(Reviewed by Thomas Treo... a man known for his often very critical approach and a hard core Metalfan.
Very entertaining to read. Once called a danish sing-song writer "The singing Ikeacloset". Very hard on popmusic. A popstar is lucky when a single star is given).

http://www.ekstrabladet.dk/musik/koncer ... 257697.ece

Google says:

"Timeless class in Tivoli
Good old Bryan Ferry flashed again as pop grizzled eminence

Bryan Ferry had been shown a new jacket, but otherwise there was nothing new, as the veteran tonight again crept across the stage at the Tivoli Concert Hall, where he started a Scandinavian tour that takes him to Randers and Esbjerg the next few days.

The predictable nostalgia, however, was destined to live with, for Ferry has long managed to equip its basic aesthetics of the 1970s and 80s with a more timeless brilliance, and he got many dusty Roxy Music songs emerge from hiding to a not exactly inexperienced audience who barely had ironed his shirt and hidden wrinkles to be challenged.

The 69-year-old Englishman seemed initially somewhat puzzled and uninterested, which really created a fruitful dynamic between the main character and his youthful and play happy Orchestra, among others spoke the Danish guitarist Jacob Quistgaard, who delivered a solid effort and was one of the session loudest applause.

Well worth applauding was also Ferry's funky new single 'Loop the Li' from the upcoming album 'Avonmore', but 'Avalon' dropped in return through shortly before the congregation rose from their seats in the sold-out floor and swayed back in time to the tune of 'Love Is the Drug "and" Let's Stick Together'.

Ferry was as transformed during the show's finale, and after a quietly satisfying introduction stampede he in the stage floor, spread his arms out and received great smiling people's homage.

Ferry still alive.."

ahoy roxyboy! thanks for the post! you're the most! you should be a host!

"uninterested" sticks out - Bryan's so shy it appears he's "uninterested". Who knows?

keep 'em comin' RB!

Thank you, Erland!!

http://www.bt.dk/musik/evigt-unge-bryan ... e-i-tivoli

Google says:

"Eternally young Bryan Ferry : Croon and class in Tivoli

At least two events can a man be sure to show up underdressed. By his own birth and a concert with Bryan Ferry. At least if you compare with the protagonist on stage.

So of course this evening in Tivoli Concert Hall, where mr. Ferry appeared with a new band - with a Danish guitarist,

The 69-year-old dandy consult fortunately often his favorite tailor Anderson & Sheppard in Savile Row in London to have made ​​a new set coming out on a new tour.

Just a year ago he appeared lately in Denmark - Sønderborg. Three years ago, Aarhus and Copenhagen.

The first thing that jumped into the ears during first track 'Re-Make / Re-Model' was the sound. It sounded miserable as Ferry appeared in Falconer three years ago, but this night was the sound stage so significant, freezing tingling clear as the sky a cloudless January day.

The next thing that Ferry has restored / genmodelleret his band a bit. The long-standing partner in crime, Chris Spedding, is replaced by the Danish guitarist Jacob Quistgaard - or just Quist - and guitarist Steve Jones. Not the Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols, but a guitarist who is particularly known as sekstrenget sound designer, including with the former Roxy member Brian Eno.

Equally unknown Quist is in Denmark, just as excellent, he is on his instrument. It sounded equilibristic in a single totally shaded area with just clarinet, keyboards and acoustic guitar. And in a surprisingly muted 'More That This'.

Quistgaard had several very nice, distinct solos, both spherical denominated in a number like 'Ladytron' and more straight sharp rock'n'roll in the nearly new 'Reason Or Rhyme' from 'Olympia'. Sharp as Ferry's bow tie would look like if he otherwise tied it. It is a wild and daring claim to sling out, but Quistgaard had more space in the new Ferry soundstage than even Phil Manzanera of Roxy in Valby Hallen in 2001.

(See Quistgaard shine on its own youtubekanal:) http: // https: //www.youtube.com/user/QuistTV

The cool, excellent multi-instrumentalist Jorja Chalmers is back. So far remembered with more space and more solos than the last - perhaps even more space than Andy Mackay, when he originally played with Ferry both solo and Roxy Music.

Now was that cool. In addition to being able to wear a page and a pair of high heel, as might be expected in a Ferry-band stole Chalmers passing this reviewer's heart when her response to the audience's tribute after a solo was to lead the index finger to his lips before she clapped as with the three in the choir. It is said that the devil is in the detail - as does his counterpart behind St. Peter's gate and then.

To paraphrase the always edgy closing number 'Editions Of You' there are several versions of Bryan Ferry, as he in the almost ten concerts I've seen with him is balanced more or less successful.

Extremely personal crooner and interpreter, expressionist art-rock style creates (the first Roxy), satyrisk ironist - and this one pop-gentleman who created his own sueave and sexy groove with 'Oh Yeah,' Avalon 'and' Slave To Love '. Pure into the sublime Dylan album 'Dylanesque', where he gave 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues' in Tivoli.

The Tivoli tonight was screwed down a little early Roxy. It is clear that Ferry and the new musical director, keyboardist Paul Beard, has worked hard to create organic link between such diverse numbers as mentioned Dylan song, 'Ladytron' and a mildly corny reggae-country (!) Version of 'If There Is Something'.

A colleague said, 'it sounds clumsy' (he can even be). How I experienced it, but it is true that especially the otherwise hard-working drummer hung up along the way. Against that, bassist Guy Pratt - the only member of the band, even remotely is the same age as Ferry - firmly and steadily.

And in the final threesome with the always splendid and ironic 'Casanova' (Casanova, er your name, or do you live there?), 'Love Is The Drug' and 'Let's Stick Together' went that well barn dance in it. But we're talking three greatest hit, concert voted audience, so the finer musical gorumetnuancer very easily sacrificed on the altar of the party sweaty

The music is immortal, the singer hardly. And well, the 69-year-old crooner no longer so vivant on stage as once, his voice can not be so much more, but - blimey - it swung in Tivoli. And then the man still so much style that all the wannabes who have followed up over the decades since the miner's son from Newcastle first got his green boots on stage just to look at and try to learn".

Bryan Ferry, Tivoli Concert Hall, Tuesday evening

http://www.b.dk/musik/ferry-gik-ned-alene

Google says:

"Ferry went down alone

Bryan Ferry took the Tivoli Concert Hall with a great singer's stubborn belief in their own abilities and vitality, but he was unfortunately come out with the wrong band.

3 stars out of 6

There is at once something sad, beautiful and at the same time very fragile over great singers who grow old and lose youthful vitality, but stubbornly insists to hold on to the stage and the material over time have shaped them as artists. And I love the vulnerability that occurs when a great musician and singer Bryan Ferry choose to go whole hog and give a concert in which he perfectly even know he has a hard time bases and hit the notes that previously sounded so clean. But he does it anyway because he can not do otherwise. As a captain, who is back on the bridge while the ship goes down.

And this sometimes painful pride and stubbornness was felt like they owned to present Tuesday night in Tivoli Concert Hall. You could pretty much feel it in the rain and darkness all the way from the main entrance to the deserted amusement park. It was an evening dressed for melancholy and weary but genuine smile. The crowd was mature and could their "Country Life". At the same time, it was a real pleasure to get to a concert where for once could have on a jacket without looking like a bank clerk that had gone wrong. To a Bryan Ferry concert there is always room for a newly ironed shirt or two.

The evening's main character stood since even second to none as he just half an hour's delay took the stage. As always impeccable dressed in a tuxedo jacket and a bowtie, already after the opener with the classic "Re-Make / Re-Model" was loosened and hung casually around his neck.

Then there was once nothing more style confusion among the mixed crowd of musicians such as Ferry had brought with him. Not only dresswise, but very very musical. They were simply not good enough interaction and as the sound of the Concert Hall at the same time sounded hollow and resounding was the start of the concert a somewhat mixed blessing. Ferry struggled to keep it all together. "Kiss And Tell" and "Slave To Love" was plyed in through the slightly too high a pace and it really was not until we got to the classic "Oh Yeah" that things slowly began to fall into place without the no way to say that it was good. Ferry's voice was often left alone by the small threemanchoir and had difficulty coping with the high notes. At the same time it seemed that the drummer Cherisse Osei had her own concert and was not in sync with the rhythm section. Ferry Danish guitarist Jacob Quistgaard did it honorably without being flashy as the evening's only real musical highlight ended up being saxophonist and clarinetist Jorja Chalmers, who actually had something good to come along. But it is too little when speaking a man of Ferry's caliber.

Then he went off to change his shirt and it was as if it gave a little breathing space to sort out a few things. The second set was certainly noticeably better than the first - partly also because now there came clean hit parade. Even apart from a rearranged "More Than This", which seemed more whimsical than the original, so the audience was rewarded with both "Dont Stop The Dance", "Avalon", "Love Is The Drug" and "Lets Stick Together", where our man in the center even had the energy to jar around and flirt with the front rows before the encores as "Jealous Guy" and the spectacular "Editions of You" just sends the audience a little lit in the dark. Last time I was at a Danish concert with Ferry he got all Cirkusbygningen to exude decadent nightclub atmosphere and thinly veiled eroticism with a band consisting entirely of young female strings. The kind you could sense only in glimpses this evening, where the songs were just as immortal as always, but the performance did not have the status of classics you would expect. Ferry had come out with the wrong band. They did not have the will and the ability to go all the way with him".

Who: Bryan Ferry

Where: Tivoli Concert Hall, Tuesday evening.

Photo:

www.gaffa.dk/Galleries/gallery/56253#/0

http://gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/88939

Google says:

4 stars out of 6

"The 69-year-old icon took a effectively settled his concert in Copenhagen audience by storm

Bryan Ferry is England's answer to Steffen Brandt. (Or is it vice versa). He is - as Brandt - a man in his 60s (though eight years older). He is slim (fit), elegant (vain) and assertive. In one way or another "over the top", bound for hits that are decades behind them (although he still writes new). Bound to an image, which is also decades old. However. He is not nostalgic. Is not an anachronism. Not a farce. Is not passé - despite his 69 years.

On stage at the Tivoli Concert Hall, he was rather a living dandy that effectively linked the newer tracks with old. An artist without unnecessary breaks, jumped from one number to another and third and fourth - not power - but effectively that he was aware that people had come to listen to music rather than small talk, old hits rather than new material . Constantly he was flanked on the right and left of talented musicians, of which three main attracted the attention - the eminent Danish guitarist, Jacob Quistgaard (who resides in England and new Bryan Ferry context) in addition to the female saxophonist and a female drummer. (For Bryan Ferry is lovely ladies apparently a must, even if you can not say he flirts on stage).

Hits such as Kiss and Tell, Slave to Love, Do not Stop the Dance, More Than This and Love is the Drug succeeded one another in a steady stream - hits from the days of Roxy Music and hits from her time as individualistic. And even if they were all as soundcarpet to my (and many others) youth (I observed that the crowd was mature and familiar with the material), they functioned. And it struck me that Bryan Ferry enough is iconic for its exterior (and its interior: the self-consciousness with which he performs), but is particularly original and sophisticated as a songwriter. Not as a writer - his lyrics are not the Nobel Prize level - but compositional he is an original. His music has a recurring dispute, an effective dance-pop-rock unusual compositional detail, often take unexpected turns, is cool, a little funky and jazzy. And that's what makes his backlist sophisticated. And his last stage performance worthy.

The concert in Tivoli Concert Hall was solid, without being topnoch. Effective and rigorous. Even when he himself was on stage (which happened once midway, when three of his musicians played the brilliant instrumental Tara). And then he concluded otherwise the concert with a stunning, Jealous Guy and a riveting Editions of You".

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Steffen Brandt:

http://www.samvirke.dk/sundhed/artikler ... -mand.html

Singer/founder of "TV2"... Denmark topband since the 80'ies. Still a big name in Denmark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QI8nKXv8ZM

Cher Roxyboy,
Un tres grand merci for posting and translating the reviews. He trusts you had a fabulous fandango in the most beautiful 'City Of Spires'. Copenhagen is such a cool place.
From the photos, it looks like Fonzy Thornton has joined the cast. No bad thing, he's a great vocalist and a long standing collaborator from the Avalon days. That said, IWNSHO it's not necessarily vocal muscle this band needs — it's more a question of guitar and keyboard quality.
One point that continues to puzzle Windswept is the lack of comparison by the music press between this tour and AEWBF.
It was understandable in the US as TBFO didn't tour but in Europe it is bizarre. Have all these journalists just seen Ferry for the first time? In the case of Denmark, it's only a year since AEWBF played Sonderborg - surely some of those scribes must have been at that show?
For fans in Europe this has to be a factor as the tour progresses. Particularly as our hero starts to play some of the same venues.
Windswept should not be misunderstood. Cut him and he is 'Flesh & Blood'. His loyalty to the cause is beyond compare but we have to get the 'A' team back together for the UK leg. Let's pass the hat around — il faut avoir le meilleure!
Salutations,
Windswept

Dr. Strangelove was there.......

Denmarks leading Ferry/Roxy fan; Holle; found this:

http://www.tv2lorry.dk/arkiv/2014/10/13?video_id=96113

A recap of his career.

Highlight:

"This is a show enjoyed with a Dubonnet; not a Beershow..."

BF/RM was here in '74:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/roxy-musi ... eec6c.html


Pictures '74:

http://www.angel.dk/roxy/Pages/RoxyS2Overs.html