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Posted: May 25 2004, 16:30 |
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Don't get your hopes up. It may well go the same way as that 'totaly confirmed' recent German concert that never happened. I'll believe in any concert when Mike himself announces it and not before.
As for the MO live experience. For me its always a very hit or miss affair. Sometimes with some tracks it's utterly mindblowing and sometimes with others much, much less so. I've seen him live twice, first in Edinburgh for TB2 and second the following year at The Royal Albert Hall. But like everyone else I've got all the videos and live bootlegs. What comes across more than anything else in my opinion is that Mike is just not a comfortable live performer, I mean he's pretty much said so himself on a few occasions and if he really did enjoy playing live he would do so much, much more often I think.
To be honest I didn't think much of the Edinburgh concert. It was obviously a lovely venue and just about the right size for a MO concert but I remember walking away feeling really dissapointed he didn't do an oncore, kind of unforgivable at a concert like that really. Also that whole thing of Mike doing kareeokee like guitar playing over a sequenced backing track does nothing for me at all as a 'live' experience. Indeed some of that sort of thing, like FATC at the Horseguards concert, just seems so naff even though Mike gives a great guitar solo.
He also needs to play smaller more intimate venues. Mike isn't Pink Floyd, there isn't much a show to watch beyond the stage performances
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