Royal Festival Hall - David Axelrod

Cream play at the Royal Albert Hall

Advantages: You get to hear the original Supergroup reformed
Disadvantages: The album shows what good music some of us missed played live.

Eric Clapton is my favourite guitarist not only for his longevity but for the skill in his guitar playing. He with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker reform in 2005 for a series of Concerts initially at the Royal Albert Hall but then going world wide for a tour. I saw Eric Clapton with Blind Faith at one of the early free concerts in Hyde Park in the late sixties, I think june 1969, as a teenager so was quite upset that I missed the Albert Hall Concerts especially as one fell on my birthday 5th May 2007. However I first recorded the concert from TV and then was bought the album and DVD the Christmas following it's release. The concert is magical. There are three 60 year old rockers who hadn't played all together in a band for forty years. Playing the songs as the did all those years ago. They play, in my own personal opinion, better than ...

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Review of Royal Albert Hall (London 2-6 May 2005) - Cream

Royalty Indeed...

Advantages: Prime location and fantastic acoustics
Disadvantages: A little staid / cold

Reflections of bewildering cityscape in the thames...a mixture of shiny modern architechture and the archaic eccentricities of Old London...stately couples supping before the show whilst skaters perfect their tricks on the concrete slopes... These are all sights you'll enjoy before you enter the grand, confusing Royal Festival Hall. Now I speak of this as someone more used to London's grimier music venues such as the Forum, but having visited the Hall on several occasions I have grown to like this initially baffling place. It is unusual in that, like the Barbican, it is hard to know work out where the Hall itself actually is, as you have to wander between floors to find relative entrances as well as negotiate a bar, cafe, info centre and shop that cluster intimidatingly at the entrance. It is certainly a well ...

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Review of Royal Festival Hall

Folk festivals.

Advantages: great atmosphere.
Disadvantages: So many festivals, so little time!

Almost every weekend between April and October there is a folk festival going on somewhere in the Uk. They aren't always that easy to find out about - most do have websites these days though. Here's some usuful information about folk festials. Normally, folk festivals run from Friday night to Sunday night, weekend tickes include camping, there is almost always access to bed and breadkfast.(There are several week long festivals, Sidmouth and Whitby that I know of.) The campsites tend to be civillised. Most festivals have activities for children. While some festivals will include professional performers, sessions, sing arounds, celidhs, dance displays, mummers and crafts, many specialise - it's worth checking as theres not point going to shanty festival if all you actually want to do is dance! The average festival will cost about £35 ...

Bryn_Pearson 18.07.2001 · Read full review
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