Stunning rock photography in Birmingham

Birmingham’s Snap Galleries has an exciting season of rock photography coming up:


1. Art Kane - Visionary Portraits 1958-68 now on show

2. Eric Meola - New Bruce Springsteen photographs

3. Elvis Presley from 1956 by Alfred Wertheimer

4. Lawrence Watson - Britpop icons and more

5. Art Fairs in London and Harrogate in March 2008

6. Bob Dylan from 1966 by Barry Feinstein - next exhibition

Snap Galleries Limited, Unit 7 - Ground Floor, Fort Dunlop, Fort Parkway, Birmingham B24 9FD. Tel: 0121 748 3408/from US: 011 44 121 748 3408.

www.snapgalleries.com




Gerry Smith

Dylan in Europe – Copenhagen last night

Thanks to: Mary, Tomas, Christian, Suzanne, Jon, Gustav, Per, Brian, Karl, Sven.

Last night in Copenhagen Dylan broke the run of samey setlists, introducing five new songs to the tour, and raising the number of different songs on the tour to 31, after only five shows - as you’d expect from the man with the most prodigious high quality songbook in the history of music. Highlight: Visions Of Johanna. Lo-light: Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum.


* Setlist - latest show – Copenhagen, Monday 2 April:

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Man In The Long Black Coat
Watching The River Flow
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
When The Deal Goes Down
Highway 61 Revisited
Visions Of Johanna
Rollin' And Tumblin'
Desolation Row
Spirit On The Water
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Nettie Moore
Summer Days
Like A Rolling Stone
Thunder On The Mountain
All Along The Watchtower


* Tour debuts in latest show:

Desolation Row
Man In The Long Black Coat
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Visions Of Johanna


* All songs played on the tour so far:

All Along The Watchtower (5)
It's Alright, Ma (5)
Like A Rolling Stone (5)
Rollin' And Tumblin' (5)
Summer Days (5)
Thunder On The Mountain (5)

Highway 61 Revisited (4)
Nettie Moore (4)
Tangled Up In Blue (4)
Watching The River Flow (4)
When The Deal Goes Down (4)

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (3)
Cat's In The Well (3)
Spirit On The Water (3)

Country Pie (2)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (2)
Girl Of The North Country (2)
Honest With Me (2)

Desolation Row
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
It Ain't Me, Babe
Lay Lady Lay
Man In The Long Black Coat
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
Not Dark Yet
Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Tears Of Rage
To Ramona
Things Have Changed
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Visions Of Johanna


* Different songs (5 shows): 31


* Itinerary:

April:
4 Hamburg
5 Münster
6 Brussels
8 Amsterdam
9 Amsterdam
11 Glasgow
12 Newcastle
14 Sheffield
15 London
16 London
17 Birmingham
19 Düsseldorf
20 Stuttgart
21 Frankfurt
23 Paris
25 Geneva
26 Turin
27 Milan
29 Zürich
30 Mannheim

May:
2 Leipzig
3 Berlin
5 Herning


* Gigs already played
March
27 Stockholm;
28 Stockholm;
30 Oslo
April:
1 Gothenburg
2 Copenhagen



Gerry Smith

New Dylan, Young, Morrison, Mitchell, Cohen product – 1970s re-run for Boomer rock fans

A fevered new release programme is making early 2007 seem like a re-run of the 1970s, with all the big beasts in the rock jungle stirring again:

* Dylan – Don’t Look Back de luxe DVD

* Neil Young – Live At Massey Hall; Archive series due to start

* Van Morrison – At The Movies compilation CD

* Joni Mitchell – new album, Shine, already being touted; remastered de luxe versions of the cream of her mid-‘70s albums set for release

* Leonard Cohen – de luxe versions of early albums imminent.

Music for Grown-Ups doesn’t go in for nostalgia, but even nostalgia has its moments.


Gerry Smith

Dylanesque – BBC radio interview, music mag profile and London gig review

You’d have to be pretty careless to have missed the UK release of Dylanesque, Bryan Ferry’s new album of Bob covers. It’s been everywhere - if I’d been doing the PR, I’d be delighted with the album’s exposure.

Latest sightings include:

* Mark Radcliffe (Ferry fan and the brightest button on BBC Radio) interviews the enigmatic Byron about Dylanesque in tomorrow night’s show, Tuesday 2230 GMT, BBC Radio 2. You can listen on the web as it’s broadcast (and for seven days thereafter).

www.bbc.co.uk/radio2



* Observer Music Monthly profile: Thanks to Martin Cowan: “More from Bryan Ferry in yesterday's Observer Music Monthly:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2033516,00.html



* And Ferry’s well-received promo tour reached London with a sell-out at London’s Albert Hall. Review from The Independent here:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article2369594.ece


Gerry Smith