My soul is at peace
May. 18th, 2004 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bellinghmanIt's been a little disturbed ever since February, when the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bellinghwoman took me to a Fairport Convention gig at the Corn Exchange.
Unfortunately, good as they are, Fairport have this unavoidable tendency to play songs that are inextricably associated with Richard Thompson in my mind, and hearing a cheerful bunch of musos doing them caused me some deep itching in my soul.
Tonight, I got to hear those songs the way they ought to be done.
And boy is Thompson one hell of a musician. Even when covering Britney Spears. When he does it, 'Oops I did it again' becomes ... oh, OK, it's never going to be great, but would you believe gutsy. It certainly had the audience in stitches, though I suspect he's done it before - knowing the words that well isn't something he would just happen upon.
The support, Jim Moray, wasn't bad - you can see he wants to be RT one day. The problem is, RT himself has had 40 years practice.
And the sound was a bit muddy to start with, even where we were sitting (a yard from the sound desk), but it cleared up fairly quickly.
Nice to seesion_a and j4, too.
bellinghwoman took me to a Fairport Convention gig at the Corn Exchange.Unfortunately, good as they are, Fairport have this unavoidable tendency to play songs that are inextricably associated with Richard Thompson in my mind, and hearing a cheerful bunch of musos doing them caused me some deep itching in my soul.
Tonight, I got to hear those songs the way they ought to be done.
And boy is Thompson one hell of a musician. Even when covering Britney Spears. When he does it, 'Oops I did it again' becomes ... oh, OK, it's never going to be great, but would you believe gutsy. It certainly had the audience in stitches, though I suspect he's done it before - knowing the words that well isn't something he would just happen upon.
The support, Jim Moray, wasn't bad - you can see he wants to be RT one day. The problem is, RT himself has had 40 years practice.
And the sound was a bit muddy to start with, even where we were sitting (a yard from the sound desk), but it cleared up fairly quickly.
Nice to see
sion_a and j4, too.
