Concert #5:2011.10.11, Capital FM Arena, Nottingham, UK # SPOILER AHEAD #

[dmg]

Maybe Pottel owns a blackberry?

 

All we need now is for iPhones to break down and the headlines will be:  Apple and Blackberry Crumble.

[superval99]

Maybe Pottel owns a blackberry?

 

All we need now is for iPhones to break down and the headlines will be:  Apple and Blackberry Crumble.

    Good one dmg!   

[Jules]

Very good DMG!!!!!

 

[holaknopfler]

Mark and the band are in such a great shape. It's a delight to listen to the recording from glasgow(sorry that i'm mentioning it here) just have to say. Marks playing and singing(the new songs) is so good!

[Jackal]

Mark and the band are in such a great shape. It's a delight to listen to the recording from glasgow(sorry that i'm mentioning it here) just have to say. Marks playing and singing(the new songs) is so good!

Agree with you on this one. This is the most inspired playing I've heard from Mark in a long time. Lots of fine licks flying around.

I have to say though: After listening to Mark's set (Glasgow) and then to Bob's (don't know where), Mark and his music come across as more sophisticated than Bob and his, but Bob has an intensity and presence that make Mark exceedingly dull in comparison. Bob's voice is really ugly now, awful, but there's something there and in that crude harmonica playing that really touches me.

Now you can kill me 

[holaknopfler]

Mark and the band are in such a great shape. It's a delight to listen to the recording from glasgow(sorry that i'm mentioning it here) just have to say. Marks playing and singing(the new songs) is so good!

Agree with you on this one. This is the most inspired playing I've heard from Mark in a long time. Lots of fine licks flying around.

I have to say though: After listening to Mark's set (Glasgow) and then to Bob's (don't know where), Mark and his music come across as more sophisticated than Bob and his, but Bob has an intensity and presence that make Mark exceedingly dull in comparison. Bob's voice is really ugly now, awful, but there's something there and in that crude harmonica playing that really touches me.

Now you can kill me 

Hahaha

The influence of Ian on drums is also great imo, e.g hill farmers blues or song for sonny, just a bit different than Danny did and I like it! You can hear and see that they're having so much fun in what they do!

[superval99]

You mention crude harmonica playing.  I read somewhere this week that Bob is regarded as one of the best in the world!   Actually I think the three year old boy, who lives next door to me, sounds pretty similar!  

[Jackal]

I read somewhere this week that Bob is regarded as one of the best in the world!

"Somewhere" over the rainbow? 

[Pottel]

Mark and the band are in such a great shape. It's a delight to listen to the recording from glasgow(sorry that i'm mentioning it here) just have to say. Marks playing and singing(the new songs) is so good!

Agree with you on this one. This is the most inspired playing I've heard from Mark in a long time. Lots of fine licks flying around.

I have to say though: After listening to Mark's set (Glasgow) and then to Bob's (don't know where), Mark and his music come across as more sophisticated than Bob and his, but Bob has an intensity and presence that make Mark exceedingly dull in comparison. Bob's voice is really ugly now, awful, but there's something there and in that crude harmonica playing that really touches me.

Now you can kill me 

been thinking something along those lines as well.
MK is playing beautifully, well crafter, and so is the whole top band, but bob, despite the voice issues, really puts in his weight..

[superval99]

Yes it seemed like that, but Bob's band has that "wall of sound" quality and also it is at an extremely high volume, including Bob's barking voice - far higher volume than MK's band and that makes a lot of difference, but I know which I prefer.  I don't like to resort to earplugs at a concert.   

[arabia]

One has a presence...

[Love Expresso]

...and Dylan has not...

LE

[dustyvalentino]

Mark's songs have more dynamics and subtleties... Bob's songs are all pretty much at the same volume (loud!), but it is a thrilling experience. Bob's band were great, I don't really understand why some of the flat earth society don't like Charlie Sexton - I thought he was great. And Bob's drummer was fantastic.

[Pottel]

haring the first 4 bob recordings, i hear nothing of hte loudness everyone keeps talking about, i guess it is a mix of very good tapers and very bad venue acoustics??

[arabia]

...and Dylan has not...

LE