[kj] forthcoming gigs

[Paul Rangecroft]

so you haven't left, then?! good.

i doubt they'll ever abondon the old stuff. i certainly hope not as
it's far too good. hard to imagine a gig without the staples of the
first album, at the very least.

yes, SBE was very much a celebration of the glorious back catalogue
but i suspect the reason they didn't play any new stuff is that it
wasn't ready or they couldn't be bothered to rehearse it!

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:54:03 +0000, iPat <pmdavies at gmail.com> wrote:
> i understand bands wanting to leave old songs in the past in order to
> promote new material, but that material needs to be able to stand on
> its own. While i feel that they have moved that way to my personal
> tastes i wonder if they can sell a tour on that alone.
> 
> Looking at the Bush gigs the average age must have been around the
> 40's mark and i would guess that a percentage of those there are still
> over-indulging in the old material, hence the 'sell out'. Then again
> it was a celebration of the past.
> 
> it would be prudent to keep old material around but with less emphasis
> to it, concentrating on performing new songs. All this of course
> depends on the strength of the new material and whether they have
> faith in it. If they are doing the festival circuit then they have the
> perfect opportunity to sell their album to a whole load of people who
> may not have heard them before.Whether the younger audiences will take
> to guys the age of their fathers i dunno.