been to London to look at a sheep
The Lamb, in fact.
I was way too young to have caught this the first time around, as it toured in 1973, the year I was 11 and had my formative music experience with Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. I hadn't even heard of Genesis back then, and only discovered the Lamb years later. I consider it to be the Genesis equivalent of Pink Floyd's "The Wall"; like that album it's a convoluted tale told over a double album's worth of time, and like The Wall at first listening I found it a bit opaque, but subsequent listenings served to cement it as one of my favourite albums ever. And whereas I did get to see Pink Floyd perform The Wall, the Lamb tour was long gone by the time I discovered the album.
The live performance was as much theatrical stage show as it was music concert, and saw Peter Gabriel dressing up in various strange costumes throughout the performance, most notoriously one with a set of giant inflatable genitals.
A few months ago I actually had some useful spam, in that it mentioned that the Genesis tribute band The Musical Box were to be touring the Lamb this year. They have the support and cooperation of Peter Gabriel and the members of Genesis, and were able to use the original slide sets and props from the original shows. Phil Collins even joined them onstage on a previous tour. With credentials like that I thought they'd definitely be worth going to see, and I certainly wasn't disappointed.
The music was excellent - the band really did sound like early 70s era Genesis and the lead singer uncannily like Gabriel of that era. The presentation was as fun as I'd been led to exspect it to be and the costumes as bizarre. I could've wished to have been a bit closer, perhaps, but I really can't complain, we had an excellent view from where we were. It was quite something to see a live performance of a favourite album that I never thought I'd be able to see.
As the gig was in Hammersmith, we stayed at the Novotel - itself quite an historical place for me, as it used to be called the Cunard Hotel and as such was the venue for many of the early Commodore computer shows that launched Llamasoft many moo-ns ago.
The following day we had a bit of a mooch around London, including a trip to the famous Brick Lane and the Curry Mile, a necessary pilgrimage for all curry lovers visiting London.
Back home on the Sunday to the baaing sheepies. It was nice to get away for a couple of days and do something a bit different; we don't get the chance too often these days.
I was way too young to have caught this the first time around, as it toured in 1973, the year I was 11 and had my formative music experience with Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. I hadn't even heard of Genesis back then, and only discovered the Lamb years later. I consider it to be the Genesis equivalent of Pink Floyd's "The Wall"; like that album it's a convoluted tale told over a double album's worth of time, and like The Wall at first listening I found it a bit opaque, but subsequent listenings served to cement it as one of my favourite albums ever. And whereas I did get to see Pink Floyd perform The Wall, the Lamb tour was long gone by the time I discovered the album.
The live performance was as much theatrical stage show as it was music concert, and saw Peter Gabriel dressing up in various strange costumes throughout the performance, most notoriously one with a set of giant inflatable genitals.
A few months ago I actually had some useful spam, in that it mentioned that the Genesis tribute band The Musical Box were to be touring the Lamb this year. They have the support and cooperation of Peter Gabriel and the members of Genesis, and were able to use the original slide sets and props from the original shows. Phil Collins even joined them onstage on a previous tour. With credentials like that I thought they'd definitely be worth going to see, and I certainly wasn't disappointed.
The music was excellent - the band really did sound like early 70s era Genesis and the lead singer uncannily like Gabriel of that era. The presentation was as fun as I'd been led to exspect it to be and the costumes as bizarre. I could've wished to have been a bit closer, perhaps, but I really can't complain, we had an excellent view from where we were. It was quite something to see a live performance of a favourite album that I never thought I'd be able to see.
As the gig was in Hammersmith, we stayed at the Novotel - itself quite an historical place for me, as it used to be called the Cunard Hotel and as such was the venue for many of the early Commodore computer shows that launched Llamasoft many moo-ns ago.
The following day we had a bit of a mooch around London, including a trip to the famous Brick Lane and the Curry Mile, a necessary pilgrimage for all curry lovers visiting London.
Back home on the Sunday to the baaing sheepies. It was nice to get away for a couple of days and do something a bit different; we don't get the chance too often these days.