TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

RT has announced Autumn tour dates. Tickets on sale from 10.00am tomorrow. www.udiscovermusic.com/news/richard-thompson-13-rivers-tour

October:

Thu 11: Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall
Sat 13: Perth Concert Hall
Mon 15: Canterbury, Marlowe
Tue 16: London, Barbican
Wed 17: Bath, Forum
Thu 18: Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall
Sat 20: Stoke on Trent, Victoria Hall
Sun 21: Manchester, Opera House
Mon 22: York, Grand Opera House
Tue 23: Hull, City Hall
Wed 24: Gateshead, Sage
Fri 26: Birmingham, Town Hall
Sat 27: Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
Sun 28: Oxford, New Theatre
Tue 30: Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Wed 31: Salisbury City Hall.

November:

Thu 1: Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion
Fri 2: High Wycombe Swan
Sat 3: Woking, The New Victoria.

Booked for the Phil Liverpool!

Thanks for the heads up on the tour.

Yes, thank you indeed. Fourth row back in Manchester booked.

me too

Goodness! Cliffs Pavilion, Southend! Booked!  ;D

I’ve just booked for the gig in Richmond on 23rd August.  Still quite a few tickets left.  Richard is doing a few other concerts in August, in between the various summer festivals.  Not sure if the details have actually been posted here yet.  Anyway, the full list can be found here:
http://www.richardthompson-music.com/tour-dates/

*Sigh* It's been more than 5 years since he performed in Austin and it doesn't look as though we'll see him in 2018, either.

He came as close as San Antonio last year (100 miles give or take), but he was opening for red-hot Jason Isbell and tickets sold out in no time flat.

I never thought that Richard would be an opening act for someone else these days!

Tony

And very good it was too! Totally impressed esp by RT's magnificent drummer Michael Jerome

Saw him at Stoke at the weekend (half empty venue, sadly). An excellent show, as we've come to expect. Although I think there is a massive Pete Zorn shaped hole in RT's live shows (and recordings, come to that.)

Highlights included an epic Can't Win, a different approach to MOTL, a nice surprise in Dry My Tears and Move On, and a forceful Put it There Pal. Could have lived without Guitar Heroes, though. Interesting to hear Tale in a Hard Time, but it's pretty obvious why FC apparently never played it live.

Michael Jerome - what a drummer. I think it's instructive that RT stood to one side - he was effectively centre stage.  Great night, anyway.

Oh, and the support was good as well - kind of a gentler Gillian Welch. Very nice.

Met RT and Michael Jerome  outside Hull City Hall , have to echo comments about Michael , stunning player
I'd say everybody was on top form , the crew got a good sound in a  tricky venue and provided good lighting  , the musicians held nothing back and the crowd were fully appreciative , the support act well worth catching
Great gig RT , here's to many more
Peter

I thought the sound at Hull City Hall was poor at the start (I was in the balcony) but improved as the concert got going. Great gig nonetheless.

Looking forward to our trip to sunny Southend for RT’s concert this weekend.  I hope it will be warm enough for a Rossi’s ice cream on the esplanade.  Unless it is about 6 degrees below zero, it will be…

seeing him on Sunday in Oxford  :D

It was so warm today, lunch in the garden, t.shirt weather, Saturday is looking rather different!!

See you there.  :)

Just been to The Sage, Gateshead. A great mix of new and old songs, acoustic and electric. The band truly seemed to be having fun and enjoying the gig. Including the guitar tech guy joining them for some songs.

RT is a genius, he can do no wrong in my eyes. For me, the acoustics with him and his guitar alone are the highlights. But I love the band stuff and big electric numbers, too, he is still rocking and his voice is in amazing nick.

We agreed, the drummer is amazing.

Quite a trip!

We shall be there too!

Yaay!

I would walk 500 miles to see RT...but I drove 730 miles (round trip) instead.

Worth every mile!

Don't miss the support act , partly because you've paid to see them , but that might just be a Yorkshire thing , but mostly because Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg are terrific artists and fully worth your attention .Big queue at the end of their set for merchandise , so it can't just be me

They were really great...I felt I would have liked to hear some of their music and get to know it before seeing them live again.

I like how they play guitar in harmony rather than one being lead and one rhythm. She has a beautiful voice...I had hoped she might join RT for something like a Heart Needs a Home with a male/female duet!

How right you are.  She has a lovely voice.  Sadly, they weren’t selling any merch at Southend, because the theatre wanted to take too large a slice of their sales.  The Cliffs Pavilion was a lovely venue, but the staff were rather officious.  The usherettes were buzzing round all evening, stopping people taking photographs, etc.

A great performance as usual from RT.  After playing ‘Wall of Death’, he mentioned that the lyrics were inspired by his childhood memories of the Kursaal Gardens.  You can get a brief glimpse of the actual Wall of Death in this clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo57RLz46gk   The WoD appears at about 3.30.  
By coincidence, we had wandered round the Kursaal building in the afternoon.  It has a plaque stating that the Kursaal had the first female lion tamer in the country and the first female wall-of-death rider!

RT is due to appear at the Kerrville Folk Festival (a short distance southwest of Austin) on May 26, making his first Austin-adjacent appearance since 2013 (6 long years).

He's come near since then, opening for Jason Isbell in San Antonio recently, but for reasons I can't fathom we fell off his regular concert rounds.  He dropped off Bonnie Raitt's recent tour before she got here.  I will most likely make the trek, and if the opportunity presents I'll ask why we don't see him more often.