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Procol Harum at Aix en Provence

Setlist: 11 March 2005

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Brooker, Brzezicki, Pegg, Phillips, Whitehorn

The VIP Room
The Idol drumming exceptional
Pandora's Box nice soulful solo from Josh
Luskus Delph
The Wall Street Blues nice response to song and Whitehorn
Homburg nicely played Hammond by Josh
Trick of the Night in French big long response
An Old English Dream
Conquistador synth horns just right tonight

Interval

Shine on Brightly
Shadow Boxed
Toujours l'Amour just about perfect
Something Following Me wonderful guitar and organ solos
Simple Sister
Grand Hotel strange crackling noise after first verse; nice backing vocals; Gary playfully runs out of keyboard into tango
Beyond the Pale Josh takes the Hammond back to Chris Copping; if you think a song can get nailed, it happened tonight!
A Salty Dog

Encore

Kaleidoscope
A Whiter Shade of Pale (two verses) Josh plays the traditional lines

Massive standing ovation: crowd started chanting Repent as the band finished taking their bows

Soundcheck notes from One-Eye

Bits of A Salty Dog, testing synth
Bits of The Blink of an Eye, testing piano
A pedal problem being worked on for Geoff
Victims of the Fury piano test

The sound is this room is awesome. One of the best I've heard. Gary played a few chords of Typewriter Torment and turned and smiled at me. I smiled back as I held up the mobile.

A Rum Tale, bits
A nothing jam for a minute to check the drum levels.
Grand Hotel
Trick of the Night
The VIP Room
Trick of the Night, last chorus bridge and verse in French
Now again instrumentally Geoff, Matt and Josh, then again with Gary and Mark

A little of the Ommm (In Held) from Josh
Gary doodling Toujours and Something Following Me
I don't need no doctor (a verse)
Now for real, very funky blues (a verse)

Not much of a soundcheck for full tunes tonight
Done at 7.05 (starting 6.05) and band going to eat and get ready for the 8.30 show

19	songs altogether:	3	From Procol Harum	1	from Shine on Brightly
1	From A Salty Dog	0	From Home	2	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	4	from The Well's on Fire
2	non-album tracks	1	New songs	Trick of the Night is the 'new' song here ... the first live performance we know of for this number, excepting that by the Palers' Band (Manchester 2001)

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