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Steve P. from S. near L. gives us his gist from the gig:

Set List :

Dancing In The Street
Good Times
A Day In Your Life
Sunshine Day
Summer Samba
Half a Minute
Another Time Another Place
Whose Side Are You On
Yeh Yeh
Cha Cha Cuba
Don’t Blame It On That Girl
Wap Bam Boogie
Lost In You

Festival, so no encore.

The set was very well received by the audience, with a very good set
list balance that included the well known songs from the first 3
albums when MB released albums in Europe and would be known to
the ‘Festival Fan’, together with a selection from the later years
for the ‘MB Fan’.

Wap Bam Boogie went down fantastically well with tremendous interplay
with the audience. Other highlights for me were Good Times, Cha Cha
Cuba, and a truly dazzling keyboard solo by Mark Fisher in Lost In
You.

The band did very will in difficult circumstances due to poor
monitoring and were not as impacted as Level 42 ! Front of house
sounded great after 20 minutes (well done Andy!)

Thanks to Mark Fisher for the great view that we had, and thanks to
Dirk and co for the great beach bar and good company in glorious
sunshine in the afternoon, and a final thanks to The Hague Jazz
Festival for putting on a truly wonderful event !

A very good day to you all,

here’s some great news from Mark and Mark:

For all of you who have not been able to get hold of all those great MB albums that have been released in Japan over the years, there is now a new “Best Of” release, that combine the most excellent tracks from those releases and bundles them in one great album. And it’s available from Itunes.

How cool is that?

The track list:

• Lost In You
• Sunshine Day
• Cha Cha Cuba
• Gypsy Lady
• Summer Samba
• Pasion Gitana
• River of Dreams
• Could You Be
• Echoes
• I Need You Now
• You and I
• Our Love
• Victim of Love
• Mood Swing
• Another Time Another Place
• A Day In Your Life
• Fire

Download it now!

D

For all of us European based MB fans, there is some good news: Matt Bianco will be playing at The Hague Jazz Festival on 24.5.08.

This is an excellent festival sporting an impressive list of artists, and I expect to meet plenty of you there.

Cheers,

Dirk

Confirmed just a few days ago, Matt Bianco will be sharing a stage with Al Jareau, Incognito, Erykah Badu, Swing out Sister and many more top artists at the Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta in March. This sounds like an excellent place to be.

Just to remind you lucky Europeans that Matt Bianco will play at the Blue Note Milano on the 23rd and 24th of November, so just ten days away.

The perfect weekend gig, if you ask me.