Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Reunion Newcastle City Hall 2006
I won two tickets for this in a competition form the Bonzos website. I had to locate a poster for the concert, which was outside Newcastle Central Station, and email a message which was displayed on the poster to the Bonzos website. I decided to take Laura with me as she’d heard some Bonzos songs as was quite intrigued by the humour of them. The concert featured much of the original line up, including Neil Innes, Legs Larry Smith, Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater, Bob Kerr, Sam Spoons and Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell. Sadly the great frontman Viv Stanshall, and bass player Dennis Cowan, have passed away. Viv’s place was taken by Ade Edmondson and Phill Jupitus. 
The band played all of the classics, and the show was great fun and brought back great memories. A DVD of the London show was released; the tracks are: Rule Britannia; Hunting Tigers; My Brother Makes The Noises; Doorstep; Little Sir Echo; Ali Baba’s Camel; Falling In Love Again; Watermelon; Lookout There’s A Monster Coming; Whispering; By a Waterfall; The Sheik of Araby; Hello Mabel; Jollity Farm; The Equestrian Statue; Cool Britannia; We Are Normal; The Strain; The Sound of Music; Exodus; The Trouser Press; My Pink Half of the Drainpipe; I’m Bored; Sport (The Odd Boy); Mr Apollo; Humanoid Boogie; Tent; Can Blue Men Sing The Whites; Look At Me I’m Wonderful; San Francisco; Rhinocratic Oaths; Mr Slater’s Parrot; Monster Mash; Urban Spaceman; Canyons of Your Mind. All of the old prop came out; and great fun was had by all. Laura particularly enjoyed Lookout There’s A Monster Coming, Jollity Farm, and The Equestrian Statue.
29 Apr
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