Squeeze on Jimmy Fallon

[Bitchardo's Buddy]

Pretty cool. I didn't see this posted. In case you are wondering, it is just Difford and Tillbrook without everybody else...which was Squeeze anyway.

ps. Check out the "square" playing the Piano app on his iPad. It was pretty cool! He does a solo around 2 min 20 seconds. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJf_0xu ... r_embedded#

SQUEEZE RETURN FOR 2010 SPOT THE DIFFERENCE TOUR

South London’s favourite sons will return to what they do best this winter when Squeeze take to the road for their biggest UK tour in over 10 years! The boys will invite their fans to “Spot The Difference” at 21 dates across the country, kicking off in Bournemouth on 14th November and concluding by returning home to play three separate London venues in three days.

Releasing their first EP – the cheekily titled ‘Packet Of Three’ - in 1977, Squeeze shot to fame thanks to the pithy ‘kitchen-sink’ lyrics and new wave guitar music that have since become their trademark. Having numbered Jools Holland and Paul Carrack within their ranks, and working with the likes of Elvis Costello and Velvet Underground’s John Cale, Squeeze became a fixture of the UK’s music scene over the course of their 13-album career, before splitting in 1998.

Despite tentatively reforming in 2007, Squeeze have so far refused to tread the well-worn reunion path by trading on their past glories, which have included hit singles on both sides of the Atlantic such as Cool For Cats, Tempted, Hourglass and Up The Junction.

Instead they have gradually been re-establishing the informal live show that made them such favourites in the first place, their festival appearances and gigs to date honing the chemistry that saw co-founders and ever-presents Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook dubbed ‘The New Lennon and McCartney’. They are joined on this tour by fellow Squeeze favourite John Bentley, with the line-up completed by Glenn’s solo band-mates Stephen Large and Simon Hanson.

This set of dates will cap an exhilarating 2010 for the Squeeze boys. In March they will have the site of their first ever gig in Greenwich commemorated by a PRS for Music Heritage Award, one of only a few bands to receive this honour alongside Blur and Dire Straits, while summer will find them playing to their fans in the USA – Squeeze having long made a mockery of the belief that English bands cannot travel across the pond. Away from the band, both Chris and Glenn were involved in the Barbican’s inaugural ‘Songs In The Key of London’ in March, an event curated by Chris that brought together the likes of Elvis Costello, Suggs, Jools Holland, Phil Daniels and many more. Both continue to gig separately as well, with Glenn having released his third solo album ‘Pandemonium Ensues’ last year, while Chris has also been busy recording his new album ‘Cashmere If You Can’, which will see a release through the innovative new Saturday Morning Music Club label.

Chris and Glenn are hoping to spend this summer writing material together for a new Squeeze album next year.

Over 30 years after ‘Packet Of Three’, will Squeeze fans be able to spot the difference? Certainly not if the infectious enthusiasm that the band still bring to their live shows is anything to go by!

[pophead2k]

Got the chance to see them play live in Cleveland with Cheap Trick this past Sunday. Great show, great energy. Glenn and Chris both in good voice. Didn't realize until the show that I'd been standing with the bassist and keyboardist in the pub watching the World Cup final!

[Ypsilanti]

Saw them at Radio City on Tuesday night--such a great show! Glenn Tilbrook is a God on that guitar and he sings like an angel! Never saw them live before and it was a real treat!

Pophead--they played a new song that Glenn said he had written last week--very jazzy/bluesy and super excellent. Did they play it in Cleveland, and if so did you happen to catch the name?

And not for nothing, Cheap Trick...they're like delicious Rock & Roll candy!

I tried to make a few videos, but the security staff at Radio City were a bunch of Brown Shirts, so it wasn't happening.

[docinwestchester]

Saw them at Radio City on Tuesday night--such a great show! Glenn Tilbrook is a God on that guitar and he sings like an angel! Never saw them live before and it was a real treat!

Pophead--they played a new song that Glenn said he had written last week--very jazzy/bluesy and super excellent. Did they play it in Cleveland, and if so did you happen to catch the name?

And not for nothing, Cheap Trick...they're like delicious Rock & Roll candy!

I tried to make a few videos, but the security staff at Radio City were a bunch of Brown Shirts, so it wasn't happening.

I was also there. Awesome show. Loved every minute of it. The sound quality was just okay - way too much bass, right? Anyway, I recorded it and have already posted the CT portion on Dime.

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=313063

I'll get the Squeeze set up'd this weekend. No new song. You may be referring to Hope Fell Down from their excellent 1984 album Difford & Tilbrook.

http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Fell-Down/dp ... 624&sr=8-1

Here's the Radio City setlist:

Black Coffee in Bed
Take Me I'm Yours
Annie Get Your Gun
When The Hangover Strikes
Loving You Tonight
If It's Love
It's So Dirty
Goodbye Girl
Hope Fell Down
If I Didn't Love You
Cool For Cats
Is That Love?
Someone Else's Heart
Up The Junction
Hourglass
Slap and Tickle
Tempted

encore:
Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)


BTW, the English Beat are playing at Webster Hall on August 21 - I can't make it but that may be another gem of a concert.

[Ypsilanti]

I'll get the Squeeze set up'd this weekend. No new song. You may be referring to Hope Fell Down from their excellent 1984 album Difford & Tilbrook.

Thanks, Doc. I look forward to it. Also thanks for the info. I could have sworn Glenn mentioned a new song, but I could well have been mistaken--he was a little hard to understand when speaking, I thought.

[Who Shot Sam?]

I wanted to go to this show, but the timing was terrible. I'm lucky to have seen Squeeze several times in the past, though not for a while. The bit on Jimmy Fallon's show was great!