LIVE AT THE SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE
TOUR REPORT FROM THE 23rd OF MAY 1997
BY MARTIJN DE LOOZE

Hello Everyone!!

As promised, here is my review of the Notting Hillbillies concert at the
Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, at May 23.

We went with a couple of 7 persons from Holland to London by train on
Friday. Me, Jeroen van Tol, Lars Blaauw, Cor and Mieke Beunder, Henk
Pestman and Marius van Andel.

Because of healthy reasons, Mieke Beunder was obliged to be moved by a
wheelchair, which appeared to be our luck, as the security offered us an
entrance through the stage door, instead of standing in the row.
And we were rather late, about 40 minutes before the doors were opened.

We entered the building at 19.00 hours sharp, and we were the first!!
So excellent places, Mark at two meters in front of us!!
The concert was perfect, and they had a lot of fun playing!
We started to sing "happy birthday" to Guy Fletcher, as it was his
birthday on Saturday 24th, and they liked it, and thanked us!

After 2 songs, during some quitness, I shouted "I think I love you too
much" (as I was hoping they would play this song), and Steve answered
"not after we are married!" Real fun!


The setlist is mostly the same as all the others, and we managed to get
the official setlist of the second set!
Here it is:

HILLBILLIES ... ROUND 1

1. RUN ME DOWN
2. ONE WAY GAL
3. BLUES STAY AWAY FROM ME
4. YOUR OWN SWEET WAY
5. RAILROAD WORKSONG
6. WHY WORRY
7. MILK COW BLUES
8. WATER OF LOVE
9. WILL YOU MISS ME
10. HOBO'S LULLABY
11. MEET ME IN THE BOTTOM

HILLBILLIES ... ROUND 2.

1. DENOMINATION BLUES
2. K.C. MOAN
3. CALLING ELVIS
4. ONE SIDED LOVE AFFAIR
5. I'M THE FOOL
6. BEWILDERED
7. CANNIBALS
8. ARE WE IN TROUBLE NOW
9. SETTING ME UP
10.FEEL LIKE GOING HOME
11.LOCAL HERO
12.NEXT TIME I'M IN TOWN

NOW WE HAVE A FEW DRINKIES AND ALL FALL OVER!
(this line stood at the end of the page).

For the setlist of the first half I refer to Hazel's mail.
A nice joke during the first half was, that Steve was starting a real
Blues song, rahter slow. Mark was concentrated playing his guitar, and
Steve was singing. After some lines, he said: stop, stop, this ain't
moving!! Mark was rather surprised, and started laughing, when Steve
said to the band: Come on! let's hit this son of a bitch! And with a
full tempo they started the song again!!
Jokes and impressions seem to be too much to tell you, but I know that
all the concerts were filmed on video, and also a lot audio, so I'll be
sure that everybody interested, gets a chance to enjoy all this wiht us!

After the concert there were about 30/40 people waiting and hoping to
see/meet them in person!
And I thought there were too many people to get a chance that they would
allow anybody to enter the stage door, but...... Finally after some long
time waiting, EVERYBODY could get in (one by one) to get a signature and
a short chat/handshaking!!! It was brilliant! I said to Mark, and he was
smiling at me, and said: Thank you very much, he gave me a hand, and I
told him I was Martijn from Holland! He said: Well, that is a long way
from home!! There also was a picture taken from me, and the picture is
very nice!
I talked shortly to all bandmembers, and I think this is very special
for a band to do!!
We even saw some other fans/ T-roadies we knew like Thomas Gygax!

The day after, we were sitting in a bus, and we saw Ed Bicknell walking
near a bank-building, so what a coinsidence!!
We also went to Portobelle Road, 16 Lambton Place (damage management) in
Notting Hill, and had an unforgetable weekend!!

Notting Hillbillies                                                                         

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