Friday May 25th N. and I went to a concert from Venice at Tivoli in our hometown Utrecht. For those who are not familiair with the music of Venice, the band makes music in the best West Coast traditions with strong influences from Crosby, Stills and Nash (& Young), The Eagles, James Taylor, Jackson Browne and Beach Boys and also a bit from the bands where Crosby, Stills and Nash came from before starting CSN, namely The Byrds, Buffallo Springfield (also with Neil Young) and The Hollies. With all these influences it's not so strange that their music is very vocal oriented with melodic close harmony.
The band is very popular over here in the Netherlands. I guess one of the reasons was their first excellent performance in the Netherlands in 1998 in the programme TweeMeterSessies (Two Metre Sessions) from host Jan Douwe Kroeske, who is two metres tall, so that's where the name of the programme came from. A programme that originally started as a radioprogramme, but later also was broadcasted on TV. The radioprogramme started accidentally 20 years ago in 1987 with an unplanned more or less spontaneous acoustic session of the Austalian/New Zealand band Crowded House, who performed their well known hit "Don't dream it's over", which was the start of the Two Metre Sessions. This whole concept was more or less copied later by MTV when they start their Unplugged programmes in the 1989/1990 season with artist like Eric Clapton, Nirvana, Neil Young and many other artists/bands. The difference with the Two Metre Sessions was that most of the MTV-unplugged sessions were recorded with an audience and the Two Metre Sessions were mostly recorded in a radio- or sometimes sound studio.
But let's go back to the concert. I've been to a Venice concert two times before and everytime I went there was a nice and friendly atmosphere with a very mixed audience from old to young and also families with children. So besides a different setlist there was not so much different from the previous two concerts. But that's probably also the reason why people coming back to their concerts, the pleasant atmosphere and the constant music quality, which has always been a guarantee everytime I went to one of their concerts. We had a great night out and also my wife N. who didn't know anything of Venice enjoyed it. She only knew the two covers they played at the end: Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" and Stealers Wheel "Stuck in the Middle With You".
Thanks to the camcorderfunction of the mobile phone I'm able to show you some videos I found on YouTube from the Utrecht concert of Venice we went to. The quality is quite good. Good enough to get a good impression. Enjoy it! We certainly did.
The first video is "Everybody's opium", the second "Back to the Well" and the last one was their final encore "Stuck in the Middle With You".
More videos of their Holland-tour you can find at the Venice-website.
The band is very popular over here in the Netherlands. I guess one of the reasons was their first excellent performance in the Netherlands in 1998 in the programme TweeMeterSessies (Two Metre Sessions) from host Jan Douwe Kroeske, who is two metres tall, so that's where the name of the programme came from. A programme that originally started as a radioprogramme, but later also was broadcasted on TV. The radioprogramme started accidentally 20 years ago in 1987 with an unplanned more or less spontaneous acoustic session of the Austalian/New Zealand band Crowded House, who performed their well known hit "Don't dream it's over", which was the start of the Two Metre Sessions. This whole concept was more or less copied later by MTV when they start their Unplugged programmes in the 1989/1990 season with artist like Eric Clapton, Nirvana, Neil Young and many other artists/bands. The difference with the Two Metre Sessions was that most of the MTV-unplugged sessions were recorded with an audience and the Two Metre Sessions were mostly recorded in a radio- or sometimes sound studio.
But let's go back to the concert. I've been to a Venice concert two times before and everytime I went there was a nice and friendly atmosphere with a very mixed audience from old to young and also families with children. So besides a different setlist there was not so much different from the previous two concerts. But that's probably also the reason why people coming back to their concerts, the pleasant atmosphere and the constant music quality, which has always been a guarantee everytime I went to one of their concerts. We had a great night out and also my wife N. who didn't know anything of Venice enjoyed it. She only knew the two covers they played at the end: Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" and Stealers Wheel "Stuck in the Middle With You".
Thanks to the camcorderfunction of the mobile phone I'm able to show you some videos I found on YouTube from the Utrecht concert of Venice we went to. The quality is quite good. Good enough to get a good impression. Enjoy it! We certainly did.
The first video is "Everybody's opium", the second "Back to the Well" and the last one was their final encore "Stuck in the Middle With You".
More videos of their Holland-tour you can find at the Venice-website.
Venice
2 comments:
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Hallo Pim,
Bedankt voor je positieve commentaren en voor het zeer snel toevoegen van mijn webloglinken aan je interessante linkenoverzicht. Ik zal vandaag of morgen ook jouw website toevoegen aan de linkenoverzichten op mijn beide weblogs.
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