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Date Posted: 14:56:18 09/21/02 Sat
Author: Janet
Subject: Geldof in Toronto at the Palais Royale

Awesome.


3rd row centre for most of the night. Dancing by the stage the rest of the time. 10 feet from him at one point.

Thank you to whoever did the poor promo for this show. I felt bad for him not getting a huge crowd, but those who were there -- and there were some fans from the Rats days there -- were given a real treat. It was really intimate. So intimate Bob took requests even when he couldn't remember the words and had to "la-la-la" along.

Very, very, very funny -- razor-sharp wit,
self-deprecating. Shot great come-backs at those who called out to him.

Treated to 2 1/2 hours of highly energetic punk and celtic rock. Three encores. There wasn't a tune I didn't like. Three songs from the new CD, done together were wrenching for him to do, an honour for us to experience.

By far the best gig I've ever been to and I've been going to gigs for 20+ years.

Can't believe I was there.

Janet

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[> Re: Geldof in Toronto at the Palais Royale -- Gypsy, 15:26:34 09/21/02 Sat

That's great. I'm so glad it was a good gig :) I've seen him twice this year so far. One was an intermate indoor gig and I was front row and got to rst my head on the stage and just look up at him then he reached down to m when he was on stage and it was just so increadible then I saw him at an outdoor gig and it was 9.30pm the gig started and there was a huge thunder and lightening storm. It was increadable and every time the lightening lit up the sky the crowd cheered. We were all freezing and wet and had been miserable and complaining until Bob came on but the second he came on stage no one was cold or cared about therain anymore.

What an amazing guy ad I'm looking foward to seeing more gigs later this year.

I know excactly what you mean about his gigs

>Awesome.
>
>
>3rd row centre for most of the night. Dancing by the
>stage the rest of the time. 10 feet from him at one
>point.
>
>Thank you to whoever did the poor promo for this show.
>I felt bad for him not getting a huge crowd, but those
>who were there -- and there were some fans from the
>Rats days there -- were given a real treat. It was
>really intimate. So intimate Bob took requests even
>when he couldn't remember the words and had to
>"la-la-la" along.
>
>Very, very, very funny -- razor-sharp wit,
>self-deprecating. Shot great come-backs at those who
>called out to him.
>
>Treated to 2 1/2 hours of highly energetic punk and
>celtic rock. Three encores. There wasn't a tune I
>didn't like. Three songs from the new CD, done
>together were wrenching for him to do, an honour for
>us to experience.
>
>By far the best gig I've ever been to and I've been
>going to gigs for 20+ years.
>
>Can't believe I was there.
>
>Janet


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[> [> Re: Geldof in Toronto at the Palais Royale -- RS Wayment, 22:52:22 09/21/02 Sat

Wow! I already couldn't wait to see him IN 1 WEEK!!!!!--but reading your posts, I can't wait....even more!


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[> Re: Geldof in Toronto at the Palais Royale -- Julie, 11:26:22 10/03/02 Thu

>Poor promo? You have to be nuts. I saw Bob everywhere - MuchMusic, the front page of the Globe and Mail, Bravo, The Star, The Sun, a GREAT review in Eye, and that's not counting the ads in Now and Eye... Although I'm a huge fan, and loved the show, I was dead on as to how many people there would be there - honestly, now, - a lot of my friends don't even know he hasn't done anything since Live Aid, frankly, and don't care to spend $40 on tickets unless it's Bon Jovi or other crap spewing from the radio these days.

Each concert I go to these days has less and less casual fans and more hardcore fans - it's getting to be expensive to see shows, so it's not like tickets were $5 and anyone with a curosity factor would go, if only to see the "Live Aid" Geldof.

If I was in the media, I'd love to sit and talk with him and do an interview, but it seems in looking around at the stories online and posted here, Bob's time on this tour has been very small and I'm sure he can't do all the requests that come in.

At least we fans knew he was coming and saw one great show!


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[> [> Re: Geldof in Toronto at the Palais Royale -- Janet, 12:59:03 10/03/02 Thu

Yeh. Poor promo on the locals parts.

People I spoke to at the show felt they'd found out by accident and were lucky to be looking in the right place or they'd have missed him. I found out because the original booking at the Music Hall got listed in the Festival Cinemas schedule at the beginning of September.

The newspaper articles, right up to show day, kept saying he was playing the Music Hall, not the Palais Royale. Only the 1/12 page ad in Now seemed to have it right.

I just wonder how many more hard cores there were that either showed up at the Music Hall or found out too late to come. It just seems to me the concert didn't get the same advanced coverage as some of Bob's contemporaries' shows have gotten.


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