Other Val and Matt accompanied Bill and myself to the Brook to see Wales's answer to Bruce Springsteen once more ;-) Martyn was accompanied by his keyboard player Matt, and I'm pleased to say the sound quality was excellent. Glad that the Brook also sorted out their sound problems as well as refurbishing. They stil haven't got any interesting beer though - c'mon Brook, ditch that Courage Best for something nice by Hampshire Brewery, please!
Martyn gave a faultless performance, we arrived a song-and-a-half too late and came in as he was singing Dic Penderyn, which has a superb chorus, especially for us mezzo-sopranos to sing along to! Songs which Martyn virtually left the Brook to sing were the covers - What If God Was One Of Us and Stuck In A Moment originally by U2.
Martyn has a new album out, Deep Blue, which we purchased - unfortunately could not get near Martyn at the end for an autograph. He played many songs from this - my favourite being Proud Valley Boy.
After the interval, Martyn did his spontaneous song-composing, about a dark-haired woman in the upstairs bit who had shouted 'bad sales pitch' to him as he'd been excessively modest about his new album - and he'd heard 'selfish'! Then played some requests at the end including Dolphins, one of his chart hits.
A good, spiritually-uplifting gig - we will return to see Martyn here again no doubt.
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