Joakim Thåström at Lisebergshallen....

Lisebergshallen, October 11 photo: GP

Heavy, massive....and brittle. Just like this !

Simple Minds at Lisebergshallen....

Göteborg, Mars, 16

By listening to the excellent double album "Live in the city of light" from 1987, one can get an idea about the kind of performances this band was able to put on in the past. Amazingly, the best songs came from their last album (Big Music), and when the band performed "Midnight Walking"....Simple Minds was back for a short while. Credit to Charlie Burchill and his totally relaxed, sparkling guitar. Mel Gaynor works hard as  "rhythm master", yet he looked a bit like a tired lorry driver in the beginning of the show. By the way, Jim Kerr - you need some exercise ! It may enhance your voice as well....

From the old songs, "Love Song" was the best. 

Andy Gillespie - keyboards
Ged Grimes - bass
Sarah Brown - vocals
Catherine Anne Davies - gitarr / keyboards / vocals

Bryan Ferry at Lisebergshallen....

Göteborg, Lisebergshallen, October, 28 (photo: GP)

Think about a concept that worked in 1974....and still functions forty years later ! The elegant dandy with the seducing voice, still sings with the same charisma and feeling. Magical-rhythmical candy for our senses, and yesterday nothing of that was changed. One and a half hours of music was, by the way, a bit short for the money.

Paul Beard - keyboards

Guy Pratt - bass

Jorja Chalmers - sax

Cherisse Osei - drums

Jacob Quistgaard - guitarr

Steve Jones - guitar

Bobbie Gordon - backing vocals

Jodie Scantlebury - backing vocals
Fonzi Thornton - backing vocals

Best in show: 

"Oh Yeah" (such a great song), "Kiss and Tell", "Take a chance with me", "More than this", "Slave to love", "Virginia Plain", "Jealous Guy", "Avalon"....and all the rest !!