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Graham Coxon

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Review 1 for Graham Coxon

5 / 5

Best gig EVER

Queens Hall Edinburgh @

- Edinburgh @

- Thu 12 Nov 2009 @

Favourite moment: "Nah, that's too complicated a song for me" (Graham in response to request to play "Wonderwall") @

Setlist: Sequential rendering of tracks on Spinning top Encore of:- Latte, Live Line, Baby you're out of my mind, Oh babe it ain't no lie (Elizabeth Cotton/Davy Graham cover) @

Posted 13/11/2009

by cluttermeleon

Location: Glasgow

I wish this gig had gone on all night (although I'm not sure Graham would have liked that). I found myself wanting to shout "Mountain of Regret", "do some Nick Drake" etc. in the fantastic encore when he made my night by resurrecting some tracks from his much underrated album "Kiss of the Morning".

I absolutely loved the slightly old fashioned style of going through an album in its entirety (complete with theatre style intermission) and this album sounded simply amazing live-thanks in part to a great collection of musicians. Graham's vocals were on top form and for much of the gig he seemed very relaxed and really enjoying things.

The venue was perfect for the style of gig and the crowd were 99% fab. No talking over the quiet acoustic bits. Only marred by a couple of absolute scabbers who everyone wanted to kill for shouting "this is soooo boring". However, for the most part, I reckon titling it "Power Acoustic Ensemble" got rid of the Freakin' out/Blur requests (not that there was a complete absence of loud guitar-Dead Bees almost had me deaf!).

I may have embarrassed myself by (quietly) singing along to most of it but I couldn't help it. The only problem is singing along to them with my ipod will now suck in comparison (the experience, not my singing, which always sucks).

Queens Hall Edinburgh @

- Edinburgh @

- Thu 12 Nov 2009 @

Favourite moment: "Nah, that's too complicated a song for me" (Graham in response to request to play "Wonderwall") @

Setlist: Sequential rendering of tracks on Spinning top Encore of:- Latte, Live Line, Baby you're out of my mind, Oh babe it ain't no lie (Elizabeth Cotton/Davy Graham cover) @

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Review 2 for Graham Coxon

5 / 5

Coxon — Cool as folk

Wolverhampton Civic Hall @

- Wolverhampton @

- Fri 15 May 2009 @

Setlist: Look into the Light, This House, In the Morning, If You Want Me, Perfect Love, Brave the Storm, Dead Bees, Sorrow's Army, Caspian Sea, Home, Humble Man, Feel Alright, Far From Everything, Tripping Over, November ... and a Davey Graham song whose title I didn't catch. @

Opening act(s): Pete and the Pirates @

Posted 13/07/2009

by Lazytoad

Location: Dudley

Anyone expecting the raw shred of the bespectacled guitar slinger's early solo work, or the fizzing punk-pop singalongs of Freakin' Out and the like would have been in for a shock with this one. The release earlier in the week of Coxon's seventh solo outing The Spinning Top would have told everyone who'd had time to listen to it that our Gray had put the Telecaster on the back burner and immersed himself completely in the English folkiness that he has previously only dabbled with.

Few were expecting this show to consist of the new album, in order, from start to finish — with the temporarily tamed guitar hero sitting on a stool hunched over an acoustic and drinking from a teacup and saucer, with only a jazz drummer and a double bass player for company. But no one was disappointed.

The Spinning Top is a masterpiece; shot through with the golds and deep blues of an English summer, and Coxon's delicate, inventive picking, by his own admission influenced by the British folk revivalists of the sixties — Bert Jansch, John Martyn, Davey Graham — is on a par with any of them. But where those three may have been great players, Coxon has the not inconsiderable bonus of great songs too. And nothing was lost in the translation to the live stage.

In the Morning sounded like it's been around for fifty years or more, and everyone who hadn't yet heard the record must've been convinced it was a folk classic they'd somehow missed. Perfect Love, a jaunty singalong, had everyone, including a grinning Alex James over by the bar, bouncing on the balls of their feet. Sorrow's Army had them looking for the second guitarist. Surely nobody could play that many notes with just the two hands.

But the biggest cheers of the night came on the rare occasions when Coxon rose to strap on his electric — not because the folky stuff was lacking, far from it. But because for all but the tallest members of the audience, the bloke had been invisible until he got up off his stool and began to stagger around in that endearingly awkward way of his to the slightly louder selections, such as rumbling If You Want Me and the rolling Dead Bees. Needless to say, they were larger and livelier than the studio versions, and the one or two who had been calling for Freakin' Out didn't ask for it again once they'd had a bit of this.

Let's hope this Blur reunion doesn't keep him busy for too long.

Wolverhampton Civic Hall @

- Wolverhampton @

- Fri 15 May 2009 @

Opening act(s): Pete and the Pirates @

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Review 3 for Graham Coxon

1 / 5

Graham Coxon - Wolves Civic Bar

Wolverhampton Civic Hall @

- Wolverhampton @

- Fri 15 May 2009 @

Favourite moment: The End. @

Posted 11/07/2009

by Anonymous

Location: West Midlands

Maybe if you were a true Graham Coxon devotee you might have enjoyed this! As a causal Coxon fan I found this incredibly self indulgent, it felt like he was just causally strumming along with a couple of buddies at home. Visually there was nothing to see on stage as Coxon spent most of his time sitting down, and the songs were the equivalent of some of his artwork - unfinished doodles/sketches!

Wolverhampton Civic Hall @

- Wolverhampton @

- Fri 15 May 2009 @

Favourite moment: The End. @

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