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Title: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Bever on September 02, 2021, 07:34:32 AM
I went to (checks notes) Übach-Palenberg, Germany yesterday, in traffic a 2,5 hour drive from my home in Belgium. Don't regret it for a moment. This was my second JS solo gig (first one in Rotterdam a few years ago), and it's amazing how he can fill a whole stage on his own.

The atmosphere was great, and so was the setlist. I think it looked like this, but not 100% sure: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/justin-sullivan/2021/rockfabrik-ubach-palenberg-germany-b8cc9c2.html It feels good to be able to attend live gigs again. If you have the chance to attend one, don't think twice!

02 Sep Dortmund (DE) JS Solo
03 Sep Coesfeld (DE) JS Solo
04 Sep Worpswede (DE) JS Solo
06 Sep Hamburg (DE) JS Solo
07 Sep Rostock (DE) JS Solo
08 Sep Neuruppin (DE) JS Solo
09 Sep Leipzig (DE) JS Solo
10 Sep Nürnberg (DE) JS Solo
11 Sep Lindau (DE) JS Solo
13 Sep Freiburg (DE) JS Solo
15 Sep Tübingen (DE) JS Solo
16 Sep München (DE) JS Solo
17 Sep Frankfurt (DE) JS Solo
18 Sep Osnabrück (DE) JS Solo
20 Sep Köln (DE) SOLD OUT
22 Sep Köln (DE) JS Solo

05 Oct Bedford (UK) JS Solo
06 Oct Blackpool (UK) JS Solo
07 Oct Leeds (UK) JS Solo
08 Oct Sunderland (UK) JS Solo
09 Oct Sheffield (UK) JS Solo
10 Oct London (UK) JS Solo
11 Oct Norwich (UK) JS Solo
13 Oct Exeter (UK) JS Solo
14 Oct Bristol (UK) JS Solo
15 Oct Derby (UK) JS Solo
16 Oct Newhampton (UK) JS Solo
17 Oct Bury (UK) JS Solo
19 Oct Stowmarket (UK) JS Solo
20 Oct Shoreham (UK) JS Solo
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: pinballjim on September 05, 2021, 06:54:04 PM
We're getting the train from Amsterdam to see the shows in Frankfurt and Osnabruck, looking forward to it...
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: flodhaest on September 07, 2021, 09:10:42 AM
Not much talk about the tour on here... I went to the Hamburg gig yesterday and wish I could attend more of the tour. Great setlist (pretty much the same as in Übach-Palenberg, might add later when I have my notes on me), cool venue right in the middle of the city next to St. Pauli Stadium and Justin just holds the room (or the outside, in this case).

Not quite sold out, I think, as they increased the number of guests allowed, but still a very decent crowd.
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Bever on September 07, 2021, 01:21:45 PM
This was Hamburg: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/justin-sullivan/2021/knust-hamburg-germany-2b8c30a2.html

An extra show in Maastricht was added, which is doable for me as well to attend, so I might head over there. I do have the impression that there won't be too much variation in the setlist. I find it odd as well that there are no Navigating By The Stars songs on there.
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: flodhaest on September 07, 2021, 03:32:24 PM
Thanks - surprisingly there are no setlists for the other dates. Hamburg is more or less exactly the same as Übach-Palenberg, but why change a good thing  :). I thought there would be some more Navigating by the stars-Songs, too.

I'd definitely go to another gig if I had the chance.

Edit: corrected mistaken assumption about the songs on NBTS.
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Viv Savage on September 07, 2021, 04:18:41 PM
Changing Of The Light is on NBTS  :)
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: flodhaest on September 07, 2021, 04:47:01 PM
Oh. Yes. My bad.

I edited to "some more"   8).
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Bever on September 08, 2021, 06:12:23 AM
Quote from: Viv Savage on September 07, 2021, 04:18:41 PM
Changing Of The Light is on NBTS  :)

You are right! I was mistaken by the info on setlist.fm: https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/justin-sullivan-73d66ae5.html?songid=6bf84a12

So the question is: is this an NMA song, a JS song or as setlist.fm puts it a JS+DB song? I see 7 times NMA as well: https://www.setlist.fm/song/justin-sullivan-and-dave-blomberg/changing-of-the-light-6bf84a12.html
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Tarsier on September 08, 2021, 01:29:00 PM
Tomorrow in Leipzig! Can't wait... First trip to abroad since ages and I've never visited Leipzig before so looking forward to do some touristy stuff also...but mainly, Justin  :)
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Ghosttrain on September 08, 2021, 02:01:50 PM
I first read touristy stuff as thirsty stuff  ::) ..............mmmm probably right first time......cheers.. ;D..
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Tarsier on September 08, 2021, 08:58:19 PM
Quote from: Ghosttrain on September 08, 2021, 02:01:50 PM
I first read touristy stuff as thirsty stuff  ::) ..............mmmm probably right first time......cheers.. ;D..

Well... You know me  ;D Just arrived to the hostel, now sampling some fine German beer  ;)
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Ghosttrain on September 09, 2021, 07:53:29 AM
Have a great time.... :)...
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: lotus on September 09, 2021, 08:52:14 PM
All I know/remember is:
JS wrote it during a visit in Kiel (Baltic Sea) - can`t find the source now
The earliest version I know is Southwick 12/1993 JS&DB
RSC played it Feb. 1994
Chinese Whispers listed Big Guitars .. with DB as a JS solo project - so it could be a JS solo song ....
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: lotus on September 09, 2021, 09:00:50 PM
After so many years of visiting NMA/RSC/JS solo gigs I stay at home this year - thank you Corona, the special rules and my lost fitness :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Tarsier on September 10, 2021, 01:15:50 AM
It was such a beautiful gig... I don't think there's a way to describe it as it was "just" a pure feeling... I did cry...  :'( but it was a good feeling... And I was happy to stand up at the end! :D
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: jc on September 10, 2021, 06:18:22 AM
Quote from: Tarsier on September 10, 2021, 01:15:50 AM
It was such a beautiful gig... I don't think there's a way to describe it as it was "just" a pure feeling... I did cry...  :'( but it was a good feeling... And I was happy to stand up at the end! :D
Glad you enjoyed it, waiting for my turn next month.

Cheers

jc
Title: Justin Sullivan - 2021 - Surrounded Tour requests...
Post by: 8 on September 11, 2021, 03:33:53 AM
Hello everyone,

It's been far too long.  I hope you are all doing well, are safe and sound.

If it's not too much to ask, would those of you who've either already been, or will be attending any of Mr. Sullivan's solo dates, please share in this thread your in-depth thoughts about the shows?  For those of us who have no chance of hitting-up any live gigs this year, please share something, anything, with us?

1.  What your favourite song(s) of the evening(s) were?

2.  What your own, personal highlight(s) of the night(s) were?

3.  Did you jot the setlist down?  If so, care to share it / them with those of us who weren't there?

4.  Link a visual clip you particularly love?

5.  What was the venue like?

6.  How about the weather, what was it like?

7.  How was the crowd size-wise, vibe-wise?

8.  What (s) words did he share with you all (as audience members), between songs?

9.  Did / do you hope to hear a particular song, if so, which one?

Ohhh, Mr. Sullivan please consider doing a live solo stream, too?  Please?  Please?  Please?  Sometime before year's end, perhaps?

I'd pay to see you play.  I genuinely feel and believe that a lot of us would.  The live stream wouldn't need to be anything fancy.  Just something simple, basic, doable.  I ask because the clock keeps on ticking and at this point I'm not sure that I'll ever be able to see, feel, hear you play a completely solo gig -- in the flesh, in person -- especially here on this, the wrong side of the earth (=North America).  I'm sure there are many folk in the same boat, scattered all over the rest of the world who'd love to see and hear you play... 'anyway, anyhow, anywhere' YOU 'choose'.  Just some kind of live stream?  Anything is better than nothing.  I really miss gigs.  I miss everything... :'(:-[ 
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Sydowski on September 14, 2021, 07:25:39 AM
Just a few impressions from Nuremberg (11/09/2021). The Justin Sullivan gig was my first after a year and a half COVID hiatus, and I thoroughly enjoyed it…
Pleasant temperatures (only a few drops of rain), a beautiful location, around 200 very attentive people in the crowd, seated at tables, JS in high spirits, and a very enthusiastic seal in the neighboring zoo, who barked diligently during song breaks and provided some laughs. Justin‘s voice was very room-filling (despite playing an open air gig), deep and at the same time very clear (at NMA concerts it sometimes sounds much rougher), and his guitar playing sounded very clean. The combination was simply beautiful.

The setlist as far as I remember it: Maps / Changing of the Light / Amundsen / Coming With Me / Unforgiven / No Greater Love / Rip Tides / Strogoula / Marrakesh / Over the Wire / Clean Horizon / Stone and Heather / Where I Am / Passing Through / You Weren't There / Bad Old World / Eyes Get Used to the Darkness // 1975 / Sun on Water / Die Trying / Fate / Snelsmore Wood

Magic  :)

Title: Re: Justin Sullivan - 2021 - Surrounded Tour requests...
Post by: Guillaume on September 14, 2021, 09:42:45 AM
Quote from: 8 on September 11, 2021, 03:33:53 AM
Ohhh, Mr. Sullivan please consider doing a live solo stream, too?  Please?  Please?  Please?  Sometime before year's end, perhaps?

and also one or two or three solo concerts in France would be cool, too! 8)
Title: Nuremburg impressions + hopes for dates in France...
Post by: 8 on September 14, 2021, 07:08:35 PM
Quote from: Sydowski on September 14, 2021, 07:25:39 AM
Just a few impressions from Nuremberg (11/09/2021).  The Justin Sullivan gig was my first after a year and a half COVID hiatus, and I thoroughly enjoyed it…

Greetings Sydowski, :)

Not sure if we've ever conversed on here before either, but I want to thank you SO very much for dropping in to share your impressions, thoughts, findings, experience, etc., with us.  I find reading 'fan' reviews moreso important, validating, enjoyable, rewarding than reading those of some fancy-schmancy journalist, who might be writing a review in some paper (or whatever), just to earn a pay cheque or worse, for all the wrong reasons, to get some incredible perk that might come with the job.

In the past, I found that too many of them were way off-the-mark and questionable anyway.  Perhaps the reviews were written by folk who didn't like, get or grasp NMA's material, repertoire, live shows, following, etc..  Things are changing a bit though, these days.  NMA have had some good reviews for their newer material.  Though when it comes to radio, there's a lot more catching up to do.  Disc jockeys still tend to focus predominantly on all things "Thunder and Consolation".  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE that album... immensely.  But c'mon radio stations, disc jockeys, journalists... NMA have released 11 terrific studio albums since that one!!  Which, if one pauses to take a look, was actually just their fourth.  There are still NMA fans out there in the world that have no clue that NMA went on to release not one, not 3, not 5, but 11 full-length studio albums.


Quote from: Sydowski on September 14, 2021, 07:25:39 AM
Pleasant temperatures (only a few drops of rain)
beautiful location
around 200 very attentive people in the crowd, seated at tables,
JS in high spirits,
and a very enthusiastic seal in the neighboring zoo, who barked diligently during song breaks and provided some laughs.

What the 'eck, a barking seal?  In a neighbouring zoo?!  LMAO!!  No way, you've gotta be kidding, lol. :D  I guess it felt left out, y'know... 'cause I guess it 'was uninvited' (https://www.newmodelarmy.org/the-music/lyrics/145-flying-through-the-smoke) 'n all. ::) "arr, arr, arr!" pada-pum ;D  forgive me, couldn't resist the seriously cheesy joke! :)

Hey, here's some awesome NMA trivia for those who might not have heard...

NMA's apparently played at a festival gig with actual, real, proper chickens running around the grounds!!! :D
ROTFLMAO!  Can you even imagine it?  I mean seriously, just picture it for one cool split second...

Justin's completely centred, in-check...
his penetrating full-on wild-eyed-gaze is upon the hungry, loyal, anticipating audience...
he's driven, intensely-focused,
readying himself up for that most crucial, pivotal, noted-musical-cue, for him to crash in to sing his part...
just as the rest of the guys Michael, Dean, Marshall and Ceri are striking
and pounding the fcuk out of their musical instruments,
with such impeccable, precision, ferocity, vigor and speed,
the tune for which they have begun to play...
that noted-musical-cue comes ever-so-swiftly clamoring-in...
Justin grips his mic with fists so unassailably tight,
breaks into the audible space between the band and the crowd,
of beaming, glistening fans...
and like the crack of lightning and rumbling roar of thunder itself,
Justin pulls his mic in towards himself, just right 'n tight enough, close enough to channel and summon the 'GODs' of old...
everyone's psyched, everyone's pumped...
it's chaos, it's pandemonium -- out there in the mosh pit, all muddied folk, revved-up for the gig...
Justin parts his firm 'n full, yet soft dew-kissed-lips -- like a soothsayer, prophet,
calling on / drawing-in his / their faithful devotees...
he sings into his mic, with eyes-closed-oh-so-tight...
"Here Comes The wWaaarrrrrRRRr!",
as a flock of 6 cackling, clucking chickens go passing across the field,
like nothing's happening, just casually nodding their heads
back 'n forth, back 'n forth, back 'n forth -- rather amusingly, quite surprisingly in rhythm with the raging tune,
pecking away at the festival grounds,
just looking for their next meal.

For the record, it didn't happen that way, at all.  I'm just having a little fun with the bit of NMA trivia. ::)  And yeah, I genuinely can't tell a story or joke... not even if my life depended on it.  But there's just something about the thought of NMA playing at a gig with chickens running amuck in the mosh pit too, that's actually pretty cool... very cute and totally endearing, sweet, plausible.  Particularly enjoyed the Nuremburg setlist + barking seal story!  Hopefully it didn't cause too much of a kerfuffle or spoil the mood for JS or anyone. :)


Quote from: Sydowski on September 14, 2021, 07:25:39 AM
Justin‘s voice was very room-filling (despite playing an open air gig),
deep and at the same time very clear (at NMA concerts it sometimes sounds much rougher),
and his guitar playing sounded very clean.  The combination was simply beautiful.

I love, love, LOVE Mr. Sullivan's voice!  Especially, on both "Navigating By The Stars" and "Surrounded".  It is his greatest, natural and innate blessing, gift, instrument.  It certainly is as warm and captivating as the bee's knees.  He can conquer and shift tectonic plates, move mountains, bend and fold water with it. 8)  It's what drew me in all those years ago, then came the music, the face, the smokin' HOT body.  'hmmm-yesss', as stunning Kate would tenderly whisper.  He's definitely in a league all of his own... 8)


Quote from: Sydowski on September 14, 2021, 07:25:39 AM
The setlist as far as I remember it:
 1.  Maps
 2.  Changing of the Light
 3.  Amundsen
 4.  Coming With Me
 5.  Unforgiven
 6.  No Greater Love
 7.  Rip Tides
 8.  Strogoula
 9.  Marrakesh
10.  Over the Wire
11.  Clean Horizon
12.  Stone and Heather
13.  Where I Am
14.  Passing Through
15.  You Weren't There
16.  Bad Old World
17.  Eyes Get Used to the Darkness
18.  1975
19.  Sun on Water
20.  Die Trying
21.  Fate
22.  Snelsmore Wood

Magic  :)

Ohhh, Sydowski, I'm sure it was so much more than magic. :)  Thank you SO very much for sharing your in-depth impressions, the Nuremburg setlist, the mentioning of the barking seal... just all of it, everything.  Your contribution to these here page, truly made my day!  Stay safe, enjoy the rest of yours, Sydowski.  And I hope you'll get to attend another JS solo date or two, soon.  Cheers! :)



Quote from: 8 on September 11, 2021, 03:33:53 AM
Ohhh, Mr. Sullivan please consider doing a live solo stream, too?
Please?  Please?  Please?  Sometime before year's end, perhaps?
Quote from: Guillaume on September 14, 2021, 09:42:45 AM
and also one or two or three solo concerts in France would be cool, too! 8)

Hey! :D  Who knows, Guillaume, his lady-love lives there!  So why not then?  He would definitely have a warm place to stay, no need for hotels or Air B&Bs!  I'll keep my fingers crossed for you and the French contingent, Guillaume!  Stay safe and hope you thoroughly enjoy the rest of your day, too, Guillaume. :)


Actually, I'd like to extend those very same wishes, to every floater / poster here.
Happy gigging, resting, listening, reading, and / or posting... to all!
Stay safe and take care of yourselves and each other. :)
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: sam37 on September 14, 2021, 09:05:14 PM
German review of the Nürnberg gig:
https://www.nordbayern.de/kultur/rockstar-sang-in-nurnberg-mit-den-seehunden-1.11346341
Title: Re: Nuremburg impressions + hopes for dates in France...
Post by: Guillaume on September 16, 2021, 01:27:15 PM
Quote from: 8 on September 14, 2021, 07:08:35 PM
Hey! :D  Who knows, Guillaume, his lady-love lives there!  So why not then?  He would definitely have a warm place to stay, no need for hotels or Air B&Bs!  I'll keep my fingers crossed for you and the French contingent, Guillaume!  Stay safe and hope you thoroughly enjoy the rest of your day, too, Guillaume. :)

thank you very much 8!
and take care of you too!  ;)
Title: Qu'est-ce que tu penses...
Post by: 8 on September 18, 2021, 02:39:10 PM
Quote from: 8 on September 14, 2021, 07:08:35 PM
Hey! :D  Who knows, Guillaume, his lady-love lives there!  So why not then?  He would definitely have a warm place to stay, no need for hotels or Air B&Bs!  I'll keep my fingers crossed for you and the French contingent, Guillaume!  Stay safe and hope you thoroughly enjoy the rest of your day, too, Guillaume. :)
Quote from: Guillaume on September 16, 2021, 01:27:15 PM
thank you very much 8! and take care of you too!  ;)

Merci Guillaume, tu es très gentil.  Je pense que votre souhait se réalisera, mais nous pourrions obtenir un album de ces concerts solo avant cette date. ;)
Title: Re: Qu'est-ce que tu penses...
Post by: Guillaume on September 19, 2021, 01:20:08 PM
Quote from: 8 on September 18, 2021, 02:39:10 PM
nous pourrions obtenir un album de ces concerts solo avant cette date. ;)

it would be great for sure!! 8) 8)
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: pinballjim on September 19, 2021, 08:24:42 PM
I saw the Frankfurt and Osnabruck gig this weekend. Both in the open air and both great. In Osnabruck he played Rivers and Ballad of Bodmin Pill. Nice! It fellt good to travel from Amsterdam to see again some live shows.
Title: SURROUNDED tour 2021...
Post by: 8 on September 22, 2021, 02:00:21 AM
Quote from: sam37 on September 14, 2021, 09:05:14 PM
German review of the Nürnberg gig: https://www.nordbayern.de/kultur/rockstar-sang-in-nurnberg-mit-den-seehunden-1.11346341

Cheers for posting that awesome link, Sam37! :)  That review was actually really sweet!  That is, if google nailed the translation.  I wouldn't know for sure, though.  I particularly loved the bit where Christian Mückl wrote (as well as noted) that Mr. Sullivan "...can be angry without barking like an angry citizen, and thoughtful without crying."  I think that's a spot-on observation, actually, especially where JS' words, music, performances are concerned, be they in or out of NMA.


Quote from: pinballjim on September 19, 2021, 08:24:42 PM
I saw the Frankfurt and Osnabruck gig this weekend.  Both in the open air and both great.  In Osnabruck he played Rivers and Ballad of Bodmin Pill.  Nice!  It felt good to travel from Amsterdam to see again some live shows.

Hello and cheers for posting all those details, Pinballjim! :)  "Rivers" and "Ballad of Bodmin Pill", what a nice surprise!  Aren't outdoor concerts fantastic?  Those are actually my favourite kind, though I prefer non-festival gigs.  What I mean by that is, concerts that take place over the course of 2 to 4 days.  The crowds are too large at those and the tickets, much more expensive.  Hopefully those two JS gigs will be the first of many JS/NMA-related ones for you this year.  If so, please come back and post something about them, there's someone here (=me) who'd love to read about each of them.


Anyone here (reading this) also contribute to Setlist.fm?  I'm asking because I noticed there's an error with the setlist for JS' date in Munich (this past September 16th).  It says that songs #12 and #13 were both "Where I Am".  I'm really hoping someone who actually attended that show, is willing and kind enough to go to Mr. Sullivan's page for September 16th, 2021 Munich date (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/justin-sullivan/2021/backstage-arena-sud-munich-germany-5b8c6fe4.html) and make the necessary correction(s).


Also, I'm hoping someone who was at JS' show on September 20th in Cologne and yesterday in Maastricht, can enter the setlists for those of us genuinely interested in the songs he chooses for each of his shows.  Here's the  main page for solo JS at setlist.fm (https://www.setlist.fm/search?query=justin+sullivan).  Thanking whomever does so here, in advance... Thank You. :)
Title: Re: SURROUNDED tour 2021...
Post by: Bever on September 22, 2021, 05:55:43 AM
Quote from: 8 on September 22, 2021, 02:00:21 AM
Anyone here (reading this) also contribute to Setlist.fm?  I'm asking because I noticed there's an error with the setlist for JS' date in Munich (this past September 16th).  It says that songs #12 and #13 were both "Where I Am".  I'm really hoping someone who actually attended that show, is willing and kind enough to go to Mr. Sullivan's page for September 16th, 2021 Munich date (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/justin-sullivan/2021/backstage-arena-sud-munich-germany-5b8c6fe4.html) and make the necessary correction(s).


Also, I'm hoping someone who was at JS' show on September 20th in Cologne and yesterday in Maastricht, can enter the setlists for those of us genuinely interested in the songs he chooses for each of his shows.  Here's the  main page for solo JS at setlist.fm (https://www.setlist.fm/search?query=justin+sullivan).  Thanking whomever does so here, in advance... Thank You. :)

I was at Maastricht yesterday and it was really superb. Very nice venue of course, nicely setup, great atmosphere and Justin was very talkative and really funny. He made me laugh out loud on several occasions. All in all an even better experience than the previous show I was at.

At one point he's starting Bodmin Pill, and the lights guy changes lights, putting him more or less in the dark for a second. He stops the intro, and explains that he is a lousy guitarist, and that he could no longer see the dots on the neck of his guitar and that threw him off. Might not be funny as I tell it, but trust me, it was :)

I tried to compose the setlist from memory and using previous setlists: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/justin-sullivan/2021/muziekgieterij-maastricht-netherlands-b8c410e.html Not 100% sure.
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Karsten on September 23, 2021, 05:34:35 PM
 Köln, second night (the private, last ,end-of-summer, half-standing festival gig... ;)):

 Maps
 Changing of the Light
 Amundsen
 Coming With Me
 Unforgiven
 No Greater Love
 Strogoula
 Marrakesh
 Over the Wire
 Die Trying
 Clean Horizon
 Stone and Heather
 Where I Am
 Passing Through
 You Weren't There
 Ballad Of Bodmin Pill

 Encore 1:
 Surrounded
 Setting Sun
 Fate
 Snelsmore Wood

 Encore 2:
 Bad Old World

 Not quite sure where to fit Rip Tides and Stone And Heather in, which were definately played as well...

Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: sam37 on September 25, 2021, 08:07:01 AM
Another German review:
https://www.choices.de/justin-sullivan-freideck-kantine
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: fiddlesticks on October 07, 2021, 12:38:15 AM
I posted some photos and thoughts about the Blackpool gig in another thread, suffice to say, 10/10 for the gig, the venue and the general atmosphere.
Title: Justin Sullivan 2021 Surrounded Tour...
Post by: 8 on October 07, 2021, 03:58:58 AM
Quote from: fiddlesticks on October 07, 2021, 12:38:15 AM
I posted some photos and thoughts about the Blackpool gig in another thread (https://board.newmodelarmy.org/index.php?topic=10134.0[/url), suffice to say,
10/10 for the gig, the venue and the general atmosphere.
(https://i.imgur.com/SDoAznG.jpg)

::)  This photo you took of JS is my favourite!  ::)

Every single tiny detail about this one is far beyond exceptional, SOooooooo exquisite, beautiful!! xx

I wish 'I could've been' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aCxv9Curo4)...
this angel's (=JS') harp (=harmonica) first...

~ :-[:'( ~
... xOOOx ...
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Red on October 08, 2021, 03:04:55 PM
Ive just done the Bedford and Leeds gigs

Doing Sheffield, London and Wolverhampton

Both the gigs Ive been to have been well attended and a great atmosphere

Looking forward to the others

Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Ghosttrain on October 14, 2021, 08:37:05 AM
Love the new video............it is one of my favourite tracks on the album  8)...
Title: Justin's Surrounded Tour kicks off May 22nd...
Post by: 8 on April 01, 2022, 07:09:30 PM
Quote from: Ghosttrain on October 14, 2021, 08:37:05 AM
Love the new video............ it is one of my favourite tracks on the album. 8)

All of Mr. Sullivan's songs and videos have been superb, exceptional!!  I've been playing both "Surrounded" and "From Here" every night before bed, for months.  Alternating between the two albums and playing them on loop without skipping tracks.  I never skip tracks, there's no need to.  They are cohesive masterful pieces + complete albums, just as "Navigating By The Stars" and all of the newer / later NMA albums are, as well.  They're absolutely breathtaking + stunning + brilliant + radiant works of art.  Love 'em!!  Can't wait for the one they're currently working on. :D :D :D :D :D

the solo
Sullivan videos
Amundsen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_YZd6N978c)
Clean Horizon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCKw5NZGjcg)
Sea Again (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arLatP_g4Dg)
1975 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIVxvVzc2w)
Sao Paulo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InT1GB8ILs4&t=10s)


Quote from: Guillaume on November 21, 2021, 04:43:56 PM
JS will be at the cool little venue New Morning in early January 2022, according to this link:
https://www.newmorning.com/20220109-5402-justin-sullivan.html

Rescheduled date is May 30th.  Will you be going Guillaume? ???
https://www.newmorning.com/programmation/2022/5/
Title: Surrounded Tour... Spring / May dates
Post by: 8 on April 11, 2022, 09:56:28 AM
Spring / May  2022
JUSTIN  SULLIVAN
Surrounded  Tour



  Sun.  22  May  Schaffhausen,  Kammgarn  (CH)

Tues.  24  May  Rubigen,  Mühle Hunziken  (CH)

Wed.  25  May  Ludwigsburg,  Scala  (DE)

Thurs.  26  May  Bensheim,  Rex  (near Darmstadt)  (DE)

Fri.  27  May  Düsseldorf,  Weltkunstzimmer  (DE) **SOLD OUT**

Sat.  28  May  Uden,  De Pul  (NL)

Sun.  29  May  Köln,  Kantine  (DE)

Mon.  30  May  Paris,  New Morning  (FR)


Just one more month and eleven days 'til
Mr. Sullivan's tour picks up again!
It's got me 'SO excited!'
'I can hardly wait!'
yes, Yes,
YES!

:D
I'm not even lucky enough to be there in person!
Still, over-the-moon-thrilled about JS' solo tour though!
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Stephanie on April 12, 2022, 09:35:16 AM
Can't wait for Düsseldorf :-)
Title: Re: Justin Surrounded Tour
Post by: Simon73 on April 19, 2022, 09:29:25 PM
No Berlin. pity. will most probably have to travel again.
Title: "Surrounded Tour" request...
Post by: 8 on May 06, 2022, 01:08:22 AM
I 'ain't too proud to beg', 8)

So here goes...


Mr. Sullivan, please, please, p-l-e-a-s-e, strongly consider having the audio portion of all your solo shows recorded for official future release?  We've had official live recordings by New Model Army, Sullivan + Blomberg, Red Sky Coven released in the past, but never have we had a live Justin Sullivan album, of just you + your guitar + your harmonica --- just you, on your sole-own.

It would be a wonderful dream come true (colossal understatement, that) to purchase and listen to an official, proper double CD/LP live release of your incredibly moving and astounding solo material as performed in this more fundamental, essential, naked, raw, yet still highly effective, conducive, emotive and personally affective, subtly impactful, intuitive, organic kind of way.


Several reasons why we'd all benefit from an official double CD/LP live  Justin Sullivan  album.  Well, because...

 1.  For those of us that will likely never have the luxury / pleasure / blessing / fortune of attending one of these super-rare, stripped-back, completely solo JS shows in our lifetime, this would be an exceptional alternate way of tasting, taking in and enjoying the songs, solo concerts.  Goes without saying, that those who are lucky enough to attend any or all of the solo JS dates in person, well, they'd have something to purchase as a quality keepsake of the tour too!

 2.  'Time keeps ticking a tick tick tock', away, for all of us.  How many more years do we have?  Really, how many?  I'm being serious, especially with the way things have been developing lately.  Between the pandemic / covid variants and the atrocities occurring in Eastern Europe, global warming.... really, who can say?  I've never been one who counted on tomorrow.  I live in hope for a tomorrow, but I've never lived as though it is a given, a guarantee, fixed.  The older I get, the more time seems to go by faster and faster and faster.  Ever since the turn of the millennium, especially, I've come to understand how startlingly brief and precious our time here, on this earth actually is.  Something youth take completely for granted.  Right now the 'sun is shining in your favour'.  Best be taking full advantage, making the most of this blessing while the moment / chance is still here.

 3.  The band / NMA comes first, is priority number one, after which all side projects follow... n'est-ce pas?  So once things get back on track, return to some sort of normalcy, these strictly solo JS shows will likely become even more scarce.  I genuinely pray to be proven wrong in this assumption, but my instinct is telling me otherwise.  If we had an official double CD/LP of every song that made the two solo JS tour setlists, we'd at least have a recording to fill that void.  The album would hit the spot, satiate those intense cravings of wanting and needing to listen to the subtly rich and exquisite live, solo material.

 4.  Covid fcuked up everything!  A lot of it financially.  Releasing a double live solo JS CD/LP might prove to be a decent way to make up for a bit of the financial losses you've likely had to endure over these past 3 years.  Making back some lost revenue is by far, much better than none at all, no?  Didn't all those 40th Anniversary DVDs sell out?  Not only that, they went very, very quickly too!  Mark my words, an official live solo double CD/LP will sell out also!!  I don't understand, what or where is the obstacle, hurdle?

 5.  Even though some of us won't be able to attend these sacred solo JS gigs in the flesh, many of us still want to show our love and support.  What better way is there, than to purchase a double, live, JS CD/LP via the official NMA online shop (https://shop.newmodelarmy.org/).  The packaging doesn't have to be fancy, just something doable, durable, feasible, yet still beautiful and of good quality.  It's what inside that matters and counts above all else, it's the music itself, the songs themselves.  Allow us to pre-order the album -- to better gauge interest -- and work out from there, roughly how much to invest in production so that you'd still make some kind of decent or better profit from the sales.  I really don't know what's involved in producing CDs / records, I'm just guessing... and pretty wildly, at that.

 6.  If any of JS' solo material gets the symphonic treatment at the Tempodrom in Berlin (this coming July 15th), then you might also want to seriously ponder adding those live versions to the double CD/LP of live solo material that made the "Surrounded Tours" as well.  They could perhaps be the second "bonus" disc of the set / release.

 7.  Should a 2CD live solo JS album come to light, I wouldn't just purchase one copy.  I'd aim to send / gift it to music loving folk!  Especially those that never grasped NMA, they may find that they like and understand your solo material far better.  Your solo material is so very different from NMA's repertoire, well, with the exception of just over a dozen songs or so, of the rarer quieter and dreamy variety released under the New Model Army banner.  I can totally see a solo live recording finding a new, non-NMA-familiar, yet highly appreciative listening audience... especially here in North America, parts of Canada in particular.  Again, it's just a gut feeling I have, that I've never been able to shake off.

 8.  There is SO much worth, truth and beauty in your solo material and live performances, Mr. Sullivan.  Every single one of your songs --- off both "Navigating By The Stars"  and  "Surrounded"  ---  the songs from those two remarkably brilliant albums deserve not only to be experienced and heard in a true live setting, but also deserve to be preserved for future generations to come, in recorded form, from the very live setting / experience itself.  Mr. Sullivan, please consider the idea of releasing a 2CD/LP live solo album?  Perhaps in time for the winter holidays?  Ohhh.  We need one, and you're already touring, might as well have Mr. Harvey record these shows, yeah?  Well... here's to hoping.


To everyone, please forgive the length of this post.  Hard as I might and do try, I can't ever seem to successfully articulate what it is that I am aiming to say / get across.  Thank you for your time, tolerance, patience, understanding and kindness.  I hope that today is and or will be good to you, and the same goes for the evening hours too.  Look after yourselves and each other.  If you're lucky enough to live on the right continent, please, GO SEE HYMmmN.  GO FOR THOSE OF US WHO CAN'T.  Then please, come back here and tell us all about the super-rare sacred solo JS shows you attended.  Enjoy the shows.  Cheers.  .oOo.