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Elton John and Ray Cooper in the O2
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25-06-2010 1:28pm#1
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delbertgrady wrote: »Just announced for December 15th. Goes on sale next Thursday.
marsbar, are you out there?
I'm here
I'm devastated man! It's the week my Christmas exams for my final year of college...
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delbertgrady wrote: »How did you get on with the presale?
Due to financial issues I had to pass on this. C'est La Vie
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I got 2 tickets for this in block right in front of stage. I can't go anymore though cos I got a new job last week Looking to sell them now if anyone is interested. PM if interested, otherwise they'll have to be a xmas present for someone.
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IrishIrish wrote: »I got 2 tickets for this in block right in front of stage. I can't go anymore though cos I got a new job last week Looking to sell them now if anyone is interested. PM if interested, otherwise they'll have to be a xmas present for someone.
Seats are
Section BLOCKD
Row 14
Seats 106 - 107
Tickets are .pdf so can be emailed to anyone interested. Face Value 230, Will sell for 200.
Cheers.
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I loved this gig! It wasn't a greatest hits concert which made it a million times better! You could close your eyes and just listen...the sound was so good. Ray Cooper, what a man!
Got the stage rush but didn't get my ticket signed.
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I did enjoy the gig, but it would have been MUCH better if I actually knew all the new/album tracks he played! I thought the second half picked up when Ray came on, the percussion really added to the music and it's a pity he didn't have the full band for the more upbeat songs. Nonetheless very good gig, and considering how long he played great value for money!
That's always the risk after a new album release really. I liked the fact that a lot of people stayed seated for the unknown songs rather than viewing them as a toilet break.
Delighted to hear Levon!
This pic gives ye an idea where I was seated:
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A good, balanced review from Brian Boyd in today's Irish Times, that would probably represent most of the views of the audience on Wednesday night, apart from the die-hards, of course.
If there is a piano-playing version of prog rock, then Elton John visited that place a good few times during his show. Some of the instrumental songs lasted a fair old duration as he threw in all manner of quirky chords and embellishments.
Introductions would get teased out and musical culs-de-sac would be ignored as he seemed intent on creating these mini-symphonies.
But for every longueur on the night there were also some enlightening versions of some of his greatest work: Daniel, Your Song, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word and the much-underrated Tiny Dancer. With no backing band and just his piano, this stripped down approach allowed him to really get to the core of these songs and his voice was generally superb. He may not be able to scale the high notes like he used to, but there’s a richer timbre there now which only adds to the vintage appeal of his earlier work.
For almost the first hour and a half, it was just him at the piano with a minimal back-drop and the audience played along with the generally hushed atmosphere by remaining quietly rapt. What didn’t help though was the frequent appearance (on digital audio tape presumably) of swishy strings in the background – the kind of string sound that makes you think the “atmospheric” dry ice can’t be far behind.
But the show went into another gear when the virtuoso percussionist Ray Cooper (who’s been playing with Elton – on and off – for decades now) appeared. With a huge array of instruments at his disposal, Cooper gave the hitherto sparse show an almost fringe-theatre-like look and sound. There is a delight to be had in just how well the two of them mesh their sounds – and how different an impulse Cooper gives to the music.
Not the most talkative of performers, John trawled through his many musical “eras” and with the new material there is a sense that he is intent on rescaling the heights he previously reached with work such as Tumbleweed Connection . And for every meandering and nonsensical boogie-woogie piano run there was something like a belting version of Philadelphia Freedom to more than even out the score.2024 Gigs and Events: David Suchet, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Smile, Pixies, Liam Gallagher John Squire/Jake Bugg, Kacey Musgraves (x2), Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Muireann Bradley, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Eric Clapton, Girls Aloud, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Rewind Festival, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Henry Winkler, P!nk, Pearl Jam/Richard Ashcroft, Taylor Swift/Paramore, Suede/Manic Street Preachers, Muireann Bradley, AC/DC, Deacon Blue/Altered Images, The The, blink-182, Coldplay, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Nick Lowe, David Gilmour, ABBA Voyage, St. Vincent, Public Service Broadcasting, Crash Test Dummies, Cassandra Jenkins.
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got 5 tickets for all family 
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