Thomas Dolby on tour again!!!

[Rubellan]

I was also at the Cleveland show. I treated my sister. She was very impressed with the concert. I enjoyed it as well, though as the previous poster mentioned, it was too short.

The show opened with the excellent Leipzig, a long time favorite of mine. It was a one man show and it was interesting watching Dolby play with all of his gadgets, as well as trying to make sure he flipped his switches at the correct time. The sound in the venue was awful. I was in front of the left speaker, and it crackled all night like the speaker was starting to go bad, and it probably was. Dolby's dialogue between songs was very entertaining. He's got personality, unlike the mindless ramblings of Dale Bozzo on the rare occasion she actually turns up for a gig.
At one point Dolby commented on having only limited songs ready for the concert, though he treated us to a doodle of The Flat Earth. It was just some fun with the opening music, as he stated himself that he was too chicken shit to attempt the whole song.
The high point of the show for me was Europa, which was accompanied by shots of the promo video on the screen that filled the right side of the stage. Though I would have loved to have heard Radio Silence, this was a close second. The low point for me was the tedious Budapest by blimp. Thomas even announced at the start that the song was 8 minutes long. I did see two girls towards the front of the stage loving it so I guess it wasn't all bad.
When the obligatory She blinded me with Science was introduced, Dolby almost sounded as if he played it because he had to. To my surprise it didn't perk up the usually dull Cleveland crowd. If there's one song that usually makes these deadpan's wake it's usually "The Hit". Oh well, that's Cleveland.
After a brief disappearance, Dolby returned for the evening closer Airhead, which was a lot of fun.

All in all it was a very good show. I'd like to see him get a few more (old) songs into the set and come back again sometime.

Scott

[sarah]

Thomas Dolby played at the Erotic Exotic Ball in NYC last Saturday night/Sunday morning. He was joined on his last song (Hot Sauce) by George Clinton and a "special" guest [^]

He describes the show in his blog (June 20)

http://blog.thomasdolby.com/

and a fan has posted her thoughts and pictures in the forum:

http://forum.thomasdolby.com/viewtopic.php?t=474

sarah

ps TD will be back in NY the end of September

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00003CD3DDA04C5E

and the next day in Farmingdale (?State College?), as well as Boston and other USA venues Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec

[Frau_Blucher]

Great find sarah! I had a friend at that show who met TD while he was setting up for the set and got to hear two songs basically in a private audience! Sounds like it would have been a wild night, especially since the festivities didn't end until almost 2am. Well, wild or brutal depedning on your POV I suppose. I'd love to catch the upcoming Boston show if that does indeed pan out. We really really really need to get the Boston crew into the getogether act.

[schwenko]

I saw Thomas Dolby in concert for the 3rd time this year at The Canal Room in NYC. Great show, again. He actually bumped into me when he walked up to get on stage. A very enthusiastic audience.
He announced that he would be releasing a live dvd of his most recent concert tour, in November.
Here's a link to his Canal Room performance of "I Live In a Suitcase"

http://blog.thomasdolby.com/wp-content/ ... aseNYC.m4v

[schwenko]

The live dvd and cd are now available:

http://www.thomasdolby.com/