RICK WAKEMAN - Gala Theatre, Durham, England 2010-09-18

Tracks and checksums:


01 Pachelbel's Canon.flac
02 Chat - Mrs Symes.flac
03 See A Monkey On A Stick.flac
04 Elgin Mansions.flac
05 Chat - Bill Oddie.flac
06 Birdman Of Alcatraz.flac
07 Chat - Cat Stevens.flac
08 Morning Has Broken.flac
09 Chat - Brian Blessed.flac
10 Catherine Howard.flac
11 Chat - Something Intellectual.flac
12 Nursery Rhyme Concerto.flac

Venue:
The Gala Theatre in Durham, England

Artist:
Just Rick and a grand piano: no synths at all!

Artwork:
To follow

Source:
Zoom h2>Goldwave for track splits (and see below)>FLAC

Waffle:
The Gala Theatre (and Cinema) is a arts centre millennium project, built just above where the ice rink used to be, not far along from the cathedral. It's not huge, so it was full for Rick - a largely silver-haired audience, not completely stowed-out with aging prog rockers!

Rick was in damn fine form. As you can see from the set list, the music represented about 50% of the show, the remainder was his chat between each piece! However, I was absolutely gutted to find, when sitting down for the second half, that the batteries (which I thought were new) for my machine, had run out, with no spares available. So I'm afraid that all you get here is the first half. Apologies therefore, for not presenting his version of And You And I, and his wonderful story about Jon and his need for a view while painting on the Isle of Man. Maybe another time!

The sound on the original was way too quiet, so I boosted the volume and compressed down the peaks to compensate. Happy with it now, and didn't want to do any more.