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My friend Adam Frankel and I went to see the Hotel Cafe Tour 2006 at the Carling Acadamy in Islington, London. It turned out being quite a emotional rollercoaster panning from bad, ok and excellent. Overall the evening was a disappointment.

The main reason to my disappointment is probably that I was expecting an evening with Tom McRae, and not an evening with a mixer/blender effect of 5 artist doing 2 songs at the time and taking turns on playing with each other.

Tom didn’t disappoint me, he was brilliant. On stage he was very relaxed, personal and funny. The singing and playing was spot on. I’m quite sure that if the evening had only been with Tom, I would have been more than satisfied.

But it wasn’t.

After Tom’s beautiful, charming, personal and promising start, the whole evening got an increasingly aftertaste of plastic image and bad lyrics. From time to time I was proven wrong, but those moments were among the exceptions.

At one point I turned to Adam saying:

Adam, we are standing in a venue named after a beer that has more similarities with pee and water then proper beer, listening to an American songwriter singing “I’m going to the country” in front of a big backdrop saying;
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The Cafe Tour 2006

Adam quickly replied:

Yeah… I know, they surely could have left out the ‘2006′ bit.

The highlights of the Evening were:

  1. Tom McRae’s presentation of the artist.
  2. Steve Reynolds guitar playing.
  3. Jim Bianco performance of his sing Painkiller.
  4. Last but not least; Tom McRae preformance of the evenings, and his, final song - I’m the boy with the bubblegun.

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