Procol Harum

Beyond
the Pale

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Procol Harum at the Cropredy Festival

Headlining the second night, towit 8 August 2003


  Brooker, Brzezicki, Fisher, Pegg, Whitehorn
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Bringing Home the Bacon
Pandora's Box
Shine on Brightly
Wall Street Blues
The Blink of an Eye
As Strong as Samson
Grand Hotel
Whisky Train
Fellow Travellers
Weisselklenzenacht  (The Signature)
Shadow Boxed
Homburg
Beyond the Pale
Whaling Stories
The VIP Room
Simple Sister
An Old English Dream
A Salty Dog
Conquistador
Encores ... and there was no interval
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Repent Walpurgis

The music field is midway between the villages of Cropredy and Williamscot, if you're looking to find it on a map of Oxfordshire. If you're looking for it on the map of a different county, you must expect to be disappointed.

Sound check, 11.am ... 11 hours before the band came on

Beyond the Pale (most)
Nutcracker (organ fragment)
Wipeout (until GB stopped it!)
A Salty Dog (part)
The VIP Room (harmony voices part)
Bringing Home the Bacon (part)

  

 21

songs altogether:

 2

From Procol Harum

 1

from Shine on Brightly

 1

From  A Salty Dog

 2

From  Home

 1

from  Broken Barricades

 2

From  Grand Hotel

 2

From Exotic Birds and Fruit

 1

from Procol's Ninth

 0

From Something Magic

 0

From The Prodigal Stranger

 7

from The Well's on Fire

 2

non-album tracks

Roland says: the band were not particularly happy with the sound onstage, but they sounded great on the field. At the front the response was excellent with progressive conversion of unbelievers readily apparent. Little patter from Gary but much fun with hand-props ... clutching a toy seagull at the end of ASD, showering playing-cards during AWSoP (many of these came back for signing in the 90-minute autograph queue the following day). I did mean to make my way to the back, never having seen PH over the heads of 15,000 people. But in the end I stayed put with other hard-core fans at the front ... which gave the unusual opportunity of dancing with the composer's wife during Repent Walpurgis ...

 


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