Chris Cornell in UK in June

pdh1978 wrote:

Wooo! Absolutely fucking fantastic!!!

As soon as they kicked off Spoonman, it just felt as though it was going to be a great, great gig. And it was!

Highlight had to be JCP, most definitely, even if the start was so garbled that the crowd only knew it was JCP when Chris struck a JCP...

I thought he might be fading a bit now, and with so many concerts in a short space, but MAN was his voice strong.

Only slight disappointment for me was no Revelations and no Pretty Noose - he obviously doesn't like 3rd albums right??

So, to sum up - Absolutely fucking fantastic!!!

Agreed - enormously talented individual and great performance although the "band" needs to back off - very talented though they are, there's no Mike, Stone, Matt or Jeffs amongst them - consensus after the event is that EV would take CC in most gym tests.

"Special Guest(s)" item was also a bit of a disappointment.......................

One of the best gigs ever.

I cant believe how much soundgarden was played! I've stayed away from looking at previous setlists as I wanted it to be a surprise....and by fuck was I surprised!!!

Yogi is awesome!!

did the people in the very first row bug anyone else? they didn't move, didn't jump, didn't show any enthusiasm. it's difficult to go nuts when the person in front of you is standing still. and by going nuts, i don't mean mosh pits and crowd surfing, just good old fashioned jumping, headbanging and screaming your lungs out. he played first 4 songs of badmotorfinger for fuck's sake, how could people stand still ?!?!

anyway, that's enough bitching (i had to do it, this board feeds on bitching ). they did play loads of soundgarden and that was great, i wish they played something from down on the upside, pretty noose would be just amazing. i arrived the venue around 6 and they were playing burden in my hand for soundcheck, that would be great as well.

just one temple of the dog song was kind of a disappointment, but i'm not gonna bitch about the setlist, there are just too many good songs

one last thing, chris is still the best singer out there, man he was great...

Was absolutely Amazing- his voice sounded so good..

One of the best gigs i've seen in a long time

facepollution wrote:

Tonight was incredible, front row right in the middle - don't get better than that! Plus I got Chris' setlist at the end!!

I got some pretty cool pics which I'll post tomorrow. What a fucking show!!!!

Thanks for posting the setlist

Good to meet you ... but damn my short arms not being able to reach any setlists

Look forward to seeing the pictures

EDIT: none of the changes to the setlist included Say Hello 2 Heaven did they ???

bertan wrote:

did the people in the very first row bug anyone else? they didn't move, didn't jump, didn't show any enthusiasm. it's difficult to go nuts when the person in front of you is standing still. and by going nuts, i don't mean mosh pits and crowd surfing, just good old fashioned jumping, headbanging and screaming your lungs out. he played first 4 songs of badmotorfinger for fuck's sake, how could people stand still ?!?!

I was on the front row, problem is, when you have a crowd of people pushing you into a metal barrier which is about chest height, it's next to impossible to jump - your more focussed on trying to breathe and stuff like that!! My ribs are aching like a bitch today, plus I had someones's elbows in my back for half the show, which was nice!!!

they were 1/2 hour late letting us in and 20mn starting..but then he was 20mn finishing too so it's ok

really good show, his voice is on top form.
Crowd was very clearly more Soundgarden-fans than Cornell himself...the Bond song I found boring before..live performance did not improve it.
The Billie Jean version on the other hand is really great!

I thought the band was very good, particularly Yogi (guess since Wash_ and I were both Mike-side in front of him we might be biaised ..and he's almost as generous with his picks as Mike too..)

found it interesting that they've given up on even trying to sing Ed's part in Hunger Strike (the guy only did the chorus vocals).. though it made it quite weird and not so interesting..we really need CC to show up at Wembley and do it properly

And it was very nice to see everyone again, albeit some very briefly (Randall?), very nice warm up for the tour.

Now, Redrock, we need that report on the M&G

PS: Audio coming shortly..well, in the next few days..

Pegasus wrote:

they were 1/2 hour late letting us in and 20mn starting..but then he was 20mn finishing too so it's ok

really good show, his voice is on top form.
Crowd was very clearly more Soundgarden-fans than Cornell himself...the Bond song I found boring before..live performance did not improve it.
The Billie Jean version on the other hand is really great!

I thought the band was very good, particularly Yogi (guess since Wash_ and I were both Mike-side in front of him we might be biaised ..and he's almost as generous with his picks as Mike too..)

found it interesting that they've given up on even trying to sing Ed's part in Hunger Strike (the guy only did the chorus vocals).. though it made it quite weird and not so interesting..we really need CC to show up at Wembley and do it properly

And it was very nice to see everyone again, albeit some very briefly (Randall?), very nice warm up for the tour.

Now, Redrock, we need that report on the M&G

PS: Audio coming shortly..well, in the next few days..

I might disagree.. audioslave songs got the biggest cheers. The pit up here wasn't that big for stuff like jesus christ pose

but yeah, he really was on top form. I was queuing up and hear soundchecking and he was just booming

clairenordon wrote:

(or 18th?)

hehe.....

Last night was ridiculously good! Was at the front, right in front of Yogi.

I had a cool moment during Like a Stone where Chris was getting everyone to sing along. Yogi was singing the chorus as obviously was I and we caught each other's eye and exchanged a grin, and then he threw his pick to me - which I caught as a complete fluke, I just reached up for it in the dark and caught between my fingers!

Agree with the poster who said Sunshower was amazing - but the whole thing was great. I couldn't have enjoyed it more.