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And a great time was had by all. A great artist, singing great songs (her version of "Bring Him Home" was nothing short of magnificent) in a nice venue (the St. David's Hall). Plus, It was nice being back in Cardiff, despite the trouble I had going to and coming back from Wales (the first time because of the site on which I bought my train ticket from Paddington, the second time because of the number of passengers leaving London. But more on that later this week. Still, I enjoyed myself very much.
4th time since 1989 I saw The Cure, and they are stll excellent. Lots of highlights. I had Kyoto Song in particular on my brain for days after. The guests were pretty great as well. They had to stop the show midway through as someone in the audience got hurt, and then Robert did this while the Red Cross made their way, bless him.
I saw Local Hero, the musical based on the film, at Chichester and it was just as sweet and quirky as the original.
Duran Duran will now join Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Herb Albert & Lani Hall, Sheryl Crow, Chris Cornell and Jack White as acts that I have caught who also did a Main Bond Theme (sadly, only McCartney and Albert & Hall did their Bond songs when at one of my shows, Albert & Hall played both THE LOOK OF LOVE and NEVER SAY NEVRE AGAIN).
I was never that familiar with the band, but I've always liked a few tunes, so I went. The band sounded great last night, but I'm getting too old to last a three hour show made up of songs that I mostly don't know. I'm glad I went, but I left about halfway into the show. I was surprised at how young much of the audience was, as well how deified Robert Smith seems to be by legions of diehard fans.
First musical (created in 1973) by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon fame), it's the first time it has ever been done professionally since its initial release, despite its success at the time (some of the songs have been sung by everybody at the time, and I should know because I sang them myself). The musical itself tells the story of the French Revolution, from may 1789 to the end of 1794). We see the different actors of these momentous events, from Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to Robespierre (even Napoléon Bonaparte makes an appearance), and there's a tragic love story between a young man of the people, member of the Third Estate, and a young noblewoman. Trouble is, everything seems a bit rushed. But still, the songs are there, and they are enough to carry us through the two hours of the show, and the staging is great.
BTW, during the show, there's one Bond song : "If you asked me to", from LTK. I didn't imagine that I could hear a Bond song in a musical.
First show was My Neighbour Totoro at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. I'll admit, I wasn't sure of how they could adapt that anime classic for the stage, but once you ignore the fact that the children are played by adults, and that the pupeteers are present on the stage, it's a great show, at times funny, at times sad, but full of poetry, and Totoro himself and the cat-bus are impressive. The play suffered a small interruption due to a technical problem, but it was soon resolved, and all in all, I had a great evening.
On saturday afternoon, I went to see The Comedy about Spies, a play that all James Bond fans should go and see. The story in short : Documents have been stolen from the Secret Intelligence Service by a traitor. In a hotel, two teams of spies are after the documents, the KGB wanting to get it, the CIA working to unmask the turncoat and recover the documents. Add to that a man who had planned a romantic getaway with his girlfriend, to who he intends to propose, and an actor better known for a very embarassing commercial who's in London to audition for the part of Her Majesty's (the play takes place in 1961) most famous agents, and complete chaos and hilarity ensues. The show, if I can judge by the queue at the theater entrance, is a great. BTW, this Bond fan was seated in row Q, which pleased me to no end, even if I would have prefered Row M, but if was completely full.
And on saturday night, I went to the Vaudeville Theatre to see Six, the musical about the lives (and deaths) of the six wives of Henry the Eight. Short (90 minutes withour interruption), but reallygreat, with songs that stay with you for a long time (a kid was singing "Don't lose your Head" when we were leaving the theatre), at times funny, thought provoking, in short, a well-deserved success.
BTW, weather was very fine, but as I said, I didn't have the time to do all I wanted to do. Still, I managed to get a look at the Isokon building, where Dame Agatha Christie and Sir Max Mallowan lived for a while in the '40s, and which is situated in the neighbourhood of Belsize Park, where my hotel was, but for the rest, shows and transportation pretty much cut on the rest. Maybe next time, but I really don't know when next time will be, given that the plumber pretty much destroyed my disposable earnings.