Table 319 – the leftmost of the tables that are parallel to the stage
and just in front of the divider. Only drawback was that it was extremely
difficult to stand for ovations.
I’ve said plenty about Richard Thompson on other occasions, so I won’t
go into great detail here. There were 22 songs over about 105 minutes. While
there was no opening act, Zara Phillips joined him to sing harmony on the final
five songs of the main set (“Wall Of Death”, followed by four tunes from his
more recent albums) and the last two encores. Hit-wise, the show was very much
front-loaded; 6 of his first 7 selections appear on my list of 20 RT favorites.
Personal highlights: I Misunderstood (which opened the show), the
relatively seldom-performed Walking The Long Miles Home (with a great story
about what he’d have to do as a boy in order to stay until the end of shows by
The Who), Crocodile Tears, Who Knows Where The Time Goes, plus two great (and
apparently new) songs: If I Could Live My Life Again, and When The Saints Rise
Out Of Their Graves (the final encore)
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