Pendragon at the Mean Fiddler 16/06/06

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Pendragon at the Mean Fiddler 16 June 2006
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On the way to work that day I was listening to Pendragon’s “Believe” and it occurred to me what a great opening to a gig the first two tracks, “Believe” and “No Place for the Innocent”, would make and, sure enough, that’s what they started off with.
It’s so much better to see a band in a small venue like the Mean Fiddler, where you can actually see and hear the band properly. The guys on the desk did a great job as the sound was excellent - not too loud and you could hear all the instruments clearly.
The Pendragon boys played a blinder, including new drummer Joe Crabtree. There was a sprinkling of tracks from “Believe” amongst the usual classics such as “Guardian of my Soul“, “Good as Gold” and “Paintbox”. Their songs have an epic feel which is well suited to live performance and there were a number of lighter-waving moments, or rather mobile phone waving moments these days.
Nick Barrett has a very good rapport with the audience and Pendragon does have a dedicated group of fans. As Nick said, they’ve only made two albums in the last 9 years so he was surprised to see us still out there. There have been a few threads in the forum about whether people would like prog to be more mainstream. Pendragon certainly deserve more success and it would be great to see them in the charts however, on a purely selfish level, it’s fantastic to be able to see a band as good as this in a small venue, and only £10 per ticket!

The support was ably provided by Gary Chandler from Jadis and Steve Thorne who did a fine semi-unplugged set featuring some Jadis numbers and some of Steve’s own songs from his albums Emotional Creatures parts 1 and 2.

The concert was attended by myself, Blacksword and prog-chick.

Edited by chopper - June 17 2006 at 11:36