MATTHEW NORTH MUSIC

Usually if Roger Waters was to go on tour I'd go to at least 2 shows. This time however I decided not to. Mostly because the sheer cost of hotels and travel is through the roof at the moment, never mind the ticket.  Secondly I didn't enjoy the 'Us and Them' show that much. After the sheer perfection of touring The Wall how can you top that ? well you simply can't. Also I found some of his band very lacklustre specifically the drummer who was nowhere in the same ball park as the outstanding Graham Broad (whom I spotted in the audience of the Hyde Park gig a few years ago). Now its not the first time on Seeing a Roger Waters show in the cinema but it was the first time seeing a 'Live' show. I say 'Live' but there is some kind of recording as its being shown at 8pm and as Prague is 1 hour ahead of the UK then there will have been an element of time delay.  The show started with the new arrangement of Comfortably Numb. and straight away something felt wr...

 I have literally seen the worst documentary on music that I have ever seen. And I mostly only watch music related TV.  “My name is Ottilie” Presented by a singer called Dana Masters whom I have to say I have never heard of.  Now there has never been a Docco about Ottilie before, and there has only been a couple that have been made about Chris Barber. The best being a Radio 2 Docco a few years ago.  The opening gabit of the whole thing was that that Ottilie was an unknown Blues singer. Firstly in her heyday she was more of a Jazz singer than a blues singer but I won’t split hairs about that. The point made that she was unknown couldn’t have been further from the truth. She was the singer in the biggest jazz band in the UK at the time. She sold a LOT of records both with the Barber band, and many solo releases. Though they were mostly Barber bands records where she took the title. Es the Paterson Girl Eps. She did make a couple solo records the album on Marmalade real...