Eric Bogle concert.
Aug. 17th, 2009 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcEric Bogle and John Munro are currently on their farewell tour of Britain. Last night they were at Eden Court, and Mum and I went to see them.
It was excellent. Despite most of the songs being sad (yes, there are exceptions; "Little Gomez" for instance), they kept up a fairly constant stream of banter that had the audience in stitches[1].
And they did all the standards, and a few I don't remember hearing before, such as "Eric and the Informers", about Eric's short-lived rock'n'roll career, interspersed with his versions of rock'n'roll songs[2], and "Golden Years", written by John Munro, who's apparently only started writing his own stuff recently[3].
And, of course, they finished with "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda". Except they didn't because they had to do an encore, so they actually finished with "The Last Note", a song about music.
An excellent night out.
[1]The story, for instance, of how Tony Blair presented a little girl from Nothern Island with a framed copy of "No Man's Land", calling it his favourite anti-war poem. And how the Times explained "Tony Blair's favourite anti-war poem is 'The Green Fields of France' by Scotsman Eric Bogle, who died in the First World War."
[2]Well she was just seventeen,
She was short, she was mean,
[line I missed due to laughter, sorry]
I should've danced with her mother,
But her mother wasnae there.
[3]Eric: "And he's written some really great songs. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them..."
It was excellent. Despite most of the songs being sad (yes, there are exceptions; "Little Gomez" for instance), they kept up a fairly constant stream of banter that had the audience in stitches[1].
And they did all the standards, and a few I don't remember hearing before, such as "Eric and the Informers", about Eric's short-lived rock'n'roll career, interspersed with his versions of rock'n'roll songs[2], and "Golden Years", written by John Munro, who's apparently only started writing his own stuff recently[3].
And, of course, they finished with "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda". Except they didn't because they had to do an encore, so they actually finished with "The Last Note", a song about music.
An excellent night out.
[1]The story, for instance, of how Tony Blair presented a little girl from Nothern Island with a framed copy of "No Man's Land", calling it his favourite anti-war poem. And how the Times explained "Tony Blair's favourite anti-war poem is 'The Green Fields of France' by Scotsman Eric Bogle, who died in the First World War."
[2]Well she was just seventeen,
She was short, she was mean,
[line I missed due to laughter, sorry]
I should've danced with her mother,
But her mother wasnae there.
[3]Eric: "And he's written some really great songs. Unfortunately, this isn't one of them..."
