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Royal Albert Hall - 18 Nov 2014
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  • I have uploaded 6 vids to YouTube. Inc Voicething. Will post links later to the board. Look for Lisa Rippon on YouTube and you will find them.
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • ^ brilliant UT, looking forward to seeing them. thank you!
  • Yeah, the vids are a great "flavour of" for those of us unable to make it. Top stuff.
    A million fires before your harvest comes. To burn out.
    Wear the mask of a heathen. For the moon's lonely eyes.
  • It was a bit dark on stage as it was lit from behind and above but nowt from the front. Vids appear ok ( I got Some Velvet Morning with the great John Grant) but the stills were looking a bit dark, so I had to go up to 1600 ASA which is not ideal. Some look ok in the camera so will try to process tonight and upload to Flickr.
    We had a great night but did not get home and into bed until 2.00am. Up again at 7.15 to get ready for work.
    Totally worth it. Saw Will before and after the gig. Before, he was pottering around the corner of the stage he would eventually play from fettling his instruments ( a Korg MS20 among them). He seemed more pensive than usual, probably more stress as he was performing later, but he still found time to sign my ticket and said he hoped we had a great night. Then at the end, he was back, picking up his recorder. Did not speak to him then but he was back out only 10 minutes after finishing.
    Great to meet you all again. Perhaps we should have a meet up next year somewhere to just chew the Frapp cud without having to rush off to a gig. Toyah fans continued to meet at the pub across from the Mermaid Theatre where she did Trafford Tanzi annually for some years after the event.
    Something to do while we wait for the next incarnation of Frapp. Anyone interested, say so and we can see if we can get some inertia.
    Post edited by Urban_Tribesman at 2014-11-19 15:59:13
    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
    Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
    Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
    Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
  • Perhaps we should have a meet up next year somewhere to just chew the Frapp cud without having to rush off to a gig. Toyah fans continued to meet at the pub across from the Mermaid Theatre where she did Trafford Tanzi annually for some years after the event.
    Something to do while we wait for the next incarnation of Frapp. Anyone interested, say so and we can see if we can get some inertia.



    Loving the idea - maybe somewhere like Manchester as that was great for MIF with good transport links in all directions (north AND south) and the accommodation we used was cheap & pleasant. A fresh thread beckons for you to create, I'd say!
    A million fires before your harvest comes. To burn out.
    Wear the mask of a heathen. For the moon's lonely eyes.
  • Just watched your video of Voicething, UT. Outstanding, both sound and vision! :-)
  • Nah - we're all off down to HJ's gaff for a Goldfrapp weekender :-)) HJ's reaction to this:-O
    What if the Hokey Cokey is what it's all about?
  • Off down to HJ's gaff for a Goldfrapp weekender? Manchester or Newquay? I vote for Newquay! 
  • Ahem! Seeing as this is the RAH thread, here are some pictures that I took last night. Sadly, there was only one of Alison that was worth keeping. But lots of us lot.

    Link
  • I cant really add anything else to what others have said apart from it was bloody handsome  :x

    Alison was her usual gorgeous self and performed top notch (albeit nerves). Will on stage, the usual gang. Choir, orchestra, John Grant, lighting, signed programme!!
    Best bit is always the meet up with fellow Frappers. Fabulous bunch of people that I have the privilege to know 

    :D
  • Sadly, I wasn't able to make it to the get together at The Queens Arms - I was otherwise engaged wasting four and a half hours of my life freezing my bits off at the RAH stage door. (A surprisingly solitary vigil - I was on my Jack Jones for the entire time.) I had hoped to maybe meet Alison when she arrived as I had a bouquet of roses for her but she must have arranged to enter through one of the venue's numerous other doors. (Either that or she was wearing an invisibility cloak. Of the two possibilities I think that may be the slightly less likely!) I met Charlie early on and he was as friendly as ever, chatting to me about his solo work - which I'm a great admirer of.
    By 5PM I figured that I must have missed Alison but I still hung around - not because I'm a fan of double-pneumonia but in the hope that Charlie would come out for a smoke so that I could ask him if he'd be kind enough to give my flowers to Ms. G (as he has graciously done before). Unfortunately he didn't reappear and at 7 I trudged shivering into the hall to thaw out.
    After the show I returned to the stage door and bumped into Charlie and, thoroughly decent chap that he is, he did indeed give my flowers to Alison and even came over to me later on to confirm that he'd done so. He really is a lovely (and extremely talented, of course) fellow. Anyway, along with a rapidly diminishing handful of other fans I hung around at the stage door in the vain hope that Alison might just put in an appearance. Will did - but quickly went on his way. I stayed for an hour until there was only me left, everyone else having gradually drifted away, before giving up and heading back to my nice warm hotel room... via the nearby KFC that's thankfully open until the wee small hours. Ah well - maybe I'll get to pay horticultural homage to Ms. Goldfrapp in person one day.
    As for the show itself: stunning! I loved every glorious moment. I especially enjoyed the AG/JG duet of Nancy & Lee's classic 'Some Velvet Morning', having been a massive Nancy Sinatra fan since I was four years old. (A long, long time ago!) I really enjoyed the performance by The Lips Choir too - reminded me of the choral work of another musical hero of mine: Philip Glass. Oh and it was great to see Will making one of his all too rare appearances.
    Here's hoping it isn't TOO long before Goldfrapp hit the road again. I'm missing 'em like mad already!
  • It was a very, very special night, wasn't it?

    I must admit that I didn't expect any great surprises, assuming that it was simply a way to round off the Tales of Us era (starting off at the Albert Hall with orchestra & choir; finishing at the Royal Albert Hall with orchestra & choir) and given that there's rarely much deviation from a tour setlist & often heard repertoire. So something a bit different was welcome & what we got was breathtaking.

    The social gathering always makes these gigs/events even more special and yesterday was no exception. Great to meet some frappers I hadn't met before and wonderful to meet well known stalwarts, once again. Absent friends were remembered, too.

    Laura & I were so lucky with our seats too. Row 10, right in the middle and with the two seats in front of us empty! A perfect view and the sound was simply brilliant. A combination of the acoustics, the sound mix, technology etc. no doubt, but whatever it was, I've never Alison so clearly at a gig, even when the band, orchestra and choir were in full flow.

    Perhaps that was part of the reason the impact of the songs was even greater than usual. I was highly emotional during most of the Tales of Us songs and 'Laurel', as ever, was a highlight. It was worrying at the beginning, though, when Alison didn't sing a line during 'Jo' and it was left to Angie to rescue the moment. Alison was clearly highly nervous and there were one or two other times where I wondered if she was going to be overwhelmed by the occasion. It's probably just as well 'Yellow Halo' wasn't on the setlist.

    Yet, for the most part, her vocals were unaffected and she sang beautifully. 'Utopia' was just sensational (the best I've ever heard it performed) and there was a great contribution from one of the sopranos in the choir.

    Those unexpected moments were the cherry on the icing on the cake, so to speak. The 54 female choristers performing 'Voicething' were superb and it was an inspired idea from Alison and Will to have this done in such a way.

    Then there was John Grant. Oh my word - brilliant. Such a perfect complement for Alison on 'Some Velvet Morning' and offering such rich but understated accompaniment on 'Monster Love' - perfect. I'm going to see him in Edinburgh on 29th. It would be nice if Alison was his guest that night! Plus Will on sax, again.

    Downsides? Apart from the tension when it seemed Alison might struggle to hold it together & the fact that we only got 'Black Cherry' for the encore, nothing that really mattered. It'll go down, for me, as one of the top Goldfrapp gigs (and I've been to 26 now). I can only hope there'll be more in two or three years time. That pause after she said that this will be the last gig....... for a long time anyway, set off alarm bells. Pray that she was just teasing us.

    Oh yes, one other downside. It was impossible to find a pub that was open for long after the gig.We managed to find one but it was only half an hour before they chucked us out. Lesson learned. We should all stay in a hotel with a residents' bar, just as in Manchester last year. Now that was the perfect way to round off a night.






  • I cant really add anything else to what others have said apart from it was bloody handsome  :x




    :D


    Actually, thanks for that.  It gave a good sense of things.
  • I'm looking forward to finding the time this evening to look at all the uploaded vids, thanks to people who went to the trouble . I know I missed an amazing night :( but it'll give me some comfort to look at those.
  • It was an incredible evening from start to finish. Lovely to meet the gang again in the pub beforehand and thanks for making my parents feel so welcome - they loved it!

    The gig left me speechless and like Hells_Bells I can't add anything further but I feel very lucky to have been there to witness it.

    Bring on the get together next year

    :D
    Post edited by LittleBird at 2014-11-20 03:27:28

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