PeteCC
04-19-2006, 04:53 PM
Hi, All,
I've just got back home from the show at the Sage, in Gateshead, and as promised, here's the write-up, including the setlist.
The hall itself is fairly small, about 350 or so seats, arranged, on the lower level, sloping upwards towards the rear affording everybody a good view, with slightly raised side seating and standing.
The second level is arranged 'in the round' which means that for some performances, part of the audience are seated above and behind the stage, but Janis said on Sunday at the LRC that she wasn't happy with that as she felt it was unfair to them to have such a poor view. (She also said she didn't want them watching her butt!)
The third tier stretches around in a 'U' shape and is designed like 'The Gods', so everybody gets a good view.
The stage was set, as always, very simply; a microphone, two guitar stands, one with and one without a guitar, a small table covered with a blue tablecloth with a bottle of water, drinking cup, and a vase of yellow flowers on it, and of course, there are speakers to each side.
Right on time Janis entered from a door set centrally in the back 'wall' of the stage, playing the opening chords of From Me To You, and was greeted with a tumultuous round of applause from the sell-out crowd as she took her entrance bow.
Her voice was, as ever, pure and perfect from the onset, none of this, 'wait 'til the third number and I'll show you I can sing' malarkey.
After the applause had died down for this opening number, Janis started talking to us, relaxed and comfortable, about living in Nashville, and being next to Franklin, and the story took us into Danger Danger.
Crocodile Song was introduced as a song which simply went it's own way whilst being written.
I'll not go into the introductions/segues for the entire list, mainly because I can't remember them, but there was one surprise for us.............
As you can see from the setlist below, there's one I've had to call, 'Untitled'. Janis introduced this as, 'A traditional American Folk Song which I wrote this afternoon'. It was very funny, and very clever, but I won't say any more than that because with a bit of luck, some of you will be getting to hear it for yourselves. (I did ask Janis after the show what the title was, and she told me it didn't HAVE one, she really had written it just that afternoon!)
All in all, a fantastic night, one to remember; a superb and superlative performance, and one in which Janis was funnier than ever, the interaction with the audience and the jokes better than ever.
So Thank You, Janis, for gracing us once more with your art and your talent, and Thank You also to your team for their support to you, allowing you to do what you do so very well.
Regards,
PeteCC
SETLIST (I'm hoping I got this right)
(First half)
From Me To You
Danger Danger
Crocodile Song
Love is Blind
Society's Child
The Great Divide
Untitled
I Hear You Sing Again
Between The Lines
(Second half)
Here Comes The Night
Watercolors
Broken Promises
My Autobiography
Seventeen
Fly Too High
On The Other Side
Joy
Haven't I got Eyes (encore)
I've just got back home from the show at the Sage, in Gateshead, and as promised, here's the write-up, including the setlist.
The hall itself is fairly small, about 350 or so seats, arranged, on the lower level, sloping upwards towards the rear affording everybody a good view, with slightly raised side seating and standing.
The second level is arranged 'in the round' which means that for some performances, part of the audience are seated above and behind the stage, but Janis said on Sunday at the LRC that she wasn't happy with that as she felt it was unfair to them to have such a poor view. (She also said she didn't want them watching her butt!)
The third tier stretches around in a 'U' shape and is designed like 'The Gods', so everybody gets a good view.
The stage was set, as always, very simply; a microphone, two guitar stands, one with and one without a guitar, a small table covered with a blue tablecloth with a bottle of water, drinking cup, and a vase of yellow flowers on it, and of course, there are speakers to each side.
Right on time Janis entered from a door set centrally in the back 'wall' of the stage, playing the opening chords of From Me To You, and was greeted with a tumultuous round of applause from the sell-out crowd as she took her entrance bow.
Her voice was, as ever, pure and perfect from the onset, none of this, 'wait 'til the third number and I'll show you I can sing' malarkey.
After the applause had died down for this opening number, Janis started talking to us, relaxed and comfortable, about living in Nashville, and being next to Franklin, and the story took us into Danger Danger.
Crocodile Song was introduced as a song which simply went it's own way whilst being written.
I'll not go into the introductions/segues for the entire list, mainly because I can't remember them, but there was one surprise for us.............
As you can see from the setlist below, there's one I've had to call, 'Untitled'. Janis introduced this as, 'A traditional American Folk Song which I wrote this afternoon'. It was very funny, and very clever, but I won't say any more than that because with a bit of luck, some of you will be getting to hear it for yourselves. (I did ask Janis after the show what the title was, and she told me it didn't HAVE one, she really had written it just that afternoon!)
All in all, a fantastic night, one to remember; a superb and superlative performance, and one in which Janis was funnier than ever, the interaction with the audience and the jokes better than ever.
So Thank You, Janis, for gracing us once more with your art and your talent, and Thank You also to your team for their support to you, allowing you to do what you do so very well.
Regards,
PeteCC
SETLIST (I'm hoping I got this right)
(First half)
From Me To You
Danger Danger
Crocodile Song
Love is Blind
Society's Child
The Great Divide
Untitled
I Hear You Sing Again
Between The Lines
(Second half)
Here Comes The Night
Watercolors
Broken Promises
My Autobiography
Seventeen
Fly Too High
On The Other Side
Joy
Haven't I got Eyes (encore)