Gerry Cott played with Geldof & Briquette tonight!

Kerry R · Lookin' After Number 1

Gerry Cott played with Geldof & Briquette tonight!

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

I thought I saw you standing up there on the right. Welcome back. And thanks for the CDs you sent way back.

Kerry Rochester · Mary of the 4th Form

Hi AG, yes it was me - loved it. You are very welcome for the CD's BTW. See you at St Albans? As you know what I look like come and say hello!

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Kerry Rochester wrote:
As you know what I look like come and say hello!

I would have the other night but it was a bit of a melee at the front. Highly unlikely that I will be at St. Albans though. I suspect the next time I will be listening to Mary,Joey and Rat Trap live is when the Rats do another London gig or a nearby beer festival!

-- Edited by ArrGee on Thursday 22nd of September 2011 03:38:19 PM

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Hope you go to St Albans too ArrGee - I'll be there. Looking for a fan meet up. Tickets were a little slow, but they seem to be picking up now, I hope. Now the word is out how brilliant Bob is live, maybe??

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Jules wrote:
Hope you go to St Albans too ArrGee - I'll be there. Looking for a fan meet up. Tickets were a little slow, but they seem to be picking up now, I hope. Now the word is out how brilliant Bob is live, maybe??

I'd be breaking my M25 rule disbelief . Whyteleafe was hard enough to get home from. I was prepared to go to Brentwood and St. Albans for the Rats, as they had the good courtesy to lay on 300 different ales prior to the show, but due to circumstances beyond our respective control, alas it was not to be.

Maybe next summer, Geldof, Cott and The Rats can all play a beer festival. There's one in Chelmsford next July... CAMRA Chelmsford Summer Beer Festival - 12th - 16th July 2012

The review in the Standard was very positive, and fairly promient. The only shame was the mention that it was "bafflingly under-attended" when there was barely a seat spare in the stalls. I can't comment on upstairs, but it looked pretty busy up there from where I was sat.

However you have to consider this reviewer's credibility and judgement given his preference of Duffy (whose Rockferry owed everything to Bernard Butler) over Adele

"Duffy's baggage-free outsider status blesses her with an air of authenticity a Brit School graduate such as Adele cannot eclipse." - Jan 2008

and his dimissal of Pulp as "a Right Said Fred with northern accents".

A small snippet reporting the gig.

http://www.contactmusic.com/news/bob-geldof-reunites-with-cott-for-london-show_1246440

-- Edited by ArrGee on Thursday 22nd of September 2011 12:40:22 PM

noelindublin · Loudmouth

RE Pulp ' Right Said Fred with Northern Accents ' that must amount to one of the most ignorant, blinkered, put downs in musical history. Wonder how Jarvis reacted if he had read that comment?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
Wonder how Jarvis reacted if he had read that comment?

He's too sexy to react smile .

There is a tenious connection between Pulp and Right Said Fred. In 1993, Pulp supported St. Etienne who had recently released an e.p with a couple of other acts on Heavenly containing their version of I'm Too Sexy with different lyrics.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Fred-EP/release/834818

Kerry Rochester · Mary of the 4th Form

AG come to St A & though I've a boring med cond that prohibits alcohol, I'll buy you a pint - deal? K

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Kerry Rochester wrote:
AG come to St A & though I've a boring med cond that prohibits alcohol, I'll buy you a pint - deal? K

Beer. ummmmm. I'll have to get back to you on this. Cadogan Hall was a last minute impulsive thing. I only got the tickets the day before. My home life is a bit complicated at the moment.

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Sure we can find a pub that sells decent ale for those of you that can and those of us that can't will nurse our glasses of water lol.