Setting the Stages

Well you see, what happened really was

We made the decision this time to move from sort of two and a half thousand seater concert halls

Into the, uhm, slightly larger

Sort of about a, ten thousand seaters, because the demand for tickets was so large last time

I mean we did about six nights at Hammersmith Odeon last time

And we could've gone on and done more

And we felt that it was better to play larger places and enable more people to actually become- come and see us

Then play a few night in a small place and a lot of people be dissapointed

So that's really why we've moved to the larger ones

That doesn't mean we won't be doing any smaller concerts again though

Yeah I mean, also it gives us the room to get, uh, the kind of shows together that we really want to put on stage

Y-you feel me?

You play in big places you get a huge stage, you could run about all over the place

And you can put ridiculously large sets up

And have all the lights you want, it's good

I wouldn't say it's vastly different

Because, I mean, obviously we're gonna be playing a lot of the songs we were playing in 1982

But, uh, It's certanly a lot more exciting

You see it's more dynamic I think

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I think the show has actually grown from being, uhm, you see it used to be an hour

Then it grew to about an hour and 15 minutes, for the last year

And now it's a sort of proper concert

As opposed to just another show

It actually lasts for about an hour and 45 minutes

And there's a lot of new stuff in it as well

And there's some slower numbers in the set this time

Before I thing we tended to do a lot of middle paced and faster songs throughout most of the set

But, uh, now we've actually paced it a lot better

And there's a whole variety of all sorts of songs

We opened in Australia in fact, uh, about three weeks ago

And we finished the Australian tour, which was very successful

And, uh, we're really pleased now and looking forward to getting on with the English one

Our profile when we're playing concerts and things is obviously going to be higher

Because everybody knows where we are

And everybody wants to come and have a look and have a chat

And everything in the newspapers at that stage

But, uhm, when we're not- when we're not playing concerts and things it's not so much like that

It's not like we're plastered all over the papers every day of the year

I think it's only really when we're working so it's not so bad

I mean we're supposed to be getting in papers, we paid for it

(Heh) Yeah, I'd be worried if we didn't get any