Comments on: Tom Waits – Live, Edinburgh Playhouse, Sunday 27th July 2008

By: Tim Keppie

Tim Keppie — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:34:48 +0000

Did anybody else notice Edinburgh was being filmed?
A night beyond words,
Cheers Tim.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:22:27 +0000

I was at the Monday night (which was very jolly indeed- well worth the twenty year wait!)
I must say I think your chums photos are fantastic- is there any way that I could get a copy of them so that in years to come I can gather the grand-children around the fireside and bore the crap out of them with stories of what real music sounded like and how great it was

By: Mhairead

Mhairead — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:50:30 +0000

I was there Sunday night as well, I have been excited for the whole time since buying the ticket having been a fan for nearly thirty years and not once getting to see him live for various reasons. I was in awe sitting there waiting, perched up in the gallery. I knew it was going to be good but he surpassed all my expectations. I LOVE his raucous stuff, the opening was superb, the merging of the two songs, the reinterpretation of a lot of his new material. The whole show was just incredible, I will never forget it. Getting pissed off at reading moany commnets on other sites about his set. Great to come and read this. I told the friend I’d coerced into coming my six degrees from Tom story, it was two degrees back in 88, as I spoke to Jim Jarmsuch on the phone once when I was employed looking after Joe Strummers kids one summer as the “nanny”, but I never had the nerve to ask Joe to ask Jim about Tom ! Incidently energy wise Tom reminded me very much of Joe, putting his whole heart and soul into the gig. No pretentious ego stroking crap. I am still smiling. Thanks for a great personal review and the link to pics. Thank you Tom and co for Edinburgh.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:16:19 +0000

Even the missus came back loving it, would you believe. Not only that but she said that although the piano ballads were lovely and really easy to like, she almost preferred it when he went mental and started lurching around. Good lass!

By: smilingdave

smilingdave — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:25:03 +0000

He’d have got a standing ovation from me for every song he did (on Monday night), but I didn’t want to upset the people behind me! What impressed (and surprised) me was how MUSICAL the whole thing was, and how soft Tom’s voice can still be at times. Absolutely awesome show.

By: nic

nic — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:17:59 +0000

Just back in England after seeing the first Dublin show last night. Echo all the sentiments above: worth the crappy delayed Ryanair flights; worth hunting for a taxi at midnight in the rain; worth our taxi driver having NFI where our hotel was; worth four hours sleep to repeat painful travelling in reverse straight back to work… For the voice, the music, the energy, the manic staggering around to Singapore, for the sound of rain drumming gently on the tent listening to Tom whisper “stand beneath a rainy sky” in Green Grass, the surreptitious doing up of the fly during the encore (or so my partner swears), for the reworked Dirt in the Ground that sent the same shivers up my spine as it did when first heard Bone Machine (Tom who?) fifteen years ago…

Brilliant.

By: konrad

konrad — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:15:39 +0000

I saw the gig at the playhouse on Sunday and it was awesome, despite the anti touting measures it was well worth it and since the master is 56, I doubt if I will get the privilege to see him live again in the UK. The best thing about the whole evening? Listening to his two sons play beautifully throughout the evening and his eldest son playing the drums looks like his father back in the late 70’s…..Im sure that his sons will take after him and carry the music for future generations and I was surprised at the range of ages of people attending young and old alike were there to what I would call ‘Glitter and doom- a celebration of Tom waits and his music’ …Roll on the next time he’s in Scotland or wherever and if you are reading this Tom, thanks for taking the effort to come to Scotland and giving us the privilege of listening to you

By: NPR Music

NPR Music — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:07:49 +0000

We at NPR are exclusively webcasting and podcasting a concert from Tom Waits’ Glitter and Doom tour. The show was recorded July 5 at the historic Fox Theater in Atlanta, GA. Here’s the link to the page to stream the show:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92916923

And you can download the show via our All Songs Considered Live in Concert podcast, here:

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=15842121

Enjoy!
NPR Music

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:02:32 +0000

So far not that I’m aware of – you may have to check bootlegs and the like.

By: morg

morg — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:48:09 +0000

PS> Anyone know if he’s actually recorded that soul-powered, funked-up version of Jesus Gonna be Here ?