Halifax, NS - Halifax Common - 11th July 2009 - ARCHIVE
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It's my foot...laying on the grass....at the Halifax commons....watching the show...7.10.2009...maybe not the show, but watching as they set up things for the show.
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liverpoolbride:
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Thanks for posting that PPV You Tube clip. I live in the States, and of course could not get this PPV show , so it was great to see this. I also went to Citi Field show in NY, but for me the highlight was Halifax. I'd never been to that part of Canada before either and found everyone so friendly and polite, and your city quite wonderful, liveable, walkable...a great experience all around!
Were you following me! Walkable? Didn't find the hills so walkable! But adore the people. You should look at my slide show I put on youtube, liverpoolbride1
Yeah, but I live in a hilly part of the US where the hills in Halifax are nothing compared to the one I live on, so yeah, it was walkable for me! How do I know you weren't following ME, LOL! BTW Paul is ALWAYS exec producer on anything major like a PPV broadcast, otherwise he would not allow it. It is also why it didn't go out live, he wants to review it before it gets out there. Just good business sense on his part that he gets to control what gets out there.
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I hadn't seen this video interview done by CBC just before the Halifax concert, so maybe it hasn't been posted here: http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/arts/paul_mccartney.html In the CBC archives they also have a great one with Paul from 1984 about wild times (women) etc., and a couple of Beatles ones, including a Toronto concert.
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I read on the Macca Report that the promoter has donated promotional banners from the show for auction by the Arthritis Foundation. This is a great idea and should be done with all of Paul's shows, perhaps with Paul designating a charity. Nothing yet at the web site: http://www.arthritis.ca/splash/default.asp?s=1&returnurl=/arthritis%20home/default.asp?s=1
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That would be very cool, they had nice banners on the lampposts and over some of the streets and on the trade center building. Thanks for that info.
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Here is a link to the auction page. The deadline is Oct. 30. http://www.arthritis.ca/local%20programs/nova%20scotia/support%20our%20efforts/specialevents/mccartney/default.asp?s=1
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Thanks for the link! Those would be a great momento all right, and the cause is good. We were just saying in the Citifield thread though we'd love a DVD, too. Envious of big city New York on rare occasions like this. I guess the big city action and screaming makes more dramatic film footage. I like to belileve each concert is special in it's own way to the band and audience and others, even if one is singled out to feature on DVD. I think the quieter audiences love the show just as much as ones with loud screaming that really pump up the band, it's just that people from smaller cities or different cultures show it differently (or feel it instead of showing it).
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They must be hoping for some local people for those bus boards. 2 1/2' x 12' would have to be trucked to anywhere in the US. Expensive! :
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oobu24:
They must be hoping for some local people for those bus boards. 2 1/2' x 12' would have to be trucked to anywhere in the US. Expensive! :
Or maybe somebody with a bus.
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veggieburgher:
I read on the Macca Report that the promoter has donated promotional banners from the show for auction by the Arthritis Foundation. This is a great idea and should be done with all of Paul's shows, perhaps with Paul designating a charity. Nothing yet at the web site: http://www.arthritis.ca/splash/default.asp?s=1&returnurl=/arthritis%20home/default.asp?s=1
I don't know how he knew...and I'm probably not the only one(FAN) on this site...'cause I'm a "FIRST GENERATION BEATLE FAN"
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[quote="Wendy2066"]Thanks for the link! Those would be a great momento all right, and the cause is good. We were just saying in the Citifield thread though we'd love a DVD, too. Envious of big city New York on rare occasions like this. I guess the big city action and screaming makes more dramatic film footage. I like to belileve each concert is special in it's own way to the band and audience and others, even if one is singled out to feature on DVD. I think the quieter audiences love the show just as much as ones with loud screaming that really pump up the band, it's just that people from smaller cities or different cultures show it differently (or feel it instead of showing it). I was in Halifax and it didn't seem "quiet" to me, i thought the crowed loved Paul! (Can you find someone to make you a copy of the pay-per-view of Halifax?) In any case, quiet or not, Halifax was a fabulous show. You're right, all the shows are special in their own way, whether they are put on pay-per-view or DVD or not. I'm sure you'll always hold onto your memories of the gig in Halifax.
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Trying to remember back, I think you're right it wasn't really quiet, but I guess everthing is relative. I'm guessing there wasn't as much maniacle screaming as they got going in Citifield, with the help of Paul encouraging the girls to scream (probably mindful of making good DVD footage). We made good enough noise after "Live and Let Die" he had to flop himself onto the piano to wait for us to settle, so I guess we did ok. On the one hand, it can make you feel a bit like he thinks of one gig as more important than others, but on the other hand, I was reading in the book about the 2003 tour "Each one Believing..." where he said he can do filmed shows but prefers unfilmed because it's more natural, intimate (I'm paraprasing). I remember at the end, though, quite a few people were starting to leave before the third encore, that might have been a bit horrifiying to him. My husband said they hadn't turned the house lights on yet, so we took advantage of the people going the other way to get closer to the stage. But in that same book, Paul was telling about his nightmare when he was in the Beatles: people leaving the concert, so he played a different song, they still left, he tried another, then another, people left in droves - his worst nightmare. I don't know how often people start moving away before the final encore, or what he thought about it. He did say he notices if someone starts leaving. It might have looked like I was leaving when his first Firman song came on, I was feeling bad for leaving my husband watching our stuff back with the chairs, and wanted his company, so I wormed my way back from my pretty good spot to find him. I'm sure people have to move away to use the toilets or something all the time, though. I'm reluctant to get someone to copy the PPV for me, as an artist with a copyright notice on my webiste. If I went that route I wouldn't admit it on a public forum! (I don't think it would be hard for the FBI or such to uncover internet identities, for one thing). I really really want a souvenier though, to be able to watch the one I was at again, that's why I wish so much they'd make official copies and sell them. Anyway, my memory is indeed blissful, at the time the atmosphere seemed to me to be friendly and intimate, he laughed at the crowd antics, had a sweet gentle voice at times. He probably loves all his audiences equally, you just can't help wondering sometimes.
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Found audio(Halifax) on youtube and downloaded it, then burned it on CD. Now I will have the night of my life on the CD player where ever I go, so fine!!!
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This one(youtube vid) shows Paul going to the edge of the stage to pick up the teddy bear that the woman in front of me threw on stage, you can see me as he walks up. I have my arms up clapping and suddenly stop. I was froze in shock!! How stupid
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I wish there was a complete DVD of Paul's concert at The Joint. Talk about loud...It was so freakin' loud in there! It sounded amazing.
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beatlesfanrandy:
I wish there was a complete DVD of Paul's concert at The Joint. Talk about loud...It was so freakin' loud in there! It sounded amazing.
Fans at Halifax didn't have the sense of it being loud "cause it was outside and the sound just kinda dissipated, if you know what I mean?
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It's natural to freeze in shock. Don't worry about it. I assume security checks teddy bears on the way in, for things inside them? Bras and album covers couldn't hide much, and probably couldn't hurt anyone accidentally when thrown. When I looked at Youtube videos of Halifax, I think you're right, we were noisy "enough." I personally tend to enjoy things quietly. It's kind of too bad the band seem to think the fans are a "good audience" if they make a lot of noise, scream a lot. Can't you be "good" just by looking happy and not interfering in the music? I can't help feeling a bit uncomfortable when I hear one of the Beatles or the current band comment on the goodness of the audience. In the anthology Paul mentioned one quiet gig for military, somewhere in Europe or Asia I think he said, " we just played, I don't think we enjoyed it that much." In the "Each one Believing..." 2003 tour book it mentions a queit audience in Sweeden, Paul was told when he was going on for the encore, "go knock em deader." It was a funny line, but I'm sure the audience really enjoyed the show. I hope Paul and the band realize some people are just quiet, but really really enjoy music, and watching exciting stuff. I understand he like the audience to "give back" and make it a mutual party things, but surely if you quietly smile he can feel the vibes?
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Wendy2066:
Trying to remember back, I think you're right it wasn't really quiet, but I guess everthing is relative. I'm guessing there wasn't as much maniacle screaming as they got going in Citifield, with the help of Paul encouraging the girls to scream (probably mindful of making good DVD footage). We made good enough noise after "Live and Let Die" he had to flop himself onto the piano to wait for us to settle, so I guess we did ok. .
Flopping himself on the piano is part of the act, he always does that. Here is how quiet we were at Halifax...
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I do see what you mean, Liverpool. They mentioned the concert again on the CBC TV New Years party coverage from Halifax. I was in bed with a migraine, but my son told me they had mentioned Paul's concert. I imagine they were reviewing events of the year. Now I've been able to watch the Citifield, they may have toned down screaming on the DVD so people could hear the music, but I think you're right we probably screamed as much. Not me personally, I was more entranced and stunned out in shock or something. I think that's ok too. The GENY DVD is great as far as it goes, but it's just a little frustrating because it was like the one I was at but without the things that made it a personal experience -- comment about the moon over Halifax, the arm signing of Audrey... I would have loved more extra material, backstage stuff, there was really only a little bit, before the letterman concert. I would have been totally satisfied if they had included a "Special moments from the tour" video with the arm signing etc. and stuff from other concerts of the tour. It's a fabulous concert DVD, sounds great and is really fun to watch and listen to, but as a souvenir of my concert experience at Halifax the same summer, it falls short.