By George, He's Done It
Duke Special and several thousand people at St George's Market in Belfast: what was all that about? To be truthful, I'm not really digested the idea yet. But somewhere in the memory dept, the brain cells are trying to figure out the following...
* How you felt like you knew everyone there. And if you weren't personally acquainted, then you were familiar with their best pal.
* Being able to buy paella at a gig.
* The Lowly Knights busking in the audience.
* The Duke Special piano book at the merch stall. The Bailie juniors are already tinkling away.
* Yon mad comedian.
* The two stages. Kinda like Live Aid.
*Cashier No. 9 Giving It Socks.
* A low key reunion of The Amazing Pilots.
*The Duke Special keyboard player who dressed like The Invisible Man.
* The stomper version of 'Ghost Town'.
* Duke and Tim Minchin singing 'My Love Goes Deeper Than This', like they had just beamed in from Planet Surreal And Then Some.
* He did 'Orangefield' by Van Morrison. Just the job for a landmark gig.
* Chip Bailey back on the firm. Hitting things with intent.
*The audience singalong to 'Last Night I Nearly Died'. All crooning with the local accent. No apologies. No flam flam.
Comment number 1.
At 11:05 4th Dec 2008, Reggie Chamberlain-King wrote:Dearest Stuart,
The crowd sing-a-long was one of the most impressive things I have ever heard. Not only was everyone in the right key, but some of them were singing harmonies too. One would get the impression that it had been well-rehearsed over Skype for the past few weeks.
As for yon comedian, he had a hard time connecting with such a large audience over a great distance, but the performance he gave to fifteen people in the John Hewitt on Monday night was phenomenal in its own way.
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