Steeleye Span
Now, I’ve never been that enamoured with Steeleye Span. Most of their work I’ve heard has come from their album recordings and it’s never really done anything for me. However, seeing them live at The Pavilion last night completely blew me out of the water. They were excellent and, to me, had a totally different sound to what I’ve heard before.
The only thing I could have asked for would have been more use of the electric violin. I love the sounds of that instrument so much and they used it to full advantage for one song. If only there could have been more!
It was amusing, my age bracket were somewhat the minority at the concert, the average age of listeners being somewhat older. Then again, when you’ve been going as long as Steeleye Span, I guess you’re going to have a lot of fans in the older age brackets.
We were amazed by the excellent seats we had. We’d got seats right at the very front, in the middle so we could only have got closer to the band if we had climbed up on stage.
All in all, it was a really enjoyable evening.