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London calling for gig # 23 of 32
The venue is 1,943 seated and the opener for Lu’s UK tour is Jimmy Livingstone ( He opened for her in Brighton.)
A pic. of the venue.[attachment=0:2hmu6l4u]Barbican Hall.jpg[/attachment:2hmu6l4u]
lwj
Thanks, lwj, for starting this thread. I arrived in London on Sunday morning, and I will be attending Lucinda’s show on Monday night. I’m sure Mr. Stoger is lurking around the London metropolis, and he will report soon. Cheers—
Good show, but I have to type quickly–I’m using a 15-minute Courtesy Voucher at my hotel’s Business Center.
Excellent opening act: Jimmy Livingstone, from 7:35-8:05.
Lucinda gave a great show from 8:27-10:15.SETLIST:
1. Can’t Let Go
2. Car Wheels
3. People Talkin’
4. Pineola
5. Sweet Old World
6. Something About What Happens When We Talk
7. Ventura
8. When I Look at the World
9. Copenhagen
10. I Envy the Wind
11. I Lost It
12. Drunken Angel
13. Something Wicked This Way Comes
14. Those Three Days
15. Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
16. Essence
17. Joy
18. HoneyBee
(end main set–start encore)
19. RiverMan
20. Blessed
21. Get Right With GodWhew, only 7 minutes of typing–I can relax.
stoger may report later. We shared a Tube (underground subway train) ride back to our different hotels at adjacent stations.
Super fast set list reporting paul many thanks. -Reminds me of the same rapidity from you getting things online in Toronto when I met you for the Lu / Levon double bill.
How was the crowd at the Barbican -“A full House” perhaps.
lwj
I see you aced Typing I when it was required in ninth grade back in our era, Paul.
After song three, Lu said “I get nervous when it’s so quiet.” Approximately 1/89th of the audience then responded by a murmur.
In addition to “preacher-humpin’,” Lu called “Something Wicked” a “Pentecostal end-times apocalyptic” tune. After it, she referenced her two Methodist grandfathers and her upbringing in college towns, “all mixed in there together.”
How about three in a row from the Sweet Old World record?
Much talk of the West Memphis 3 in front of “Joy.” Some in the crowd knew of that.
Much talk of Nick Drake’s producer Joe Boyd.
In front of the Skip James: “I still don’t know the difference between a repression (sic) and a depression.”
Good to see Paul and my friends Geoff and Rebecca. Tennessee beckons 👿 Carry on, someone.
A tip of my cap to your reportage & commentary, Professor.
And, thanks to LWj for teeing up these recent shows.
❗ 8) ❗@Lefty wrote:
A tip of my cap to your reportage & commentary, Professor.
And, thanks to LWj for teeing up these recent shows.
❗ 8) ❗Mighty fine reporting from Brussels,Zurich, Espania and London stoger.
Makes a concert road trip like you have just done extra special to link up with other FF fans.And, I do enjoy teeing up the venues. The research is fascinating.
lwj
A review from London.
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/06/review-lucinda-williams-at-barbican.html
lwj
Thanks for the running order paul! My first LW show. Had a great time. Fantastic performance from beginning to end. stoger’s and paul_from_losangeles’ mileage may vary of course, but I thought it was tip-top. I had a great time, as did my partner, who’d never heard one note from LW until that very evening.
The Barbican has great acoustics, but it is a leeetle formal. They treat every show they stage there as if it were grand opera. Which, in one way, is very respectful to the artist, of course; but it does kind of intimidate the audience into sitting very still as if they were at the opera. I was sitting at the back of the stalls, and think I saw just one person dancing in the whole 105 minutes!
Jimmy Livingstone needs to engage a lot more with the audience – something he actually acknowledged during his set. He switched from one guitar to another, from guitar to keyboard and back again, without once explaining what he was doing or why – if he had, he’d have involved them a lot more, and done what the support’s supposed to do, warm up the audience for the main act.
Just my 2¢ 🙂
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