Poor aul Frank getting arrested for rock ‘n’ roll busking on the streets of Dublin. I was 50 yards away but couldn’t hear a thing. Anybody anything to report? Did he play any tunes?
Here’s Frank getting arrested. Such an anti-climax.
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he played mr. grieves, nimrods son, monkey gone to heaven, where is my mind…maybe some more. i was 10 yards away and couldn’t hear much.
Another video from Analogue
http://www.analoguemagazine.com/the_blog/frank-black-mobbed/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee6Bcu9wauY
Ah I’m not surprised his voice wasn’t loud. All those years of rasping through Monkey’s Gone To Heaven!
It’s a nice thing to do for the average Joe when you’re in town I think. Fair play, he’s a barrel of laughs!
Well, i don’t think he was arrested, just the gardai got him out of there, as he was being mobbed! It was a fun idea and worked well. It was possibly a better set than he played later that night!
Amazing to see four or five hundred people sitting down outside stephen’s green!
He said the food in Kevin street Gardai station isn’t as bad as he thought it would be, at the gig later on, but i think he was joking…
This was really fun. I couldn’t hear a thing, so I’m glad to hear he played a few tunes!!
He also played a class renedition of Brackish Boy which is from his first solo album, but I think it was originally penned with Pixies.
Also, noticed a lot of older people hanging around while we were going in to the gig later on. People in their 50’s. It was a little strange. The bouncer pulled my ticket off me and showed it to one of them.
‘its Black Francis, not Francis Black’ he said to them!
I saw at least ten people inside that had made the same mistake! Daft. couldn’t help but fell a little sorry for them!
Hah, I did that at Vicar Street a few years ago…thought I was getting Seattle band Staind…not STAND!!
(And yeh, I saw Staind at The Point a few months later and they were crap!)
I wish I had made a similar mistake and went to Frances Black by mistake. It would have been better than what was served up. No Pixies, no early solo stuff – just a cynical hasbeen going through the motions playing substandard new crap with a comatose backing band.
If he wasn’t going to play any old stuff why resurrect his Pixies moniker for the tour? The ommission of his best material mightn’t have been so bad if his new material was bearable but it’s actually a load of uninspired horseshit.
Guess he blew his jollies for the freeloaders in the Green.