Ray Davies and band
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Crouch End Festival Chorus
2011 Meltdown
First performance of The Village Green Preservation Society album

2011-06-19 (19 Jun 2011)
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London, UK

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Location: Left of centre in stalls, ~50m from stage.

Recorded, transferred, FLAC'd and seeded by Humbug

Set 1, time: 47:15

1. Intro
2. Village Green
3. Picture Book
4. Big Sky
5. Do You Remember Walter?
6. Animal Farm
7. Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
8. Starstruck
9. Monica
10. Phenomenal Cat
11. Sitting by the Riverside
12. Wicked Annabella
13. All Of My Friends Were There
14. People Take Picture of Each Other
15. Johnny Thunder >
16. Village Green Preservation Society

Set 2, time: 77:04

1. Intro
2. Shangri-La
3. Victoria
4. See My Friends
5. Sunny Afternoon
6. Imaginary Man
7. You Really Got Me
8. Dead End Street
9. Celluloid Heroes
10. The Way Love Used to Be
11. A Postcard from London
12. Waterloo Sunset
13. Days
---encore 1---
14. Lola
---encore 2---
15. All Day and All of the Night
---encore 3---
16. Come Dancing (band only)
17. Till The End Of The Day (band only)
18. Low Budget (band only)

Notes:
Nice sounding recording.
Premier of The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society" in it's entirety (though not correct running order), with 65 piece orchestra and 94 piece choir.
Thanks to Louche who posted a setlist online.

From Meltdown website:

"This year's Meltdown Director Ray Davies is the fitting close to the festival and here he performs an extra-special show with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the finest orchestras in the world, accompanied by the Crouch End Festival Chorus. Before playing some of his solo material and classic Kinks songs, in the first half of this unique show Ray Davies revisits The Kinks' seminal Village Green Preservation Society, playing tracks from the record that is widely considered to be one of the finest albums of all time."

Band:
Ray Davies, Vocals, guitar
Bill Shanley, guitar
Richard Nolan, Bass
Damon George Wilson, drums
Ian Gibbons, keys


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