Brighton Dome

So they were already playing stadiums or certainly the arenas.

Saw them play Brighton Dome.

That's probably thousands.

Yeah, but not old theatres.

that.

I mean, I've heard them do it a few times, but that's, I put it down to Mr Brown and the magic that he worked with and it's always at the Dome it's always a really good acoustically it's a really good venue but it was just so crystal clear and yeah definitely one of the best versions I've heard of it it

was a definite highlight for me it's a fantastic opener and I was really pleased to hear it again

And this time the production seems to be a bit less, doesn't it? Even the lighting's kind of been toned down a little bit.

gigs.

No, I don't think anyone was offensive at all.

I've been going to gigs at the Dome, Suede, I think was my first gig there in 94, and Merillion are the only rock band that keeps the seats in, because the Dome is brilliant.

They've got, they can get the seats out, but there's also unreserved seating around the edge, which is brilliant if you just want to sit down.

You know, we're all a little bit fruity, aren't we, dear? So, I mean...

um it's the audience so there is a holding that happens but um i can't hold them and they can't hold me we have to hold each other at the same time and it's almost like a guided it's particularly with older dykes who were there so i had this amazing gig i sold out just to like blow my own trumpet that all sold out but brighton dome sold out two nights at brighton dome and that really attracted dykes of a certain age And two of the dykes that came are in the book I've written about, one of whom is Boone.

And Boone, let me get it right.

Yeah, Boone was the lesbian that broke into the news at six when Section 20.

Um, that's not the only end of the pier show in Brighton.

Anne, I see that you're doing an event tonight with ex-Trump spokesman, uh, Anthony Scaramucci at the Brighton Dome, tickets from Intelligence Squared.

Uh, I have to say, I can see you appearing with another different podcast host.

That, that isn't going unnoticed, uh, by me.

I'm not going to look for pity on this, but I get to see these things from the one distributor, as I mentioned, and I get to do a little pre-research on them.

They don't usually have a lot of information, but that's where I dive in and say, okay, where was this? I've got things like at the Brighton Dome from 1972, A Perfect Union in Space.

This is also a 71 show, a double LP.

And again...

It was Perla's early years touring with the celebrated Canadian poet Leonard Cohen that shaped her as an artist in her own right.

In fact, Leonard Cohen said of Perla, She's performed at venues as varied as the Sydney Opera House, Kennedy Center, Royce Hall, and Brighton Dome.

and she has released seven albums and co-written and appeared in two one women shows her celebrated mestiza song cycle exploring the intricacies of being a person of mixed race and blue house an exultant frida kala musical commissioned by the los angeles county museum of art perla has been honored with two attiliated ewan awards the earth charter award for extraordinary devotion to social and economic justice and the environmental peace building award for advancing social justice through music She currently divides her time between Ojai, California, and Barcelona, Spain.

And her latest album, A Letter to Leonard Cohen, Tribute to a Friend, celebrates what would have been his 90th birthday.