Warning prog content - The Watch

[ead]

A quick heads-up to all who like this kind of thing, The Watch are touring Trespass and Nursery Crime although this date in Manchester doesn’t appear to be on their website. It might be worth checking your local venue just in case there are other dates that are not yet published.

http://bandonthewall.org/events/4875/

[toneknob]

Tour dates are on The Watch's website at http://www.thewatch.it/test/?page_id=48 - they're playing my local! (who are notoriously bad at promotion)

[KevB]

They are also doing a few UK dates in November this year with a more 'general' Genesis set (I think).
Saw them a few years ago and though I'm not much of a genesis officianado they sounded very authentic to me. The lineup changes a lot though, singer is only person who has lasted through all the versions of the band. They exist as an originals band as well as a tribute, though the 'original' music sounds, almost inevitably, like early Genesis much of the time. Worth seeing if they play locally to you.

[toneknob]

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They are also doing a few UK dates in November this year with a more 'general' Genesis set (I think).
Saw them a few years ago and though I'm not much of a genesis officianado they sounded very authentic to me. The lineup changes a lot though, singer is only person who has lasted through all the versions of the band. They exist as an originals band as well as a tribute, though the 'original' music sounds, almost inevitably, like early Genesis much of the time. Worth seeing if they play locally to you.
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Agreed - I've only seen them once, at The Peel in Kingston a few years ago, but they are certainly among the best of quite a crowded Genesis tribute scene, especially when it comes to doing the fiddly early material.

[KevB]

I've just checked setlist FM and if the November dates are a continuation of the tour they did earlier this year then the show is half Peter Gabriel solo and half Genesis with an occasional Watch original.

[toneknob]

Here's their 2015 tour trailer. Pretty good, but something odd is going on in Cuckoo Cocoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLfJ_yW3500

And the Rutherford is playing his double-neck sitting down by the looks of it. Awkward.

[toneknob]

Dig deep enough on the Bedford's website and you'll find this:

http://www.thebedford.co.uk/EventView.aspx?ID=0250dfbe-fdb3-4230-bf8b-baa85aa6893d

("Gabriel era 1970-75" says the flyer)

[KevB]

Must have changed the set, they were doing this back in April this year:
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-watch/2015/grammatikoff-duisburg-germany-1bc89d0c.html
Which I wouldn't have minded seeing actually so I'll be giving it a miss this time round I think.