MARCH 2011

Barcelona Set List

March 31, 2011

Take the Long Way Home

Surely / School

Lovers in the Wind

Hide in Your Shell

Easy Does It

Sister Moonshine

C’est Le Bon

Breakfast in America

Along Came Mary

A Soapbox Opera

The Logical Song

Child of Vision

Only Because of You / Lord is it Mine

The Awakening

Know Who You Are

Say Goodbye

Don’t Leave Me Now

Dreamer 

Fool's Overture

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 Two of Us

Give a Little Bit

It’s Raining Again 

Roger Hodgson visited  Copenhagen the 19 of March. It was a great show, but let me start somewhere else.

 

More than 30 years ago I was introduced to Supertramp. It was in my early teenage years. And of course I thought the music was great. But to me it was just music like music from other great bands, like Pink Floyd, Queen, Chicago, Toto and David Bowie.

 

I didn’t think that album was a need to have, when Roger Hodgson released In The Eye Of The Storm in 1984. But I knew he was the voice of Supertramp, and the album sounded just like Supertramp to me. So the album went in to my collection of music. I must admit, I didn’t have the album in the house for a long time before I knew, the music was very special. It made me go back and listen even more to Supertramps music. And at ...

Two premieres: the first show in Germany in 2011 and the first solo show of the year

There is one special story which took place before the concert: Roger had invited Tristan Schulz, a twelve-year-old boy to come to soundcheck and to play with him on stage during soundcheck and although they were running late, Roger kept his promise and called Tristan up on stage to play with him. Tristan sat down at the piano and journalists and a few lucky fans who got inivited to join soundcheck were absolutely amazed when Tristan started to play.

Roger is one of the biggest inspirations for Tristan's piano playing. He began playing the piano only three years ago – he actually could play Roger's songs before he could read music and hey, that boy can play! He started to play "Lovers In The Wind” and it was just great – Roger apparently enjoyed Tristan's ...