Thursday 22nd June 2006 : Tel Aviv
A late start for me, so a quick stroll round town and then onto the bus to the gig for soundcheck around 2.30pm................ There was plenty of traffic on the way even at 3.00pm. The Peace Village is located just off the main Tel Aviv / Jerusalem road at the Jerusalem end. Around 55000 tickets had been sold for the event. The gig started about half an hour later than planned due to the large numbers of people still stuck in the jams on the way to the site. We got a fantastic reception when we started to play. Very exciting. I had wondered how the audience would take 'Leaving Beirut' with it's introduction about the kindness of an Arab family. I needn't have been concerned. The crowd related to the songs humanitarian message, just as Roger had expected they would, ( I spoke to him about it after the show ). Later in the show, his spontaneous appeal to the young audience to be a force for change and peace in Israel was also received enthusiastically. Hope for the future perhaps. After the gig it was a police escort back to the hotel and a quiet drink at the bar. No possibility of getting to Jerusalem so no jazz tonight. מתוך הבלוג של איאן ריצ'י: http://ian-ritchie.com/rwblog.htm
A late start for me, so a quick stroll round town and then onto the bus to the gig for soundcheck around 2.30pm................ There was plenty of traffic on the way even at 3.00pm. The Peace Village is located just off the main Tel Aviv / Jerusalem road at the Jerusalem end. Around 55000 tickets had been sold for the event. The gig started about half an hour later than planned due to the large numbers of people still stuck in the jams on the way to the site. We got a fantastic reception when we started to play. Very exciting. I had wondered how the audience would take 'Leaving Beirut' with it's introduction about the kindness of an Arab family. I needn't have been concerned. The crowd related to the songs humanitarian message, just as Roger had expected they would, ( I spoke to him about it after the show ). Later in the show, his spontaneous appeal to the young audience to be a force for change and peace in Israel was also received enthusiastically. Hope for the future perhaps. After the gig it was a police escort back to the hotel and a quiet drink at the bar. No possibility of getting to Jerusalem so no jazz tonight. מתוך הבלוג של איאן ריצ'י: http://ian-ritchie.com/rwblog.htm
