Oran Mor, Glasgow
Depending upon your vintage I am guessing you will have first heard of Gordon Haskell (assuming you have heard of him, of course) from either his fractious few months spent as a member of King Crimson in the early Seventies, or via his 2001 Christmas hit How Wonderful You Are.
I sort of arrived at things from neither angle, for my first encounter with his work being hearing Stackridge cover of one of the man's songs (with the intriguing title of No-one's More Important Than The Earthworm), on an Old Grey Whistle Test compilation album. It really is an oddly eccentric composition, and well worth fishing out – either Gordon's original or the Stackridge rendition.
Well, we got no earthworms this evening, nor (even less surprisingly) any Crimson tunes. Indeed, the set was pretty much divided equally between new songs from an, (as yet, unreleased) new album, and Gordon's 2002 collection Harry's Bar.
Although, there were a couple of nods back in time: Mumbo Jumbo from the man's 1980 album Hambleton Hill was fun. As was his rendition of Rainy Night in Georgia; which we learned he had been performing for decades.
All the above presented in that voice as smoothly luxuriant as a 1926 Macallan single malt.
Set list
?Try To Figure It Out
All in the Scheme of Things
Freeway to Her Dreams
The Cat Who Got the Cream
Mumbo Jumbo
Rainy Night in Georgia
Voodoo Dance
Stands To Reason
How Wonderful You Are
INTERVAL
Al Capone
All The Time in the World
Someone I Knew
More That That
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Hanging By a Thread
Misunderstanding
The Other Side
Encore
Shadows on the Wall
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| Gordon Haskell - Glasgow 2019 |
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| I overhead GH say he had lost a crown recently. So I don't think the Alfred E Neuman look is his chosen one. |
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| Saxophonist Paul Yeung |
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| Gordon Haskell - Glasgow 2019 |
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