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Title: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Seán Kelly on Today at 21:47 https://c5.staticflickr.com/6/5763/29865354724_21dd2a802a_b.jpg So here was a thing to gladden the heart – Pete playing live to a rapt audience – after all he has been through this year - and in damn fine form too! Pete himself suggested it was such a low-key return to live performance that he would treat it as if he were playing to a group of friends, an impression only strengthened by the fact that we had gathered in the afternoon and were bolstered by a free drink and cake! Pete played two sets without a microphone or amplification for his guitar and only a low-volume speaker needed for the keyboard so it was indeed a very intimate business. He began with Master of the Revels which merged into Touch Has A Memory. Pete played a number of songs featured in Ian Shircore’s excellent book ‘Loose Cannon’ which was published just a week ago and the afternoon was in effect an informal launch for the book. Ian was there manning a stall which also had Pete’s cds and apparently he sold every copy of the book that he brought along. There were a fair few people queuing up to get both author and artist signatures on their copies. Back to the set-list, here is my rough memory of it, but I should say this is in the jumbled order of my recall not in the order played, sorry: Master of the Revels > Touch Has A Memory Canoe Screenfreak Search & Destroy The King Is Dead Senior Citizens - on piano Beware of the Beautiful Stranger (a request) The Way You Are With Me Time To Burn Session Man’s Blues The Dancing Master 30 Year Man Have I missed anything from this list? Quite likely – sorry I didn’t take notes. There were considerably more piano songs than guitar ones due to the recovering broken wrist- but Pete was in great spirits and if anything got more into things in the second half when there were some breath-taking performances, notably a 30 Year Man with what I can only call gravitas - a remarkable end to the second set. Many thanks to John who introduced Pete and had also organised the gig and of course to Pete for an excellent performance – as John said (I paraphrase) what a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon! :) |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Carole on 23.10.16 at 07:40 Many thanks, Seán! A great review (and photo) for those of us who couldn't be there. :) |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Ian Ashleigh on 23.10.16 at 08:42 Thanks Sean, I couldn't be there either but I'm looking forward to 5th November and seeing Pete at Pizza Express |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Mike Walters on 23.10.16 at 09:06 Great review of a great little performance, Sean. Pete also did Have You Got a Biro..? at some point early in the set but can't think of anything else you've omitted. |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Rob Spence on 23.10.16 at 09:10 When they said intimate, they weren't lying, were they! Great to have this documented - thanks, Seán. |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Seán Kelly on 23.10.16 at 09:30 Thanks folks - consider yourselves all 'liked' :) Thanks for adding Biro Mike and my memory is also insisting on Thief In The Night. Sorry Janice, this is a backwards way to put together a setlist :) |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Pete Atkin on 23.10.16 at 10:29 Huge thanks to everyone - to Sean, to Jon O'Connor for suggesting the gig and for organising it, and to all who came, some from quite a long way away. It was an important one for me, of course, for both non-musical and musical reasons, and, as it turned out, it was a perfect setting for getting back on the tracks. Just for confirmation, here are the setlists: Master of the Revels (keyboard) Touch has a memory (k) Have you got a Biro? (guitar) Canoe (k) Dancing Master (k) The King Is Dead/The Way To Be alive (k) Beware of the Beautiful Stranger (g) ----- The Way You Are With Me (k) Search and Destroy (k) Screen-freak (k) Thief in the night (g) Senior Citizens (k) Time To Burn (k) Sessionman's blues (k) Thirty Year Man (k) |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Leslie Moss on 23.10.16 at 10:59 Can't wait to hear you and Simon Wallace at The Pheasantry - I'll be accompanied by Gill. Welcome back! |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Jan on 24.10.16 at 14:36 Don't worry Sean. Sending in a dubious set list is a great way to get a reply from Pete on MV! On one occasion I managed to get Pete to write down his set list for me. (OK, Yes I do still have it :) ) It was the first performance of some of the songs from Winter Spring and my excuse was that I didn't know the titles. To my eternal discredit I still managed to type it up incorrectly online. Jan |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by Seán Kelly on 29.10.16 at 13:06 :-) Cheers Jan - and thanks for the proper setlist Pete! |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by avner greenberg on 01.11.16 at 22:42 Many thanks to you Seán for the review. So glad to see Pete looking in good form there. Seems the comeback's well on track. |
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Title: Re: Harlow Museum 22nd October 2016 Post by ChrisH on 21.11.16 at 09:02 Many thanks for the report. I was really annoyed that I couldn't make this gig. It was right on my doorstep but I was away for the whole weekend and couldn't re-arrange the date. Good to hear that Pete was in such fine form. Thanks again, ChrisH |
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