Live Music Thread

[evertony]

I am off to see Paul Heaton on Friday night in Belfast, wouldn’t be my first choice but my wife and my sister want to go and need a driver. Balance has been redressed as Mrs C and myself have tickets to see Counting Crows playing in Dublin in October.

A mate who is Belfast born and bred went to this and was a bit disappointed in PH. Not for the gig which was apparently very good but for his choice of 'local' song which seemingly included some very republican political lines...did you pick anything up similar?

 

[jaybx1878]

David Gray at the Liverpool Philharmonic tonight, he has been playing loads off White Ladder on this tour so if that continues I will be happy as his new stuff isn't the best.

David Gray was very good, 2 hour set full of the classics that you would want to hear. quite a few drunken women chatting loudly throughout his set though, why would you pay £70 to not listen to any of the songs, just go to the bar over the road, ffs.

 

[Caolam]

A mate who is Belfast born and bred went to this and was a bit disappointed in PH. Not for the gig which was apparently very good but for his choice of 'local' song which seemingly included some very republican political lines...did you pick anything up similar?

He did sing an Irish song, to be honest I can’t even remember what it was. I am a Northern Ireland Presbyterian and I wasn’t particularly aware of overtly republican political lines in the song although it isn’t something I would take under my notice. I am not a big fan of Paul Heaton’s music but from what I read about him he is politically on the left and you would expect him to lean towards republicanism.