Did you also have a red handkerchief hanging out of your back pocket? Asking for a friend, like 
Sorry, no, just my hearing aid and Werther’s Originals in my back pocket.
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Suzanne Vega - Royal Albert Hall this week. First time to a gig there, acoustics aren’t very good! Big echo from the rear where were seated. Good show, benefited from the addition of cello. The new tunes which were a little hohum on a quick streamed listen came across well live. Showing my age, what a demographic. Probably 99% age-ed white men and women. It struck, as I looked around, there were no black or asian faces so I looked harder and saw none, literally, not one, just the ushers. Very surprising
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Not my favourite venue at all.
Years ago went to see Jackson Browne and the sound was dreadful.
Saw a load of empty seats in a prime position and spoke to an usher. She said they were debenture seats owned by big corporations and some times they used them sometimes not.
I mentioned that didn’t seem to be in use and at the end of the song she moved us for free!
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There a Bill attempting to make its way through Parliament in regard to the debenture seats sponsored by the RHA. Keeps getting knocked back/delayed and a complete brain fuck to follow as it’s so unusual.
First presented in 2022-23 Session of Parliament.
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3381
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The RNIB used to have one that they’d been bequeathed that they used for entertaining wealthy donors. Friend of mine got to see a great many acts there when they weren’t using it for fundraising (they let blind folks use it as a freebie I believe).
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Best way to get decent sound at the RAH is to go to a Prom early enough to be in front of the fountain.
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The only other time I’ve been was for a CBBs prom when the children were young. We were up high. An usher gave my wife a tap before it started and offered to take the girls down to the floor space where there were loads of kids. Nice to hear that the goodwill from staff wasn’t a one off.
Nick got last minute tickets to a Fink album launch there years ago, went with him and it turned out the venue was a bar space upstairs. Great gig, excellent sound.
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I’ve seen several things at the RAH, the most memorable was a choral work by Walton. The power of it blew me away, and the sound was fantastic.
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I saw Imogen Heap there, and having heard her outdoors on The Other Stage at Glastonbury, where she was particularly well mixed, the sound of that kind of band just didn’t work with the acoustic of the place. Still enjoyed the spectacle of it all. I imagine for orchestral music it’s probably pretty awe inspiring.
Ah…. Hopefully tomorrow night in Edinburgh is less eventful for me…. How was the actual gig part of the gig?
Was there support?
If I’m being honest I didn’t see very much of it.
It was sold out. I know venues have legal limits on how many tickets they can sell but to me it seemed almost dangerously over-capacity, hence it getting pretty fighty pretty quickly.
After security eventually realised that they had dropped a bollock and let me go, the evening had rather lost its shine and I just went home.
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Liquid Shit and Coffin Mulch could make a fine double bill
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I went looking for them in the picture and I hadn’t even noticed Howling Giant 
- ace!
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I haven’t heard of any of them!!
Pigs x 7 have made many an appearance on the forum one way or another, but with that exception neither have I 
Heston mince pie.
