HW: astoria gig

[Alan Linsley]

Don't know about "special", I think Bernhard just meant somebody would
be added to the line-up to make it a better gig - it was Keith
Kniveton.  To be honest I couldn't tell whether the synths I was
hearing were his or Dave's BUT it was superb either way.  Keith was
stuck at the back in the dark behind Simon.  In my view Dave has been
trying to do too much at once on this tour, so if somebody can take
care of the synths for him that's fine by me, and who better than
Captain Black for that?

There was also Matthew Wright of course, the LBC DJ who interviewed
Dave recently and was promised an opportunity to sing on stage with his
heroes.  Dave has the flu so kept singing to a minimum, so it was handy
to have an enthusiastic fan with a good voice to sing Spirit of the
Age.

Re Dave's voice - it was interesting to see just how much of a HW set
can be played without Dave singing.  He got Alan to do the first
section of Out of the Shadows, so what with Arthur doing Master, Alan
doing Watcher obviously, Seven By Seven getting dropped (Arthur & Alan
did Paranoia & The Right Stuff instead) it means Dave could save his
voice for the latter songs like Take Me To Your Leader, Assault &
Battery, Golden Void and Where Are You Now.

This was a stratospheric gig folks, much better than Nottingham.
Packed solid, good sound mix, good pa, fire-eating, dancers, good
lights, excellent choice of numbers, tight playing...Wonderful.

AL
 --- Arin Komins <akomins at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU> wrote: > Folks,
>
> How was it?  Who was the special guest to which Bernhard alluded?
> Inquiring minds want to know!
>
> Arin
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