MARRIED WITH GROWN UPS
  • Home
  • Features & Snippets
    • Features >
      • Special Guests
    • Snippets
    • Out and About >
      • Travels >
        • North Coast 500 August 2016
        • North Coast 500 - view from the passenger seat
  • The Design Den
    • Gallery & Design >
      • Personal Posters
      • Something Old Something New
  • CONTACT

Life and other stuff

say hello don't wave goodbye

5/11/2017

0 Comments

 
We like to think of us as having a wide range of music and performers that we like.

We’re just as at home  listening to Debussey as we are with Dr Dre. All through our married lives and before, music has played a huge part in a lot of things we do. As we’ve got older we‘ve started making up for performers or groups we missed “first time around”. Some like The Smiths have probably gone forever – though we did go watching Morrissey a few years ago before it seemed he fell out with Manchester?

Last year we attended one of the best gigs we’d ever been to – Jeff Lynn’s ELO at the Arena and next year we’ve booked to see Billy Joel at Old Trafford. A couple of weeks ago we went to see Marc Almond at the Bridgewater Hall as he toured on the back of his latest album Shadows and Reflections.

Anyone of our age will always associate Marc Almond with Soft Cell but if you don’t know him in any other connection you really are missing out on a musical genius and an absolutely top class live performer. After a bit of a hesitant first few songs – it turned out he was late arriving – the second half of the concert was a masterclass in live musical performance as he commanded the place with a range of songs form the sublime to the absolute crowd pleasers such as Torch and a Northern Soul inspired sequence containing  Tainted Love.

There was though a major  downside. As the concert was a bit late starting we had to leave early to get our train home and missed our absolute favourite Say Hello Wave Goodbye.
​
We were big fans going in to the concert – we came out of it as absolute converts. And if you think Marc Almond is just about Soft Cell and a few other hits and done nothing in between just have a look at his Discography you may be in for a surprise – and a treat too!
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Life and other
    ​stuff
    ....

    Places our boots have taken us to and what we did when we got there as well as some other stuff.

    Archives

    July 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016

    Categories

    All
    Architecture
    Bee In The City
    Bees
    Bikes
    Birmingham
    Blue Skies
    Bridges
    Bridgewater Hall
    Buckingham Palace
    Bury
    Canals
    Cathedral
    Celebrations
    Christmas
    Cities
    City
    Classical Music
    Coffee
    Comic Con
    Concerts
    Crafts
    Days Out
    Doughnuts
    Elnup Woods
    Family
    Food
    Hacienda Classical
    Halle
    Harpist
    Hobbies
    Home Life
    Ice Cream
    Jazz
    Lancashire
    Liverpool
    Local
    London
    Manchester
    Manchester-baroque
    Manchester-camerata
    Manchester Jazz Festival
    Manchester Ship Canal
    Mesnes Park
    Motorways
    Music
    Nature
    New Year
    Orchestra
    Parbold
    Park
    Performers
    Photography
    Racing
    Restaurants
    Road Trip
    Salford
    Scotland
    Sculpture Trail
    Shevington
    Standish
    Steam Train
    Summer
    Theatre
    Theme Parks
    Tourism
    Trafford
    Trains
    Transport
    Travel
    United Kingdom
    Urban
    Victoria Station
    Visits
    Walking
    Walks
    Wanderlust
    Wigan
    Wildlife
    Woodland
    Worthington Lakes

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Features & Snippets
    • Features >
      • Special Guests
    • Snippets
    • Out and About >
      • Travels >
        • North Coast 500 August 2016
        • North Coast 500 - view from the passenger seat
  • The Design Den
    • Gallery & Design >
      • Personal Posters
      • Something Old Something New
  • CONTACT