Mansfield 1989

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by welcomechris

Sounds Like It Was Great!

Where were your seats

How much were tickets

It was so long ago! I have the ticket, but don't have access to it at the moment. I don't expect the tickets were more than $50. I was on the floor, left side, about 4o rows back. I had good sight lines.

I remember being happy and impressed that she performed a decent amount of new songs to represent the album: Rooms on Fire, Two Kinds of Love, Whole Lotta Trouble, Alice, Juliet. I remember being dissapointed that there were no tour programs for sale. I only got one twenty-something years later. Most of her programs are poorly designed. This one is no exception, but as a collector I still find merit in them as historical artifacts.

Despite her lack of physical movement, and minimal engagement with the audience, she sang well, and was very consistent and controlled in her deliverly. This assured me, because when I first saw her several years earlier, on the Rock A Little tour, it was an entirely a different story.

She clearly was a high-the-sky mess. She certainly took on a unique manner in which she rendered her vocals - her phrasing, miscues, oddly improvised lyric lines, blurted out statements to the audience that held no context to anyone except to her. Most of the the times when addressing the audience, she spoke in blurts so quickly or softly, no one could understand what she was saying. She was in her own world. Those days were interesting for what they were, but I'm glad they are history now.

Notice how Rhiannon unprecedently sat of this set list? Yet no one cried foul, demanded refunds, caused riots or burned down villages in protest.