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SIMPLE MINDS/HUGH CORNWELL-CHICHESTER RAJF 12TH JULY 2006
Chichester is not exactly the place you expect to go to find a major summer festival concert , however the Chichester Rajf have laid on brilliant facilities for this show , the setting is a major hospitality style building set in the middle of a grassy park with bar , food facility and a huge stage with fantastic lighting.
1st on was Hugh Cornwell formerly of The Stranglers , most of the audience was of the age to remember them.Hugh's band consisted of drummer Chris Bell and a highly attractive female bass player Caz Campbell. The set consisted of tracks from Hugh's latest album "Beyond Elysian Fields" After many shouts from the crowd for "Stranglers" songs Hugh gave the audience what they wanted with brilliant versions of "Peaches" and "No More Hero's" which even an included an added line about the recent incident in the world cup final involving Zinedine Zidane. After about an hour Hugh and the band left the stage with the audience begging for more , however due to time restrictions they could not return, which was a great shame as they had provided excellent entertainment.
The lights dimmed the crowd surged forward and Simple Minds hit the stage , they opened with 3 tracks from their latest album "Stay Visible" ,"Home" and "Different World".Jim Kerr has been in the music business a very long time and really knows how to deal with an audience. Within a few minutes of hitting the stage Jim had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hands."Let me see your hands" cried Jim and the whole of the Chichester crowd had their hands above their heads clapping to the rhythm to the music.
As the show went on it seemed to step up a pace with Simple Minds playing some of their older and more well known tracks , During 1986 single "Ghostdancing" Jim proceeded to add classic Van Morrison track "Gloria" and getting the audience chanting G-l-o-r-i-a.The highlight of the show must have been the further audience participation during "Don't you (Forget about Me)" , every person in the room was singing along to their biggest hit, the atmosphere was amazing , Jim stood on the stage holding out his microphone begging the crowd to sing along , which of course they did with pleasure.
Classic Simple Mind's tracks "Book of Brilliant Things" , "New Gold Dream" and "Alive and Kicking" were played during the encores , they sounded as fresh as they did when they were 1st released."The show all too quickly came to a close with all the band coming to the front of the stage to take their bows , a very impressive and emotion night from an amazing live band who really know how to
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Dave Chinery(Chinners)
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