Bruce Cockburn
The Stables
Wavendon, UK
13th October 2015

A Soledriver Recording...
basic applause level control was attempted at the CD burning stage...

Lineage: Core Sound Binaural mics > Sony D8 DAT machine...
Tascam DA-20 Mk 2 DAT machine > HHb burnit CDr recorder...no EQ
CDr > EAC > Traders Little Helper > Flac8 sector aligned

I've written the following for the Cockburnproject guys...

Bruce Cockburn is one of the great undiscovereds.
I feel I can use that term, as last night in a fairly large urban area of England he played a wonderful show to a half-full/half-empty theatre.
About 140 to 150 souls made the effort and were amply rewarded for their faith.
Gill and I had driven nearly 150 miles on my birthday to the nearest show to us on this tour, but it was well worth the journey.
Unfortunately due to redundancy I�m not travelling to any other shows on this tour�it�s the most galling aspect of unemployment for me.
Bruce looks more these days like a mischievous uncle as he ambles onstage, but from the opening chords
of �Last Night Of The World� you know he still has that ability to confound with his skilful playing.
I�ve been watching from pretty close-up now for a good number of years, yet he still has only five fingers on each hand.
You can see from the setlist that there are not so many of the more �recent� songs being played and this would be my only reservation�
when you have seen upwards of 40 shows over the years, you hope to hear re-interpretations of some of these lesser played gems.
It seemed to me that Bruce felt he had to play �Lions�, but wanted it over quickly with minimal opportunity for the normal audience participation of recent years.
But of course this is a tiny quibble, as Bruce could have played three times as long and only scratched the surface of the songs I�d liked to have heard.
The show was over far too soon and highlights were many. The one new song, written since the completion of the memoirs is a keeper.
A gospel/train song�what�s not to like? Lovely too was the version of �Bone In My Ear� and a rare outing (in my experience) of �Planet Of The Clowns�.
I know the promoter of the Brighton show (tonight) and he has only managed to sell 90 of 250 tickets for that show. I�m not sure if I feel sad or smug.
I�d like to see talent overcoming apathy, but in the meantime I�m happy to be able to sit five yards from an undiscovered such as Bruce.


Set One:
01 - Last Night Of The World
02 - Night Train
03 - After The Rain
04 - Rumours Of Glory
05 - Open
06 - Lovers In A Dangerous Time
07 - Bone In My Ear
08 - Planet Of The Clowns
09 - The End Of All Rivers
10 - All The Diamonds In This World

Set Two:
01 - Bohemian Three Step
02 - The Whole Night Sky
03 - Hills Of Morning
04 - Wondering Where The Lions Are
05 - If A Tree Falls...
06 - Call It Democracy
07 - God Bless The Children
08 - Jesus Train
09 - Put It In Your Heart

Encore
10 - Pacing The Cage
11 - Lord Of The Starfields

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