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Review Bournemouth Tour 1999
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been to : BOURNEMOUTH Sun, 19 December 1999 Tom Jordan Hi guys, I've just got back from a top few days seeing Ben Folds Five in London and the boys in Bournemouth.... The Bournemouth concert was excellent - I got there about two hours early and after trying unsuccessfully several times to be let in for the sound check took my place in the queue.... There were actually very few people queuing and so I managed to get in the front row in the concert right in front of Chris' keyboard stand! I was worried the hall was going to be nowhere near full, but a last minute surge of people ensured it was decently full although not at full capacity... I cannot say how good those costumes look up close - the lighting was superb and I also thought it was really cool how you could see all the computers etc at the side of the stage.... The set was better than I thought it would be too........ Set list was as all the other shows.... including Footsteps before Go West at the end.... Neil was in good form, although the audience only really went mad on Always On My Mind, Neil saying at the end "You still like that one, then." He also said how it was his first ever visit to Bournemouth and that it was "a nice bit of ceiling"... I was quite surprised to see how old the audience was in general, and also surprised that there were several "die hard" fans who had seem to have never heard of the Internet let alone Introspective... I don't know what you want.... didn't sound very good live, and I also thought that Dusty's words sounded a bit out of sync with the general flow of the song on What have I done to deserve this... I also noticed this listening to the Atlanta webcast.... The only other slight disappointment is that Left to my own devices didn't seem to be as "bouncy" as it used to be - the new mix seems to have taken some of the bass out of the song which makes it harder to dance to.... Also one of the signers was missing at this gig. The crowed loved Se a vida e: I will get on my soap box here and say this is where it all went wrong! Se a vida e is a brilliant song - its happy - its not too camp/controversial etc etc etc - and everyone I know loves it..... I really think if, for whatever reason, it had been a bigger hit the boys would be more popular in the UK today - it was a good video - perhaps the biggest mistake the boys made was to do minimal promotion on Bilingual in general... and I think Se a vida e should have been the first single.... Anyway, afterwards I went to the stage door and sure enough out came Neil and Chris - I got them and Dainton to sign my programme and Neil just asked what there was to do in Bournemouth etc.... Chris said nothing. That's it, sorry if its too long........ Tom |
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