Joe Jackson live at the Bikini in Toulouse
Joe Jackson just performed last night in Toulouse. We went to see the concert. A friend of ours from Philadelphia is his tour manager. He sent us an email to let us know he was going to be nearby and we asked to go. It was a fantastic concert.
Now I really like Joe Jackson’s old songs. For example “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”
Now it looks and sounds like this. It was still great. It was really funny to hear all the French singing along in their best English, which was quite good. Now he performs at the piano with a bassist and a drummer. Even the older songs written on guitar still sound great.
Of course he hit it big with “Steppin Out”, which I liked less at the time, but last night sounded great. The 80’s-ness of it was stripped out and what was left was just a nice driving piano song.
Now it sounds like this
His newer songs I was unfamiliar with. I was afraid they would be too adult contemporary for me. I was wrong. This song is called “Solo”. Live it was heart wrenchingly good. The song oozed with emotion. The audience was dead silent, it was the highlight of the show, even us many of us were waiting to hear “Is She Really Going Out With Him”.
The Bikini was a great place as well. It was rebuilt recently after it burned down. Now it has a large terrace in the back where you can order food and drinks and sit on the terrace. There was a pool as well. When you enter it is beautiful inside and the acoustics are great. The sound was great from anywhere inside. I think there were about 800 people and the show was full.
We got to go backstage after the show. It felt odd because I didn’t really care about meeting him because I thought what would he care? I don’t imagine myself to be so enthralling that everyone must meet me. He doesn’t know me and he looked so awkward walking around before the show. Well we hung out with our friend Mike and then the drummer came by and then a roadie and pretty soon Joe came out and eventually warmed up and we hung out for about 45 minutes. Mostly it was to see our friend Mike but it was nice Joe came out. I didn’t want to seem to much of a fanboy so I didn’t take any pictures while we were with him, but here are some pictures I took at the show. Once again on my crappy camera phone so they aren’t that great in quality.
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You didn’t mention whether or not your friend gave you VIP passes or not, or even if you needed tickets for the show. The only show business person I ever knew was me and that didn’t last long. Lack of talent will do you in every time.
I’m not sure the difference, we had all access passes and didn’t need tickets. We could have walked anywhere we wanted. We could have gone backstage during the show. In fact when the doors opened we walked towards the back of the line but a security guard said what are you doing just walk through the crowd. We cut in front of everyone. I can’t say I know Joe Jackson but we had a good time nonetheless.