Post by andyhowell on Dec 2, 2014 16:26:30 GMT
I should admit to not having seen Clive Caroll live before, although I had seen his You Tube videos and I knew he had toured with Tommy E (not sure what I think about that!) At Halifax Ian ventured the opinion that Clive was as good as it gets "he can play anything".
I think it was just luck that he was playing in Berlin while I was there but I managed to buy a few tickets from a German website and trotted down in the southern suburbs to see him. I took my Berlin resident nephew with me (he is also a guitar player).
Clive can indeed play it all and across two sets he demonstrated a tremendous range. There was a wicked blues, some lovely celtic tunes, some minimalist compositions (which I liked) and a lot of new material that will feature on anew album next year. He plays a Ralph Bown guitar which sounds awesome.
While the range is impressive suspect Clive will become a kind of modern day John Renbourn is so much as he is just as much at home with blues, the classics and with contemporary composition. Clive has toured with Renbourn and one of the highlights for me was a duet composition that he had written for the two of them — Clive cleverly uses a loop machine to lay down the base tracker which he plays — no simple loops here. I can't wait for that new album. Reborn studied musical composition at Darlington and Clive took a music degree in composition at University.
He's not a vocalist Clive but his personality adds another dimension to the show, as do his entertaining facial expressions as he plays. he told us a lot about his influences that came mainly from his Irish mum, his Dad who loved country music and, of course, to that we have to add CLive's classical studies.
If you get a chance to see Clive, don't hesitate. A thoroughly lovely evening.
I'll finish by giving a little plug to the venue. This was church. Across the width of the building a small performance room had been created that probably held about 60 people; it had a properly vaulted ceiling which gave lovely acoustics. There was a bar at one end staffed by volunteers (who had also made some wonderful open sandwiches) and a small stage at the other end. The lighting was done in such a way that I didn't really notice the church. At the interval the lights in the church came up and we were —as if by magic — presented with a view of the church through the wall which was solid glass. On the walls of the church proper were a series of art exhibitions! I wish we had more venues are cleverly designed as this; it was a wonderful neighbourhood facility and I wish now I'd taken photographs. The club was run by real enthusiasts who judging from their programme liked their folk, blues and jazz. The old club runner in me kept trying to calculate the door take and CLive's fee — I suspect this runs with a subsidy. Fantastic venue for a wonderful performer.
I think it was just luck that he was playing in Berlin while I was there but I managed to buy a few tickets from a German website and trotted down in the southern suburbs to see him. I took my Berlin resident nephew with me (he is also a guitar player).
Clive can indeed play it all and across two sets he demonstrated a tremendous range. There was a wicked blues, some lovely celtic tunes, some minimalist compositions (which I liked) and a lot of new material that will feature on anew album next year. He plays a Ralph Bown guitar which sounds awesome.
While the range is impressive suspect Clive will become a kind of modern day John Renbourn is so much as he is just as much at home with blues, the classics and with contemporary composition. Clive has toured with Renbourn and one of the highlights for me was a duet composition that he had written for the two of them — Clive cleverly uses a loop machine to lay down the base tracker which he plays — no simple loops here. I can't wait for that new album. Reborn studied musical composition at Darlington and Clive took a music degree in composition at University.
He's not a vocalist Clive but his personality adds another dimension to the show, as do his entertaining facial expressions as he plays. he told us a lot about his influences that came mainly from his Irish mum, his Dad who loved country music and, of course, to that we have to add CLive's classical studies.
If you get a chance to see Clive, don't hesitate. A thoroughly lovely evening.
I'll finish by giving a little plug to the venue. This was church. Across the width of the building a small performance room had been created that probably held about 60 people; it had a properly vaulted ceiling which gave lovely acoustics. There was a bar at one end staffed by volunteers (who had also made some wonderful open sandwiches) and a small stage at the other end. The lighting was done in such a way that I didn't really notice the church. At the interval the lights in the church came up and we were —as if by magic — presented with a view of the church through the wall which was solid glass. On the walls of the church proper were a series of art exhibitions! I wish we had more venues are cleverly designed as this; it was a wonderful neighbourhood facility and I wish now I'd taken photographs. The club was run by real enthusiasts who judging from their programme liked their folk, blues and jazz. The old club runner in me kept trying to calculate the door take and CLive's fee — I suspect this runs with a subsidy. Fantastic venue for a wonderful performer.
Jo whoever he is.
