Sunday, April 01, 2007

A sunny day in old Nottingham town

I've just got back from seeing a free gig by Tony Hadley and his Big Band in the (new) Old Market Square in the centre of Nottingham - very good. I was never a huge Spandau fan (I'm probably a tad on the old side) but I always thought the bloke had a good voice. He has still, very powerful and melodic - I heard that he's doing musical theatre now and probably doing it very well. Cracking band as well - 10 piece horn section, drums, double bass, bass guitar and a guy on piano doing the musical direction. They gave us a range of swing numbers - classics by Sinatra, Tony Bennett etc, Beatles "Ride my car"and a cracking"Suspicious Minds", as well as the well received Spandau Ballet numbers.

Quite a show for the price of a few hours parking. I don't actually live in the City of Nottingham but I'm glad to see that the good council tax payers of that fair city are getting something useful for their money.

2 comments:

JoeinVegas said...

Oh, Spandau Ballet, haven't heard from them in a long time. And I thought all the old groups came back to Vegas.

Tina said...

I think they all do joe, eventually.Tony Hadley would go down well in Vegas. Mind you I've never been there - yet... we're having a family rip to the west coast and taking in Vegas in July.