Chris Rea Newcastle City Hall, England, UK
Wednesday 2nd April 2008

“The Return of The Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes”
Tracks 1 – 6 :- The Delmonts
Tracks 7 – 19 :- The Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes

CD1 (47:12)

01. Dirty Old Town
02. 008 Jimmy Bond
03. India Arab
04. Russian Roulette
05. BB Was A Comanche
06. It's Behind You
07. I Can't Wait For Love
08. Legacy Blues
09. Where The Blues Come From
10. Josephine
11. Easy Rider

CD2 (56:05)

12. Julia
13. Stony Road
14. Looking For The Summer
15. Shadow Of A Fool
16. Stainsby Girls
17. The Road To Hell
18. On The Beach
19. Let's Dance

Total playing time: 103:17

Personnel:
Chris Rea – Guitars, Banjo, Harmonica & Vocals
Robert Ahwai – Guitars
Martin Ditcham – Drums & Percussion
Colin Hodgkinson – Bass Guitar
Neil Drinkwater - Keyboards


This was a tremendous show, the sound in the concert hall was really fantastic. A smoking hot performance from Chris, with the usual searing slide guitar solo’s and great vocals. The backdrop to the stage consisted of numerous classic vintage Hofner guitars suspended from the ceiling set against a huge canvas of Chris’s guitar paintings. The show opened with an excellent but far too short “Delmonts” set. Unfortunately tonight’s “Delmonts” setlist omitted two instrumental pieces, ‘Black Wave Heroes’ and ‘French Football’, that were performed in between ‘Russian Roulette’ and ‘BB Was A Comanche’ at some of the earlier shows in the tour. Pity.
Great to see Looking For The Summer back in the setlist after an absence of well over fifteen years. Sound quality-wise, personally I would give this a solid A+ rating. See what you think.

No artwork at present.

Taper - Kemagsw
Recording location - end of third row, centre aisle.
Lineage:-
Sony ECM-D370P Stereo Mic > Edirol-R09
(Sample Rate: 44,100kHz, Rec Mode: WAV 16bit)
> Magix Audiolab > Flac Level 8 and sector boundary aligned using Trader’s Little Helper

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Hope you enjoy this.
Regards
kemagsw