We dropped Ellie off with a friend because Urban-Cub wasn’t finishing work until six. We grabbed some dinner and then headed off to Worthing for the evening. Parking in the multistorey, we wandered along the promenade to the pier. We were a little early for the show so we made the most of it and wandered out onto the pier to look at the artwork and look back across Worthing in the early evening sunshine.
Just after seven we made our way into the Pavilion Theatre and settle down ready for the concert. We noticed that only about 50% of the people who were there had followed the theatre’s requests to actually wear a face mask. We, quite obviously complied. The first part of the concert was an artist called Scott Matthews. He played for about 40 minutes. His music was essentially self-penned songs which he accompanied on a series of guitars. He had a wistful sound to his voice and reminded the Gorse Fox of Roy Orbison.
There was a short intermission. The Gorse Fox had pre-ordered some drinks, and with our seats near the entrance to the bar, we didn’t have too queue for the refreshments. The Gorse Fox bumped into Kevin from Tuesday’s football while we were there. It occurred to the Gorse Fox that it was 50 years since he had last seen Robert Plant, live. The occasion then coincided with the Silver Vixen’s 18th Birthday Party - which the Gorse Fox missed having Led Zeppelin tickets for the Empire Pool, Wembley on the same night.
The main event started at nine o’clock. By now, the venue was full and the average age of the audience must have been at least 60. The concert was Robert Plant with Susie Dian and their three-piece backing band for a concert known as Saving Grace. Robert Plant explained that this was their first concert back on the road since the beginning of lockdown 19 months ago so we were very lucky to actually be there. It started with three haunting melodies based on traditional folk songs from the Welsh borders and then moved in to a number of songs that hailed from the great American folk tradition including songs from the Apalachian Mountains and some of bluegrass from Kentucky. It really was a brilliant show and you could see that they were really enjoying themselves as the songs followed on. We were so pleased that we spotted when the tickets went on sale and we’re able to get such good tickets only five rows from the front. The show went on for about an hour and three quarters including the encores and even then, one of the encores seem to come as a bit of a surprise to the rest of the band when Robert Plant charged off-stage went and got his harmonica and came back on and told them what to play and off they went again.
As always, good things come to an end and we filed our way out of the theatre and onto the pier. The sight of the moon glistening on the sea with the distant lights of the end of the pier was really quite magical. We made our way back to the car and drove home and we were in soon after 23:30 so it was a good evening overall.
The main event started at nine o’clock. By now, the venue was full and the average age of the audience must have been at least 60. The concert was Robert Plant with Susie Dian and their three-piece backing band for a concert known as Saving Grace. Robert Plant explained that this was their first concert back on the road since the beginning of lockdown 19 months ago so we were very lucky to actually be there. It started with three haunting melodies based on traditional folk songs from the Welsh borders and then moved in to a number of songs that hailed from the great American folk tradition including songs from the Apalachian Mountains and some of bluegrass from Kentucky. It really was a brilliant show and you could see that they were really enjoying themselves as the songs followed on. We were so pleased that we spotted when the tickets went on sale and we’re able to get such good tickets only five rows from the front. The show went on for about an hour and three quarters including the encores and even then, one of the encores seem to come as a bit of a surprise to the rest of the band when Robert Plant charged off-stage went and got his harmonica and came back on and told them what to play and off they went again.
As always, good things come to an end and we filed our way out of the theatre and onto the pier. The sight of the moon glistening on the sea with the distant lights of the end of the pier was really quite magical. We made our way back to the car and drove home and we were in soon after 23:30 so it was a good evening overall.
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