02-Oct-09 Massey Hall, Toronto Concert Review
Here's Cami's Review:
Another fabulous show! Van, taking it down and bringing it back up, over and over... the band just so in tuned and tight and bringing it all back home one more time again...Beside You and Ballerina the Astral standouts this night The concert rounding out with Healing Has Begun and Hyndford Street! So thrilled to have been a witness to that magnificence! In between we got the holy guardian angels again and we got rainbows in our souls and pylons and backstreet jelly roll and "gimme 5" and the slap on the left side of our collective faces too. My daughter was with me, her first show..she loved it. Aside from Astral Weeks she also got two of her favourite songs..she described his voice as "velvet covered in melted chocolate".. .never quite thought of it like that before, but it's a fitting description I think. She's had a night she won't soon forget. I don't! think she'll ever be the same again!!
Setlist
Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
Brown Eyed Girl
Fair Play
The Mystery
All In The Game
In The Garden
Astral Weeks
Beside You
Slim Slow Slider
Sweet Thing
Cyprus Avenue
Young Lovers Do
Ballerina
Madame George
And The Healing Has Begun
On Hyndford Street
Big Hand For The Band
Paul Moran
Tony Fitzgibbon
David Hayes
Richie Buckley
Jay Berliner
Bobby Ruggiero
Richie Buckley
Michael Graham
Terry Adams
Rick Schlosser
Sunday, October 04, 2009
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2 comments:
"All in the Game" was my highlight of the show. Time seemed to be suspended. When Van whispered into the mike you could really have heard a pin drop. It was a transcendental experience. He received a very long and loud ovation at the end with me shouting Bravo!
Now I understand why fans attend so many shows in the hope that they can capture just one more performance like they had witnessed last night.
A few concert notes. Running time was 100 minutes, a good ten minutes of that taken up thankfully by "All in the Game". Van eschewed playing the harp or sax tonight, concentrating on his vocal pyrotechnics. It was a relief to hear a different encore than "Gloria". "On Hyndford Street" was the perfect end to a night of exquisite lyricism. 5 stars.
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