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Product details
Title
Turn The Lights Down (Live In London)
Performer
Kevin Ayers & The Wizards Of Twiddly
Genre
Rock & Pop
Release Date
29/01/2007
Original Release Year
2000
Label / Distributor
Market Square / RSK/Trilogy Logistics
Guest Artist(s)
Ayers, Kevin & The Wizards Of Twiddly
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Live
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
5019148623427
Catalogue Number
MSMCD 105
Additional notes
Album Notes
Kevin Ayers (vocals, guitar). The Wizards of Twiddly: Carl Bowry (guitar, background vocals); Simon James (flute, tenor saxophone, keyboards, background vocals); Martin Smith (trumpet, horn, background vocals); Andy Frizell (bass, background vocals); Andy Delamere (drums, background vocals). Recorded live at Waterman's Arts Centre, West London, England on March 10 1995. Includes liner notes by Martin Wakeling. Pleased with the success of a previous casual collaboration, when his opening act The Wizards of Twiddly had joined him onstage for a couple of numbers, Kevin Ayers started touring with the band intermittently for a year. TURN THE LIGHTS DOWN. captures one of these dates, at the Waterman's Arts Centre in London, for posterity. Guitarist Carl Bowry and his colleagues lend an added dimension to such Ayers favorites as "Didn't Feel Lonely 'Till I Thought of You," "Lady Rachel," and "Why Are We Sleeping" The two-piece brass section gives "Am I Really Marcel" and "May I" a decidedly woozy Salvation Army feel. Crank up the volume, and LIGHTS serves as a creative highlight of Ayers' low-profile '90s career.
Titles on disc 1
1.
There Goes Johnny
2.
See You Later
3.
Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought Of You
4.
When Your Parents Go To Sleep
5.
Lady Rachel
6.
Super Salesmen
7.
Am I Really Marcel
8.
Everybody's Sometimes Some People's All The Times Blues
9.
Beware Of The Dog
10.
Mr Snake
11.
May I
12.
Why Are We Sleeping
13.
Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes
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