Please use this topic to post your 2008 Carpet Slippers Tour reports and any photos. Many thanks.
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 stewron |
Sweet / Showaddywaddy / Rubettes Tour - Gig Reports |
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Posts: 4075 17/04/08 19:20:21
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iamzoso60 |
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Posts: 1938 20/04/08 10:14:14 All You'll Ever Get From Me |
Here's one in advance.
Rubette's.....enjoyable 30mins. Usual hits and nice drum work. Sweet....loud, solid, slightly grumpy looking guitarist and why do they keep putting in Coco and Funny Funny....aaagghhhhhh Someboddyboddy, crap singer but kept the over 70s entertained. Is this what to expect? |
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Posts: 266 20/04/08 11:40:16 |
Unfortunatley, Coco and Funny Funny are what we will expect cos they always play these songs when they play in the UK. I wish they'd be brave and stick a
few album tracks into the set and do away with the bubblegum crap.
BTW, was this the way the bands lined up? Rubettes, then Sweet and finally Showallywally? I think I'll go for a meal when Sweet have finished. 
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Posts: 247 20/04/08 11:44:44
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wow!!! is that what i can expect??? count me in!!! I love crap me
Well If 2 into 1 Won't Go...What The Hell Do I Do With 17?
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Posts: 4521 20/04/08 12:17:23 Sweet Indulgence |
Slippers packed, thermos filled with Ovaltine, bloater paste sandwiches for the interval.
I'm prepped and ready to rawk Cheltenham style tonight! Let the Old Age Rampage begin! (so long as I'm home in bed by 9.30...)
"Burn On The Flame!"
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Posts: 4521 20/04/08 23:17:53 Sweet Indulgence |
Back from Cheltenham
For those who have been to Glitz Hitz tours before it's same old, same old. Rubettes are harmless enough, they still shout "and that's rock 'n' roll" at the end of Juke Box Jive with no trace of irony. Its no coincidence that their best recieved material isn't their own, gouranga Drums, After the goldrush etc. However Sugar Baby Love is such a great song it would be brilliant even if they played on a kazoo. Good job really as the sound still needed work; the drums sounded like they were playing in a dustbin. And so to our boiz. apart from the stripper intro its just as you'd expect. The Glitz live cd; no more no less. The band seemed relaxed and happy. A couple of glitches but nothing as slack as Steve's trousers, he was losing a battle to keep his bum in his low cut jeans. Promptly got told off for taking photos, evidently its Flying Music who were kicking off about it. Gits. Or maybe they know that if any clips of Woeshoddyshoddy get out on youTube it would damage their ticket sales. I left after 15 mins of their set, just enough to establish that they were never going to set Cheltenham alight so sweet were of course the clear winners there. Dave Bartram bounces with enough energy but over the years he's developed a vibrato so wide and slow he makes Anothony Newley sound like a boy soprano. He's ok in talky type lines but dont ask him to do anything legato, its not good. I fear for them in 30 gigs time. It was nice to see Stewart and Gill was there too. I promised myself Id sit quiet and just watch the gig this time but alas it was not to be. Well I had to; during the Rubettes the only person who "ran" down the front was a guy in a motorised wheelchair! He headbanged too, rocking the joystick on his chair about. Good on yer mate you put everyone else to shame. So the Carpet Slippers have shuffled off, not even a top notch Sweet were ever going to jump start a Cheltenham audience but they gave it a darned good try. Until the next one, defibulators on stand-by! God how I love this band!!!
"Burn On The Flame!"
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Posts: 2357 20/04/08 23:37:15 Hellraiser |
Thanks for the report. No surprises.
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stewron |
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Posts: 4075 21/04/08 00:02:36
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No, no surprises. I didn't catch too much of the Rubettes but what I did hear seemed pretty good. Sweet were excellent and seemed genuinely happy on the stage (no grumpy guitarists in sight), Showaddywaddy...oh dear.  Not
good, and they were the headline act! I overheard a group of 4 men leaving at the same time as me, "Sweet were good, the best, but SWDWDY were a big
disappointment" - their view and mine too. Some strange characters in the audience too at Cheltenham...be warned if you see them elswhere...click for
larger images - many more to follow.
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Posts: 240 21/04/08 04:31:28 Slow Motion |
So Dave Bartram still sings like he missed the bus (always just a "bit" too late to what the others are playing)? We hadn't seen them for some
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stewron |
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Posts: 4075 21/04/08 09:21:06
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sailormarinero wrote: You know that's EXACTLY what I thought and others said - he was always a beat behind the rest of them - strange. |
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Koswold |
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Posts: 3 22/04/08 10:40:03 |
As in previous reports, I went to the opening night in Cheltenham and I thought Sweet were excellent- this wasn't a rock concert so they were obliged to
play songs like Poppa Jo and Funny Funny.
Rubettes ok but Showaddywaddy were awful- couldn't hear hardly a word and I thought Dave Bartrams mic was faulty, but from reading what's on here he seems to have problems with his singing voice. Definitely not 'top of the bill' quality. After this I will definitely be going to see Sweet again at Napton (reminder for anyone else going- the ticket prices go up every month, to attract more up-front buyers, so they will be going up again next week!!) |
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