Sinister: E-POP: Gentle Waves (fwd)

[L. Kerr]

Hi there (said in a sing-song voice). Thought you might like to see this
posted to the e-pop list about the Gentle Waves gig.  Hope Dan doesn't
mind my posting it.

Linda



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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 16:38:50 EST
From: DJYork11 at xxx.com
To: europop at alcd.soton.ac.uk
Subject: E-POP: Gentle Waves

Gentle Waves in Leeds:

The venue was the Leeds City Varities Theatre (World Famous, apparently) and 
it was all very strange. It's an old fashioned music hall type of place, and 
this didn't seem like the sort of thing they normally put on. Future events 
included Rabbi Lionel Blue, Roy Walker and (I kid you not) the Whitbread 
Senior Citizens Talent Contest (Leeds Heat). There was *no-one* there - it 
was probably over two-thirds empty. And being a theatre it was all seated, so 
unlike at Looper nobody felt the urge to shout "stand up you twee fuckers" at 
the crowd.

The films were both French, one about a group of boys obsessed with an older 
woman and the other (much better) one was about a boy who befriends a magical 
red balloon which follows him everywhere. It was good, honest.

The Gentle Waves themselves turned out to be pretty much all of B&S. Isobel 
was *very* nervous. It was all a bit chaotic between songs (in true B&S 
style, I suppose) what with unplugging of guitar leads causing 
earth-shattering THUMPS and lost triangle strings (major hold up, that one) 
and set list confusion. But despite all that it was very good - definitely 
leaning towards the more whimsy bits of B&S but there were only a couple of 
songs that sounded a bit too lightweight on first hearing. They even managed 
an instrumental "jam", involving something that sounded like a cowbell and 
was fantastic - you really couldn't tell they were making it up until Chris 
told us afterwards. And another song (Kinky Love) that was written about 5 
minutes before they came on, apparently.

Ric was right with the IYFS comparisons - there was plenty of trumpets, 
flutes and xylophones involved. On the whole it was excellent stuff, I 
probably enjoyed it more than Looper despite not having heard any of the 
songs beforehand. 

Dan


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