2017-03-17 Alexandra Palace

[amhilde]

Wow - that was a doozy of a show!

I was up on the rail just about in front of Karl and they seemed really up for it. Loved the setlist tweaks compared to last year - no sag in the middle but still played some good slow-ish songs in there. New lighting rig descending scared the living crap out of me at first but the lighting was really decent, much more so than last year.

I was chatting with some friends up front and folks around us and wasn't focusing too much on Rick's set, but Other Half got a good photo of him at the console. I thought the overall idea was really good, though some more dancy tunes would have been great, especially the closer they got to show time!

Someone near me was saying that the Utrecht shows were a warm up for this one, but that seems like a lot of effort for one gig. If thats true then it really paid off because it was pretty epic.

BTW - where was Pricey?