Reviews of Live Shows 2007 - WARNING: Spoilers!

[sisterlondon]

Well, sisterlondon I'm sure they haven't forgotten the birthday girl!

LMAO! I'll let you know after Madrid!

MoodyB, great pics both of them!!!

[godisinthesilences]

i'm waiting very (im)patiently for MoodyB to get back and give us his review and show us his photos

LOVES YOU CHRIS!!!!!!

*BLUSHES DEEPLY*
Thank you kindly indeed!

Well, I got back late last night after being 24 hours in transit and 48 hours without sleep...I've managed to get a bit on the sick side here, my glands are swollen like golf balls at the moment!
So, I'm going to save writing a review until I can think straight!

I will be working with the images in the days to come...Shooting was a bit of a challenge, the lighting was pretty low, found my self shooting wide open at about 1/30th of a second and lower!
In the meantime, here's a couple of shots for you...One of myself before the show and one from the show itself.

More soon!

All the best,
Chris

Oh chris... sorry to hear you're sick.... It is yucky to have gland problems. Man that sucks with the exposure time you had to work with.... wow really slow. What speed film were you shooting with?

Loved the pic of you!

Please you take care of yourself. Rest.... get well. And when you are feeling up to it share your review .

[MoodyB]

i'm waiting very (im)patiently for MoodyB to get back and give us his review and show us his photos

LOVES YOU CHRIS!!!!!!

*BLUSHES DEEPLY*
Thank you kindly indeed!

Well, I got back late last night after being 24 hours in transit and 48 hours without sleep...I've managed to get a bit on the sick side here, my glands are swollen like golf balls at the moment!
So, I'm going to save writing a review until I can think straight!

I will be working with the images in the days to come...Shooting was a bit of a challenge, the lighting was pretty low, found my self shooting wide open at about 1/30th of a second and lower!
In the meantime, here's a couple of shots for you...One of myself before the show and one from the show itself.

More soon!

All the best,
Chris

Oh chris... sorry to hear you're sick.... It is yucky to have gland problems. Man that sucks with the exposure time you had to work with.... wow really slow. What speed film were you shooting with?

Loved the pic of you!

Please you take care of yourself. Rest.... get well. And when you are feeling up to it share your review .

Thanks!
Yeah, I think I just pushed myself too hard...I'm pumping myself full of vitamins at the moment, hopefully I'll be back to normal shortly!

Yeah, the lighting was pretty low, I had to keep a real steedy hand with the lens I was using.
Now, you're going to chide me, but at the last minute I decided to shoot with a digital unit instead to using film, it was going to be a real pain in the arse trying to use film, I would have had to rush to get it processed before I left, due to increased airport security etc.
I ended up shooting at 1600, even though my lens is 2.8 all the way through the range (which is why that thing is so heavy!).

OK, I really must get some rest now!
Here's another image for you...

*IMAGE REMOVED - NOV 7th Sorry!*


More soon!

Chris

[krausy]

cool deal!!!!

Great pics too!!

Hope you feel better soon!!!

[Lady Arcadia]

Beautiful pictures MoodyB!!

And like the others have said, take care of yourself and get well soon!!!

[javier]

Still wondering if anyone has any idea why 2 songs have been dropped from the setlist since the early shows? Have any of the band said anything?

Does this mean the shows are now shorter? Or are they simply waiting longer before coming back for encores in order to stretch things out?

[sisterlondon]

Get better MoodyB! Great new pic there!

[Burnsjed]

Beautiful pictures Moodyb, especially the one where DS has his hands together, and ofcourse the one of you!!
Given you only got to shoot in the first couple of songs (if my memory serves me right) what did you make of the concert there after?
How did it compare to others for you?
Get well soon old chap.

[inkinthewell]

Still wondering if anyone has any idea why 2 songs have been dropped from the setlist since the early shows? Have any of the band said anything?

Does this mean the shows are now shorter? Or are they simply waiting longer before coming back for encores in order to stretch things out?

I saw one of the concerts without the two songs, and the band didn't stay long backstage, so I just think the shows are shorter.
(I've checked the concerts I've downloaded, and the only "complete" one (Glasgow) is a few minutes longer than the others.)
I haven't found any comments from the band on the web.

(Great pic from MoodyB)

[inkinthewell]

This is quite interesting:
http://www.naima.splinder.com/

Translation:
>The Pied Piper
This guy in the picture is David Sylvian and the title is the image that kept coming to my mind as I listened to him the other day, in Conegliano Veneto. On stage, sitting on a stool with a guitar on his lap, he, his wonderful voice and “Nine Horses” sang notes from the soul.
On the screen behind him, the tour logo first and graphic evolutions afterwards accompanied the mind along the way suggested by the music and his voice, the most elegant and sensual male voice I’ve ever heard.
I had never seen him before (live). My last memories of him are from the Japan days, with the dyed tuft of hair and made-up eyes, but as I looked at him yesterday I grasped something I had always missed. I listened to him, but I mostly observed his slow and graceful movements. When he took the bottle of water or when he introduced the other musicians, when he thanked... little things that I don’t normally even notice were enough to give me the image of an artist certainly eclectic and with an almost supernatural creativity but also of a man with a phlegmatic personality, almost ascetic, who, without frenzy, distils -note after note- the purity of emotions he intends to convey with an almost subduing punctuality and clearness.
I’m sure he was moved by the ovations... as if he wasn’t yet used to gather such strong approval and hear his name shouted out loud by his fans.
As I listened to him I tried to be aware of what was going on within and without me, but very soon I understood there was no within and no without, there was something going on in that theatre and it concerned everyone. We weren’t an audience anymore in there, we were part of an atmosphere that had hardly any earthliness anymore.
That music was like a crochet-hook that, stitch by stitch, picked up the weft of an unravelled soul.

Lots has been said and written about him, but there’s one thing in particular by Jason Cowley that I think sums the sense of his art:

“All art, said the victorian critic Walter Pater, aspires to the condition of music. But what of a music that aspires to the condition of silence? What of a music whose purpose is not to divert or entertain but to transport the listener beyond the noise of the world and the mere flux of appearances and on into consideration of a higher reality?”<

The final quote, by the way, is from Cowley's introduction to the tour book.
And you can read more from Cowley on Sylvian here:
http://www.jasoncowley.net/interviews/I20050410_O.html

[Sylvie]

..............the Japan days, with the dyed tuft of hair and made-up eyes, but as I looked at him yesterday I grasped something I had always missed. I listened to him, but I mostly observed his slow and graceful movements. When he took the bottle of water or when he introduced the other musicians, when he thanked... little things that I don’t normally even notice were enough to give me the image of an artist certainly eclectic and with an almost supernatural creativity but also of a man with a phlegmatic personality, almost ascetic, who, without frenzy, distils -note after note- the purity of emotions he intends to convey with an almost subduing punctuality and clearness.
I’m sure he was moved by the ovations... as if he wasn’t yet used to gather such strong approval and hear his name shouted out loud by his fans.
As I listened to him I tried to be aware of what was going on within and without me, but very soon I understood there was no within and no without, there was something going on in that theatre and it concerned everyone. We weren’t an audience anymore in there, we were part of an atmosphere that had hardly any earthliness anymore.
That music was like a crochet-hook that, stitch by stitch, picked up the weft of an unravelled soul.

very nice, very true. and actually, what i remember the most from my concert experience (copenhagen) is how he moved. the songs are now more of a blur, a brilliant blur obviously, but i will probably always remember his very slow and careful gestures.

[MoodyB]

Thanks to everyone for their kind words, I'm humbled as always.

I'm still feeling rather unwell today, but I will endeavour to get some more images finished and write about the show as soon as I can.

In the meantime, here's another one of my images that Keith has put up on his website:

http://web.mac.com/moonlinermusic/iWeb_ ... ts.html#36

All the best,
Chris

[godisinthesilences]

i'm waiting very (im)patiently for MoodyB to get back and give us his review and show us his photos

LOVES YOU CHRIS!!!!!!

*BLUSHES DEEPLY*
Thank you kindly indeed!

Well, I got back late last night after being 24 hours in transit and 48 hours without sleep...I've managed to get a bit on the sick side here, my glands are swollen like golf balls at the moment!
So, I'm going to save writing a review until I can think straight!

I will be working with the images in the days to come...Shooting was a bit of a challenge, the lighting was pretty low, found my self shooting wide open at about 1/30th of a second and lower!
In the meantime, here's a couple of shots for you...One of myself before the show and one from the show itself.

More soon!

All the best,
Chris

Oh chris... sorry to hear you're sick.... It is yucky to have gland problems. Man that sucks with the exposure time you had to work with.... wow really slow. What speed film were you shooting with?

Loved the pic of you!

Please you take care of yourself. Rest.... get well. And when you are feeling up to it share your review .

Thanks!
Yeah, I think I just pushed myself too hard...I'm pumping myself full of vitamins at the moment, hopefully I'll be back to normal shortly!

Yeah, the lighting was pretty low, I had to keep a real steedy hand with the lens I was using.
Now, you're going to chide me, but at the last minute I decided to shoot with a digital unit instead to using film, it was going to be a real pain in the arse trying to use film, I would have had to rush to get it processed before I left, due to increased airport security etc.
I ended up shooting at 1600, even though my lens is 2.8 all the way through the range (which is why that thing is so heavy!).

OK, I really must get some rest now!
Here's another image for you...

More soon!

Chris

Make sure you get plenty of zinc and try taking Ester C (different form of Vitamin C) it boosts your immune system. This way at least you will be ill for a shorter length of time. Also (as i'm sure you know) plenty of rest and lots of fluids (not soda or coffee). Chamomile tea is good to keep you in a restful state without feeling loopy. Honey (especially raw honey) is really good for the immune system as well. Just be well my friend .

Yes that really stinks about the shooting of digital and how you had to push to 1600.... we'll have to chat about all this through PM so we don't bore everyone. LOL

Please be well, Chris. Cuddle up in bed and snooze away....
namaste'

[sisterlondon]

Thanks for the keith link MoodyB! Dunno if you guys have seen Watanabe pics too

http://www.combopiano.com/text.html

[MoodyB]

i'm waiting very (im)patiently for MoodyB to get back and give us his review and show us his photos

LOVES YOU CHRIS!!!!!!

*BLUSHES DEEPLY*
Thank you kindly indeed!

Well, I got back late last night after being 24 hours in transit and 48 hours without sleep...I've managed to get a bit on the sick side here, my glands are swollen like golf balls at the moment!
So, I'm going to save writing a review until I can think straight!

I will be working with the images in the days to come...Shooting was a bit of a challenge, the lighting was pretty low, found my self shooting wide open at about 1/30th of a second and lower!
In the meantime, here's a couple of shots for you...One of myself before the show and one from the show itself.

More soon!

All the best,
Chris

Oh chris... sorry to hear you're sick.... It is yucky to have gland problems. Man that sucks with the exposure time you had to work with.... wow really slow. What speed film were you shooting with?

Loved the pic of you!

Please you take care of yourself. Rest.... get well. And when you are feeling up to it share your review .

Thanks!
Yeah, I think I just pushed myself too hard...I'm pumping myself full of vitamins at the moment, hopefully I'll be back to normal shortly!

Yeah, the lighting was pretty low, I had to keep a real steedy hand with the lens I was using.
Now, you're going to chide me, but at the last minute I decided to shoot with a digital unit instead to using film, it was going to be a real pain in the arse trying to use film, I would have had to rush to get it processed before I left, due to increased airport security etc.
I ended up shooting at 1600, even though my lens is 2.8 all the way through the range (which is why that thing is so heavy!).

OK, I really must get some rest now!
Here's another image for you...

More soon!

Chris

Make sure you get plenty of zinc and try taking Ester C (different form of Vitamin C) it boosts your immune system. This way at least you will be ill for a shorter length of time. Also (as i'm sure you know) plenty of rest and lots of fluids (not soda or coffee). Chamomile tea is good to keep you in a restful state without feeling loopy. Honey (especially raw honey) is really good for the immune system as well. Just be well my friend .

Yes that really stinks about the shooting of digital and how you had to push to 1600.... we'll have to chat about all this through PM so we don't bore everyone. LOL

Please be well, Chris. Cuddle up in bed and snooze away....
namaste'

Bless you for being so sweet!
I will be sure to take all of your advice!

Chris
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