So I wasn’t in the best of moods yesterday afternoon and I wasn’t really looking forward to the gig all that much. I was bumming around online figuring I had plenty of time. The venue was within walking distance. Of course it turned out I had read the ticket wrong..or more to the point I had not read it fully. The listed time of 7:30 was not in fact the doors, it was the show time. So I rushed a little.<\/p>\n
In late 1999 a movie called This Year’s Love<\/i> came out. Seemed like your standard chick flick and I had no interest in it at all. However the soundtrack contained a song of the same name by one David Gray and I quite liked it. New Year’s Eve 1999 and Dublin is partying like only Dublin can do. There is a massive free open-air concert in the centre of town. Headliners are The Divine Comedy, Afro-Celt Sound System and David Gray.<\/p>\n
It was a great night and the Afro-Celts were the perfect band to ring in at midnight. The entire place was jumping and there was a wonderful buzz. It just rocked. Before them however had been David Gray. Absolutely stunning performance. Everything worked. The drummer was a complete nutcase and spent the night going at it like a mad thing. The music was amazing and there was a hell of a lot of power behind the performance. I bought the White Ladder<\/i>album if not the next day, the day after.<\/p>\n
As I have mentioned before I wasn’t all that impressed with the follow up album so I wasn’t all that hyped about the gig. Saying that while nothing really blew me away it all seemed to work live. Of course it was the big hits from White Ladder<\/i> which got everyone going. And boy did it. From a great piano only version of This Year’s Love<\/i> to teasing the crowd to the opening notes of Babylon<\/i> to the stunning finale of Please Forgive Me<\/i>. The latter being among the highlights of any live show I have seen. The song has a beat and can pass as a dance track but last night it was a dance track and nothing but. It was just a perfect ending and brought the entire crowd to their feet.<\/p>\n
Thinking about going again tonight, there are still tickets available…but I can’t really afford it. Hmmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I wasn’t in the best of moods yesterday afternoon and I wasn’t really looking forward to the gig all that much. I was bumming around online figuring I had plenty of time. The venue was within walking distance. Of course it turned out I had read the ticket wrong..or more to the point I … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}