Yesterday saw us in Coventry, at the Ricoh Arena, for Bon Jovi‘s midlands date of their Lost Highway tour. It was pretty good. The arena isn’t a bad venue, but the stairs with no rails are a bit precarious. The bootleg police were in full force stopping anyone recording, but I wondered why- the quality would be awful and unsaleable. Mind you, that also begs the question “why record it in the first place?”.
I have to say as well, my previous image of Coventry as a craphole has been dispelled: The hotel for our overnight stop was pretty good, the nearby pub was OK too, even with a few students, and we didn’t get stabbed or shot walking to the arena. The only problem is that since the Luftwaffe kindly flattened a lot of the city there’s too much 50s-60s concrete.
I’ve never liked live albums, whoever they feature. I can only assume that the people that buy them are only likely to so that they can say, “Hear the crowd cheer, I’m one of them I am. I was there”.
I have to disagree with Hoipoloi on that one. I like live albums as I think in a majority of the ones I’ve got, there’s more passion from the artists.They seem to put more of themselves into it. Studio albums tend to be a bit clinical, especially in these days of digital processing.
Music’s best enjoyed live – whether down the pub or at big arenas. One of my big regrets is not being able to play, unlike my Cousin who is well gifted in this area.
Geez,
do not be fooled by the false impression you get of cack city going to the football ground. Remember, everywhere has it’s nice bits and scum hovels. Trouble with Cov is the latter out do the former which gives it an average of cack (Bell Green anyone?).
Nice to hear that the Jersey boys were not that bad. Heard a review on Kebab radio the next day, webt something like “rip off, parody of themselves, crap sound”. Each to their own
Sound was a bit duff, but the show was good.