My mother said to get things done, You’d better not mess with Major Tom…
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Space Oddity was the final song in Jarvis’s, (formerly known as Jarvis Cocker, formerly lead singer of Pulp) set at Koko in Camden and was announced as an ‘old song’, so whilst for a minute the audience expected a Pulp song after an evening of songs from his new album, what he then added was that the song was Space Oddity.
The arrangement was true to the 1969 album version and featured ex-Pulp bassist Steve Mackay and Pulp live guitarist and solo person Richard Hawley on guitar, plus some other people on drums and keyboard. Jarvis delivered the song in a manner similar to Bowie, but managed to stamp his own personality in a more subtle way than I would have expected.
It went down very well with the audience coming straight after the anthemic new song C*nts Are Still Ruling The World which had proved to be a real singalong, crowd pleaser of a song.
It was nice to see that not only a good proportion of the people near me were singing along to Space Oddity, but to also see that the handclapping bit was picked up by the audience and rounded off the evening in an almost perfect way.
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Thanx for that Andy, let’s hope Jarvis decides to commit a studio version of that to tape (or hard disc) so we can all have a listen.
I had to break up the band…
A little after the event, this story, but still worth reporting.
As you know, musical stars of The Hunger, the re-reformed
Well, it seems the London audience for their second show at The Forum (back in August) were also treated to a solo version of The Bewlay Brothers performed alone by the group’s singer, Peter Murphy.
This followed a walk out by guitarist Daniel Ash when he encountered equipment trouble, and, by all accounts, stormed off, shortly followed by the rhythm section, to leave Pete alone onstage. Apparently The Thin Dark Duke refused to let the audience down and treated them to an “absolutely stunning” version of the classic Hunky Dory closer.
Shortly the whole band returned to the stage to perform T Rex‘s Telegram Sam and aforementioned Ziggy Stardust.
According to fans that had followed the tour, though twenty minutes shorter than the normal Bauhaus set, this impromptu performance by Pete made this one of the stand out shows of the summer.