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TAPFS moved to a new level tonight with the appearancee of Ian Cattell and Amy Smith joining the established members.

Here's the set list courtesy of Gareth:

Set 1

Shine on 1-5
What do you want from me
Time
Sheep
On the turning away {Brilliant}
Set the controls
Take it back
Brain damage/Eclipse

Set 2

Astronomy
Learning to fly
Great gig
Money
Us and them
Nobody home
Pigs
Gunners dream
Wish you were here
One of these days
Bricks 2
Comfortably numb

Encore

Hey you
Run like hell

What a great night. We're so pleased we came across. shame you guys didn't make it!!!!!

A couple of nice changes including Jason introducing the band.

New stage arrangement - more tomorrow

Mike and Big Dog

additional reporting - keats

Fanbloodytastic!

thats the exact same tracklist as the belfast gig, absolutely brilliant it was. for me, that was my 4th year in a row seeing them and I reckon that was the best gig!

As Marty has said, this was one of the best gigs I've seen them play. The addition of Ian is brilliant. It's like listening to Mr Gilmour himself. The new songs were great, especially Nobody Home, Gunners Dream and On the Turning Away. As usual there were people turning up late. There was one guy behind me who didn't get to his seat until 45 minutes into the show and he wasn't even there for the second half. And for the first time they let people bring drink in so there was a constant stream of people going in and out the bar, which was a bit of a pain. But I didn't let all that didn't spoil a great show.

Well done guys !!

OK - later the same morning, slightly hungover and tired.

We arrived about lunchtime yesterday and met up with bigdog, her majesty, H-C and Ian at Madigans for a few beers. Dublin city centre was heaving as, unbeknown to us beforehand, Ireland were playing Wales at footie. Bigdog led me astray again as usual and forced me to have four pints of black stuff before we went for a very nice meal in Flanagans.

Drifted up to the hotel in time for a shower and sadly another pint before we got a cab to the very impressive Point arena.

Unfortunately it didn't appear to be a sell out (apparently some bloke called Waters is there in a couple of weeks and some of the locals think he may be better than the Aussies!!!!) but only about 20% down on full capacity I reckon.

Ok, on to the gig..............

There was a completely new stage format....from left to right:-

Colin, Mike, Steve Mac, Damian, Ian and happily, Jason, front of stage right.

Behind Colin on a substantial podium (Ivory Tower???!!!!!! ) was Bonney but you could still only just see his eyes over the cymbals!!!!  Behind Ian where Jason used to be were the FOUR girls, because of course Amy has returned. So all in all there's now eleven band members on stage.

The set list was quite different from last year and a particular highlight was Set the controls......especially Mike giving it what for on a soprano sax - you couldn't miss him......he was the one wearing a 2 foot high green leprechaun hat with Guinness splashed across the front!!!!!!!  He was absolutely brilliant on that song - thanks Mike.

Mike actually had a very colourful evening, closing in SOYCD with a PINK sax!!!!!!

Another mention needs to go to Ian, who whilst he didn't play his bass, he sung on a good number of songs and was outstanding.

Great gig was performed by Ola and then Amy - beautifully sung as usual and nice to see it performed as a duo.

For me, On the turning away was a close second to Set the controls as my favourite song.

Having said that, there wasn't much to choose between any of the songs as the whole gig was fabulous and the WHOLE band gave, as usual, an outstanding and professional performance.

Two other new features were that Jason introduces the band (before Comfy i think! Hic!!!!) and then after the encore they all come together for a bow, which was really nice to see.

Finally, I want to finish by saying I had a great weekend with Mrs Mike and Keats plus of course it was really nice to have the excellent company of BigDog and Her Majesty - thanks to you all.

Steve and Anne have now left for the airport and I'm sure will be posting later on tonight.

It remains to be seen whether the set list will vary in the coming months, but it's hard to see how it could necessarily be improved!!!!!  ;D ;D

Off to the airport ourselves soon...............but perhaps just enough time for a final pint of the black stuff!!!!!!!!

regards to all and looking forward to seeing some of you at later gigs.

Mike


Edit

Sorry - forgot to mention some changes to the lighting and visuals. There was a row of what I would call 'spot lights' along the front of the stage for the full width and pointing out towards the audience and angled slightly upwards. These gave good effect. There is also a huge semi-circular 'screen' with lights all round as a backdrop. The familiar circular screen stands in front of this. Also, Bonney now has a glazed screen in front of his drums for the full width of 'his' stage area. The glass stands about 2 metres high. I don't know what it is for - but someone will tell me I'm sure!!

Mike...thanks so much for that! did you expect to not be lead astray by BD?
glad to hear you had a great time!

G.

I'm still pissed over cancelling my April trip >