Portland Arms, Cambridge: 12th April 2008
April 13th, 2008 by Ed
My first stage outing in about 3 years went off without a hitch at The Portland Arms in Cambridge last night. Great atmosphere, sold out venue, loads of friendly faces from Ippo, Narch, London and (natch!) Sandy, Beds. It was wonderful playing with John again after all this time and I think we pulled it off just fine despite a few hiccups here and there (see notes below). Can’t wait to do it again, so get in touch if you want us to play.
Photos and possibly some video footage of the event will be available from here in the near future, but for now here’s the whole set (mercifully minus most of my between-song-banter) recorded by Jacqui on a Sony DSC-T9 digital camera - how the world has changed. Photos by Kirstie Green.
Many thanks to Chris and Ashley for inviting us to play. Roll on the next one!
Missing A Train: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Evergreen: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Jigsaw Catch: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Carousel: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Richer In Body And Soul: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Warhead (UK Subs): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Shivers: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAnorak Notes: Most of the songs here are faithful to the original recordings, just without the other instruments, but two of them we messed about with a bit. Carousel is in a different key so that I could sing it higher, but this meant that John’s harmony vocal ended up being too high for him. To compensate he’s written a new guitar part and, boy is it wonderful. On Jigsaw Catch I wanted a different feel so we changed both the key and the tempo, so that it sounded more like Tim Buckley’s song, Buzzin’ Fly. On this one too, John has written a kick arse new guitar part that I could listen to all day. This is the one I was most looking forward to playing, but in the event it got screwed up because the acoustic guitar all but disappeared from the monitors for most of it and I spent the first verse struggling to find the right key to sing in.
May 1st, 2008 at 7:55 am
sounds good. jigsaw catch sounds great - i surprised myself by remembering the words.
but we need more banter next time
(oddly, in firefox on my mac the in-page/pop-up player plays the mp3s speeded up)
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm
They played at double speed in Firefox on my computer too - at first I put Jigsaw Catch on and thought ‘Mmmm, nice ukulele’…
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Weird. Do you use a Mac as well, Andy? They were fine on Firefox and IE on my Windows XP PC and my Vista laptop. I run another website however and use the same MP3 Player plugin on that one. Sometimes when I post audio files they play slow if encoded with VBR. It’s all a bit beyond me truth be told.
Sorry you’ve had problems with these files, but obviously you can use the Download option and then play them locally to your computer/MP3 player…as I’m sure you have been.