Jose Gonzalez - Tonight!

irishraven

Hey, anyone here going to the gig tonight? Can't wait - I've been listening to Veneer non stop and it really has grown on me - hope we get to hear some new material also -

wonder if they will be boucing ping pong balls down the stairs???:D

Creamy Goodness

i'm going aswell, but am well annoyed that the venue has changed.

i hope to hear "love will tear us apart" cover of joy division's song on his remain EP.

JackKelly

nnnnnnnoooooooooooo

would have loved to go to this. Didn't hear about it. Was only talking about he album today.

radiospan

Funny, I heard of this guy for the first time twice in the space of an hour now.

I just read that he does a cover of The Knife's "Heartbeat"?

Creamy Goodness

plazzTT wrote:

Funny, I heard of this guy for the first time twice in the space of an hour now.

I just read that he does a cover of The Knife's "Heartbeat"?

yup, they use it in the sony ad with the ping pong balls going down san fran's hills.

i went to the gig and just got back it was fuppin' amazing, i tried recording it on my mp3 player but i put the microphone into the wrong connection to which i'm majorily pissed off about.

he played an amazing set including a good few covers

hand on your heart (kylie minogue)
teardrop (massive attack)
heartbeats (the knife)
love will tear us apart (joy division)

cormie

Right, let's end this conversation there Cremo. No more good stories about the night please:mad:

yes, Corm didn't get to go!!:( hehe

Creamy Goodness

hehe sorry mate, i won't say no more other than i've never seen "the village" so packed

Ron DMC

I didn't get to go either, stupid lack of tickets

But the tower instore was good

Creamy Goodness

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

I didn't get to go either, stupid lack of tickets

But the tower instore was good

ohh ffs when was this instore?

i was in town today all day? :S

cormie

He'll be back I'm sure, as I hope Antony and the Johnsons will be and Leonard Cohen (oooh, hopeful!)

Creamy Goodness

yeh, he said he'd be back and that he can't wait to come back, but he never said when.

he's doing a date in london in feb. then recording a new album after that, so i'm sure he'll be back to promote that.

cormie

Cool, I'd prefer to hear more of his stuff if I was going to see him rather than covers. Was his "love will tear us apart" anything like this?

quad_red

do that many covers. And the ones he did were superb - particularly massive attacks teardrop. Very good gig though - would definitely recommend him when he comes again.

ps. The support David Ford wasn't too bad either. His third song was painful but apart from that he did well - even recovering from a some seriously iffy equipment failure.

irishraven

Hey,

I was at the gig last night and it was excellent...just couldn't get over the amount of people i heard asking "What is this guys name again" or one guy behind me texting his mate and asked his girlfriend "where are we again?"

I dunno...great gig though, hope he comes back soon....

Remember people...Jason Mraz in Feb, its gonna be amazing!!!

TRUEBLUE22

i was at the gig last night and it was absolutely amazing but i suppose a picture says a thousand words so.....


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Fanny Cradock

im going to buck the trend here and say that this guy was bollox. i expected a great deal more, but in my opinion, he was nothing more than a 3rd rate nick drake. his mumblings were unintelligible and made each song merge into each other. his lack of any on stage presence didn't help matters. the support act was much better.

this is the only gig i have ever left prematurely - and i've been to more than few. granted, if the gig wasn't in such a bad venue - complete with terrible sound (twang of the guitar) and far too many people crammed in, we would have stuck around, but that's not to say he was any good.

i know this is going to ruffle the feathers of people who heard the song on the ad and bought the album (like me) and are now die-hard fans (unlike me), but there you go...

irishraven

Hey man, each to their own...I agree about the venue and the sound isn't very good in the Village but I thought he did a very good job and since I only know of him from the album Veneer I could not have expected anymore...

Creamy Goodness

cormie wrote:

Cool, I'd prefer to hear more of his stuff if I was going to see him rather than covers. Was his "love will tear us apart" anything like this?

god no, his version is much faster and better.

you really know when someone does a good cover when they can make the song sound like their own.

i do agree with fanny cradock though on some points,

1. the sound was terrible and even josé acknowledged that, he told them to turn it down but they didn't.

2. his mumblings, well that's how i think he sings on his records and EP's that i've got.

3. don't know about you but i wasn't expecting that much stage presence at all, hardly expect him to be jumping around the place , he interacted with the crowd as much as he could, he seemed overwhelmed with the crowds reaction (as he never got that sort of reaction the time he was here last).

4. one thing that did gripe me, was the venue, it was shocking i felt like i was at a biffy clyro gig (you don't know packed in until you've went to see biffy clyro) the village is a terrible venue and i think this should of been bumped up to vicar street and have tables and chairs there.

Fanny Cradock

if you like this guy, you should check out any of nick drakes albums.


anyway, i've been to two gigs in the village - one (grandaddy) was excellent and the other...well you know what i think about that, but in both cases the venue was a genuine impediment to enjoyment. i'm sure that the grandaddy gig was dangerously over-sold, possibly this one as well. i would definitely think twice about going to see anyone there in the future. but then again, maybe i'm getting old and grumpy before my time.

Creamy Goodness

no you're dead right, especially since people are getting to know him from the sony ad. next time he comes back he will pull an even bigger crowd, they should of anticipated this but they just bumped it up to a bigger venue that's owned by whelans (i think)

cormie

I know Nick Drakes material pretty good and when I first heard Jose, it reminded me straight away of Drake. I think Jose has a darker style though which I like.

alfa147

I just got his album awhile ago and never heard about the concert.. pissed off i missed it...

ah well always next year..

elduggo

very enjoyable gig. Remember, this was originally scheduled for Whelans - imagine how much better it would have been there.

Personally I really enjoyed the gig. It was what it was, and Jose Gonzalez is what he is (wow, deep!) so I'm not really sure what those who didn't enjoy the gig were expecting? Was it a case that you don't like Jose Gonzalez, or that you didn't think the gig itself was any use?

He seems a very humble sort of a lad (hence the mumbling). And I loved the quip about the instrumental (being 2 and a half minutes long if you want to go to the toilet). Despite this humility and the fact that he sat in the same spot for the night I felt he had great presence on stage. His voice is beautiful and the songs he sings are so suited to it.

Its a dilemma though - I couldn't see his style scaling to any larger of a venue than the Village (how the hell is Jack Johnson in the point going to be any good?), so in one way I'm hoping he doesn't get too popular. And given the fact that his stuff is new to a lot of people I think the cover versions (wasn't there a Stock, Aitken Waterman thing thrown in there too?) were well-timed.

All in all a great show.