Andrea Valeri, Tony Cox in Johannesburg

Bob-Dubery

This show is presented by Andy McGibbon.

Venue is Marks Park, Judith Road, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
Date 14th December
Show starts at 20:00

Full line up is

Andrea Valeri
Tony Cox
Richard Onraet

Tickets are R160. To book mail ajm7gtr@gmail.com or phone 0826511094.

Here's a taste of Andrea Valeri

Bob-Dubery

OK... Mrs X-rated and I will be there tonight. Anybody else going?

Squonk

still tickets available?

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote: still tickets available?

I'll call Andy a little later and find out.

Bob-Dubery

There are still tickets, and you can pay at the door. R160 a head.

Doors should open @ 19:00 with the show starting @ 20:00.

NB! Seating is not reserved, so get there early.

Hey! Anybody been to the Cape Town shows?

aubs1

.Sorry man, this is what I wanted to post .........but could'nt find the link ......

aja

Aubs1 wrote: .

Yeah I see your point

Bob-Dubery

Show time. Good crowd. Squonk & Saddle and Nut are definitely here.

Opening is Guy Onraet's cousin Richard.

Bob-Dubery

Had a quick chat with the headliner, Andrea Valeri, before the show. Nice dude. Showed Squonk & I his axe. Maton. Spruce top, maple back & sides.

Bob-Dubery

Jislaaik! Tony Cox is funny.

Bob-Dubery

ok... some thoughts

They are all fine players

Richard Onraet doesn't go on too long. This is a good thing. If he's said what he has to say with a piece of music then he brings it to an end. I find this admirable - he's got the chops to put in plenty of widdley-wee but he doesn't.

Tony Cox, and I think this is down to experience, is much more able to embellish a musical idea and expand upon it without it getting boring.

Sound was very good except for the last set. Was this the electronics in the Maton that Valeri played, or just the sound being turned up too loud? Right at the end when Richard Onraet came back on to play a couple of duets with Valeri his guitar still sounded pretty good. So....

Tony Cox is funny! This isn't interesting and entertaining just in it's own right, it helps to build a connection between artist and audience. This is stagecraft.

Valeri is very, very confident, sometimes brash, in his playing. He has chops up the wazoo too. For me there was a bit too much flash, but not so much that I didn't enjoy and wasn't impressed. I think he sensed the audience responding to the fireworks and so went in that direction.

His timekeeping is immaculate. He doesn't have Tony Cox's gift of the gab, but then he's not speaking his mother tongue. He has a very expressive face and used body language quite cleverly to aid his performance or, in places, to get you watching the wrong thing so that for a split second your brain doesn't know where the notes are coming from.

Tony Cox runs something he calls "International Guitar Night". This is the second such event he's run (there was one last year). He says he is now upping it to two a year - winter and summer, with the next show in May or June next year. It looks though like he's keeping it to Cape Town and Jo'burg.

Bob-Dubery

PS: I swear I didn't know that Richard Onraet was going to play Stairway to Heaven.