It's A Shame Really

[superval99]

I'm happy with the set list too and I don't find the "quiet" section boring at all.   I still look forward to My Bacon Roll, especially the outro and Matchstick Man is really beautiful - I notice that the audience seemed to like it a lot on my recording - there was a lot of applause!  I have always liked Bonaparte and the present arrangement sounds fine.   Heart Full of Holes is probably the weakest song on the set list for me, but it would be better if MK didn't roll his "r's" so much on "heart"!   I never cared much for YLT on the album, but for some reason I liked it at the show, especially the sax.   

Highlights from the rest of the show were Once Upon a Time, WAM, MFN and R&J.

Even though I'm happy with the set list, I hope I will be lucky and hear BIA and OES played when I get to Verona, instead of Piper and Silvertown, just for a change or, who knows, maybe even something new!   

[koobaa]

I am yet to see the show but I know that I'll be happy with whatever setlist is played.

BUT

Come on Mark, One Song At A Time has been just asking if not screaming to be played live! And here I agree with the topic of this thread. It's a shame it will probably never be played for the audience.

[Stanko]

As ever, the set is designed for the majority, not the small percentage of "get a lifers" who check each set list.

The vast majority of the thousands who attend each concert (95%? Guess) will attend one show and not download multiple.

They will go away happy.

I second that Dusty. The show is a great mixture of songs from the whole DS and MK era. Of course, attending 18 shows, I would love to have a different setlist every night. But that’s Impossible. MK wants to have it nothing less than perfect. So only the perfect songs will appear

i second that too, "but" also consider this, if they could manage only but a single new song per show?
(that would mean no less than a 100 songs set list!  )
Now, you're just about close to solve this only if you can call all of these 100 sheep by their names!

[kaleo74]

Not to mention the text Nigel Hitchcock sent to Ianto about Hamburg gig  :

http://guyfletcher.co.uk/25th-june-2019-hamburg/

[dmg]

Not to mention the text Nigel Hitchcock sent to Ianto about Hamburg gig  :

http://guyfletcher.co.uk/25th-june-2019-hamburg/

 

I loved Nigel too.  You could see a good relationship between him and Mark on stage which is missing with grim Graeme, good player though he is.  The same kind of relationship he has with Danny.  I kind of miss him.

[Pierre]

I don't get why, after releasing such a varied and "adventurous" disc, the set is so unchanging.
 
Ok there is OUATITW but I would be perfectly happy with a show consisting in his solo work only.
 
Silvertown should have been played at all the shows. Guy teased it in a diary entry with a picture and I thought this is it! It is in the show. I went to the Nimes show which ended up being one of the shortest, without Heart and Silvertown and missing an encore. So basicaly apart from the two song from the album and a few surprise arrangements that was it. 

I tried to keep the setlist unspoilt but youtube propositions and guy diary spoiled the only few surprises I could have. I knew about OUATITW, Bacon , WAM, MFN, Sailing, silvertown

The only surprises were when Danny sang the Sailing duet (great in my opinion) , Bacon version that I really like, the Santana-style Postcard (a killer) the extended MFN. I don't care much for YLT and OES and knew they would be there anyway.

So I understand people can be a bit disillusioned and think it's a shame.

Guy keeps repeating they don't look back but they hardly play any new material. New arrangements are fine but they shouldn't be a justification.

For me a good show would be made of
5 or 6 new songs from the last disc
2 or 3 never or very rarely played from his solo work  (here Silvertown and Heart were great)
4 or 5 usual songs from his solo album (speedway, Sailing, etc
4 or 5 DS songs (but I could live with just 1 or 2)

[Robson]

"So I understand people can be a bit disillusioned and think it's a shame"

People disappointed? SHAME ? For whom... I do not understand. It's a fantastic tour

[Pierre]

I was refering to the poster.

I liked the show I went to but I can understand some people's feeling and disappointment

[Robson]

I didn't meet people disappointed. That's why I was surprised.

[dmg]

I didn't meet people disappointed. That's why I was surprised.

There can't be many people at the show disappointed; everyone's on a high.  Only in retrospect can you give an honest review. 

A guy in my street went to the show in Glasgow and I met him coming home from the station.  He told me he enjoyed the show but was disappoint he didn't play BIA.  It isn't perfect. 

[vr46mk]

I didn't meet people disappointed. That's why I was surprised.

There can't be many people at the show disappointed; everyone's on a high.  Only in retrospect can you give an honest review. 

A guy in my street went to the show in Glasgow and I met him coming home from the station.  He told me he enjoyed the show but was disappoint he didn't play BIA.  It isn't perfect. 

Same feeling as I had then.. I immidiately realised they would not play it when Guy came out with acoustic guitar...

[superval99]

I didn't meet people disappointed. That's why I was surprised.

There can't be many people at the show disappointed; everyone's on a high.  Only in retrospect can you give an honest review. 

I agree.  At the time I preferred Newcastle to Leeds, but when I heard the recordings I liked Leeds much more.   The recording of Newcastle had quite a few greenies here and there and MK's voice sounded a bit rough in comparison with Leeds.  One or two songs were better than Leeds, but, generally, both were very enjoyable concerts.  I have almost worn out the Leeds recording, I like it so much!   

[Pierre]

I didn't meet people disappointed. That's why I was surprised.

There can't be many people at the show disappointed; everyone's on a high.  Only in retrospect can you give an honest review. 

Exactly, right after the show I'm always glad I came, but the next day I looked at the past reviews and setlists, and this time I felt I had been cheated a bit.

 


 

[Robson]

I've been on two concerts. Day by day. The set lists were the same. I didn't feel cheated. I think if the next day they played Brothers In Arms which I missed a bit and I would not be at this concert I would not feel cheated.

[ds1984]

This is a gamble, sometime you win, sometime you loose.

But the thing that really counts is about the one(s) you attended "was it a good show?" independently of the days before and the days after because they are another story.