Well, that was pretty fucking amazing. First half he did his new album Wilderness (which I'm liking, as it basically channels the slow/epic stuff from Dog Man Star), and second half we got the Suede material (in piano/acoustic/cello format).

Lots of B-sides and obscure fan favourites ("My Dark Star", "The Living Dead" etc), some proper well-known classics ("The Power", "Pantomime Horse", "Saturday Night", a singalong finale of "Trash"), but the best bit was a marathon medley of about six or seven songs at the piano, culminating with the DMS duo of "The 2 Of Us" (which absolutely slayed me) and "The Asphalt World", upon whose last dramatically-plonked chord he abruptly slammed the piano lid down, like BANG!, stood up, spun on his heels and walked off to a standing ovation.

Super-cool, and kind of hilarious too. You just don't get that kind of theatre with the noughties school of singer-songwriter.

Did he do "Silver Lady"?

;-)

evilC wrote:

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Did he do "Silver Lady"?

;-)

No! That was the only disappointment, really. A little bird (well, quite a large beardy bird) had informed me that several cover versions were on the cards, but there were actually none at all.

Spearmint Rhino wrote:

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"Pantomime Horse",

Earworm alert!

"Tragic as the son of supermaaaa-ha-haan!"

cheers

That was the one song where his voice struggled. He went all hoarse and cracky on the "ever tried it that way" part.