Tony Martin Plays Birmingham ASYLUM! Friday 27th July

[Sabbathyrob]

I'm excited to say that Tony Martin will be playing at the Asylum in Birmingham on Friday 27th July with support from Blaze Bayley (Iron Maidon).

I can't wait! Come down and see the magic happen.

8 P.M.
18+
Tickets: http://www.musicglue.com/asylum

[KazolOrajia]

If I lived in Birmingham, I'd be there for sure. Hopefully someone films/records it in high quality.

[Charger]

So the show was yesterday and reportedly the set list was:


1. Liar
2. The Meaning of Evil
3. Scream
4. Dying for Love
5. Lost Forever
6. Ancient Warrior
7. Sweet Elyse
8. Bass solo / Guitar solo
9. Raising Hell
10. Still In Love With You
11. Oh My Soul
12. Terra Toria
13. Eternal Idol
14. I Witness
15. The Law Maker
Encore:
16. The Gates of Hell / Headless Cross
17. The Shining

Quite heavy on the Eternal Idol album which was a real surprise. Also The Meaning Of Evil is a great pick! Love that song from Our Cross Our Sins!

I would have put Cirque Du Freak instead of Still In Love With You though...

Hopefully a recording of this will follow!

[Pink Led Rush]

Pretty good set, I'm not a fan of Terra Toria though, could have picked countless better Cage tunes, but good nonetheless. And yes, it was apparently filmed

[EDTRADER]

Not a bad setlist, I agree with Pink that a better 'Cage' song could have been placed in. I Witness could have gone. I always thought it was too boring for a live song. Cross Of Thorns should have been placed instead. Fans would have been pleased to hear it again. It hasn't been played since 1994.

[bulik]

still not all albums were covered as promised

[TYR66]

Not a bad setlist, I agree with Pink that a better 'Cage' song could have been placed in. I Witness could have gone. I always thought it was too boring for a live song. Cross Of Thorns should have been placed instead. Fans would have been pleased to hear it again. It hasn't been played since 1994.

right , and no song from the first " The Cage " , too bad !! they forgot "Cry Myself to Death" or Time to Kill" , "Relax" or " Infinity" ...
Ok , very hard vocals parts for Tony now .
Anyway , Dario playing Lost Forever and Ancient Warrior, Eternal Idol , Dying fo Love , The Lawmaker should be amazing

[TheElfoid]

It was an incredible gig. I've never heard a guitarist or bassist get Sabbath stuff so right, and Martin's voice was perfect. Drummer Danny Needham was nothing exciting but did the job well enough, and likewise Geoff Nicholls.

still not all albums were covered as promised

Here's the breakdown. I think he did an eclectic enough range of things.

Black Sabbath 4 songs from The Eternal Idol (1987)
Black Sabbath 2 songs from Headless Cross (1989)
Black Sabbath 1 song from Tyr (1990)
Tony Martin 1 song from Back Where I Belong (1992)
Black Sabbath 2 songs from Cross Purposes (1994)
Rondinelli 1 song from Our Cross, Our Sins (2002)
Martin/Mollo 1 song from The Cage 2 (2002)
Tony Martin 2 songs from Scream (2005)
Phenomena 1 song from Blind Faith (2010)
Martin/Mollo 2 songs from The Third Cage (2012)

(there was also a lengthy guitar and bass solo segment)

[TYR66]

^^^^ Lucky guy !!

[TheElfoid]

Support act was Blaze Bayley (Wolfsbane, ex-Iron Maiden) doing a special acoustic set - http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blaze-...-7bdcfe9c.html

Blaze did an ace job - I've seen him multiple times now and he's always great, even if his most recent album was awful.

I've been pretty lucky of late, seeing Black Sabbath and Tony Martin within a month of each other.

[Charger]

Blaze always delivers the goods. He's brilliant! Especially live. And watching those videos from the acoustic preformances he really has it acoustically as well. Wish I'd be able to catch him doing acoustic stuff someday as well!

But I'll be catching his metal show in December thankfully! It will be my 5th time seeing him....

[TheElfoid]

Blaze always delivers the goods. He's brilliant! Especially live. And watching those videos from the acoustic preformances he really has it acoustically as well. Wish I'd be able to catch him doing acoustic stuff someday as well!

But I'll be catching his metal show in December thankfully! It will be my 5th time seeing him....

I was really impressed. His acoustic guitarist played on his latest (horrid) album yet proved to be a great player. I hope that album was just a blip.

[Charger]

I was really impressed. His acoustic guitarist played on his latest (horrid) album yet proved to be a great player. I hope that album was just a blip.

Thomas is a great guitar player! Especially acoustic guitar. He made quite a name for himself before joining Blaze's band playing Iron Maiden classics acoustically.

I do not think that King Of Metal is a horrid album...granted it was bit rushed and poorly produced (no Jace anymore) but it still has some great songs on it...but considering Blaze's back catalogue which is filled with virtually nothing but amazing albums (part from The Man Who Would Not Die which is bit too bland and all the songs sound bit too much alike) it does feel bad...and yes it's not nearly as good as the others are.

[TheElfoid]

Thomas is a great guitar player! Especially acoustic guitar. He made quite a name for himself before joining Blaze's band playing Iron Maiden classics acoustically.

I do not think that King Of Metal is a horrid album...granted it was bit rushed and poorly produced (no Jace anymore) but it still has some great songs on it...but considering Blaze's back catalogue which is filled with virtually nothing but amazing albums (part from The Man Who Would Not Die which is bit too bland and all the songs sound bit too much alike) it does feel bad...and yes it's not nearly as good as the others are.

http://www.bornmusiconline.com/blaze...king-of-metal/

I haven't listened to it in a while so I can't really comment, but I stand by what I said at the time.

Blaze did do an acoustic version of "One More Step", one of the few songs on the album I really like. That was great.

[Charger]

Youtube?

Looks like one particular album is still Forbidden to touch.

Well it's no secret Tony hates that album so I doubt he'll ever touch it...unfortunately...Kiss Of Death, the title track or Shaking Off The Chains would be great to hear!

[TheElfoid]

Yeah Tony's made it clear he did not enjoy the recording process and he thinks it is a bad album. Not to mention it is also the lowest selling one he was involved in.

By virtue of being the last one he did with Black Sabbath, it is also the material he spent less time playing with the band. I think "The Shining" was played on most dates in three tours (1987, 1989, 1990).

The Eternal Idol just got reissued too, which might explain why he played so many songs from it, if he's been listening to it lately (he said when I interviewed him that he enjoys the alternate audio track they put in the new version).

I'd say there's a ton of reasons why nothing from Forbidden was played, it makes total sense to me.

Didn't stop some dedicated fan there wearing a Forbidden messenger bag though. I found that cute.

[DoomSabbath]

Not a bad setlist, I agree with Pink that a better 'Cage' song could have been placed in. I Witness could have gone. I always thought it was too boring for a live song. Cross Of Thorns should have been placed instead. Fans would have been pleased to hear it again. It hasn't been played since 1994.

I read on Tony Martin Facebook profile that they wanted to play Cross of Throns, but they reached a time limit or something... Great set btw

[Charger]

I read on Tony Martin Facebook profile that they wanted to play Cross of Throns, but they reached a time limit or something... Great set btw

Indeed. They were supposed to play it as an extra encore but the weren't allowed to due to a curfew.

[EDTRADER]

I'd have thrown away I Witness. Kinda boring and the same flavor throuout the song.

[TheElfoid]

http://www.bornmusiconline.com/tony-...gham-27072012/

Review + pics of the gig (my review, photography by a fellow named Dave Timmins)

[TYR66]

thanx for sharing this great moment .

[KazolOrajia]

So there's a live DVD coming out? Fuck yeah, I'm really excited! I can't wait to hear how Mollo plays Iommi's riffs. I imagine it sounded great. And of course, I want to hear Martin himself.

I really wish I could have been there, and if I lived near Birmingham nothing would have stopped me from going. I'm glad they played so many songs from The Eternal Idol, it being one of my favourite Sabbath albums. They even played my top three songs from it (Ancient Warrior, Eternal Idol, and The Shining) and I'm glad they played something from Cross Purposes. it would have been even better if they also played 'Cross of Thorns' but 'I Witness' is a good choice as well. I'm quite glad they kept songs from Headless Cross to a minimum. I would have preferred 'When Death Calls' to the title track but I have no reason to be so nitpicky. I just can't wait for the live DVD.

[Charger]

Great review! Thanks for sharing buddy!

Good to hear that this will be coming out on DVD! It's going to be a must have!

[TheElfoid]

Before the gig they had a girl talking to the crowd saying "do you have a message for the DVD?" and "where have you come from then?" and stuff. I managed to avoid eye contact and not have to say anything, thankfully, as I dunno what I'd have said. My message would have been "hi" or something. That segment was shot for Blaze's DVD apparently, but the same team did the whole gig, and most of the crowd were there for Tony, so I imagine it might well turn up on both discs. They had a camera on stage right (audience's left), a couple in front of the stage and one a bit further back.

You will all probably get to see me headbanging like an idiot, so enjoy that. Hopefully you'll also see the mental Japanese dude who kept trying to get everyone more involved. Kept turning around and gesturing at us to headbang by waving his hands up and down, and then he'd give you a thumbs up and a big cheesy grin. Right in the middle of the crowd are Tony's kids and his daughter's boyfriend (shame, she's hot, local, and they were the only other people under 40 years of age there, would have been worth a shot!)

I actually found it really weird how many Idol songs he played. He made it clear in the interview that he doesn't really consider that "his" album. It was a Black Sabbath album that he was asked to sing on, and he wasn't involved in the creative process. He refers to all the later albums as "my albums". The estimates I have put Tyr and Headless as the better sellers, and he made it sound like that was very much the case, saying he helped the band gain some ground after their popularity hit its lowest. Maybe its just because it was a career-spanning night so he felt it fitting to play a lot of songs from right at the start of his career, the songs that made him who he is.