Sometimes I don’t understand this town.
Thanks Peter! You helped me enjoy the evening!!
May 15, Call the Office
You were 1 out of 7
John
Seven is a slight exaggeration; my friend Greg and I counted 12 people in the audience for John Mann‘s solo concert this evening.
John, in case you kinda recognize the name but don’t know from where, is one of the founders of Spirit of the West. He recently released a solo album, Acoustic Kitty, that has been in my car CD changer since the day I bought it. (The title and eponymous track take their name from a CIA research project that was almost comically unsuccessful.) Tonight’s performance was a solo acoustic show to a highly appreciative, if tragically small, crowd.
The performance highlight of the night for me was his encore, an a cappella version of Robert Burns’ To A Mouse that he wrote while performing in Of Mice And Men in Vancouver. The fanboy highlight, of course, was chatting with John for a couple of minutes after the show and having him sign a second copy of the CD; he’s a genuinely nice guy, and was gracious about the lack of an audience. I hope tonight’s show hasn’t turned him off London terribly, and that Friday’s performance at Ottawa’s Tulip Festival is better attended–my brother will be there (won’t you, Ed?).
Here are two short samples of what all but the 12 of us missed: Acoustic Kitty (ogg and mp3) and American TV (ogg and mp3).