VAN MORRISON
Culloden Estate & Spa
Belfast, Northern Ireland
January 19th 2013
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??? Shana Morrison
??? Shana Morrison
??? Shana Morrison
Celtic Swing
Got to Go Back
Magic Time
Born to Sing
Have I Told You Lately
Going Down to Monte Carlo
It’s All in the Game/You Know What They’re Writing About/Rainbow
Enlightenment
You Don’t Know Me (w/Shana Morrison)
Open the Door To Your Heart
In the Garden
Makin’ Whoopie
That Ol’ Black Magic
Little Village
Baby, Please Don’t Go
Into the Mystic
Help Me
Gloria
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Thanks Mat, a third Culloden date for me. An extremely middle class and non rock ‘n’ roll venue. Van seems to like venues of this type, I guess they pay well!
These shows are fascinating to me. Seems like an easy gig for Van, and no doubt pays quite well, and makes for a nice little vacation for the family.
True enough. There is a bigger pattern however of Van playing these very ‘genteel’ gigs in recent years. Book fairs, palaces etc. They never appeal to me, being excessivley overpriced, and full of a particular and extremely limited demographic. If you look closely at the audience for his 70th b’day ‘party’ you see something very similar.
The ‘buzz’ has really gone out of a lot of ‘gigs’ in recent years. It’s like Mr EC holding court in the Royal Albert Hall and playing ‘Wonderful Tonight’ to a different, but somehow identical, collection of middle class nobodys night after night after night!
I get that. Certainly I’d love to see Van playing other types of gigs in more places. Man I’d love for him to come within 500 miles of me. But I have a hard time knocking a guy of his age for playing cushy gigs close to home.
Thanks for this, Mat!