09-November-2016
Philharmonic Hall
 Liverpool, England

Brendan Hynes take on night 2
In contrast to the previous night’s show this one included six songs from the new album opening nicely with the instrumental Caledonian Swing and followed briskly by Too Late and Look Beyond The Hill. Going Down To Bangor raised the tempo considerably before the inclusion one more time of what is clearly a favourite of Van’s in Magic Time. Every Time I See A River got a welcome airing and was pretty impressive to be followed by the speeded up Have I Told You Lately which wasn’t. The sublime Someone Like You saw Dana Masters share some of the limelight with impressive shared vocals while Beautiful Vision was reprised once more and this time featured steel guitar from Dave Keary. Other notable inclusions in the set( which again drew fairly heavily on ‘the hits’) were a full throttle version of Think Twice Before You Go, another nice version of In The Midnight, an even more powerful Tore Down A La Rimbaud than the previous night’s one and a fine though again somewhat shortened In The Garden which drew some screams of delight from female members of the audience as the song commenced. As on the first night, Gloria closed proceedings with another terrific version more or less on a par with the previous night’s one and getting the same stamp of approval from the audience which were entirely on their feet by then.

Set List
Caledonian Swing
Too Late
Look Beyond The Hill
Going Down To Bangor
Magic Time
Every Time I See A River
Have I Told You Lately (fast version)
Someone Like You
Beautiful Vision
Baby Please Don’t Go/Parchman Farm/Don’t Start Crying Now
Think Twice Before You Go
In The Midnight
Cleaning Windows
Moondance
Sometimes We Cry
Precious Time
Share Your Love With Me
Jackie Wilson Said
Tore Down A La Rimbaud
Brown Eyed Girl
In The Garden
Gloria

Big Hand For The Band!
Dave Keary (Guitar)
Paul Moore (Bass)
Paul Moran (Keyboards)
Mez Clough (Drums)
Dana Masters (Vocals)

Set Time 1h 40m.