Experiment 86 Presents – This is Our Universe & Basic Dressing

THE GREAT ESCAPE + THIS IS OUR UNIVERSE & BASIC DRESSING
Date: Fri 12 June Time: 7pm
Venue: New Wolsey Studio Price: £5

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The Lights

The lights are dancing low

Like embers – they glow, they glow

Moving swiftly yet so slow

And in the night they go, they go

Delving Deep

Search deep within

For something more

A sign of a greater design

Proof of god, or a creator of some kind

The more I look

The less I find

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Am I blind, to the truth?

Has science crippled my eyes?

All this understanding has left me demanding more

Will this thirst, never be quenched?

What length must be reached to appease me?

What hidden truth will release me

From this bitter curse?

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Delve beneath

The surface

To gaze upon

The building blocks

In hope it unlocks the mystery

That we’ve created

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Am I too late, to turn back?

Have I missed the train?

Because the more I know, the less I understand

I felt the panic hit my soul

By all accounts there’s no such thing

Not by measuring or observation

But I can’t accept we’re all just chemicals

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So I’ll just keep searching deep within

For something more

A sign of a greater design

Proof of god, or a creator of some kind

The more I look

The less I find

Written by Bob Pritchard

Leonard Cohen – Live At Manchester Opera House 17/06/2008 Review

I saw him play in Manchester Opera House on his first date in England in 15 years and although he’s pushing on seventy four, he’s still in top form. On stage for around three hours he appeared humble and gracious for this chance to play. Leonard was strikingly honest when he addressed the audience about his own money troubles, and thanking everyone for overcoming “financial and geographical obstacles”. Each song he played you could hear with resounding clarity, and with such fire and passion.

Backed with an amazing array of musicians, including two British backing singers (The Webb Sisters) from Kent they made great songs, even better for the live platform. His humor also has to be mentioned, when the standing ovation greeted him, he pleaded for everyone to sit down for it was making him nervous that everyone would leave, and his final song titled ‘I Tried To Leave You’ – “Goodnight, my darling, I hope you’re satisfied, the bed is kind of narrow, but my arms are open wide. And here’s a man still working for your smile.”

Leonard Cohen is a true living legend, and long may he continue to do so.

10/10

Welcome Leonard

The Man Himself On Stage

Mr.L Cohen Ladies And Gentlemen

Leonard Cohen Memorabilia

Youtube Links:

Anthem

Boogie Street

The Future

That Don’t Make It Junk/If It Be Your Will

Closing Time

Setlist

First Set

Dance Me To The End Of Love
The Future
Ain’t No Cure For Love
Bird On The Wire
Everybody Knows
In My Secret Life
Who By Fire
Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye (recent addition to the Set List)
Anthem

Second Set

Tower Of Song
Suzanne
The Gypsy’s Wife
Boogie Street
Hallelujah
Democracy
I’m Your Man
Thousand Kisses (recital)
Take This Waltz

Encores

So Long, Marianne (back on the Set List. Thank you, Leonard!)
First We Take Manhattan

That Don’t Make It Junk
If It Be Your Will (Beautifully performed and sung by The Webb Sisters)
Closing Time

I Tried To Leave You

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Cheap Bouquet

There are those who would say

That romance is dead

Slayed for a cheap bouquet

A stuffed toy and a tacky card

But to those, I say

There is still love somewhere

Resurrected again

But no rose or lily can symbolise

The miracle of joy

So don’t let your heart grow hard

Something More In Something Less

Sometimes I get so lost in the things I do

From the day to day, to the things that are new

I get up everyday, eat before I leave

Read a magazine and then I brush my teeth

Take the bus to work, and then work till lunchtime

Work a little more, and then I walk home

Maybe stop for a drink along the way

But still I am so lost, in the routine of just surviving day to day

I forget that I’m alive, living every day

I need some reminding, to why I even do this

Thank you for this moment, thank you for the kiss

I need to keep believing, there’s something more to this

The Walls Of Jericho

 

I’m walking now through the streets of Jericho

Moments before the wall fell

Talking with the merchants as they sell their stock

Seems like history repeats itself a lot for it happened long ago

But any moment now and hell will break loose

And the priests will hail it like the second coming

The tower of Babylon is crumbling down

And the king with a thorny a crown will rise above the humbled rags

Then the civil and the rich will get what they deserve

And the poor starving children of the world will get to eat

And the glutinous will go without tonight

Make no mistake the rules will be changed

Order restored to the unruly, and the kingdom will be turned on its head

 

No Rest For The Wicked

Sit down, have a drink, relax

Feet up, lie back, have a slice of cake

Enjoy your day, nice weather outside

Good for golf, good for anything you like to do

Good for me and good for you

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This is the easy life

This is the way it’s meant to be

This is the ruling class

This is democracy at work

Back breaking labour for the poor in chains

No hope, no money, no escape

No end in sight

.

There really is no rest for the wicked

No means to escape nor time for dreaming big

Ambition crushed at an early age

We live out our lives in movies and cigarettes

Fast food and magazines

With road rage and signs of turrets

I’m turning in my sleep wishing for some hope to keep

.

 

This is the power hungry ruling business class

Their hands in your pocket

Lining theirs with the seeds of your hard work

Gaining class, and prestige

It’s not stealing its outsourcing importing of resources

This is what their doing to us

With their vision of how the world should be at their feet

With the poor on a leash

Barking defending their master at command

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Written by Bob Pritchard

 

The Big White Telephone

I’ve had too much to drink

Now I’m huddled over the bowl again

Porcelain and so shiny clean

But not for long, not for very long at all

I’ve been in pits like this before

But this one really takes the piss

Literally and metaphorically

I’m so tired and drunk

With two fingers in my trachea

And my sick comes out in chunks

Why am I so drunk?

If my mother could see me now

What would she say then?

Her baby boy hurling up his breakfast

And other miscellaneous concoctions

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First time for everything: Part 1

So I didn’t think I’d write a proper blog on here, but I thought I’d try to write a summary of my first trip abroad. So here goes…

DAY 1: You are now departing Stansted on board Ryan Air flight number FR2194

So I arrived at Stansted with plenty of time to kill before my flight, but this being my first time flying I needed some help to find where to go exactly but I found my way eventually. My luggage went through fine, I passed through security fine, though I did have to remove my boots twice, I got to the terminal okay and boarded my plane on time. However if I had known about the so-called “Priority Q” before hand I would have used that because it did take forever before the standard passengers got to board the plane.

The sun was just going down on England and the plane was soon to take depart, though I was beginning to realize I wasn’t going to see the skyline very well from my window seat as it seemed to take record time to go from sun setting to almost pitch black. Still I had my face pinned to the window for a considerable time during and after take off.

So finally realizing there was little else to see in the blackness of the skyline I turned to read my book, but I was too excited still to do so. There was a child and his mother next to me who seemed entertained by over excitability in this flight. I explained to them that this was my first flight abroad and they were delighted that I would come to Finland (their native country) for my first trip abroad. We introduced ourselves to each other I as Bob, the boy Isaac and the mother Sana, the father (Chris) was sitting some seats behind them. As the flight went on, we passed the time playing on the Nintendo DS that I brought with me, though for the most part it was not I who was playing it.

Landing came as some surprise because I wasn’t aware that we even went over Sweden, and I saw no lights but that could be explained by the amount of fog and rain experienced when we landed. So I made my way to check out of Tampere airport, which was tiny by any standards. When I got to passport control though the passport inspector grilled me for twenty or so minutes about my identification, why I was here, where was I staying, was I visiting anyone. This went on for a bit, I explained I was here on a holiday visiting my friend Elina in Nokia. In time he let me go, taking note of the address I was staying at and how long I would stay in the country, which wasn’t long.

It didnt take me long to find my bags and get out of the airport. I found a taxi driver who spoke pretty good English and he took me all the way to Nokia to Elina’s house, and boy was I glad to see Eli and TJ. I had met them both while at university and they became almost family to me, so seeing them again after months was very good and a special moment for me. It was however very late now, and there was a long day ahead of us so it was time to rest my weary head, and rest it I did. Sleep came very easy…