Squeeze

[manimanc]

They didn't do a bad track

The BBC haven't put it on the iplayer yet.
Everyone else from yesterday seems to be on.

 

[manclad]

They didn't do a bad track

Me and the wife have tickets to see them at The Apollo in October so we're hoping that they go through their back catalogue.
The only Squeeze song that I don't particularly like is " Labelled With Love".
Although it tells a good story,it's a bit slow and laboured for my liking, but other than that one song,I think all their other tunes are great.

 

[beehive_bob]

One of the best singer- songwriting partnerships ever. Seen them a few times over the past 5-6 years and never disappoint. Easy to forget just how many great tunes they have

 

[manclad]

Me and the wife have tickets to see them at The Apollo in October so we're hoping that they go through their back catalogue.
The only Squeeze song that I don't particularly like is " Labelled With Love".
Although it tells a good story,it's a bit slow and laboured for my liking, but other than that one song,I think all their other tunes are great.

Bump.
We went to The 02 Apollo last night and as you might expect Glen and Chris put on a top class performance along with the other newer and younger members of Squeeze.
They were on stage from 20.35 hrs until 22.20 hrs and they played non stop during that 1.75 hrs.
There were a couple of new songs that I hadn't heard before,and 2/3 album tunes from East Side Story and Argy Bargy that I didn't know,but they played approximately 18/20 hit songs that everyone in the audience could sing along to,and Chris encouraged everybody to stand up and party along , particularly in the 2nd half of the show.


They had Badly Drawn Boy as the support act,and although he performed songs for about 45 minutes,I didn't know a single one of them,so he was really disappointing as far as I was concerned.
We haven't been to any concerts at all for about 25 years,so we were a bit surprised that the acts on stage don't seem to do an encore anymore.
When we used to go regularly back in the 90s, each act would keep 2 or 3 songs unperformed,and would finish their repotoire,and go off stage ,and then the audience would be chanting" More,More,More" until they would reappear on stage and then do another 3/4 songs which would leave everyone in raptures.

Also ,as a by word, we parked just around the corner from the Apollo,near to Chancellor Lane on the road for free, and there was plenty of on street parking available in the general area around Ardwick Green if anyone else is going to The Apollo in the near future.
Edit - The band are supporting Trussell Trust during the current tour and they are asking for either food parcels or cash donations at the start of each show, so we put a tenner in one of the collection tins.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Bump.
We went to The 02 Apollo last night and as you might expect Glen and Chris put on a top class performance along with the other newer and younger members of Squeeze.
They were on stage from 20.25 hrs until 22.20 hrs and they played non stop during that 1.75 hrs.
There were a couple of new songs that I didn't heard before,and 2/3 album tunes from East Side Story and Argy Bargy that I didn't know,but they played approximately 18/20 hit songs that everyone in the audience could sing along to,and Chris encouraged everybody to stand up and party along , particularly in the 2nd half of the show.


They had Badly Drawn Boy as the support act,and although he performed songs for about 45 minutes,I didn't know a single one of them,so he was really disappointing as far as I was concerned.
We haven't been to any concerts at all for about 25 years,so we were a bit surprised that the acts on stage don't seem to do an encore anymore.
When we used to go regularly back in the 90s, each act would keep 2 or 3 songs unperformed,and would finish their repotoire,and go off stage ,and then the audience would be chanting" More,More,More" until they would reappear on stage and then do another 3/4 songs which would leave everyone in raptures.

Also ,as a by word, we parked just around the corner from the Apollo,near to Chancellor Lane on the road for free, and there was plenty of on street parking available in the general area around Ardwick Green if anyone else is going to The Apollo in the near future.
Edit - The band are supporting Trussell Trust during the current tour and they are asking for either food parcels or cash donations at the start of each show, so we put a tenner in one of the collection tins.

I can’t recall who it was (most likely Psychedelic Furs or Billy Idol) a few years ago when Richard Butler or Idol said “this is the time of the show where we go off, I change shirt, have a quick drink, you clap like mad and cheer for more, we keep you hanging on while I go for a piss and then come back on. So we’ll cut most of that out. We’re going to stand in that corner while you pretend we’ve left the stage and clap us back on”.
The band stood in the corner of the stage where we could see them, laughing whilst we all clapped and cheered for about 6 seconds and they took their positions again for 2 more songs.

 

[oakiecokie]

Never seen Squeeze but have seen one of their original members, Jools Holland 4 times and he is excellent with his big band.

 

[Crouchinho]

Great lyrics that tell a story in a short song.


I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on a windy common
That night I ain’t forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said you are a lady
"Perhaps" she said "I may be".
We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly
Although the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
The railway arms we’re missing
But love had got us hooked up
And all our time it took up.

I got a job with Stanley
He said I’d come in handy
And started me on monday
So I had a bath on sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she’d seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her.

I worked all through the winter
The weather brass and bitter
I put away a tenner
Each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
With little kicks inside her

This morning at 4:50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
Where thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year a walker
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another

And now she’s two years older
Her mother’s with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stinging
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there’s something missing
I’d beg for some forgiveness
But begging’s not my business
And she won’t write a letter
Although I always tell her
And so it’s my assumption
I’m really up the junction

My favourite Squeeze song. I always listen to the lyrics of this one. It's heartbreaking yet brilliant all in one. Some songs I never listen to the lyrics as it's mostly lovey dovey cliche shit.

 

[MCFCTrick]

Most bands do still do the encore thing. A few don't.
Have friends who went last night who said they were excellent.
Word of warning on street parking near there. More than once we have come out to rows of cars parked on streets with smashed windows. They know everyone is in thete and unlikely to be disturbed. Feral smackheads looking for anything to flog most likely.

 

[manimanc]

Glad you had a top night @manclad watching Sqeeze.

Their songs still sound as good as they did over 40 years ago, my kids love Up The Junction and Another Nail In My Heart, there's another generation that Squeeze have tuned into.

Did they play This Summer? Love that one.

 

[nw42]

Bump.
We went to The 02 Apollo last night and as you might expect Glen and Chris put on a top class performance along with the other newer and younger members of Squeeze.
They were on stage from 20.35 hrs until 22.20 hrs and they played non stop during that 1.75 hrs.
There were a couple of new songs that I hadn't heard before,and 2/3 album tunes from East Side Story and Argy Bargy that I didn't know,but they played approximately 18/20 hit songs that everyone in the audience could sing along to,and Chris encouraged everybody to stand up and party along , particularly in the 2nd half of the show.


They had Badly Drawn Boy as the support act,and although he performed songs for about 45 minutes,I didn't know a single one of them,so he was really disappointing as far as I was concerned.
We haven't been to any concerts at all for about 25 years,so we were a bit surprised that the acts on stage don't seem to do an encore anymore.
When we used to go regularly back in the 90s, each act would keep 2 or 3 songs unperformed,and would finish their repotoire,and go off stage ,and then the audience would be chanting" More,More,More" until they would reappear on stage and then do another 3/4 songs which would leave everyone in raptures.

Also ,as a by word, we parked just around the corner from the Apollo,near to Chancellor Lane on the road for free, and there was plenty of on street parking available in the general area around Ardwick Green if anyone else is going to The Apollo in the near future.
Edit - The band are supporting Trussell Trust during the current tour and they are asking for either food parcels or cash donations at the start of each show, so we put a tenner in one of the collection tins.

I too went last night, agreed they were brilliant, having liked them since they first broke I realised last night that I'd never actually considered just how accomplished they are as musicians, it's always been about the lyrics for me but my eyes/ears were opened last night, they are a really tight band.

Thankfully I swerved Badly Drawn Boy, really strange choice of support imo, I'm sure he has his own followers but I doubt there'll be many fans of Squeeze amongst them.
Hard to choose a favourite song from the night, they just rolled them out one after the other, as you say Chris encouraged everyone to get on their feet and it ramped up to a brilliant finish.

My last gig at the Apollo was Rod Stewart on his 1981 Foolish Behaviour tour, the place is still a great venue I reckon, a mention for the staff I interacted with as well, proper nice people, even the security guy outside wishing people a safe trip home.