • POSH
      • Present Laughter – Chichester 2018
      • Present Laughter – Old Vic 2019
      • Present Laughter- Bath 2003
      • Present Laughter- Bath 2016
      • Pressure
      • Private Lives
      • Privates On Parade
      • Punishment Without Revenge
      • Punk Rock
      • Pygmalion
      • Quatermaine’s Terms
      • Queen Anne
      • Quiz – James Graham
      • Racing Demon
      • Ralegh: The Treason Trial
      • Relative Values
      • Richard II – Globe
      • Richard II – RSC
      • Richard III – Almeida
      • Richard III – Apollo 2012
      • Richard III – Freeman
      • Richard III – RSC 2012
      • Richard III – RSC 2022
      • Richard III – Spacey, 2011
      • Robin Hood (panto)
      • Romantics Anonymous
      • Romeo & Juliet – Globe 2017
      • Romeo & Juliet – RSC 2018
      • Romeo & Juliet 2014 – Box Clever
      • Romeo & Juliet, Headlong 2012
      • Romeo & Juliet- Branagh 2016
      • Romeo and Juliet – NT, 2021
      • Romeo and Juliet- Globe 2015
      • Romeo and Juliet: Tobacco Factory
      • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
      • Ross
      • Rules for Living
      • Salomé – RSC
      • Same Time, Next Year
      • School nativities
      • Secondary Cause of Death
      • Separate Tables
      • Shakespeare in Love
      • She Stoops To Conquer – Bath 2015
      • She Stoops to Conquer – Rain or Shine
      • Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads
      • Skylight
      • Slava’s Snowshow
      • Snow in Midsummer
      • South Pacific
      • Spring Awakening
      • Stepping Out
      • Strife
      • Swan Lake
      • Sweet Bird of Youth
      • Switzerland
      • Tamburlaine
      • Tangomotion
      • Tartuffe- RSC
      • The Alchemist – RSC
      • The Argument
      • The Beauty Queen of Leenane
      • The Beauty Queen of Leenane – 2021
      • The Beaux Stratagem
      • The Birthday Party
      • The Book of Mormon
      • The Broken Heart
      • The Canterbury Tales
      • The Captive Queen
      • The Caretaker
      • The Chalk Garden
      • The Changeling
      • The City Madam
      • The Constant Wife
      • The Country
      • The Country Girls
      • The Country Wife
      • The Cripple of Inishmaan
      • The Crucible, NT 2022
      • The Crucible, Old Vic 2014
      • The Deep Blue Sea – 2019
      • The Deep Blue Sea-NT live, 2016
      • The Doctor
      • The Dresser
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2012
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2014
      • The Duchess of Malfi – RSC 2108
      • The Entertainer
      • The Famous Five: A New Musical
      • The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich
      • The Ferryman (Acts 2 & 3)
      • The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk
      • The Four Seasons: A Reimagining
      • The Game of Love and Chance
      • The Ghost Train
      • The Height of The Storm
      • The Homecoming
      • The Hot House
      • The Hypochondriac
      • The Hypocrite
      • The Jew of Malta
      • The Knight of The Burning Pestle
      • The Ladykillers
      • The Lie
      • The Lieutenant of Inishmore- 2018
      • The Lieutenant of Inishmore-2001
      • The Lock In
      • The Lock In Christmas Carol
      • The Magistrate – NT Live
      • The Magna Carta Plays
      • The Man In The White Suit
      • The Merchant of Venice – Almeida
      • The Merchant of Venice – Globe
      • The Merchant of Venice – RSC
      • The Merry Wives – Northern Broadsides
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor – Globe 2019
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor – RSC 2012
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor- RSC 2018
      • The Misanthrope ETT
      • The Miser
      • The Narcissist
      • The Nightingales
      • The Norman Conquests
        • Living Together
        • Round & Round The Garden
        • Table Manners
      • The Odyssey
      • The Painkiller (2016)
      • The Play That Goes Wrong
      • The Play What I Wrote
      • The Price
      • The Provoked Wife
      • The Recruiting Officer
      • The Rehearsal
      • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
      • The Rivals
      • The Roaring Girl
      • The Rover
      • The Ruling Class
      • The School for Scandal
      • The Seagull
      • The Seagull- Chichester
      • The Seven Year Itch
      • The Shoemaker’s Holiday
      • The Silver Tassie
      • The Southbury Child
      • The Spire
      • The Storm
      • The Syndicate
      • The Taming of The Shrew – RSC 2012
      • The Taming of The Shrew – RSC 2019
      • The Taming of The Shrew- Globe 2016
      • The Taxidermist’s Daughter
      • The Tempest – Bath Ustinov
      • The Tempest RSC 2012
      • The Tempest RSC 2016
      • The Tempest- Wanamaker
      • The Truth
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- 2018
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- RSC
      • The Unfriend
      • The Upstart Crow
      • The Wars of The Roses
        • Edward IV
        • Henry VI
        • Richard III
      • The Watsons
      • The Way of The World
      • The Weir
      • The Whale
      • The White Devil – Globe
      • The White Devil – RSC
      • The Winter’s Tale – Branagh
      • The Winter’s Tale – Cheek by Jowl
      • The Winter’s Tale – Globe 2018
      • The Winter’s Tale – RSC 2013
      • The Winter’s Tale – RSC 2021
      • The Winter’s Tale- Wanamaker
      • The Witch of Edmonton
      • There and Back Again – An Odyssey
      • Thérèse Raquin
      • This Happy Breed
      • This Is My Family
      • Timon of Athens
      • Timon of Athens – RSC
      • Titus Andronicus – RSC 2017
      • Titus Andronicus- Globe 2014
      • Totem
      • Travels With My Aunt (musical)
      • Travesties
      • Tristan and Yseult 2017
      • Troilus & Cressida RSC 2018
      • True West
      • Twelfth Night – Apollo 2012
      • Twelfth Night – Globe 2017
      • Twelfth Night – Globe, 2021
      • Twelfth Night – NT 2017
      • Twelfth Night – RSC 2017
      • Twelfth Night – Watermill
      • Twelfth Night – Young Vic
      • Twelfth Night RSC 2012
      • Twelfth Night- ETT 2014
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona – 2016
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona – RSC
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona- 2013
      • Uncle Vanya (Hare)
      • Uncle Vanya (McPherson)
      • Venice Preserved
      • Vice Versa
      • Volpone
      • Vulcan 7
      • Watership Down
      • Way Upstream
      • What The Butler Saw
      • While The Sun Shines
      • Wolf Hall
      • Woman in Mind
      • Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown
      • wonder.land
      • Worst Wedding Ever
      • Woyzeck
      • Yerma (2017)
      • Young Chekhov Season
      • Young Marx
    • video
      • A Weekend Away, A Week By The Sea
        • Sections: Weekend Away / By the Sea
      • Dennis Cook: A history
      • Drama, dialogue and video
      • Teaching with video: techniques
      • Video: non-authentic
      • Video: on location
      • Video: Peter Viney Interview
      • Video: What happened?

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