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The
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The
Bendgo Gallery |
A
trip to Bendigo and down memory lane with Jeff Beck..
23.4.14 - I can't
remember what day it was now - it may've been Monday
week ago already - but Maria and I made a snap decision
to drive up tp Bendigo in her toy poodle and take
in the Royal
Academy show that the local gallery has somehow
managed to snaffle for itself. In the event the
perfect autumnal weather might have tipped the scales
in our decision and the drive there and back was
very pleasant as a result, but the show itself was
very well presented and well worth the couple of
hours drive whatever the weather. The thing that
struck me was quite obvious I suppose, but perhaps
a third of the works on display were familiar to
me from reproductions in books, so to it was revelatory
to find myself looking at the real thing and in
actual scale - and in Bendigo of all places.
Last night we treated ourselves to the Jeff Beck
concert at Hamer Hall. I've long been a Beck admirer
and so was very glad when Maria saw the concert
over the horizon and we booked seats. Good seats
too, although being up against the back wall might've
invited the bottom end to play silly buggers with
the overall balance. It was prodigiously loud from
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riff, but the Beck-meister was in top form
and there were many sublime moments that will outlast
the tinnitus I'm sure. His reading of Danny
Boy was one such a moment and his inviting
support Beth Hart to join the band on stage for
a couple of tunes was generous - not to mention
a welcome contrast in two hours of otherwise solid
instrumentalising. |
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