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8th June

Annika · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:23 am Post subject:

I am looking forward to this one, really LOVE Scheherazade. I wonder how they are going to do the violins? Who is doing the female voice? Also love "more then a sex machine"
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gerrykelly7 · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject:

How to get your ass kicked ! should have been a single.

Bobby Muir · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject:

Tammy!
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tackydaughter · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject:

Loving the pelvic thrusts during "Balls", Russ.

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Annika · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject:

yeah, Tammy, what a surprise

Steve Nistor is great, just nice to see her back
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Raoul · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject:

Thank you Steven,HELLO TAMMY!!!!!!!!

Bobby Muir · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject:

Streaming's pretty bad tonight. Worse one yet. Keep getting action replays!
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Annika · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject:

My streaming is great tonight, the picture is great and the concert is AWESOME

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Bobby Muir · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject:

All mixed up tonight on mine:

More than a Bullet Train
Schehere Flot
How to get your Balls kicked
The Ass before the storm

Steven Nistor's been back twice

Think I'll switch to decaff.
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Annika · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject:

i really don't know anything about Katherine Hepurn song, did he say that is not a Sparks song? if so who wrote and sang it then?
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Raoul · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject:

Ron wrote it I'm sure!

MrMonte · Power Groupie Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 419

re: Katherine Hepburn - Ron wrote it; was performed at a few Sparks concerts around the Plagiarism/Balls era, sung by their femal drummer at the time (whose name will come back to me the minute I stop typing, of course - something like Lizzie Hayden, but I know that's all wrong! )

Really nice show tonight! Once streaming settled, very few problems until the end. Russell continues to reach new heights - and new highs.

Very solid, made a lot of the songs come alive better than the album, actually.

Monte

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gerrykelly7 · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject:

Yet again brilliant ! Katherine Hepburn wes wrote for and sung by " Christi Hayden,Sparks drummer form the 90's GS / SV albun

Micke · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject:

rainbow · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject:

Yes, indeed. Lightyears better than the Live in London DVD, that's what I thought during the concert. I dod not know "Katherine Hepburn" yet, so another surprise. Nice to see Tammy back, her hair is as long as my hair and blonde, too. But I would be a lousy drummer.

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rileyrempel · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:

Andy Whelan · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

After a few evenings without any major difficulties, there seemed to me to be sound problems galore tonight, and not just Russell's microphones. The guitar disappeared completely for a couple of tracks, and the bass was booming again, particularly on How To Get Your Ass Kicked.

Once Russell had got the wired mic, his vocals sounded fine to me, and I was standing centre-stage about half way back. And Ron's keyboards sounded fine, although he seemed concerned about something after the first track.

Despite all of this, I still enjoyed the gig, and the best tracks were at the start (Balls rocked) and at the end (The Angels was sublime), which weren't affected by the sound gremlins.

Personally I love the sound of this album, and I'd love to hear the album they recorded and then didn't release after this one but before Lil' Beethoven.

By the way, does anyone know what's going on with the air conditioning in the venue? When I arrived (about 15 minutes before Sparks came on) it was like an ice box in there, then the air conditioning was turned off just as things were warming up. On other evenings it's either been on all the time, or not on at all. Very odd...

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Brightonian · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

What was the attendance like tonight?

I watched the streaming, but you can never fully tell from that.

Despite the mic problems in Aeroflot - on the streaming I guess it was the afforementioned gremlins that made Russells vocals seem to carry on without him singing/a mic?!?

From the streaming, the show seemed very tight, with a bit of energy added because of the guitars and bass, at least on the more uptempo stuff. Knock Off sounded excellent, as did Katherine Hepburn.

All told, though, Balls is not a favourite album of mine - too obviously drawing upon the Prodigy on 2 or 3 tracks and - worse - overladen with nasty Euro-pop-style synthetic string sounds. The latter seemed present and correct, unfortunately!, as I think there are some OK songs.

It served as a reminder for me of how good Sparks became from Lil'B onwards.