Clive Carroll - Bury Met, 3/4/22
Apr 3, 2022 21:04:22 GMT
jonnymosco, Phil Taylor, and 2 more like this
Post by leoroberts on Apr 3, 2022 21:04:22 GMT
Many of you will be aware that dreadnought28 was promoting a show by Clive Carroll tonight at The Box - a small, fairly intimate room within the larger concert venue of the Bury Met.
It was great to meet up with dreadnought28 , jonnymosco , and Phil Taylor - a little 'off the book' forum get-together. Ralph Bown was there, too, and there may well have been other forumites of whom I was unaware.
I'm pleased to say that Chris' pleas for folk to buy tickets didn't go unheeded and there must have been 45/50 in attendance.
Clive set up with 3 guitars (2 steel strings and a nylon string) - and, I must say, the sound was amazing; very clear and crisp and perfectly suited to the size of the venue.
He played 2 sets of 45 minutes with a short interval in-between.
Ok, I know what you're thinking: "If he played 2 sets, and started at 8pm, how come you're writing this review before the 2nd set has finished, you philistine?" And the answer is simple: I am a philistine. I left at the interval.
I heard lots of notes but no melody (apart from a brief exert from The Lincolnshire Poacher in the 1st number.) Other than that it was mostly lots of notes at breakneck speed, technically brilliant with sparse, but engaging, talk between every other song or so, but it did nothing for me. I'll be honest, I didn't really expect it to - I'm not a fan of instrumentalists unless there's an easy to follow melody. That's why I love listening to Phil Taylor 's and jonnymosco 's offerings in The Plucky Duck, and why I could listen to Mark Thomson's DADGAD tunes all day long - and often do.
But tonight was, to steal a film franchise title, too fast, too furious - for me, at any rate. I was in a minority of one amongst the forumites I talked to with the others saying it was hitting the spot for them. And I'm so pleased it did - and that Chris and Clive weren't left with an audience in single figures to entertain. No doubt, I'll find out that the 2nd half would have been much more to my liking, with rich, slow melodies but I didn't give it a chance. Well, I'd paid my money so I tooked my choice
I hope Chris puts on some more stuff - I'd love to hear more from some of his many contacts. But maybe more singer-songwriters - that's my thang.
TL;DR - It's not him it's me
It was great to meet up with dreadnought28 , jonnymosco , and Phil Taylor - a little 'off the book' forum get-together. Ralph Bown was there, too, and there may well have been other forumites of whom I was unaware.
I'm pleased to say that Chris' pleas for folk to buy tickets didn't go unheeded and there must have been 45/50 in attendance.
Clive set up with 3 guitars (2 steel strings and a nylon string) - and, I must say, the sound was amazing; very clear and crisp and perfectly suited to the size of the venue.
He played 2 sets of 45 minutes with a short interval in-between.
Ok, I know what you're thinking: "If he played 2 sets, and started at 8pm, how come you're writing this review before the 2nd set has finished, you philistine?" And the answer is simple: I am a philistine. I left at the interval.
I heard lots of notes but no melody (apart from a brief exert from The Lincolnshire Poacher in the 1st number.) Other than that it was mostly lots of notes at breakneck speed, technically brilliant with sparse, but engaging, talk between every other song or so, but it did nothing for me. I'll be honest, I didn't really expect it to - I'm not a fan of instrumentalists unless there's an easy to follow melody. That's why I love listening to Phil Taylor 's and jonnymosco 's offerings in The Plucky Duck, and why I could listen to Mark Thomson's DADGAD tunes all day long - and often do.
But tonight was, to steal a film franchise title, too fast, too furious - for me, at any rate. I was in a minority of one amongst the forumites I talked to with the others saying it was hitting the spot for them. And I'm so pleased it did - and that Chris and Clive weren't left with an audience in single figures to entertain. No doubt, I'll find out that the 2nd half would have been much more to my liking, with rich, slow melodies but I didn't give it a chance. Well, I'd paid my money so I tooked my choice
I hope Chris puts on some more stuff - I'd love to hear more from some of his many contacts. But maybe more singer-songwriters - that's my thang.
TL;DR - It's not him it's me
Jo whoever he is.
