| |
Chris
Conway - |
vocals,
acoustic 9 string guitar, keyboards, kalimba, tin whistles, bamboo
flute, theremin. |
Neil
Segrott - |
bass,
vocals |
| Neil
Rabjohn - |
cajon
drum |
+
special guests |
. |
Vikki
Clayton - |
vocals, guitar 11-13 |
| Dan
Britton - |
acoustic
guitar, vocals, bodhran - 18-27 |
Adele
McMahon - |
violin - 24-27 |
| The
Audience - |
vocals
- 9 |
Set
1 |
| solo |
1 |
Entrance |
2 |
River
Blue |
3 |
Alien Salad Abduction |
4 |
Wonder |
5 |
Help Me |
6 |
Rainbow
Real |
| +
trio |
7 |
Green
Clothes |
8 |
I
Don't Know |
9 |
Three
Headed Girl |
10 |
Forget
About You |
| +
trio & Vikki Clayton |
11 |
Ten
Years |
12 |
I
Want Something |
13 |
Coming
In To Land |
| theremin
interludes |
14 |
Theremin
Tidings |
15 |
Planet
Theremin Interlude |
50mins |
| Set
2 |
| solo |
16 |
Re-Entrance |
17 |
Proud
Of You |
| +
trio & Dan Britton |
18 |
Carousel |
19 |
Long
Day's Waiting |
20 |
Finally |
21 |
Train
Of Thought |
22 |
Lifespell |
23 |
Call Of The Wild |
| +
Govannen |
24 |
King
Of The Faeries |
25 |
Queen
of the May - The Congress |
26 |
Deja
Blues |
27 |
The
Alien Jellyfish Song |
| solo
encores |
| 28 |
Homecoming |
| 29 |
Survivors |
58mins |
| bonus |
| . |
Christo
Remembers |
23mins |
Chris
Conway - |
vocals,
9 string guitar, keyboards, tin & low Irish whistles,
kalimbas, bamboo flute, theremin, effects |
Neil
Segrott - electric
bass, vocals |
Neil
Rabjohn - cajon
drum |
| +
special guests |
| Dan
Britton - |
guitar,
vocals, bodhran - 3, 11, 12, 14-18 |
Vikki
Clayton - vocals,
acoustic guitar - 7, 8
Adele
McMahon - violin
17, 18
The
Audience - vocals - 10 |
 |
|
Set 1
Set 2
|
Chris
Conway's 20th Anniversary Concert celebrating 20 years in showbusiness
A magical concert focussing
on his songs recorded live at The Musician, Leicester, UK. 108
minutes of concert footage and a 23minute bonus feature.
|
background
Throughout
my 20th year I
tried to think of ways to mark the occasion. I had concerts through
the year, and I'd planned on making a "greatest hits live"
album from those recordings. Then I realised one thing I hadn't
got much of was video footage, not just of me but of the many
musician chums I've been playing music with for so long.
So I decided to do it all at one concert - put on a concert with
as many music chums as could make it - record the music on multitrack,
and have it filmed on 2 cameras.
Much mixing and editing later and I got the album and the dvd
in the bag!
I struggled for a long time as to how much to put on the dvd -
eventually Neil Segrott the bass player said - "Just put
it all on" - so I kept all the tracks. As it seemed a bit
of a marathon I devided the dvd up into the 2 sets.
|
influences
David
Crosby, John Sebastian, Alan Stivell, Paul Kantner, Country Joe
McDonald, Jesse Colin Young, Buffy Sainte-Marie, James Taylor,
Jimmy Webb
|
trivia
Sound
recorded live digitally on 8 track hard disk recorder, mixed and
mastered at Oblong Studios. Visuals filmed on 2 cameras by Dave
Soden & crew and edited and designed by Sally Hossack. Bonus
footage filmed on Chris's Flip Ultra camcorder.
A highlights CD is alvailable - Love & Peace & Outer Space
Studio versions of tracks - Studio versions of tracks -
Proud Of You, I Don't Know, Train Of Thought - My Mind's Island album
Alien Salad Abduction, Alien Jellyfish Song - Planet Theremin - Alien Salad Abduction album
Lifespell, Forget About You, Homecoming - Close The Circle album
Finally - Songs For Dreamers album
Call Of The Wild, Carousell - Just Be Real, Long Day's Waiting - Just Be Real album with Dan Briton
Coming In To Land, I Want Something - Flying Home album
CC's
fave track -Three Headed Girl
|
reviews
CHRIS
CONWAY
In Concert DVD (OBLONG) www.chrisconway.org
Celebrating
twenty years as a professional musician, In Concert DVD captures
Chris Conway on stage at The Musician in Leicester, a town the
American multi-instrumentalist has called home these past two
decades and more.
Joined
at various points in the evening by regular collaborators Neil
Segrott (bass, vocals), Neil Robjohn (cajon), Vikki Clayton
(vocals, guitar), Dan Britton (guitar, vocals, bodhran) and
Adele McMahon (violin), Conway and his team rattle through a
wide-ranging selection of material from his past and present.
It’s a showcase for the hugely prolific and vastly underrated
(he’s Leicester’s best-kept musical secret) performer, whether
singing his light and airy West Coast-style compositions, assorted
material infused with more exotic world and Celtic influences,
or indulging in his mad professor-like experiments with the
theremin; spooky …
In
addition to the 108 minutes of music, there’s a twenty-three-minute
extra featuring the main man reminiscing.
R2 Magazine - Dave White
CHRIS
CONWAY
The Musician, Leicester
For
the celebration of his twenty years as a professional musician,
Chris Conway has rounded up friends and associates from all
stages and phases of his career and his set list and instrumentation
is equally wide-ranging. Filk (science fiction-based folk music,
a genre in which Conway is very successful), Irish diddley diddley
folk and plain old singer-songwriter pieces all makes regular
appearances, though his more-esoteric electronic leanings are
kept down to a single excursion on theremin.
Lyrics
of the likes of ‘Carousel’ and ‘Train Of Thought’ act as a
powerful and thought-provoking counterpoint. The gig is
being filmed for a DVD, which leads to much entertaining hamming
it up, staged entrances and applause from the large and warm
crowd.
Highlights
include special guest Vikki Clayton, Conway’s playing of two
whistles at once tour de force on his own ‘Rainbow Real’ and
the reliably silly and entertaining ‘Alien Jellyfish Song’. Yet it’s not only a measure of Conway’s professionalism that
it all does ultimately come together, but also of the esteem
in which he’s held that the crowd don’t drift off as the clock
approaches midnight. It feels more like a gathering of old
friends than a commercial gig, and that can only be a good
thing.
R2
Magazine - Jeremy Searle
concert review |
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