Tokyo, Bunkamura Orchard Hall
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Date: October 30, 2007 | |
October 30, 2007 | |
Due to illness of David, the Tokyo show shortened significantly.
The setlist:
01 Wonderful World
02 It'll Never Happen Again
03 World Citizen
04 The Day The Earth Stole Heaven
05 Ride
06 Playground Martyrs - Transit
07 Fire In The Forest - Ghosts
08 Snow Borne Sorrow
09 Jean The Birdman
10 Sugarfuel
11 The Librarian
No encore.
After Snow Borne Sorrow, Sylvian announced that due to a cold he would have to "cut a couple of songs from the setlist", but very few in the audience imagined that 3 songs later it would all be over (listen to this announcement in the sampleplayer on the page).
Of course the audience reacted graciously, as it was through no fault of Sylvian. However the mood afterwards in the hall foyer was distinctly solemn and disconsolate.
Tour information of 2007 - The World Is Everything
On his reason for touring now, Sylvian writes:
"This tour is in part a means of putting earlier chapters of my working life behind me. Of embracing the work that was done and, with a sense of finality, cutting the ties that bind me to it as a body, an entity. In the future if I return to this material it will likely be in the context of a new body of work with which it shares a connection. In this sense there'll be a greater clarity regarding the content of future performances (should there be any). But we are by no means focusing exclusively on the past as we shall be exploring more recently recorded compositions, in particular those from the 'Nine Horses' releases. 'The World Is Everything' will be an intimate show, in some ways an echo of the 'Slow Fire' performances of a decade ago only on this occasion I shall be supported by a trio of musicians, a line up which will include Steve Jansen on drums and samplers, and bassist Keith Lowe."
David Sylvian, June 2007
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