mike-oldfield

Au cours d’une tournée géante en 1981, Mike Oldfield promène sa gloire dans bon nombre de villes européennes… à contre coeur. Et oui, Mike est un musicien de studio, plutôt solitaire, alors reproduire ses compositions en concert, c’est pas son truc. N’empêche que ça sonne plutôt bien.

Je vous épargne les morceaux de 15 minutes, et je vous présente cette petite chanson toute sympa qui figure sur Platinum (1979) : Punkadiddle.

 

Infos

Mike Oldfield – Siegen, Germany 3/31/81

Disc 1
1. German Announcer
2. Taurus I
3. Mike introduces the band
4. Sheba
5. Mirage
6. Platinum
7. Tubular Bells Part II/Sailor’s Hornpipe (fades)
8. Conflict
9. Incantations Parts III & IV

Disc 2
1. QE2
2. Portsmouth
3. Punkadiddle

Very nice soundboard recording.

1981 – The EUROPEAN ADVENTURE TOUR

March 9 & 10 Offenbach, 11 Heidelberg, 12 Mainz, 14 Wurzberg, 15 Nurenberg, 16 Munich,
17 Ravensberg, 18 Karsruhe, 19 Cologne, 21 Hamburg, 22 Kiel, 23 Bremerhaven, 25 Hanover,
26 Bremen, 27 Berlin, 29 Dusseldorf, 30 Munster, 31 Seigen (2 shows),
April 1 Essen, 2 Hannover, 3 Rotterdam

Musicians:
Mike Frye (drums and percussion), Morris Pert (drums & percussion) Tim Cross (keyboards) Maggie Reilly (vocals) Rick Fenn (guitar and bass).

During this third tour he was still having his hot-cold relationship with live performances, in April telling Melody Maker he, « always felt guilty because I wouldn’t tour. I wouldn’t do all the things you’re supposed to do. For me its got to have some point, some purpose. Why else go through the mindlessness of being on the road day after day. I want people to go home after seeing my concerts thinking, yeah, I’ll be a better person for that. »

Mike agreed he could not communicate specific things live, « but the general concept, yeah. And you can see it from the stage. I can look at the faces of the people in the audience and see whether its getting through. They have these glazed expressions on their faces and you know they’ve understood. It means an awful lot to them. »

Mike played Hanover twice in 10 days: the second date was added to close the 25-date German leg of his tour that confirmed him as one of the biggest rock acts in the country. He continued his evolution as a man-manager by assigning a percentage of tour profits to each member. « . He was helped by manager Ossie Hoppe (ex manager of Whitesnake) and the tour was merchandised by Jeremy Parker who joined Mike in Finland. It started a long association.

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