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  • Registered: 2009-04-26
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Re: Sheffield City Hall Gig Tues 28th April '09

Geoff wrote:
howgre wrote:

Only found out about Joe last year, and managed to miss him at Manchester Academy by 1 day. (Sick as a dog). So a drive top Sheffield was required.

Oh! JB is the best kept secret in music. It's sickening that lesser talent fills our radio waves, TV shows and record stores, whilst talent like this is ignored. On the other hand, it's not such a bad thing. It means that real music lovers can get to see real performers.

Seeing JB at Sheffield was my first time, and to describe him as awesome is an understatement.

I've posted my own views on http://www.hfgreenberg.co.uk/Music.html about midway down the page.

Fantastic! Can't wait until December, when I'll be going to Leeds, and probably will even take the Manilow fan with me.

Nice review howgre, now if you were free for the Royal Albert Hall on Monday I could let you have some unrestricted tickets for face value - that's if you think the trip would be worth it. I drove down to Shephers Bush and back in a night from Liverpool to see Joe - worth every mile!

Geoff, you should be able to guess that I'm one of those who finds out about everything the day after the event big_smile. Thanks very much (belatedly) for the offer. I would have taken it up too. And I suspect that it would have been a huge anticlamax. Having read numerous mixed reviews of the RAH show, I suspect that the extra effort of travelling to London would have resulted in me feeling cheated at the indifferent acoustics the RAH presents.
It's a huge shame that what was probably the crowning glory for Joe and the boys should be let down by an over-hyped establishment. One thing all the reviewers of that show are in agreement about was that any fault with the show was that of the RAH and NOT JB and band.

So, I'm both sorry I missed out, and in a sad way, glad.

But again, thanks for the offer.

There may be sense, but please don't assume that it's common.

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  • Registered: 2009-05-09
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Re: Sheffield City Hall Gig Tues 28th April '09

Geoff wrote:

As someone who has seen him one or two times before (16 actually) in smaller venues, I will have to adjust my expectations from now on. Not from a performance perspective as there is simply no-one better live at this moment in time. The seated hall atmosphere is different from the smaller and even larger standing venues and we felt that last night. Being seated throughout the performance definately took the edge off the evening for us.

I would have to agree that the all seated venue at Sheffield took the edge off the atmosphere. The playing was awesome as usual, but compared to the electric atmosphere that was present at the Manchester Academy on the previous tour this felt very subdued.

I suspected that this might be the case when booking the tickets, but had really good memories of raucous audiences at the Sheffield City Hall from my younger days (when they allocated standing room in front of the stage) and thought/hoped that this would compensate.  The fact that the sound was definitely not balancing correctly at times where I was sitting (front centre) didn't help either.

The good news is that Joe is playing close to home at Llandudno in November - so one less manic blast across the country after work .... plus they are advertising it as a standing event.

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Re: Sheffield City Hall Gig Tues 28th April '09

Trust me, you missed on something that was an incredible unique experience. The sound was fine and I was in what should have been a bad sound spot. Sound aside the experience was just awesome, I still have butterflies thinking about it.

Geoff, you should be able to guess that I'm one of those who finds out about everything the day after the event big_smile. Thanks very much (belatedly) for the offer. I would have taken it up too. And I suspect that it would have been a huge anticlamax. Having read numerous mixed reviews of the RAH show, I suspect that the extra effort of travelling to London would have resulted in me feeling cheated at the indifferent acoustics the RAH presents.
It's a huge shame that what was probably the crowning glory for Joe and the boys should be let down by an over-hyped establishment. One thing all the reviewers of that show are in agreement about was that any fault with the show was that of the RAH and NOT JB and band.

So, I'm both sorry I missed out, and in a sad way, glad.

But again, thanks for the offer.

Martin
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