Simply Red Live at Montreux (2003) 1080p MBluRay x264-FKKHD | 7.94 GB
playtime: 93 mins
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If Mick Hucknall has a really good memory, he might recall having played Portland many years ago. Simply Red wasn’t exactly Top 40 material any longer, but it still commanded enough cachet that the band was able to play a fairly large venue, and Mick and the boys must have gotten to Portland either the night before or the morning of their concert. I was lounging about “Portland’s living room”, the huge brick clad block in the center of town known as Pioneer Square, enjoying a rare sunny Northwest day. Suddenly I saw a huge shock of flaming red hair approach me. I just assumed it was a regular old tourist who looked at me and asked, “‘Scuse me, mate, can you tell me where Powell’s Bookstore is?” I pointed out the way to one of Portland’s cultural treasures to the gangly man whose hair erupted from beneath a little cap, giving him quick verbal directions as well. It was only after he had left that I suddenly figured out who I had been talking to, as visions of Simply Red’s music videos for tunes like “Holding Back the Years” and “If You Don’t Love Me By Now” danced through my mind.
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Despite having sold some 50 million records in their long career, Simply Red are in fact probably most remembered for a relative handful of tunes, like the two that immediately sprang to my mind after having my momentary encounter with Mick all those years ago. That’s a shame, really, because the band has been one of the most versatile assemblages to come out of what was once a burgeoning British soul movement, a movement that has continued to grow and morph through the years and is still in full flower (albeit in somewhat different form) in such stellar bands as Incognito. But this 2003 Montreux Festival concert shows that Mick and the boys (and girls, courtesy of two great backup vocalists) can essay any number of genres quite effectively.
While some of Simply Red’s big sellers are covered in this concert, the band moves through some lesser known numbers, some of which were then fairly new to the 2003 audience. From the quasi-jazz waking bass feel of the opening number “Sad Old Red” to the follow up “Enough”, a minor ninth extravaganza that could have easily been from the playbook of another British soul superstar, Lisa Stansfield, Simply Red sets a tone of versatility right off the bat that continues pretty much nonstop for the following hour and a half. This is a no frills concert with Mick barely uttering a word, and the band simply seguing from tune to tune without missing a beat (no pun intended).
Mick is in great voice, albeit one that still sounds a bit screechy in its upper register, as it always has. He tends to wail a bit on those upper notes, which actually helps infuse his interpretations with some added soul. It makes his reworking of “You Make Me Feel Brand New” drip with raw emotion, and it also makes one of the concert’s highlights, a nicely unplugged (at least to begin with) rendition of one of Simply Red’s signature tunes, “Holding Back the Years,” especially effective, with Mick simply strumming the tune’s two chords on an acoustic guitar as he delivers the memorable melody with heartfelt ease.
The concert wraps up with two tunes that once again shows how truly versatile the band is. “Fairground” is a quasi- samba, replete with propulsive percussion and some convolutged syncopation that suddenly erupts into a hook laden chorus. The band, augmented by some great brass players, has a field day on this tune. And then we’re back into a sort of jazz fusion soul sort of territory, incredibly redolent of Paul Hardcastle (especially with regard to the flute riff which fills the tune) in “Sunrise”, a nice finale to a concert that caught Simply Red in fine form, without a lot of bells and whistles, but with appealing musicality and a broad range of songs and approaches firmly on display.
Tracklisting:
01 Sad Old Red
02 Enough
03 Lost Weekend
04 A New Flame
05 Night Nurse
06 Something For You
07 You Make Me Feel Brand New
08 Home Loan Blues
09 Stars
10 Fake
11 Come To My Aid
12 Thrill Me
13 The Right Thing
14 Something Got Me Started
15 Holding Back The Years
16 Money’s Too Tight To Mention
17 Fairground
18 Sunrise’
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