Well, that was fun! Back home after a quick trip to Surrey to attend 1 day of Celebr8.2. As Jem himself said, maybe not the most polished Frost* gig ever but the fact that it went ahead at all when Jem was down to his left hand only was amazing.
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Actually, that's not quite true. He did use a few right hand fingers for Saline and his nose on BLM! Obviously some alterations had to be made, such as JM doing a frenetic guitar solo in Dear Dead Days instead of the keyboard solo (whilst Jem just read a book on gardening).
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In BLM, chords were just played instead of the solo. Lantern was played to a sequencer track and Snowman was the PG Esoteric version (which was great to hear). But having to reprogram everything and learn the right-hand parts using a left hand in such a short space of time is nothing short of jaw-dropping. The crowd were really supportive as a result and any minor mishaps really didn't matter (like when the sampler didn't fire off properly in a new track and only the click was audible, there were shouts of "You got away with that - I don't think anyone noticed"!).
It was a very good humoured gig, with JM looking genuinely gobsmacked when Jem revealed his "John!" t-shirt during the intros. It's not the best quality photo but this is one of my favourites - look at Nathan's face compared to his normal cool demeanour!
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And of course, the Big Banana landed - more on another thread about that.
Great to meet up with lots of Frost*ies again - shame it'll be next year before the next chance.
Another couple of photos to finish.
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Very nice. :)
thanks DS
These are great - thanks for sharing :)
I didn't know Anne Summers made plasters
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Some cracking photos! Looks like a brilliant night, shame I couldn't have shared the excitement (my car decided to have a paddy enroute) but still I still support the band 100 percent in spirit! :)
I'm loving the jacket that John is wearing. Very nice indeed :P
Quote from: BrendanGee on May 13, 2013, 10:46:59 PM
I'm loving the jacket that John is wearing. Very nice indeed :P
Me too! S'luvverrrly...
On my projects list... awesome buttons¡
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Mikey said my 1K should be a cracker... , so how a bout a really scary one of JM! (Already posted on FB, but needs to be here as well I think. :o