On May 22nd The
Analogues will perform Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band live
and in its entirety at The Indigo O2, fifty years after this most famous
Beatles album was originally released.
This will be their first show in London after 47 sell out dates in The Netherlands and Belgium to ecstatic audiences.
The band have a passionate commitment to authentically reproducing live, music only previously heard in the confines of Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios.
Playing
a unique collection of vintage instruments from the period with full
string and horn sections means the audience will hear a note perfect
reproduction of this most iconic album for the first time.
Geoff
Emerick, who was the Sound Engineer on all the studio albums at Abbey
Road from 1966 - 1970 and worked closely with The Beatles as they
created Sergeant Pepper is a huge fan of The Analogues and commented on
hearing them for the first time, "Listening to the Analogues, I have
never heard anything come so close to the original records."
The
Analogues are not a cover band or Beatles tribute with wigs and
costumes but an exceptionally talented group of Beatles' loving
musicians reverentially recreating a note perfect performance of The
Beatles studio albums never heard live...until now.
As
Geoff Emerick said on hearing them perform, "they get these records
absolutely perfect. If you close your eyes you would really be listening
to the original recordings sounding the way they are supposed to sound
for the first time. Even The Beatles couldn't reproduce Sergeant Pepper
live".
They are absolutely fabulous, I have seen this show and it is amazing. After their show of The magical mistery show I could not think they will do Sgt Pepper also.But they do, be sure to be there. Pim Geurts, the Netherlands
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ReplyDeleteHard to believe that anyone could succeed in doing this. It's like : 'c'mon, are you kidding, the Beatles studio-albums live ? Dutch guys ? Yeah, they do it, trust me, bringing like 30 vintage guitars and basses (changed for every new song), a pile of vintage amps (mostly various VOX-types), a couple of 60's organs, a mellotron, a Ringo-Ludwig-kit, every little detail-extra, a horn- and a string section, a girl with a giant harp and 2 tablas & a tabla-specialist (guess what songs), and then the orchestra for A Day In The Life was re-recorded in Abbey Road, just for this tour. OK, but most important: you won't believe the vocals, kind of scary, really, so close. The research and purchase of the instruments must have cost months, filling 2 large trucks, the rehearsals : don't think about it. Not a cover-band : musical archeology and hi-end live-reproduction of the highest possible level ! OK, sorry they come from Holland : hey, this you don't want to miss, it was such an experience to me (ex-musician, sound-engineer and record-producer) ! Loved every second of it. Go see them, chance of a lifetime !
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