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“A
lot of people experience anguish and despair in their everyday lives here.”
Says Jimmy “…and this concert is a present for all of those, who suffer from
the politics of our government,” Strong words from al small men with a big
voice. In their lyrics, the Communards don`t mince their words at all. They
sing about poverty, AIDS and unemployment, their album RED concentrating
more on the subject of AIDS and how this fatal disease can destroy love and
trust among people. The song “For A Friend” was dedicated to Mark Ashton a
very good friend of Jimmy & Richard. Half of it´s profits were donated to an
AIDS-Research Institute in London.
There
is a significance behind the fact that 7 of the 8 musicians on stage are all
women. “It´s very hard for the female musicians, to get along in a
predominately male business…” says Richard Coles “ …besides these 7 women
belong to the best studio musicians in the whole of England. Their choice of
June Miles Kingston (drums), Caroline Buckley (vocals), the string quartet
Jocelyn Pook, Sonja Slany, Sally Herbert, Audrey Riley and their saxophonist
Jo Pretzel was a good one, the evidence being the two hour show itself. With
dance-hits like “Disenchanted” and “You Are My World”, the fans were up on
their chairs dancing. A special applause was given to June for her
perfect
tuned drum solo.
Smiling to the audience and winking mischievous to Richard , Jimmy was
swinging his hips up on stage, his falsetto voice being heard in every
corner of the venue. Beside the fiery red columns , the stage –background
was kept very simple, thus at no great expense the place was filled with
soul-pure. The audience were also captured by the melancholic sounds of the
strings in “Breadline Britain” and went crazy to the funky beats of “There
More To Love” especially during which Jo Pretzel had played a soft saxophone
interlude.
In his typical Scottish accent Jimmy introduced the song “Tomorrow”. He says:”
This song is dedicated to all those women who are abused by their husbands
and who feel despair when it comes to help as the law is too often an the
men´s side.” Jimmy stands at the edge of the stage with his eyes closed and
full of ...