In the court once again...

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King Crimson - 2018 Tour

King Crimson - Lizard

This afternoon, this was a-happening at the Playhouse Theatre...

Pic : Tony Levin 

 Pic : Tony Levin 

 Pic : Tony Levin 

Pic : Tony Levin 

Pic : Tony Levin 

We headed in the direction of said venue this evening but, first, for the first time in probably over 30 years, to the Jolly on Elm Row...

Bruschetta and soup to start - this time, unlike the last time, no daddy long legs floating in my soup - which allowed me to utter the immortal line "waiter there's a fly in my soup"...

Pasta and very close to the camera pizza - neither of which were able to be finished - shouldn't have had the starters...

To the venue...

£75 a ticket, bought last week...

Took a pic of the sign saying no pics...

Chat with Dr Prog - who was a few rows behind us and then, a lovely surprise visit from Sid Smith, who'd only decided this morning to come up from Whitley Bay for the gig - and was heading home tonight with Twitter chum Merely Chris Barron - always nice to met people in the flesh as it were...

Meanwhile, below us...

Pic : Tony Levin  

Pic : Tony Levin  

Pic : Tony Levin  

Pic : Tony Levin  

Pic : Tony Levin 

A blistering first half - the interplay between the three drummers at the front of the stage waas mesmerising...

And the opening combination of "Discipline" and "Indiscipline" was superb...

Half time...

More chart, this time with Dr Prog, Paul Reynolds and Martin Lennon - also seated a few rows behind...

Another top notch set followed - quite jazzy inplaces and great to hear so much of my first ever KV album purchase "Lizar" making the set, with "Cirkus" being a particular highlight...

An encore of the beautiful "Starless" but no "Schizoid Man" tonight and it was all over bar the now allowed photography, signaled by Mr Levin snapping us...

We are all in this one...

Pic : Tony Levin  

Anne, for some reason, not in this - I think she was getting the camera out of my bag...

Pic : Tony Levin 

...while I took these on my phone...

...and just a couple with the camera before they exited for the last time...

Out, amazed at the musicianship...

Meanwhile, downstairs...

Pic : Tony Levin 

This, taken - the use of the word "viddying" suggests it was penned by Fripp...

A great night...

Today's artwork, "Bassist, Photographer"...

Highlight of the Day : King Crimson of course...

Set 1:
Drumsons
Discipline
Indiscipline
Epitaph
Peace: An End
Pictures of a City
Cadence and Cascade
Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind)
Meltdown
Radical Action II
Level Five
One More Red Nightmare
Islands
The Letters

Set 2:
Drumsons 2
Cirkus
Lizard (Bolero to Lament)
Moonchild
Bass, guitar and piano cadenzas (Tony on upright bass, Robert, Jeremy)
Easy Money
Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two
The Court of the Crimson King

Encore:
Starless