Event
Acoustic Tuning
Apr 30

Format
Concert

Venue
Festival Hall, Southbank Center, London, England

Notes
The premise of the event was 'Acoustic Tuning', with the Festival Hall (built in 1951) having undergone an extensive refurbishment, partly to improve its sound qualities. The musical diversity of the programme was designed to 'fine tune the acoustic settings of the auditorium' and the audience was asked to complete a questionnaire with prompts like 'Do you hear the sounds of each instrument clearly and without colouration or distortion?'

The hall opens properly in June, with a film launch on 29th June of This is Tomorrow, tracing the history of the venue with Saint Etienne performing the soundtrack live.

Presenter
None Yet Identified

Performers

Part 1
Tom Crawley Trio
Note: Sarah Cracknell & Debsey Wykes joined them for a version of 'Side Streets')

Saint Etienne Quartet (Sarah Cracknell; Debsey Wykes; Jo Fraser (Flute); James Walbourne (Acoustic Guitar))
Note: Quartet performed one track which was a folk version of Like A Motorway

Burt Jansch

Interval (Intermission)

Part 2
Shlomo (Human Beatboxing)

Sonic Boom

Saint Etienne (Bob Stanley, Pete Wiggs, Sarah Cracknell, Debsey Wykes, Jo Debsey, James Walbourne, Ian Catt (on bass) & Jon Chandler (Drums))
Setlist: Sun In My Morning, Spring, Stars Above Us, Nothing Can Stops Us Now, Oh My.

Billy Childish
Note: Sarah Cracknell hinted that she would join Billy Childish (TBC)

Memorabilia (see below)
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