Over those almost twenty (!) years I have seen him at many different venues and with many different musicians and this was the my first time at Dingwalls and the third time seeing him with this band.
Dingwalls is a pretty basic venue and while I am sure that it is fine for your standard no frills guitar band it was not great for a show as visual as this. That said, I soon got used to the heads hiding the lower part of the stage and I could hear the music perfectly.
The show, unsurprisingly, followed the format of the Eel Pie show in April bot musically and artistically though there were changes. If I ever took notes and if Setlist was a complete and faultless record then I could be more certain on the extent of the changes but I think that the back projection was more extensive (and the two statues downgraded as a result) and the formerly regular song "I put a spell on you" made a return as the final encore.
I think there was a change to the set order too and I liked the way that (new version) Time Captives ended the main part of the set. Not only is it my favourite Arthur Brown track, originally recorded as Kingdom Come, but the communal singing of the "La Da Da" ending is a perfect ending.
The only disappointment is that I do not have another Arthur Brown concert in my diary yet.
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