SPARKS

Only found out today that it’s the first ever Sparks concert in Italy

Repertoire back to the full set. Excellent venue, acoustics superb, playing and singing impeccable without a single hitch. Crowd at the front particularly were up and dancing from song one. Russ tail ...

First time seeing the lads live in Europe. Looking forward to seeing how the crowd is compared to UK (Manchester was mad with any punctuation mark of your choice to follow). Will they go mad for My Wa ...

Thanks, did see that eventually

Wonder if it's a permanent one

Did they change the setlist ? Saw on fb that it could happen

Feel free to take it to the spoiler thread !

Thanks

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No warm up, were 8.30pm starts in Manchester

Given the profile of the band hasn't been higher in decades, I'm baffled that there hasn't been a review of any of the concerts in the mainstream media

They played 'Police Encounters' IIRC.

when?

On Jools Holland with FFS. Such a tuneless dirge (imo)

Tokyo concert in full, magnificent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpYYRcIDIfc&t=4722s

They played 'Police Encounters' IIRC.

and it's quite early in the set as well. The audience last tour concerts only really got going when MTYCDT came on. No excuses this time

Huge, huge thumbs up here

That rocks !

Chatting to fans before the last Manchester gig, I was surprised that a a few had deliberately avoided finding out the setlist. Personally I can't wait, but if there are people who don't want to know, ...

What do we think for this week ?

I'm predicting chart position 29

Like waterloosunset, I had a double-take at some of dinky's choices but - as said - that's the magic of Sparks.

I started my Sparks odyssey well before cds, let alone ipods or streaming, so skippin ...

Most of the time I only skip bonus tracks at the end of an album, because there weren't meant to be there in the first place. I usually like to experience each album as a whole, even if I may not abso ...

We give our unadulterated and for ever love to the boys, but there is a song(s)each album that we skip through. After a week, I've decided it's 'Don't Dog It' from Mad !

From the beginning

Spar ...

Lil' Beethoven & Hello Young Lovers didn't have Ron & Russell on the cover. The artwork of MAD! is all Ron & Russell.
That's the difference. If you have a funny looking duo, why not put t ...

MAD seems to have dropped out of the UK top 100 album chart

That's last week's chart................

This weeks comes out later today - if you are in the uk, or have a vpn, you can listen to t ...