(TV) Tom Verlaine - Oslo July 12th

[Tormod Bjøntegaard <bjonti@hotmail.com>]

Hi, this is my first post to the list, so hello everybody!
Just thought I'd write a small review of the concert in Oslo yesterday. This 
was my first Verlaine-concert (never seen Television either) so I was very 
excited to say the least. The venue, John Dee, is a 400 capacity venue, and 
I reckon about 100-150 people showed up. I guess this has to do with the 
fact that we are in the middle of the vacation and the fact that Tom 
Verlaine isn't that well known here in Norway. I believe a large part of the 
audience came to hear old Television songs. Anyway, the band was just Tom 
Verlaine and Jimmy Ripp and they were on top form throughout the night. Tom 
was smiling and laughing between each song and it looked like they had a 
really good time, and I have to say that the guitar interplay between the 
two is simply amazing! The concert lasted for about 110 mins and this is 
what they played:

Day On You
Souvenir From A Dream
Unknown song (Possibly called Sapphire or something...?)
The Earth Is In The Sky
Rain, Sidewalk (Not sure about this one, but it was a song from Around, with 
a vocal part in the middle which I hadn't heard before)
Documentary
Pillow
Orbit
Scientist Writes A Letter
A song which I believe he introduced as their "Motorcycle Theme" (My 
impression is that it was from one of their silent movie projects, although 
I haven't heard any of those)
Kingdom Come
Words From The Front
Unknown Song
Prove It

Encore:
Nice Actress
Ancient Egypt (They claimed that they didn't know any more songs at this 
point, and that this would be a rehearsal. Sounded pretty good for a 
rehearsal, if you ask me!)

All in all a great concert, where I think "Words From The Front" was the 
standout track for me. I haven't heard any of the new Television tracks, so 
the songs that were unknown to me may have been some of those...

Towards the end, there was a funny moment where a guy from the audience 
called out for Marquee Moon, upon which Tom replied "Yeah, we're gonna play 
Marquee Moon!" in a funny ironic voice. Didn't seem like that was something 
he considered doing...

Tormod
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