Paul Humphreys rambles on....

Paul Humphreys rambles on....
News and Views

« Previous day (Nov 22, 2004) | Main | Next day (Nov 24, 2004) »

Tuesday November 23, 2004

Bryan Ferry

My wife introduced me to Bryan Ferry's music soon after we met. I knew him from his Roxy Music days but had not heard his solo stuff before.

We saw him at the Hexagon recently , Reading and he was awsome. There is only one criticism I would make of him and that is he cannot dance for toffee. It was an excellent show with him performing a lot of his old stuff but also tracks from his most recent album where he has found his form again and that is the album Frantic .

Unlike other solo artists I listen to ( usually in the car ) such as Bob Dylan or David Bowie I find I am always in the mood to listen to Bryan Ferry's music. I rarely flick from his CD when it is being played.

Of course he is a poser and always well dressed. At the concert he was wearing some very expensive suits that looked like Armani . When Ferry was in the plane that was nearly brought to earth by a nutcase he was more worried about of the picture that appeared in the papers with his hair all over the place than his brush with death.

Albums I enjoy as well as Frantic must be These Foolish things which has several cover versions of Dylan, Stones and Lennon/McCartney tracks. Another time, another place with another Dylan, an old Roxy music track "The In crowd" and the title track his own song. Possibly my favourite In your mind where the majority of the tracks are his except one he writes with someone called Thomas. Tokyo Joe is excellent and the title track perhaps the best of his from all time.

There are plenty of other albums he has been quite prolific as you can see here

( Nov 23 2004, 12:01:00 AM PST ) Permalink