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Date Posted: 20:14:46 11/29/02 Fri
Author: lenair
Subject: Re: Bob Geldof live at the Rehearsal Hall
In reply to: Louise 's message, "Bob Geldof live at the Rehearsal Hall" on 06:42:51 11/25/02 Mon

John Doyle of the Globe and Mail has a preview review of this show -- and I quote:

"Bob Geldof Live at the Rehearsal Hall (Saturday, Bravo!, 8 p.m.) features another Irish rocker who became far more than a pop star. Geldof will never escape his reputation as pragmatic saint who raised tens of millions of dollars for the starving and actually saved lives. He started an entire era of social awareness in showbiz with Live Aid. More recently, the highly public separation from his wife Paula Yates began a heartbreaking saga that ended with her suicide after her lover Michael Hutchence had died in an apparent suicide. Geldof is a complicated, shrewd man who is now more businessman than rocker, but he came to Toronto a few months ago to promote a new, rare album and for this low-key concert.

"He opens with the best song he's ever written, The Great Song of Indifference. It's a work of immense irony that essentially says, "I don't care" and includes the lines "I don't care if the Third World fries/It's hot out there/I'm not surprised." Coming from a man who cared more than anyone, it's unnerving. Geldof has returned to his Irish roots in the music, with a fiddle and an accordion accompaniment. But there will always be more to Geldof than the music. Here, host Lance Chilton isn't really equipped to interview a man as articulate and caustic as Geldof, but this is a great concert by a strange and admirable man."

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[> Re: Bob Geldof - Rehearsal Hall - Another Globe review -- lenair, 08:49:45 11/30/02 Sat

The Globe and Mail TV Guide has also spotlighted this concert (by Catherine Dawson March). And I quote:

"Bob Geldof played two concerts in Toronto last September, the one anyone could buy tickets to at the Music Hall [sic], and this intimate, invitation-only performance. As usual, Geldof offers an entertaining hour of music and conversation, even if the conversation occurs only in snippets officiated by lightweight host Lance Chilton. Geldof reveals a Canadian connection that's not widely known and talks about the heartbreak that helped him write his new album, Sex, Age & Death. He performs songs from the new album and includes older tunes such as The Great Song of Indifference and I Don't Like Mondays."

There's also a picture with caption: "Geldof doesn't gild the pain and depression that led to his new release, Sex, Age & Death"


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[> [> Re: Bob Geldof - Rehearsal Hall - Another Globe review -- MJ, 18:56:26 12/01/02 Sun

I captured the show on my computer, but it crashed in the middle of it, so I'm missing 1/4 of the show. Good thing I don't trust my computer, and I also used the good old VCR 8-)
Anyways, I'll encode the part I'm missing and compress the show to MPEG format. Anyone that has a high speed connection and would like to download it from me, just send me an Email and we'll arrange a date and time...


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