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Tangerine Dream, London Eye Concert 2008
I went to see Tangerine Dream at the Forum, Kentish Town on Saturday; here's a pic taken from the balcony, where the idiots who run the Forum had decided to have unallocated seating - so you paid for a seat but still had to fight for a decent one. Anyway, the three-hour concert was predictably hard going - Tangerine Dream haven't been much good since Chris Franke left, and the latest version, swamped with guitar, sax and percussion, sounds more like some Californian New Age soft-rock combo than a 
pioneering experimental synth band. Yet all the talk on the chat forums is of how great they were. Go figure. Well, at least they did Going West. Anyway, it's probably the last time I'll be able to whip up the energy to go to see them, but I'm looking forward to Edgar Froese's forthcoming book, provisionally titled 'Bouncing Back; or, Needless to Say I Had the Last Laugh.'
I went to see Tangerine Dream at the Forum, Kentish Town on Saturday; here's a pic taken from the balcony, where the idiots who run the Forum had decided to have unallocated seating - so you paid for a seat but still had to fight for a decent one. Anyway, the three-hour concert was predictably hard going - Tangerine Dream haven't been much good since Chris Franke left, and the latest version, swamped with guitar, sax and percussion, sounds more like some Californian New Age soft-rock combo than a 
pioneering experimental synth band. Yet all the talk on the chat forums is of how great they were. Go figure. Well, at least they did Going West. Anyway, it's probably the last time I'll be able to whip up the energy to go to see them, but I'm looking forward to Edgar Froese's forthcoming book, provisionally titled 'Bouncing Back; or, Needless to Say I Had the Last Laugh.'
1 comment:
As I'm 'involved' with Edgar's book (in a very small way) I'll have to suggest to Edgar your two titles ;)
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