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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: Glastonbury - Shirley Bassey |
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I'm not a follower of the Glastonbury festival but I did manage to see a little of it this afternoon when Dame Shirley Bassey came on.
I was quite impressed and enjoyed her performance very much, I think she did too, she can still belt it out for sure!.
Certainly equally impressive for me was the "big band" behind her! what a great sound and great musicianship, they sounded fantastic through the stage PA system.
I wonder how many of the younger audience will go away thinking the same and maybe sway their taste a little?
I also wondered why there isn't a similar type event for this kind of music? ( perhaps there is already! )
Good on yer Shirley! |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3608 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I thought she and the band were excellent. |
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Toggy tea slurper Guest
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:54 am Post subject: |
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Personally she dosen't do anything for me, her voice goes right through me. Fair play to her though, she can certainly hold an audience. |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:57 am Post subject: |
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She and her band are well used to singing/playing in the rain and mud - she impressed at Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival in North Wales last year which suffered similar wet weather.
Although she is understandably past her peak, and a little goes a long way, she knows how to please an audience (do the well known and not too much that isn't) and is arguably the UK's one world-class diva of popular song. 70 last January and over 50 years as a top singer - now that's what you call a national treasure. _________________ Ron |
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:18 am Post subject: |
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RockitRon wrote: | She and her band are well used to singing/playing in the rain and mud - she impressed at Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival in North Wales last year which suffered similar wet weather.
Although she is understandably past her peak, and a little goes a long way, she knows how to please an audience (do the well known and not too much that isn't) and is arguably the UK's one world-class diva of popular song. 70 last January and over 50 years as a top singer - now that's what you call a national treasure. |
Unlike Mika who should have been buried. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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I also watched a bit of the Kooks the other night......... not much to say about their performance form my point of view. I thought it was a little untidy.
Also, the Marleys (?) failed to impress, at least the one on in the afternoon dressed in green, very poor. |
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Mark Mayhew
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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I was intrigued to read about her journey home from the festival.
Oh the poor luv-her helicopter had to make an emergency landing in field on the way home-still a kindly lady made her a cup of tea and gave her acccess to her toilet.
What a rock and roll life style the Dame leads. |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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Just think what the loo seat will make on Ebay. |
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