Tom & Guy tour

[Shiperi]

After Midnight or Lady Midnight?

[Orpheus]

definitely after midnight, sorry

[strawberry blonde]

the show in antwerp yesterday was soooo brilliant...tom played the supertramp song he also did at De Nachten (i think it's called goodbye stranger), which was great, i really wanted to hear him play that again...and the two of them together were amazing, they played fantastically...ooh, i want to go back

[quinten]

The Antwerp show will be broadcasted on television (Canvas) on sunday at 13.00.
Probably not all of it though, seeing as the show lasted 1.40h or so and the program is only 1 hour.

[jonas]

This week they do "gorki"
maybe tokko next week ?

[Ziggy]

The Antwerp show will be broadcasted on television (Canvas) on sunday at 13.00.
Probably not all of it though, seeing as the show lasted 1.40h or so and the program is only 1 hour.

Recordings recordings recordings. Please!

[mickster]

The concert will be aired on sunday 7 december [this week it's gorky and next week it's hooverphonic] at 13.00 - 14.00. Here's the quote from the canvas website [in dutch]
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TOM BARMAN
In 1991 leert Tom Barman Stef Kamil Carlens kennen, het klikt meteen en samen met violist Klaas Janszoons, gitarist Rudi Trouvé en drummer Jules de Borgher vormen zij de groep dEUS. Zij schrijven zich in op Humo's Rockrally en belanden in de finale. De rest is geschiedenis: de band treedt op in België en Spanje en in 1994 verschijnt "Worst Case Scenario", één van de sterkste debuutalbums ooit. De plaat kende een geweldig succes in België, maar ook het buitenland liet zich niet onbetuigd: optredens op BBC, VPRO en MTV. Nadien volgden de grote festivals als Pukkelop, Lowlands en Werchter. De groep barst letterlijk van het talent, en ieder groepslid houdt zich bezig met zijn eigen project: Kiss My Jazz, Dead Man Ray en Zita Swoon. Frontman Tom Barman op zijn beurt keert terug naar zijn oude liefde, de cinema. Dit jaar verscheen zijn beklijvende "Any Way the Wind Blows", een Antwerpse "road movie" die niet moet onder doen voor de Amerikaanse klassiekers. Maar Tom blijft de muziek trouw, en samen met pianist Guy Van Nueten brengt hij intieme optredens met de songs die hij voor dEUS componeerde. Deze concerten bewijzen dat er onder het overrompelende gitaargeweld dikwijls een poëtische tekst schuilt. Daarom registreerden wij een concert van Tom Barman in een tempel van het woord, namelijk de Antwerpse Bourla Schouwburg. Kom dat zien!

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It was a good show i think, you could see/hear Tom was really enjoying this one. He also said he was quite nervous about playing in Antwerp again, 'cause it had been a while. And he was rather disappointed his mother wasn't there, she promissed according to Tom. It's a shame canvas will probably cut the funny discussions during the show.

For those who couldn't make it to Antwerp. There was a discussion when Tom started smoking and a woman shouted he should quit. In reply Tom told about a discussion between him and Guy about smoking on stage. Guy didn't want to promote cigarettes by smoking on stage, although he somethings feels silly just sitting behind his piano while Tom is playing a song on his guitar. Tom said he should smoke a cigarette while sitting there. I think Tom was right. He said he doesn't promote cigarettes by smoking on stage, that would be the same as saying he promotes black clothing by performing in black clothes. The discussion was stopped when someone else in the crowd shouted the should play songs instead of talking about cigarettes. Though that was kind of stupid. As if they would play fewer songs because of a discussion during the show. But that's my opinion, maybe I'm influenced by beeing a smoker myself.

Anyway, sorry for the long post.

cheerz-

[jyves]

Hello people, Tom & Guy were great indeed yesterday!

So they played:
There is a war (Cohen)
Magdalena
One Advice, Space (what a great version......)
River (Tom couldn't remember the words after the first verse and had to start again
River Man
Pink Moon
Serpentine (nice piano part by Guy)
Right As Rain (he first made sure his mom wasn't in the audience "Mummy? Mummy?")
My Funny Valentine
Instant Street... erh, no, he didn't like to play it at that moment so he played...
The Magic Hour instead
Luxury ("da's een nieuw nummer" - erh... I checked, he said the exact same thing at de Nachten in January 2001. Nevermind - great version, it's the same but played much better)
Le poinçonneur des lilas
Harry Irene (that's a really cool song, but at the end, Tom whistles, and erh... yesterday he just couldn't get the hang of it, more like blowing in the microphone, so he asked us for help and everyone started whistling - a nice, out-of-tune moment)
After Midnight
Instant Street (with cheering when the audience recognised the first lyrics - what kind of audience is that??? fans should say "Instant Street!" when they hear the first two chords!
Nothing Really Ends
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Everybody's Weird ("this is a song that just doesn't work live with the band, but sounds good like this" - again, he had to think about the words and I was about to shout "So everybody came" but then he started)
If You Don't Get What You Want (sounded much better than all full-band versions I've heard - also, Tom sings the second part of the song in a higher pitch)
Some Kinda Love ("Velvet Underground - third album - third song - fantastic lyrics" and then he looks like he can't remember the words hehe)
Guilty (Randy Newman) ("Is Klaas here? Not even??? This is a song for Klaas. He opened a bar some time ago, and the vodka they serve there... The dosis just isn't normal." the song is about a guy who goes home to his girlfriend totally drunk and drugged)
Fruit Tree ("Guy thinks it's the perfect song to end a concert")
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Louisiana ("A few days ago i played in holland - i introduced this as a song about floodings")
Goodbye Stranger
Memory of a Free Festival (at the end of the song when he sang "and we're gonna have a party, mmmmmmh" he stressed the MMMMMMMH part looking at Guy")

Superb set, Tom was reaaaally funny, the crowd cracked up all the time (I didn't understand everything so I delay-laughed).

[jyves]

By the way, did anything interesting happen after the gig? Had to leave early to catch the last train to BXL...

[SpiderGrinder]

Guilty (Randy Newman) ("Is Klaas here? Not even??? This is a song for Klaas. He opened a bar some time ago, and the vodka they serve there...

oh i thought he said that there was a party at klaas' bar last night and that there was a lot of vodka maybe im wrong, cause i was sitting on the balcony, had a pretty view though!

oh and me and miss lynsey staid at the afterparty till 3:40 at night or something. it was fun, though the music was crap. tom was dj'ing and aldo as well, and some old man that i didnt know haha

i had to puke the next morning, think i drank too much red wine

[SpiderGrinder]

oh i just remember that we staid till the end of that party, alcohol

[jyves]

Hey Spider, you certainly know what Tom said better than I do, I'm a French speaker - so if you say he said party, he said party then

[kato]

i'm still speechless after the tom & guy concert... because of the vulnerable and beautiful songs, i had tears running down my cheeks...

[koen@vandriessen.com]

great concert (my review )
the concert review by jyves follows
here's the setlist of the vooruit , http://www.rabbitfield.com/stuff/barman_vooruit.jpg

[jyves]

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Eh eh indeed Koen Sooo where should I start? Erh.... It was even better than the Antwerpen gig. Fewer jokes, but Tom played better, and at least I wasn't sitting in that damn loge

The setlist was different from the one you scanned, boy - I'll check later, but as a first encore, he played Everybody's Weird, Little Arithmetics & then Instant Street, all on his own, a nice acoustic dEUS moment.

Tom joked about "some French speakers who say I speak too much Dutch and should speak French or English instead - and I've invited those people", I was like, wow, shit, he's talking about me, and going all red on the face, but he was actually referring to some cool girls sitting right to my left.

Also introduced One Advice Space as "a song we 're not able to play live. The reason is called Danny Mommens" - LOVED IT

About River: "I totally messed it up two days ago, but the people were very patient. And they say Antwerpenaars are the intolerant ones...."

About Harry Irene: "This is a song about a couple called Harry Irene" - then, he said "Harry en Irene" à la flamande.

He's a nice entertainer methinks. Oh, when at the end he said "we have two more: a Bowie and a Newman. Which one d'you want first? Requests?", I tried to shout 2:45AM, but my voice is totally broken so I sounded funny.

Errrrh... what else? I talked with dEUS's manager Christian Pierre afterwards, he's a big JJ Cale fan. Told me that the 2004 tour would probably kick off in August with some festival dates (Pukkelpop?) before embarking on a full-fledged autumn tour! The AWTWB DVD will be released in March or April and will come with a subtitled making-of. And erh..... damn my memory. Oh yeah: Magnus album out on January 24. (And Jules is out for good)