HW: London review

[Andrew Gilham]

In-Reply-To: <22574.9510221755 at abel.cam.harlequin.co.uk>

Dave sez

> After all I'd read here about Ron, I was expecting someone more manic.
> Except for when he was dressed as the alien, he didn't have a very
> striking stage presence, though his make up was fun and his singing was
> OK.

Same here - he just sort of stood there without much expression (at
least, nothing you could detect under the slap), fixating on a point in
space at the rear of the hall.

I thought his singing was fine on "Robot" and "Hassan I Sabha", because
those numbers were always sort of semi-spoken anyway.  He didn't really
cut it for me on "Lord of Light" or "Silver Machine", because they need a
bit more range and emotional depth.

> visuals rather pathetic.  If this is what the Live Chronicles tour was
> like,
> I can see why Andy didn't like it.

Don't get me started! :)  I guess you could draw a parallel between Ron
and the mime artist playing Elric, and the neglect of "rock'n'roll"
values to "performance art" in both cases, but mostly it's musically that
I didn't like "Chronicles".

> Just give me the projected images
> and
> the seven coloured strobes...

Ditto!

> About 2/3rds of the way through I moved back a bit so that I could see
> the
> whole stage.  This was a better view, but I never did find the rest of
> the
> list members after that... whoops.  It was good meeting you all
> beforehand!

Well, at least you missed the nasty pizza slices :)

- Andy

ObQuestion - If Ron were to join Albert and Deborah's band, would they
call it the Tree Surgeons? :)