Thursday, September 22, 2011

22-September-2011 Colston Hall, Bristol, England

Long-time Van fan Pat wrote a great review on his excellent blog
Van came on stage and he has dispensed with the suit which is good and was wearing a real bad boys tight leather jacket. The opening song was MOONDANCE and i was happy to see the great Jay Berliner back on guitar with Vans band of Paul Moran on keyboards piano and trumpet, Paul Moore on bass Jeff Lardner drums Chris White sax, flute Alistair White trombone and Dave Keary on guitar. It was a nice surprise to hear HIGHER THAN THE WORLD next from Van's Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart album and Jay excelled himself with some mesmerising guitar playing. Read the rest of review here.


Setlist (Thanks Mike S.)
Moondance
Higher Than The World

Song of Home
Fair Play

In the Garden
Magic Time
Its All in The Game

Real Real Gone
Talk is Cheap

Crazy Love
Ballerina
Can't Stop Loving You
Little Village

Help Me /It's Too Late to Stop Now
Gloria

2 comments:

zimmernam said...

Great show. Van had a terrible cold, but still sounded great.

There was a few songs I didn't know (Song of Home, Its all in the game, can't stop loving you), so thanks to Mike S for submitting the setlist.

I noticed lyric changes in 'Talk is Cheap', as he sang about facebook/twitter.

Nice show and nice venue. He seemed to play longer than last time I saw him here.

zimmernam said...

Also, does anyone else know if there is a Van Morrison forum. It's weird that there seems to be so few considering how famous a name he is. I mean, Bob Dylan's got about a 100!