Great balls of Van ire fire.
June 10, 1993.
Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
A casual, if menacing, Van Morrison (left), who celebrates his 75th birthday today, with ‘The Killer’, Jerry Lee Lewis during an improbable impromptu session at Bad Bob’s, which also included Ron Wood, of The Rolling Stones.
Drink may have been taken.
Van Morrison at 75: Oisin Leech of The Lost Brothers reflects (Irish News)
Van Morrison will play three socially distanced concerts in England this Autumn but said he needs full capacity audiences “going forward”.
Van Morrison writes:
As you know, we are doing socially distanced gigs at Newcastle Upon Tyne’s Gosforth Park, Electric Ballroom and The London Palladium.
This is not a sign of compliance or acceptance of the current state of affairs, this is to get my band up and running and out of the doldrums. This is also not the answer going forward. We need to be playing to full capacity audiences going forward.
I call on my fellow singers, musicians, writers, producers, promoters and others in the industry to fight with me on this.
Come forward, stand up, fight the pseudo-science and speak up.
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and myself appear to be the only people in the music business trying to get it back up and running again. Come forward.
It’s not economically viable to do socially distanced gigs. Come forward now, the future is now.
We would like to publish a list of names of all those who are supporting the industry. If you would like your name included contact us at webadmin@exileproductions.net
Who’s with Van?
Anyone?/FIGHT!
Save Live Music (Van Morrison)
Van Morrison divides fans with attack on coronavirus gig rules (Belfast Telegraph)
Van pic: BBC
Backstage at Muldoon’s Picnic – Paul Muldoon, Moya Brennan, Van Morrison at the MAC Theatre, Belfast, Sunday August 11th 2019 https://t.co/G1LpczY7ij
— Cáit O’Riordan (@rockyoriordan) August 13, 2019
Have you seen Van’s Instagram page? It’s like there’s an entirely different Van Morrison who likes everyone and loves to smile. It’s a revelation! https://t.co/jfwsRwidhp pic.twitter.com/V3KJYV5FSc
— John Connolly (@jkconnolly) August 13, 2019
Yikes.
You’ve changed, Van.
Van and Jim jam (with Holmes on sax)
Lizard King and Van the Man on one stage.
Niall N writes:
Them & The Doors jamming together at The Whisky-A-Go-Go back in June 1966. The Doors were the support act for Van Morrison’s group between June 2-18th 1966…
But what were they playing?
Light my Ire? People Are Grumpy?
Suggestions below.
A new Van Morrison single?
Oh go on then.
Pete Murphy writes
‘Every Time I See A River’, written by Van Morrison with lyrics by Don Black, also features Van on electric guitar, is the second single taken from Van Morrison’s 36th studio album, ‘Keep Me Singing’, which reached the number 4 spot in the UK official album charts and was met with widespread critical acclaim upon its release….
Setup and soundcheck on Cyprus Avenue… pic.twitter.com/voz9oNq1VL
— Van Morrison (@vanmorrison) August 31, 2015
This afternoon.
Cyprus Avenue, Belfast.
Play ‘Light My Fire’, etc.
Van Morrison set to play Belfast’s Cyprus Avenue on 70th birthday (BBC)
Meanwhile…
June 1993.
Bad Bobs nightclub, Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin
From left: Ronnie Wood, Kerri Lewis, Van Morrison and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Dem jeans.
(Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie)
(Phil Lynott, Maria Osmond and Van Morrison, London, 1980)
That jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song/ The nights are getting warmer, it won’t be long/ Won’t be long ’til summer comes/ Now that the boys are here again ...
The Boys Are Back In Town, Thin Lizzy
The metrical elasticity of these lines and their easy sensation of transport, poetic lift-off, has a lot to do with Van Morrison.
For Philip, as for Bruce Springsteen (from whose “Kitty’s Back” the guitar riff of “The Boys Are Back in Town” was apparently nicked or adapted), Van’s Astral Weeks was a wellspring, and his street-bardic gabble a pure energy.
“The Boys Are Back in Town” shares a three-in-a-row rhyme scheme with “Madame George”—you could put Van’s lines, actually, right into Philip’s song without disturbing the meter or even (much) the meaning: ‘And outside they’re making all the stops/ The kids out in the street collecting bottle-tops/ Gone for cigarettes and matches in the shops …’
There you go now.
Guess Who Just Back Today? (James Parker, The Slate)
Pic; Melody Maker
Thanks annebxis
Meanwhile
Outside Bruxelles, Harry Street, Dublin, this afternoon.
Previously: He Broke The Mould
Thanks Neil Dorgan
Go on. Look around. Tell us it’s not true.
‘It was surprising to see him appear onstage like a grimy Cinderella in a purple stage suit: a spangled bolero jacket, sausage pants with contrasting lacing up the crotch, a green top with a scoop neck that produced what can only be called cleavage. God, you thought, where did he get this thing? Who drugged him, knocked him out, dragged him into a costume store and put this on him and said, well here you are, you look great, Van , you just look terrific.”
Listening to Van, Griel Marcus (2010)