slave to zep Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 did you get very close to him,I have just always wanted to say hi..or something no, i wasn't anywhere near the front. whoopie cat was closer, but she didn't get that close either. i don't think he signed any autographs .... I also love when you say the girl with the American accent!!!!! I did not think we had one! lol, yep, sure do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 did anyone get a tshirt,were they selling them<i would love to see it he had 2 types of t-shirt for sale and a poster, but i didn't buy any Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine woman Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 did anyone get a tshirt,were they selling them<i would love to see it Hey, I bought one of the tshirts; it looks like this.The text is kinda hard to see but it says "Live in concert, Robert Plant presents Sensational Space Shifters (Singapore, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand.)The other tshirt was a black one with silohuetted Robert on it and some other text, but I liked this one better. There was also a hoodie you could get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clw Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 oh wow,I love it and I bet the black one is very nice too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clw Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 I always have to get a tshirt at concerts he had 2 types of t-shirt for sale and a poster, but i didn't buy any Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clw Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 to be that close,he should sell kisses instead of tshirts! Hmm..so we have a accent,I know they do down south,talk differant than us up north,same with the east coast no, i wasn't anywhere near the front. whoopie cat was closer, but she didn't get that close either. i don't think he signed any autographs .... lol, yep, sure do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 to be that close,he should sell kisses instead of tshirts! Hmm..so we have a accent,I know they do down south,talk differant than us up north,same with the east coast lol, each and every country has an accent to those that don't live there. in england there are dozens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clw Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 oh I bet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Sam, thanks for the great review that was posted on Roberts site today. I really enjoyed the read. Jules, great review. I love to watch the crowds that show up at the concerts. Seems like people from all ages attend. So glad you had a great time:-) Sunshine woman, keep wearing that t-shirt proudly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janvier Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland (OR) " The Waterfront Blues Festival grows more sensational each year. Former Led Zeppelin vocalist and songwriter Robert Plant presents Sensational Space Shifters will be the final act on Sensational Sunday, 7/7, " http://www.waterfrontbluesfest.com/Artists/Robert-Plant-presents-Sensational-Space-Shifters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 we had a great time, and thanks to whoopie cat, good seats! i'm not good at reviews, but here goes ..... we travelled down to sydney by train, which took 1.5 hours. i was so tired after a big week at work with 4 am starts , and i wondered if i could stay awake for the 22 hours till i would get back to bed, but .... no problem there! heard a girl with an american accent asking directions to the ent cent, and i asked her if she was going to see robert. she was a young mum having her first child -free night out. she had seen him a few times before. there were many zeppelin t-shirts worn, and the crowd was all ages. found whoopie cat, had a quick chat and a texan burger from maccas ( 7/10 ) lol. whoopie, you are a lovely lady - so nice to put the voice and written word to a face we went inside the venue to find out who the support act was ( nobody seemed to know ) it was a band called playing for change. i only saw the last two songs, but liked what i heard. there are some clips of them on you tube next to me were a mother and daughter who were both keen fans. mum had seen zeppelin in sydney in 72, and page/plant in 96 ( lucky bugger! ) i erged her to join here and tell her stories ..... maybe she will. didný have to wait too long for robert and band to come on. the voice over gave him a huge intro, something about being legendary, iconic, grammy award winning ..... i actually loved the first song, tin pan valley, it was familiar to me, but hearing it live was great. didn't know the 2nd one, another tribe ( i haven't followed his solo career ), but it was ok then friends, and the roar went up! loved it! didn't know the next one, spoonful, but it was quite good black dog - it was good, but i kept wanting to hear the original .... it was cool doing the ah ahs then going to california --- LOVED IT, AMAZING, i felt like i was at a zep concert the next four, well i just loved this part of the show. four sticks is an all time fave, and it was mind-bending to groove along to that with robert on stage then i knew it was coming to an end because they played whole lotta love. it went over really well, lots of screaming. he said goodbye, then of course we all clapped until they came out again. he said he had wanted to come back here ( oz ) for such a long time, but had forgotten about it ( big laugh ) i loved bron y aur stomp, so cool to clap along , just like on 2003 dvd, and he even yelled " strider " at the end! rock and roll was bloody great, but i knew that was the end, all too quick .... i wasn't going to to this concert - didn't really have the funds, and i haven't liked what i saw of him on clips of he and alison krauss and band of joy, sorry, but i just haven't, not my tase, but this band, and this concert ..... i'm so glad i did. it was perfect. another 1.5 hour train trip home, and it was funny - about 10 different people had all just been to the concert, and were all talking about it, and it was all positive:) thanks again, whoopie cat Thanks for the write-up, slave to zep! Sounds like a fun evening was had by you, Rodney and Whoopie Cat! I hope he keeps "Four Sticks" in the setlist by the time he gets to California..."Black Dog" can be retired, though, in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine woman Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Strider, on 03 Apr 2013 - 12:07, said: Thanks for the write-up, slave to zep! Sounds like a fun evening was had by you, Rodney and Whoopie Cat! I hope he keeps "Four Sticks" in the setlist by the time he gets to California..."Black Dog" can be retired, though, in my opinion. Yeah, I didn't like Black Dog either. But as strange as it was, I'm actually quite glad he didn't try and emulate Black Dog exactly as Zeppelin all together would've played it.Deborah J, on 03 Apr 2013 - 09:32, said: Sam, thanks for the great review that was posted on Roberts site today. I really enjoyed the read. Jules, great review. I love to watch the crowds that show up at the concerts. Seems like people from all ages attend. So glad you had a great time:-) Sunshine woman, keep wearing that t-shirt proudly Thanks man! This is my seventh Led Zeppelin shirt so far and my 28th band shirt. Still adding to the collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Thanks for the write-up, slave to zep! Sounds like a fun evening was had by you, Rodney and Whoopie Cat! I hope he keeps "Four Sticks" in the setlist by the time he gets to California..."Black Dog" can be retired, though, in my opinion. yes, i agree about black dog - it's not even one of my favourite led zep originals, though as i said, it was fun doing the ah ahs with him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ally Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Hey, I bought one of the tshirts; it looks like this. The text is kinda hard to see but it says "Live in concert, Robert Plant presents Sensational Space Shifters (Singapore, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand.) The other tshirt was a black one with silohuetted Robert on it and some other text, but I liked this one better. There was also a hoodie you could get.Snapshot 6.jpg I like that one ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clw Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 here is a review posted today:: Robert Plant Adelaide Review 04.2.2013 Adelaide Entertainment Centre. 26 Mar 2013. What do you do when you have already climbed the stairway to top-of-the-charts heaven, when you have hopped to the top of the misty mountain? As part of Led Zeppelin, one of the most successful rock bands of all time, what was lead singer, Robert Plant, going to do when it was over? After the sudden death of drummer John “Bonzo” Bonham , Led Zeppelin disbanded in December 1980. They were the second highest selling band in US music history, shipping somewhere between 200 and 300 million records (all albums, they refused to release singles). They epitomised mega rock. Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page were the prototype poodle rock stars – big hair, big egos and a gigantic, carefully constructed sound that, quite literally, altered the sound of everything that followed. They were credited with inventing, or at least perfecting, the music known as hard rock. They set in motion the relentless 40 year flow of heavy metal – now fragmented into such metallurgical sub-sets as thrash, death, nu and metalcore. And when the form was lampooned in the brilliant mockumentary, ‘Spinal Tap’, it was Plant and Page who looked like prime suspects. But for all the pyrotechnics and foppish strutting, Led Zeppelin ‘s music was far more, as we say nowadays – nuanced. The acoustic layering, the melodic light and shade, the romantic, bardic lyrics, were more like that of folk rock. Not surprisingly – since Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones both played on such acid folk classics as Donovan’s ‘Sunshine Superman’. Nor should it be forgotten that it was Robert Plant who, encouraging the band to retreat to the remote Welsh cottage known as Bron-Yr-Aur, wrote lyrics laced with references to Celtic mythology and JRR Tolkien. He even had a dog named Strider. In a long and varied solo career Robert Plant has traversed both familiar rock territory (with albums such as ‘Now and Zen’ and ‘Manic Nirvana’), and the other road – acoustic folk and world music influences – as in the under-rated ‘Fate of Nations’ and ‘Dreamland’, albums full of Plant originals as well as covers of Tim Hardin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley and Moby Grape’s Skip Spence. Equally inspired (and far more celebrated ) was ‘Raising Sand’, his 2007 collaboration with country singer Alison Krauss which gathered plaudits, Grammys and a whole new audience for his grainy vocal harmonies and Wolverhampton-Nashville sensibility. On tour in 2013 with his Sensational Space Shifter Band, with a line-up (and setlist) not too different from his 2006 Strange Sensation travelling players, Robert Plant is a musician with nothing left to prove. He has nibbled more forbidden fruit than almost anyone in the later 20th century, he made money when managers like Zep’s Peter Grant reversed the flood of profits back to the bands, he has continued to make terrific music and, apparently, can take or leave offers such as the rumoured quarter of a billion dollars waved under the noses of the three surviving Led Zeppelin members to take on a world tour and fight one last battle of Evermore. On stage this week at the Entertainment Centre, Robert Plant is relaxed and roguishly affable. He once looked like a Botticellian angel or a pre-Raphaelite prince. Now, with his long, crimped straw-coloured hair and Vandyke beard, he could be a Cavalier survivor from the court of James II. He is almost 65, and looking wrinkly – but every line in his face is a smile. He is charming from the first note, hunched over the microphone ready to release that big voice – now half an octave lower, perhaps – to an audience enthralled just to lay eyes on him. He opens with ‘Heartbreaker’ – from ‘Led Zeppelin II’. The vocals are wrapped in echo and reverb and the lyrics register as fragments – “…see how the fellas lay their money down …another guy’s name when I try to make love to you…Give it to me…Go away, Heartbreaker.“ The vocals are enveloped in the heavy rhythm sound of the Space Shifters – woozy, hypnotic keyboards, percussive drumming and thrumming guitar. No screaming Fender Telecaster leads, instead, an insistent, brooding bass and thud. Plant segues into ‘Tin Pan Valley’, its scathing satire on the life of retired celebrity mostly lost in the mix while everyone gets their bearings. It is the opening lines of ‘Ramble On’ – “Leaves are falling all around. It’s time I was on my way …” that registers with the crowd and the set begins to find its thread. Plant greets the punters and in his clipped, not-very-Midlands-anymore accent, announces ‘Another Tribe’. Guitarist Justin Adams lays out his acoustic riff, John Baggott generates the squelchy keyboards and Plant glides and sashays, upending the mike stand and expertly pitching his trademark vocals. He is a cool performer- no unbecoming Jaggerisms here. He is circumspect and restrained in his moves; it is like a courtly dance – all bows and scrapes and the gentlest self-irony. He is delivering the goods and having fun but nobody is pretending it’s 1974. Blues music was always central to Led Zeppelin, as to the Yardbirds, Stones, Animals and others who preceded them. On stage Plant invokes the names of Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson and the sixties blues revival performers Son House and Skip James. He describes them as Black Angels and muses on the fact that he is now the age they were when they were re-discovered and returned to the concert circuit. He doesn’t mention Willie Dixon whose family sued Zeppelin for its wholesale appropriation of his tunes and lyrics and were meagrely compensated in an out-of-court settlement. The Space Shifters chug into one of his most famous compositions all the same, ‘Spoonful’ – and it is one of several highlights of the night. West African musician Juldeh Camara joins the band onstage reminding us perhaps that the blues didn’t originate in the Delta but came from the continent where so many Africans were captured and transported. Camara adds his ritti, a single stringed African violin, to the insistent ‘Spoonful’ riff and later in the extended jam, Liam “Skin” Tyson’s spicy guitar is replaced by Camara’s distinctive kologa – an African form of the banjo. A cluster of big hits follows. ‘Black Dog’, with its instantly recognisable opening chords and blues bragger lyrics – “Hey mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove…” The band are in full form – but the force is in the drum and bass (the excellent Dave Smith and Billy Fuller) and, as in many songs, with bodhran, inventive keyboard fills and acoustic guitars. There are intense bursts of electricity from Tyson, but the effect is of thunderous skiffle. It is reminiscent of Bob Dylan’s electric string band from the ‘Modern Times’ tour. Not everyone is well pleased. Someone in the row behind me laments the absence of Jimmy Page. Certainly, there is none of his brilliant guitar flash, delivered as he languidly slouches against the Marshalls, lips curled into that Aleister Crowley sneer. But these Space Shifters have shape-shifted an old song and refreshed it – as they do, with Justin Adams on mandolin, in the melodic reading of ‘Going to California’ that follows. ‘The Enchanter’ (from the aptly named ‘Mighty Re-Arranger’ album) is given a fine stretch – the music wafting and beguiling, Plant at his most relaxed, crooning and keening as only he can. It is back to the blues with an extended version of Bukka White’s hell-hounded lament, ‘Fixing to Die’, and then the band steps up another level to fill the roof with ‘Whole Lotta Love’ – in medley with the Bo Diddley classic ‘Who do You Love?’ For the encore it is ‘Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp’ and, with Plant’s amiable intro – “Here is the answer to all things complicated: Simple!” – it is one last go-round with ‘Rock and Roll’. “Carry me back, baby…it’s been a long time, been a long time“. Yes, it has, and the faithful old trolls, as he jokingly called his sit-down audience, needed to hear the old refrains. However, Robert Plant and his Sensational Space Shifters not only gave us things borrowed and blue, they were also unexpected and refreshingly new. Murray Bramwell http://www.thebarefootreview.com.au/music/94-2013-music-reviews/708-robert-plant.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie0024 Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I've saved photos from every show so far except: March 23rd: Perth, Australia, West Coast Blues & Roots Festival March 31st: Hunter Valley, Australia, Newcastle Entertainment Centre Anyone have photos from these nights? Or links to photos online? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percys_Plant Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I'm just gonna provide links to photos from Tumblr (those that went to the concert) Rod Laver Arena Shots: 1. http://thosewhoarefromthesun.tumblr.com/post/47020575642/so-ive-just-come-back-from-robert-plants-concert 2. http://les--yeux--bleus.tumblr.com/post/47021165021/fucking-brilliant-robertplant 3. http://georgeharrisons-pointynipples.tumblr.com/post/47018784912/live-from-like-an-hour-ago 4. http://oiseau-rebelle.tumblr.com/post/47000827672 Byron Bay Fest: 1. http://shespeakslikesilence.tumblr.com/post/46969246287 2. http://secretrituals.tumblr.com/post/46920869493 3. http://moshpitson.tumblr.com/post/46671557985/bluesfest-byron-bay-2013-robert-plant-if-you 4. http://messoblues.tumblr.com/post/46668667614 Hmmm...not exactly sure where these ones were taken: http://robplant.tumblr.com/post/46689576456 http://robplant.tumblr.com/post/46261019106 (is this even recent?) http://squeezingzeppelinslemons.tumblr.com/post/46659378271/hey-robert-i-miss-you This for the person who wanted to know about the t-shirts sold at the show. This is the black version: http://nelsonstorm.tumblr.com/post/46836955894/this-is-the-shirt-i-bought-after-roberts-show Not sure if any of these help you, Cookie. I'll keep looking/searching! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie0024 Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I'm just gonna provide links to photos from Tumblr (those that went to the concert) Rod Laver Arena Shots: 1. http://thosewhoarefromthesun.tumblr.com/post/47020575642/so-ive-just-come-back-from-robert-plants-concert 2. http://les--yeux--bleus.tumblr.com/post/47021165021/fucking-brilliant-robertplant 3. http://georgeharrisons-pointynipples.tumblr.com/post/47018784912/live-from-like-an-hour-ago 4. http://oiseau-rebelle.tumblr.com/post/47000827672 Byron Bay Fest: 1. http://shespeakslikesilence.tumblr.com/post/46969246287 2. http://secretrituals.tumblr.com/post/46920869493 3. http://moshpitson.tumblr.com/post/46671557985/bluesfest-byron-bay-2013-robert-plant-if-you 4. http://messoblues.tumblr.com/post/46668667614 Hmmm...not exactly sure where these ones were taken: http://robplant.tumblr.com/post/46689576456 http://robplant.tumblr.com/post/46261019106 (is this even recent?) http://squeezingzeppelinslemons.tumblr.com/post/46659378271/hey-robert-i-miss-you This for the person who wanted to know about the t-shirts sold at the show. This is the black version: http://nelsonstorm.tumblr.com/post/46836955894/this-is-the-shirt-i-bought-after-roberts-show Not sure if any of these help you, Cookie. I'll keep looking/searching! Thanks for posting! I'm working on an album with all the photos I can find from this tour. For the ones you weren't sure of: 1 is Byron Blues Fest on the 30th. 2 is Timbre Rock & Roots festival Singapore on the 21st 3 looks like Sydney on the 28th, same lighting and shirt. I'll check Tumblr for photos from the nights I'm missing Cheers for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clw Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 review from yesterday,I still love him but miss that young baby face http://www.robertplant.com/press/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clw Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 heres a clip,sounds good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah J Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Tasmania ^Thanks WithinOneMoment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geezer Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Does anyone have information about ticket sales? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clw Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 There are links for tickets on his web page http://www.robertplant.com/tour/ Does anyone have information about ticket sales? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine woman Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Does anyone have information about ticket sales? What do you want to know?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geezer Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 The amount of tickets sold on each show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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