Saw Heaven 17 doing a gig, well...2 out of 3 of them last night at Paradiso Amsterdam.
Always was fond of Heaven 17 record-wise so this was a nice chance.
As said it was only 2 of the original 3, Ian Craig Marsh bailed out a while ago.
They mentioned it was their first mainland gig of the anniversary tour, those seem obligatory these days.
And so it was the 30th anniversary Penthouse & Pavement tour.
They had additional support from a drummer, a guitar player and a very good female vocalist called Billie Godfrey.
It was a nice combo, Gregory still sounding like he used to (one of the best vocalists in the genre in my opinion).
For all I could hear a fair amount of actual keyboard playing by Ware.
I use pro earplugs these days on gigs (employer supplied
), with filters in them.
These basically filter out the distortion of the volume.
And one thing that struck me was how 'plain' the music sounded.
To give you an idea of the atmosphere.
I went only to see them play, but since they were on stage in the middle of a regular "80s party" I think most of the audience had no clue who they were.
One girl yelled at me "is it ok to dance on stage?", I said yes (who am I to say no
)
She immediately followed up her first question with "is that a band on stage???
"
All in all it was a nice mix of Penthouse & Pavement, recent stuff and "Being Boiled" as the finale.
Jealousy 
