Zeals views on the macca concert?

[CANV EFM]

my predictions are..

1.surprised by how old the crowd were

2.great songs but why does macca always add stupid 'oh yeahs and doo waps' in the middle of ballards like yesterday n let it be

3.macca cant hit those high notes anymore

 

[HelenC]

Yeah give us the low-down Zeal

 

 

[YELLOW]

Got the Mccartney Back in the World live CD and it's excellent.

 

I have to admit the version of Something was dissapointing. It didn't help that McCartney hummed George Harrison's guitar riff!!

Then he starts speaking Spanish during Hey Jude which is a bit annoying!

 

The versions of Live and Let Die, Let it Be and Hello Goodbye are excellent nevertheless.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

CANV.

 

Absolutely superb. Unbelievable. Quality. Just brilliant. Pure brilliance.

 

Couldn't believe how young the crowd were either!

 

SteveP??

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Did he sing the frog chorus?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I've been searching everywhere on the web for a review of Friday night's show and I can't find one. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

 

 

[MK James]

Quote:

Did he sing the frog chorus?

Top tune! No, seriously!

[EFM's Librarian]

"It's like the Venetian biennale taking place on the inside of Rene Magritte's head. Or the Chinese New Year art-directed by Fischerspooner. Circus strongmen and periwigged 18th-century dandies and crinolened ladies and bowler-hatted businessmen and dramatic flamenco dancers and gaily-painted harlequins and Three real-life Graces cavort and somersault and balance on rolling globes and parade past with cloud-painted balloons. The Pope gets less of a build-up, and he's a John and a Paul.

 

What does it all mean? It means... Paul McCartney has more money than the Vatican. "You say goodbye, and I say hello..." he starts, and there's uproar. You get the feeling that in 2003, with two of his bandmates dead, McCartney knows, more than ever, that it's down to him to carry the Beatles torch. It's just a shame that he has to choose such a dire song to spark it up.

 

Then again, hearing "Eleanor Rigby" ("Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave/ No one was saved..."), you realise that this man invented a whole new way of writing pop songs. The old "John = Edgy, Paul = Comfy" cliché has always been due for demolition, and McCartney's reputation deserves reappraisal. The man himself, though, doesn't help matters. Of course we don't hear "Give Ireland Back To The Irish", or even "Helter Skelter". We hear "Jet", and you instantly remember why it's so right that Wings were Alan Partridge's favourite band. A couple of hundred mischievous souls, dotted around the arena, giggle at the thought of a cardiganned Coogan grooving in the travel tavern. But when Partridge famously declared Wings "only the band The Beatles could have been", he had the germ of a point. You want three-part pop-erettas? Forget "Bohemian Rhapsody", how about "Band On The Run"? You want white-knuckle pyrotechnic drama? Look no further than "Live And Let Die".

 

And he is, of course, a consummate songwriter, albeit one who leans towards the cosy and twee ("There's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend..." Oh, but there is). But hearing "All My Loving", I remember being really impressed as a child by its inevitability: from the first three notes, the song writes itself.

 

Last time I saw McCartney – on a big screen on the Mall – the former OBE-rejecter, and now a happy Sir, was whoring himself to The Queen. Tonight's show feels a lot less icky. He's big on the personal touch: bum notes and forgotten lyrics ("at least you know it's live"), anecdotes about massages and playing ukulele with George Harrison, and dedications to his "lovely wife Heather" (decidedly mixed rumblings), Linda, George Martin and his brother Mike (better), and John Lennon (standing ovation). Looking at the vintage footage of Sixties screamagers overhead, it strikes you that being in The Beatles might almost have been a cruel psychological experiment: survive that without going mental. But he's a decent sort – doesn't kill his fellow beasts for meat, he has a peace sign on his piano – and at once surprisingly normal and utterly abnormal. After a rockin' "Back In The USSR", I leave for my train to the strains of "Let It Be" – someone else's memories, not mine."

 

I'm not 100% that this was friday's gig, but it is from his 'BITW' tour.

 

[EFM's Librarian]

CZ - Did you know Macca is on BBC 1 tonight 11.40-12.40?

I know your Sun can't stand BBC, so I thought you might not know about it <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Yeah, heard about that (and not through The Sun either!!) The video will be set.

 

 

[SteveP]

Been off the board for a while, but I have to say the Macca concert was absolutrely magic, from the complete silence of the crowd as they heard 'Blackird' and the songs dedicated to John, George and Linda, the explosive live and let die, a 3 hour set without a single weak link.

 

Lovely stories from Macca about pretending to be french with John's arty friends or about his odd massuers.

 

The only unnecessary bit was a half hour dance sequence at the start which made me a little unnerved about the concert thinking, why do they need this??

 

Hey Jude, rocked the hall and Sergant Peppers in closing, was as close to perfection as you'll ever get. He even did 'Birthday' which was obviously dedicated to yours truly.

 

My Dad was also in a section of the crowd, the mobile conversation went like this:

Dad Hi Steve, Can you see me?

 

Me: No, I'll stand up, can you see me

 

Dad, yeah, can you see me, turn left a bit, a bit more, can you see me now?

 

Me: Yes

 

Dad: How did we play today?

 

Me: Crap, why did I have to find out where you were before till I could tell you that?

 

Great concert, even made me forget the desultory way Chesh had played. Also had a great night previously at the Comedy Store on Sunday, would recommend that as a great night out too, though obviously nowhere as good as macca.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I've been doing the Comedy Store for years - It's a brill place - Unfortinantly it's gone a bit commercial since Channel 5 started filming it, it was still pretty cheap and underground in the mid-90's!

 

If anyone has ever been to a "comedy" club like joungeluers - this place pisses on their lame efforts from a great height!

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Glad you enjoyed Macca, SteveP. I thought it was absolutely superb, and have spent the last three days trying to think of a concert I've been to that tops it. I've failed.

 

Did you see the McCartney programme last night??

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Inspiral Carpets????

[SteveP]

May 18 with Sean Lock & Rich Hall is probably the next visit, Comedy Store, as you say ETFV is a class apart from Jongluers, you don't really get it till you do the comedy store, even though the guy at serving at the restaurant looks and acts like Herman Munster and the seats aren't all that comfortable, you forget all of that when they get going. I also learnt that Neil Mullarkey is The Hard nosed Businessman in the Orange adverts, sure it's a crap commercial but he's a very funny guy.

 

Sundays are improv nights, very much like 'Who's line is it anyway' only better, funnier and without Clive Anderson. £15 is quite a small price to pay for that kid of entertainment, would have been a truly great weekend were Chesham even 1% as entertaining as Macca or the Comedystore.

 

Damn, I forgot the programme, any chance of them repeating it?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Inpirals in 1991 would make my Top.. err.. Seven.

 

 

[Colin Zeal EFM]

On Friday I experienced two extremes - Macca in the evening, and Spurs in the afternoon, who were absolutely dire. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

 

 

[SteveP]

did you get those strange dancers at the start as well zealster? Did you get the point of them?

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I've seen Sean Lock and Rich Hall a few times there, i've also been to the Comedy Store Players, which was ace!

I went to the end of year topical one once and it was ace!

 

Thursday's used to be great - half price if you were a student (about £7) and happy hour until 7.30 (£1.50 a pint), me and my mate used to buy a tray load of drink each, we'd be slaughtered by the end!

Always used to sit at the back by the loo & that room with all the PA in.

Always made me laugh people who sit at the front, they haven't got a clue!

[Colin Zeal EFM]

We did have them, unfortunately!

 

At first, there was this woman walking in front of me in all white, with one of those Japanese fan-things, and I just thought it was some nutter. I was thinking 'don't you dare sit next to me'!!

 

Yeah, all a bit pointless, but it did kind of add to the build-up, and when the silhouette of Macca and the big guitar appeared on the screen, I felt a lump in my throat, my heart began to pound, and the goosebumps appeared all over my arms.

 

Christ, I'm getting them now just thinking about it!!