rachelm wrote:
Hi
After the show someone near me was saying that they felt Nick (who had been very engaging and relaxed during the earlier part of the show) was less relaxed/happy for the rest of the show. It didn't come across that way to me but then, after Henry Lee, I was pretty much on Cloud 9 myself and may just have been oblivious.
Hi rachelm,
I'm just as excited as you are. I've hoped for this for years.
I've come across another review (in my futile search for video footage), which remarks that "something sparked in Cave" (after Henry Lee).
An excerpt and a link to the article:
"Then came Harvey’s appearance, prompted by an audience member asking Cave if he would duet with her. He hummed and hawed (“If it was the other way round, I’d be mortified”), but a magnificent rendition of murder ballad “Henry Lee” followed, Harvey initially sounding unpractised but growing in power as the song progressed.
Something sparked in Cave, and he ended the set playing with a hitherto absent intensity. Ironically, the first song of the evening had been “West Country Girl”, written about Harvey after they split up in the mid-1990s. As if illustrating Cave’s preoccupation with middle-aged male decline, tonight his ex-girlfriend stole the show. "
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cfcef82c-b74a ... ab49a.htmlThanks for sharing your experience.