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OLDFIELD CONCERT
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¼ Mike Oldfield concert April 1, 1993
in The Hague, Holland.
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After completing his fabulous sequel
to Tubular Bells, Tubular Bells II,
Mike Oldfield made a tour across
Europe. Luckily for me, he also
visited Holland, where he gave one
concert. Tickets had been on sale for
some time, but still were not sold
out, so I bought one too. But when I
got to the concert hall it was already
very crowded. Entering the hall, I
imediate saw something unusual: there
were no standing places, everybody had
a seat. Just before the concert the
crowd was asked to sit down, and to
stay there, because otherwise
everybody would stand up, and that
would result in a lot of people who
were unable to see the show. The
people referred to were some people in
wheelchairs, who sat all around the
place. And I must say that during the
concert everybody sat on his seat,
which was a good thing. The concert
began with the supportact, Loreena
McKennit, who was according to a
leaflet I was given at the entrance
multi- instrumental. Well, that may
be right, but all I saw her doing was
playing a harp and singing. Half an
hour long, and between the songs she
kept on telling that she was very much
influenced by old Celtic songs and
stuf. Well, I think that you need
some more to call your songs rather
Celtic then a harp and some Celtic
chords, but who am I to say so? She
¶did have a good and loud voice, but in
my opinion she wasn't a good
supportact for Mike Oldfield. Why?
Well, the musicstyles were actualy
totaly different. Some sweet and a
little bit Celtic harp music as a
supportact, and some rough Celtic
synthesizer rock as a headliner, that
doesn't fit together so well. But
anyway, after half an hour it was
Oldfields time to strike back, and he
did it hard! Silently the piano began
to play the short intro of Tubular
Bells II, and one after another the
other instruments came in. Then
Oldfield came in playing his guitar,
or better said, one of his guitars, he
had a whole line of guitars standing
near him, about sixteen I think, plus
a banjo. The whole band fitted very
well together, and they played very
much like on the CD, just with some
improvisations, which made the music
even more attractive. Some musicians,
like the drummer had very much to do.
I have a great admiration for that
man, he was really very busy, playing
all types of percussion instruments
one can imagine, and sometimes it
seemed he did them all at once,
running from his drumkit to the
glockenspiel, playing some notes, and
immediately after that he had a pair
of cymbals in his hands. Also there
were some synthesizers on stage, which
would make every musician in the scene
jalous. Very funy was when some man
with a tiger-wig (yes, you read it
right) came on stage, yelling around
in a low voice, and playing the fool.
¶Few people noticed that this was the
pianist. How I noticed? Well, I saw
a video some days before the concert,
and there it was the pianist dressed
normaly who did that 'vocal' part.
But the very best part of the concert
came when some sackpipe players
entered, and played their part. A
Dutch news paper said it was a nice
extra on the show, but that journalist
probably didn't know what he was
writing about, as the sackpipes were a
real part of the show, and could not
have been left out. After two hours
the piece of music ended, but the
crowd was so enthusiast, that Oldfield
came back to play two encores; one on
the mandolin, and one on the guitar,
both very good. After the concert I
could go home very content, just as
many other fans.
¼ Death Angel / ZITE prod.