I saw them more than once.

just in case anyone is interested, after a six and a half year "hiatus" after a falling out The Tea Party are reforming for a series of summer concerts in Canada, with tourdates posted on their website. Testing the water. If it works I hope we see more gigs and maybe an album, or potentially a DVD/CD release of live and rare material. The Tea Party were an absolutely sensational live act in their early years from 1993-1997 and managed to do homage to their obvious influences (LZ) without appearing to be just another rip off band. Jeff Martin's solo work hasnt managed to capture the lofty heights of Splendor Solis or The Edges of Twilight: Two albums which contain many tracks that, (and I'll get flamed for this one), are up there with some of Zeppelin's best work. JM's latest band 777 have made a really good album called The Ground Cries Out.

Hi everyone. Long time lurker. I have a question about this. I was fortunate enough to be in the audience for these two dates, having been randomly selected from the TBL subscription list (as I understand). It was an absolute dream come true, and I can believe that it was 17 years ago. That's now actually half my life ago! Anyway, as I recall the orchestra were there on both evenings, certainly on the first night. The reason I can remember this fairly clearly is that on the first time it was played Jimmy had a disaster with the end of The Rain Song, which was fully supported by the orchestra. I was sat in the middle of the audience for this, which was definitely on the first night. They had a strict dress policy which forbade jackets so I was simply wearing a green short sleeved shirt. On the second night I just wore my black denim jacket after realising that they would allow it. Also I sat in an entirely different location. That may seem like a silly point to make, but it it how I can differentiate the memories for night 1 versus night 2. If I recall correctly they didn't play it again until the following night, at which point everyone game a rapturous applause midway through the ending, once he had got past the problem point. Look, its possible that they played it immediately afterwards to rectify, but I can't 100% recall, but in any case I'm almost certain that this was on the first night with the full orchestra. The set list was largely the same for both evenings, aside form a couple of repeats here and there. I wish I had kept a journal, or at least notes, for something like this as my memory is clearly not up to scratch! I originally hypothesized with myself that the reasons for its exclusion on the 1994 broadcast was that the version from night 1 had a duff ending and the other version had the ending drowned out by a load of cheering idiots :-) Can anyone else confirm or shoot down my memories? In any case two absolutely fantastic days in London.