Last night I saw Richard Hawley at the Queen's Hall - a brilliant concert by one of my favourite musicians.
The night started well as we were walking past the Queen's Hall to go to the Dragon Way Chinese Restaurant for a meal, when I noticed that the centre doors to the Queen's Hall were open, and we could see Richard and the band carrying out their rehersal/soundcheck.
After a good meal in the Dragon Way, we headed back to the venue and were just about to enter when the fire alarms went off - we were prevented from entering whilst the building was evacuated - turned out that the dry ice/smoke stuff had set off the alarm - we waited patiently for the fire brigade to turn up and reset the alarms.
Got into the venue and headed for the bar - bought a couple of drinks then headed over to the merchandise stand, where I parted with my hard earned cash (no laughing there) to buy a T shirt. a limited edition print and a bookmark.
The support band were the Smoke Fairies - two young English girls who play a sort of folk/alt country/delta blues style music - they were joined for this concert by a guy playing the drums and another guy playing violin. Musically they were very good, but the girls seemed a bit nervous when talking to the audience. Once they finished their set, I popped out and bought a box set of three cd singles from them.
Richard Hawley and his band came on stage at 9pm. This tour was to promote his latest album "Trueloves Gutter", and Richard had previously announced that he would be performing the tracks from this new album with maybe a few old songs thrown in. Despite a few problems with the sound, and the monitors failing this was a great concert - the new songs sounded great live (mention must be made regarding David Coulter who amongst other things played the musical saw - I would not have believed that it was possible to get such noises out of a saw if I hadn't seen it being played in front of me), and the old songs were brilliant - especially the new version of Run For Me.
When Richard came out for the encore, he played a brilliant solo version of Troublesome Waters, before being joined on stage by the rest of the band.
All in all this was a great concert and hopefully it won't be too long before Richard Hawley returns to Edinburgh.
The night started well as we were walking past the Queen's Hall to go to the Dragon Way Chinese Restaurant for a meal, when I noticed that the centre doors to the Queen's Hall were open, and we could see Richard and the band carrying out their rehersal/soundcheck.
After a good meal in the Dragon Way, we headed back to the venue and were just about to enter when the fire alarms went off - we were prevented from entering whilst the building was evacuated - turned out that the dry ice/smoke stuff had set off the alarm - we waited patiently for the fire brigade to turn up and reset the alarms.
Got into the venue and headed for the bar - bought a couple of drinks then headed over to the merchandise stand, where I parted with my hard earned cash (no laughing there) to buy a T shirt. a limited edition print and a bookmark.
The support band were the Smoke Fairies - two young English girls who play a sort of folk/alt country/delta blues style music - they were joined for this concert by a guy playing the drums and another guy playing violin. Musically they were very good, but the girls seemed a bit nervous when talking to the audience. Once they finished their set, I popped out and bought a box set of three cd singles from them.
Richard Hawley and his band came on stage at 9pm. This tour was to promote his latest album "Trueloves Gutter", and Richard had previously announced that he would be performing the tracks from this new album with maybe a few old songs thrown in. Despite a few problems with the sound, and the monitors failing this was a great concert - the new songs sounded great live (mention must be made regarding David Coulter who amongst other things played the musical saw - I would not have believed that it was possible to get such noises out of a saw if I hadn't seen it being played in front of me), and the old songs were brilliant - especially the new version of Run For Me.
When Richard came out for the encore, he played a brilliant solo version of Troublesome Waters, before being joined on stage by the rest of the band.
All in all this was a great concert and hopefully it won't be too long before Richard Hawley returns to Edinburgh.
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