Review: Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson
(Royal Festival Hall, January 18th 2011, Review by Rod Fogg, photo richardthompson-music.com )

This was the first of a two-nighter at Londons Royal Festival Hall, part of a UK tour extending on into February before heading off to Europe, the USA and eventually Japan. The tour is in support of the new album Dream Attic.

Thompson takes the stage as part of a five piece band; his sonic blue Strat is accompanied by Michael Jerome on drums and Teras Prodaniuk on bass; texture and contrast are supplied by Joel Zifkin on violin and mandolin and the multi-talented Pete Zorn on sax, guitar, mandolin and flute.

Full credit to the team at the RFH, the band sounded fantastic (believe me, thats not always the case with electric music at this classical venue) and there was a cool light... [via Londonjazz]