Was honoured to see Clannad at Warsaw Stodoła for their Evening Show yesterday (many thanks to whoever put the above video on Youtube so quickly). Earlier on, due to ticket demand and a huge fount of human kindness, the band had played an Afternoon Show for all the people who failed to get a ticket for the Evening Show. Yes, Clannad are truly tremendous people.
First saw Clannad in the late1980s at Manchester Apollo, and caught them at the same place in the mid-1990s on the 'Lore' tour. However, last night, they were possibly better than ever doing a perfect balance of their early Traditional Gaelic songs and later English tunes.
The highlights of the night for me last night were 'Dulaman' (the 'Seaweed' Song) and 'The Theme From Harry's Game'. Really surprised to be saying this, as I have more favourite Clannad tunes than these two, but last night, the band just seemed to 'nail' these two songs perfectly. Also really liked the 'Robin Hood' medley which is also not my favourite Clannad material.
Another nice surprise was that I was about seven rows from the front in the audience (I had expected to be seven rows from the back) so I was able to have a crack at getting some (semi-) reasonable shots on my mobile. Love doing this because you never know how the things are going to turn out until you get back home on the computer. Was really happy with the shot below in particular:
Good to see that someone has put their video of Clannad doing 'Closer To Your Heart' from the Evening Show at Warsaw Stodoła on Youtube:
Despite doing two shows in one day, the band spent quite some time afterwards signing CDs; posters; programmes etc., and this wasn't just a case of selling their stuff, as they went out of their way to have a genuine good few words with everybody who came up to them. Thus, finally, below, there is a side-on shot of Maire and Pol Brennan chatting with members of the audience afterwards.
Yes, being a bit of a sociologist, I was really happy to get this shot, less so the woman on the right whose job it seemed was to 'growl' at anybody trying to get a shot of the band members (guess that this was just part of the protocol). She doesn't look 'best happy' though, does she?
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