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Originally Posted by sonicl
Oh thank you, Pookie. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one. I was pretty underwhelmed by them as well. The show at ATP was many times better.
I liked Christoph Heenan though.
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WHAT!!
If I hadn't seen you in the foyer beforehand (nice to meet you btw
), I'd be assuming you'd been to a different performance!
IMHO that was one of the most moving and atmospheric performances I have ever heard, and I've heard a few.
OK so the visuals weren't much to write home about, but that didn't really matter cos I spent most of the performance with my eyes closed. I let the music transport me to all kinds of strange places in my head, and went through a whole range of emotions, which isn't something I normally do at concerts.
At one stage I felt as though I was in the dark cavernous hold of an old wooden sailing ship, slowly creaking as it rocked from side to side. I opened my eyes briefly, and the lighting effects on the walls of the QEH confirmed the illusion.
It was amazing, and will stay with me for a very long time - even the cover of Sheen Easton's '9 to 5' although initially bordering on the absurd, was used to great effect as treated vocals later in the performance.
I'm not sure what you guys were expecting, but for me NWW more than lived up to expectations.
Christoph Heenan was slightly disappointing - I didn't really understand why he felt the need to be onstage.
His performance seemed to consist mainly of changing CDs and turning the volume up and down.
I guess, if it was live, the feedback frequency manipulation was OK, but nothing new, and it masked everything that was happening beneath it.
I was really hoping that his field recording of traffic sounds was from an ambient live microphone in the street outside the venue, that would have given a bit of credence to the performance, but even that was a disappointment - just a pre-recorded loop.
Oh well.