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Topic: Twickenham Rugby Ground, London 20th August - Setlist, pix and reviews Return to archive Page: 1 2 3 4
20th August 2006 07:45 PM
monkeyman62 so was the place packed
20th August 2006 08:02 PM
ohnonotyouagain Sway, Ruby Tuesday, Rambler, Cloud. Great setlist.! What's up with only 19 songs, tho?
20th August 2006 08:04 PM
LadyJane I'd be VERY disappointed not to hear YCAGWYW.

All in all everyone in attendance seems to have had a great time. That's all that really matters, no???

LJ.
20th August 2006 08:06 PM
stewed & Keefed Can't wait till tuesday
20th August 2006 08:33 PM
StartMeUp13 I love how mick's not wearing a la me jacket...lol
20th August 2006 09:52 PM
Soldatti Back to 19 songs again. At least the first part of the show was great.
20th August 2006 10:10 PM
VoodooChileInWOnderl

21st August 2006 01:55 AM
Zack Would you rather hear 19 well-played songs or 22 phoned in? Just curious.
21st August 2006 02:08 AM
MidnightRambler 19 songs...give Mick a break...don't wanna over do it on the voice...it's his first show...
21st August 2006 02:31 AM
Tomie Glad to hear people enjoyed it

What time approx did the show finish please?
21st August 2006 02:56 AM
jaymze Just wondering. What was it like for buying tickets around the entrance of the venue? Did anyone buy then from touts on the day of the gig? Were tickets easily available?
21st August 2006 04:05 AM
Jeep The Guardian :

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/review/0,,1854955,00.html

Rolling Stones
**** London Twickenham Stadium
Alexis Petridis
Monday August 21, 2006
The Guardian

"We were meant to be at Wembley," protests Mick Jagger between songs. "I think they're gonna get Wembley ready for the farewell tour of the Arctic Monkeys."
He has a point, but the failure to get the National Stadium ready in time is not the only mishap to hit the Rolling Stones Bigger Bang Tour. It would be reasonable to expect the biggest-grossing rock tour on the planet to run like a perfectly oiled machine. Thus far, however, the Rolling Stones' ongoing jaunt has proved remarkably incident-prone, estimated box office gross of $400m or not.

In a throwback to more louche days, guitarist Ronnie Wood has been admitted to rehab for his drink problem and their live show has been censored in China and America, the lyrics considered an affront to public decency by both Hu Jintao's ministry of culture and the organisers of the NFL Superbowl. To their immense credit, even the Stones seem slightly flabbergasted to have found somewhere on Earth where they are still considered a threat to establishment values.
They have caused a riot in Buenos Aires and, closer to home, stepped in to prevent over-50s magazine Saga from offering its readers a discount on tickets. Mick Jagger suffered laryngitis and, most famously, Keith Richards - a man for whom the Times commissioned an obituary back in 1988 - has once more blown a raspberry at the Grim Reaper, surviving brain surgery after falling out of a coconut tree in Fiji.

That last incident seems to have bolstered the already vast mythology of the immortal guitarist. When he takes the stage, the sodden crowd hail him with a noticeably louder roar than that which greets Mick Jagger.

It's worth noting that - despite the fact that the tour is ostensibly to promote their most recent, substantially-better-than-you-might-expect album, A Bigger Bang - all these surprises have taken place offstage.

On stage, things take a turn for the reliable. They play to their strengths: the hits delivered with as much son-et-lumiere as technology will allow. Jumping Jack Flash is filled with more thuggish menace than you might expect. Midnight Rambler displays every sign of going on until the end of time, not unlike Keith Richards himself.

The closest they get to throwing the audience a curve ball is performing a glorious version of Sway, from 1970s Sticky Fingers. "I can't remember what album this is from," Jagger admits.

The Rolling Stones long ago switched from a band to a brand. As befits a company with five decades of vast success to their name, the Rolling Stones pride themselves on customer service. The more cynical observer might suggest that's the least you could expect, given the ticket prices - indeed, the more cynical observer might suggest that for £575 that VIP tickets cost on the internet, you could expect the members of the Rolling Stones to carry you around Twickenham Stadium in a sedan chair - but they're nothing if not crowd-pleasers. So the recent album is glossed over in three songs, all of which sound better than you might expect.

It's easy to scoff at the Rolling Stones, to make the obligatory citation of their combined age (248), to suggest that Jagger might consider abandoning his preposterous Mockney accent - "Fangyew!" - now he's a peer of the realm, to look askance at the avarice which purportedly compels them to keep touring. But it's easier still to be beguiled by them onstage: the sheer chutzpah of Jagger's preening, Richards' repertoire of sly smiles at the audience, the sound of Tumbling Dice bellowing out into the damp dusk, its raffishness intact. The Rolling Stones could happily be playing live into the next decade.



21st August 2006 04:06 AM
Jeep The Independent :

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article1220718.ece

Rolling Stones, Twickenham Stadium, London
Mick gets lippy, the home crowd goes wild
By Andy Gill
Published: 21 August 2006

"It's strange how you wind up back where you started, here in Twickenham in Richmond", mused Mick Jagger during a brief pause in last night's show - although he couldn't have known, when the Stones started out just up the road from here over four decades ago, quite the style in which they would return to their old stamping ground.

They were only playing there, of course, because Wembley wasn't yet ready to receive them. "I think they are going to get ready for the farewell tour... of the Arctic Monkeys," he said.

Certainly, the Stones' show did seem a little cramped, in Twickenham, which is more of a stadium than Wembley: the echo was a distant annoyance, particularly during the quieter passages of Streets of Love, one of the more recent numbers which proves Mick and Keith can still knock out a hit.

It was not out of place in last night's set, which was a virtual greatest hits package, from the opening chords of Jumping Jack Flash with which Keith announced their arrival to the blitzkrieg finale of Satisfaction which climaxed the show with the full compliment of fireworks, flashing lights and 30-foot tongues of flame leaping up from the sides of the stage.

As usual with the Stones, there was no expense spared, and no taste wasted, on the set, which featured what appeared to be two huge extensions to the Guggenheim Museum flanking a huge video screen behind the stage, their curved, slanting walkway tiers forming part of the light show. The massive scale did tend to dwarf the band, who seemed skinnier than ever in front of their giant projected selves, little Lowry matchstick-men throwing shapes across the vast curved apron of the stage. This was Mick's domain, of course, and he laboured hard to fill it while Keith and Ron wandered desultorily around during Start Me Up. Sound-wise it was a bit of a racket, to be honest, with Charlie's tom-toms popping really prominently out of the mix throughout the show. But Mick's throat appeared mended after his bout of laryngitis, and Keith's head seemed firmly screwed back on - as firmly as it ever did, anyway.

There can't be many other performers who can get a cheer by sauntering to the front of the stage and lighting up a ciggie - but then, who smokes with quite the panache Keith brings to this simple task?

As for Ronnie Wood - or "The Renoir of Rock", as Mick announced him - well, Ronnie was on pretty good form, chipping in a neat slide guitar break on Sway and adding some lovely counterpoint guitar to Streets of Love.

Midnight Rambler and Sympathy for the Devil were the two real standouts. The former found the band congregated in a tight knot in front of Charlie's drums, cranking up the riff while Mick added some tidy blues harp and did his Shamanic dancing on the apron.

For Sympathy, the crowd was way ahead of the band, chanting the woo-hoos before anyone but Charlie had started playing. When Mick appeared, he was clad in what seemed to be one of JK's old cast off hat and jacket combinations, which matched the dominant smoke and jets of flame with which the song was embellished. Another crowd-pleasing moment was the part, mid-way through Miss You, when the central section of the stage trundled forward with the band on board, halting mid-stadium so the folks at the back could get a better view. It's fun, but not quite as impressive as the cantilevered bridge with which the same move was made on the Bridges to Babylon shows.

And ultimately, all the sophisticated staging doesn't carry as much essential Stones appeal as the lippy attitude with which Mick delivered the contemptuous Oh No, Not You Again: it's quite heartening, really, how British sexagenerians can be as snotty as naughty schoolboys.

"It's strange how you wind up back where you started, here in Twickenham in Richmond", mused Mick Jagger during a brief pause in last night's show - although he couldn't have known, when the Stones started out just up the road from here over four decades ago, quite the style in which they would return to their old stamping ground.

They were only playing there, of course, because Wembley wasn't yet ready to receive them. "I think they are going to get ready for the farewell tour... of the Arctic Monkeys," he said.

Certainly, the Stones' show did seem a little cramped, in Twickenham, which is more of a stadium than Wembley: the echo was a distant annoyance, particularly during the quieter passages of Streets of Love, one of the more recent numbers which proves Mick and Keith can still knock out a hit.

It was not out of place in last night's set, which was a virtual greatest hits package, from the opening chords of Jumping Jack Flash with which Keith announced their arrival to the blitzkrieg finale of Satisfaction which climaxed the show with the full compliment of fireworks, flashing lights and 30-foot tongues of flame leaping up from the sides of the stage.

As usual with the Stones, there was no expense spared, and no taste wasted, on the set, which featured what appeared to be two huge extensions to the Guggenheim Museum flanking a huge video screen behind the stage, their curved, slanting walkway tiers forming part of the light show. The massive scale did tend to dwarf the band, who seemed skinnier than ever in front of their giant projected selves, little Lowry matchstick-men throwing shapes across the vast curved apron of the stage. This was Mick's domain, of course, and he laboured hard to fill it while Keith and Ron wandered desultorily around during Start Me Up. Sound-wise it was a bit of a racket, to be honest, with Charlie's tom-toms popping really prominently out of the mix throughout the show. But Mick's throat appeared mended after his bout of laryngitis, and Keith's head seemed firmly screwed back on - as firmly as it ever did, anyway.
There can't be many other performers who can get a cheer by sauntering to the front of the stage and lighting up a ciggie - but then, who smokes with quite the panache Keith brings to this simple task?

As for Ronnie Wood - or "The Renoir of Rock", as Mick announced him - well, Ronnie was on pretty good form, chipping in a neat slide guitar break on Sway and adding some lovely counterpoint guitar to Streets of Love.

Midnight Rambler and Sympathy for the Devil were the two real standouts. The former found the band congregated in a tight knot in front of Charlie's drums, cranking up the riff while Mick added some tidy blues harp and did his Shamanic dancing on the apron.

For Sympathy, the crowd was way ahead of the band, chanting the woo-hoos before anyone but Charlie had started playing. When Mick appeared, he was clad in what seemed to be one of JK's old cast off hat and jacket combinations, which matched the dominant smoke and jets of flame with which the song was embellished. Another crowd-pleasing moment was the part, mid-way through Miss You, when the central section of the stage trundled forward with the band on board, halting mid-stadium so the folks at the back could get a better view. It's fun, but not quite as impressive as the cantilevered bridge with which the same move was made on the Bridges to Babylon shows.

And ultimately, all the sophisticated staging doesn't carry as much essential Stones appeal as the lippy attitude with which Mick delivered the contemptuous Oh No, Not You Again: it's quite heartening, really, how British sexagenerians can be as snotty as naughty schoolboys.
21st August 2006 04:11 AM
Jeep The Times

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14936-2322255.html

The Rolling Stones
David Sinclair at Twickenham stadium
****

HOW do they do it? Exactly a year since they opened their latest world tour in Boston, the Rolling Stones arrived in their own backyard. The British leg of their A Bigger Bang world tour began last night at Twickenham, not two miles from where they began their extraordinary odyssey 43 years ago in the more modest environs of the Station Hotel in Richmond.

“You go round the world ten times and you end up back where you started,” Mick Jagger said as he led the band into Streets of Love, a song from the current album with an unusually confessional quality.

This latest chapter has been an unusually gruelling and accident-prone trek. They have played huge, groundbreaking events in Brazil, China and at the US Superbowl. But a tranche of dates had to be rescheduled after Keith Richards fell out of his tree and had to undergo brain surgery (Jagger introduced him as the band’s “chief headbanger"). Two more shows in Spain were postponed last week when Jagger succumbed to laryngitis. Charlie Watts has bounced back from throat cancer and a car accident. And Ron Wood (“The Renoir of rock”, as Jagger called him) has been on and off the wagon more times than a faulty wheel. But still they keep on coming.

A downpour before the show failed to dampen the crowd’s spirit as the band took to the stage amid fireworks and images of space debris. A vision of Guggenheim-inspired Art Deco, the huge stage structure was lined with members of the audience standing along “battlements” above and behind the performers. Jagger, an impossibly spindly and spiky figure in tight black trousers and spangletastic shirt, barked out the lyric of Jumping Jack Flash, while the Lazarus-like Richards hunched over his guitar and chopped out the riff with a woozy enthusiasm. Wood contributed a succession of unusually brisk and well-organised solos and Watts, with the band’s “invisible” bass player, Daryl Jones, maintained their reputation as the staunchest rhythm section in rock’n’roll.

The set included a handful of new numbers, including a swashbuckling Rough Justice, and one or two rarities such as Sway, during which Jagger, in particular, struggled to replicate the recorded performance. But the majority of the set was comprised of old favourites. A chunk of stage hydraulically detached itself and carried the group about 200 yards into the crowd as they played Miss You, a tremendous touch of theatre. They stayed in the middle of the sold-out stadium for Get Off of My Cloud and returned to the mothership, by this time overhung by a huge, lolling inflatable tongue, as they played Honky Tonk Women.

“If you start me up, I will never stop,” Jagger sang, and rarely has a truer word been voiced in song. The Stones may be long past their prime, and an anachronism to some. But watching them tear into the home stretch of Sympathy for the Devil, It’s Only Rock’n’Roll, Brown Sugar and Satisfaction was to see a group still magnificently, unrepentantly and quite joyously fit for purpose.




21st August 2006 04:12 AM
Jeep
21st August 2006 04:43 AM
RollingstonesUSA Does Charlie ever go, "holy fuckin' shit, how many times can I play Sympathy For The Devil, before I shoot myself." lol
21st August 2006 05:04 AM
Jeep More pix from Getty :

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21st August 2006 05:41 AM
Jeep Daily Mail :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=401518&in_page_id=1773

Jagger, rocking on for the wrinkly generation
09:19am 21st August 2006

Even after more than 40 years, Mick Jagger still has an enviable reputation as a party animal.

But while his rock star lifestyle seems to have taken little toll on him, it appears the passing years have made more of a mark on some of his fans.

Fearing the Rolling Stones' British tour would attract hordes of gyrating pensioners, promoters cancelled a halfprice discount offer in association with Saga magazine last week.

But their efforts seem to have been in vain. As the tour started last night, the men and women filing into Twickenham stadium in South-West London were more likely eligible for a free bus pass than a young person's railcard.

It was clear that the veteran rockers on stage might still favour spray-on jeans and spiky bouffant hairstyles, but the audience were more likely to opt for clean and pressed T-shirts or sweatshirts with the famous Rolling Stones logo.

And forget drunken fights and queuebarging - these fans lined up in an orderly fashion to take their seats in the arena.

As the concert started, it seemed unlikely that 63-year-old Sir Mick, whose band has a combined age of 249, would be doing any crowd-surfing.

In any case, he has only just recovered from a bout of laryngitis, which forced the cancellation of two shows in Spain last week.

Meanwhile, guitarist Keith Richards is still recovering from a head injury sustained falling out a tree in Fiji earlier

this year. Young rock fans have spurned the biggest-grossing tour band of all time and the Stones have had trouble shifting tickets for the Bigger Bang tour this year.

Perhaps impoverished youngsters have been put off by the prices - some seats cost as much as £195. Tickets are still available for the second Twickenham show tomorrow, as well as those in Cardiff and Glasgow.

Billboards across London have trumpeted the band's arrival in the capital and promoters have also taken the unusual step of taking adverts out in newspapers to sell leftover tickets.

The lacklustre take-up for Stones tickets contrasts with their Steel Wheels world tour of 1989 when they broke the world record of the time by taking £250million in sales


21st August 2006 06:28 AM
oldkr there were 19 songs because they had a 10.30 stop time. If they didnt play a 20 minute version of SOL (i was just READY to die) we could have had it!!!

was in the same row as Gazza and my folks, had a rockin show , ronnie actually played mick was strong considering-- keith had a few subdued moments tho!!!

OLDKR
21st August 2006 07:20 AM
TomL LJ- There will be no SOL in Chicago, we don't want that shit.
21st August 2006 07:27 AM
corgi37 Mostly great reviews, bar that last one. All commentary and social critique and demographic study - but not actually a review of 1 frigging song!

Still, what a great set list.

I would dearly love them to slip in Love in Vain in the Night time slot.
21st August 2006 07:38 AM
LadyJane
quote:
TomL wrote:
LJ- There will be no SOL in Chicago, we don't want that shit.



I want to hear it.....glad I'm NOT sitting with you!!!!

20 minute version, though???

LJ.
21st August 2006 07:39 AM
GotToRollMe
quote:
corgi37 wrote:

I would dearly love them to slip in Love in Vain in the Night time slot.



Or Stray Cat Blues! Hell yeah!
21st August 2006 07:45 AM
Jumacfly
quote:
GotToRollMe wrote:


Or Stray Cat Blues! Hell yeah!




bet your mama don t know that you act like that!
or Dance...
21st August 2006 07:48 AM
VoodooChileInWOnderl
quote:
Tomie wrote:
Glad to hear people enjoyed it

What time approx did the show finish please?



10:15 P. M.
21st August 2006 09:20 AM
UGot2Rollme some of the most well-written reviews of the tour.

Thanks for Posting!

Keep on Rollin'
21st August 2006 10:26 AM
Saint Sway Doing it for the kids?????

quote:




21st August 2006 11:30 AM
jb Per Stonedoug, place was nearly full..Apparently article was a nasty swipe at Stones. Sadly, NA still very open with no sell outs except for 2 venues.
21st August 2006 12:04 PM
speedfreakjive great gig, IORR was amazing in particular!
the place was pretty much full yes.
21st August 2006 12:32 PM
jb
quote:
speedfreakjive wrote:
great gig, IORR was amazing in particular!
the place was pretty much full yes.


Were uppers fille? Where was Gazza? Did Glencar make it?
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