Philip Sayce - The Yin To Joe's Yang (Page 1 of 3)

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Philip is definitely worth seeing live! His new cd Innerevolution ROCKS! (out since April 4)
If he's in your area somewhere in May don't miss him! And don't forget your earplugs, he's said to play 'amazingly loud' 

Holland
04.may    Boerderij, Zoetermeer, NL
23.may    Bosuil, Weert, NL
24.may    Ribs and Blues Festival, Raalte, NL
30.may    Paradiso (Small Hall), Amsterdam, NL
for the ones living in the south of Holland:
25.may    Spirit of 66, Verviers, BE

UK
05.may    Robin 2, Wolverhampton, UK
06.may    King Tuts, Glasgow, UK
07.may    Rock City Basement, Nottingham, UK
08.may    The Met, Bury, UK
09.may    Boardwalk, Sheffield, UK
11.may    Flowerpot, Derby, UK
12.may    100 Club, London, UK

Germany
15.may    Kulturbahnhof, Uslar, DE
16.may    Lido, Berlin, DE
17.may    Meisenfrei, Bremen, DE
18.may    Underground, Cologne, DE
19.may    Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg, DE
20.may    Schwimmbad, Heidelberg, DE

Pisces here... with a fiery side. 

I'm really looking forward to Philip's new cd Innerevolution.  Any word on when it will be released in the States?

Now, Derek is without doubt yin in relation to Joe´s yang. As to Philip you can differentiate into young yang, which would represent the wood element  and Joe´s full yang which would represent the fire element. But then there is always this white dot in the black field and the black dot in the white field............
Günter

I have Philips CD (with a bonus Live DVD!) on it's way to me at the moment courtesy of CDWow. I picked it up after reading so many positive comments on here, and listening to a few tracks on My Space.

I found out about Davy Knowles the same way, so this is a great forum for finding out about other music.

Here's some of my comments from the show on Thursday:

While there were many that had some to see Sayce, Stefan Schill was a name not known to many of the crowd. He opened his set with Any Direction, which is the first song from his album, I will comment that the song finished with a two minute guitar solo and then played a selection of songs from his debut album. Icon is right in that the most blues based songs were not present in the set list, these are a good batch of songs with indicate that both Prince and Mayer have had an impact on this 19 yeard old. I did grab a few words with Stefan later and asked why Game Called Love was not played. He simply replied that they had to cut the set to 30 minutes. Their keenness to play as many songs as possible did meant there was not a great deal of chat between songs as they would start a new song seconds after the previous one had finished. Perhaps this was why Schill did not seem quite as assured as he does on CD. His vocals were a little low in the mix (it turned out he was gettting shocks from the mic!). The band got a good groove going and are clearly very talented players.  I watched the gig with some friends and all of them were impressed with his performance.

Sayce and his band then took to the stage with One Foot In The Grave, a very forceful introduction. Probably the two words I’d associate with Sayce would be power and energy and we got lots of both. Powerful Thing was next up and following this we got a mix of songs from his two recent albums including Bitter Monday, Over My Head and Changes. Sayce is constantly on the move and it’s very hard to tear your eyes away from his fretboard, he plays like a man possessed and his battered strats were shown no mercy! His bass player is pretty crazy too as Martin said. A moment of reflection came when he mentioned how he’d played Glasgow once before with the late Jeff Healey and dedicated the next song to him - As The Years Go Passing By. This song certainly showed the more delicate side to his playing and was a real highlight. The only downside to the show was that the mic was still giving off shocks so Sayce’s pretty high vocals were also a little difficult to deciper. Happily there were requests from the crowd for some of his songs, also one dodo kept shouting for Purple Haze, Little Wing etc (not needed with originals this good). The closing number was a rocked up version of the Police’s Next To You, before the encore of Alchemy. The latter is a sublime moment and will probably become Sayce’s equivalent of Walkways - you’ll hear some true feel in this one guys! Everyone was blown away by Sayce!

In summary what I saw from Sayce and Schill was two young artists who have taken influence from the blues and both used this to build up a very good array of modern sounding original songs in two very contrasting ways and with different crossover appeal. I felt they supplemented each other very well and both are excellent acts with a great future! Catch them in the UK and Germany on this tour!

Great review, Duncan.    Everything you've said about Philp's performance brings back memories of his last visit in October 2009. I can't wait for tomorrow night at the 100 Club.

Maggie, prepare to have your socks knocked off!    See you tonight. 

Phil

I first saw Philip at Dingwalls last October and he was brilliant then....last night he was fantastic. The sound was deafening , he warned us pre gig to get earplugs. He was in a very mischevious mood as well with the crowd, poor Michael got his 'toilet' story aired in public by Philip. 

Hoping he is back soon

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