Zappa Plays Zappa in London, October

Was completely unaware of this until a Zappa-head mate from back home told me about it just now, anyone here going? Anyone else seen them?

I missed them the last time they played in Dublin when I lived there, so looking forward to this.

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/zappa-plays-zappa-one-size-f-91476

Saw them five years ago or so, great stuff.

Finally bought tickets for ZPZ for somewhere in the next months in Amsterdam I think, took me eight years to buy tickets on time. Missed them every - fucking - time :(

Fook, I'd love to see Dweez flow on his dads arrangements...i had tickets to see em with dream theater in the peg but alas I had to stay put due to being on call for work.

I wish I'd seen this when it came through my area a few years back. Love some Zappa.

I caught Banned from Utopia last year, in a fucking tiny local venue. They were ace. Haven't seen ZPZ so I can't give a proper comparison, but BFU definitely seems more authentic.

My brother has flaked out on me at the last minute, so I've got a spare ticket for this if anyone is interested. Long shot at this late stage I know, gig starts at half seven in the south bank

Tickets were 40 quid, but make me a reasonable offer...

Going to see this tonight before the colundi gig. Just found out they are playing the entire One Size Fits All album because it's 40 years old this year. Luckily, this is my one of my absolute least favourite Zappa albums :') hope they'll just do a sped up reggae-medley in 7/8 of every track except Inca Roads and then get on with the actual good stuff.

Jealous. but agree about One size fits all.

It's one of my favourite albums, and it was fantastic. Was great to hear Sofa #2 played loud with all that really low bass and trombone, they then played a good range of stuff from early mothers stuff, right through to the 80s stuff. Cosmic Debris, Zombie Wolf and Apostrophe' were great. They also got some 12 year old kid out from the audience to do a drum solo, which was pretty funny. The musicianship was great, really tight performance, the guy doing the main vocals lacked the power to pull it off at times though, but a minor quibble...

  On 10/24/2015 at 3:37 PM, caze said:

It's one of my favourite albums, and it was fantastic. Was great to hear Sofa #2 played loud with all that really low bass and trombone, they then played a good range of stuff from early mothers stuff, right through to the 80s stuff. Cosmic Debris, Zombie Wolf and Apostrophe' were great. They also got some 12 year old kid out from the audience to do a drum solo, which was pretty funny. The musicianship was great, really tight performance, the guy doing the main vocals lacked the power to pull it off at times though, but a minor quibble...

Cool, great to hear, getting excited for it now :) how long did they play for btw? Will probably just have a short time frame to jump from one gig to the next.

about two and a half hours IIRC (maybe a little less).

  On 10/24/2015 at 3:10 PM, Herr Jan said:

Going to see this tonight before the colundi gig.

What'd ya think?

  On 10/27/2015 at 2:10 AM, caze said:

 

  On 10/24/2015 at 3:10 PM, Herr Jan said:

Going to see this tonight before the colundi gig.

 

What'd ya think?

 

It was really good, they definitely gave their absolute best which made up for the dissapointing circumstances: no special guests, OZFA being the integral album, the Zappa family selling their CD's for €35,- a piece (about 30 quid), the sound being incredibly low, the venue being completely sold out (never seen a sold out concert in that venue THIS full, they definitely sold more tickets than usual) and it was filled with 60+ boring suit wearing businessmen who were all statues and were mumbling elitist stuff like "finally, some REAL music". No one even moved, let alone danced but us and we had to compensate by dancing like a complete fool.

We chose to stand next to the bar so that we didn't have to move to the statue-crowd to get a drink but that also meant we had to buy drinks for everyone who made it to the bar (no place to stand in between us) which was really distracting obviously.

OZFA went by extremely fast and I still had a great time because of the incredibly tight band and great improvs. Two highlights after they played the album: the solo by that woman who played sax (Sheela?) got the whole venue at least shouting and got me completely losing my shit. Second was them playing Imaginary Diseases which is one of my alltime fave Zappa tracks that I never thought I'd hear live. I left pretty drunk having to struggle to find my way to the colundi gig (and got in the wrong tram first of course) but with a very big smile too :)

Zappa hologram tour is actually happening...

http://www.zappa.com/news/frank-zappa-back-road-hologram-tour

Yikes

Have the family made up then?