| Wet Wet Wet fans
will be able to snap up CDs of their live shows - just minutes after
the performances. As part of their UK comeback tour, the Scots band are launching their Instant Live CDs, recorded at shows using state-of-the-art technology. CDs of the gigs will be available at the end of each show on the Wets Do It Again - Greatest Hits & More tour, kicking off in Newcastle tonight.  The Wets will play Glasgow's SECC on Thursday and Friday, and Aberdeen's Press and Journal Arena on Saturday. Fans can also order the CDs, priced at £15, online at getlive.co.uk/instantlive before and after each show. Lead singer Marti Pellow said: 'It's taken a lot for us to get back together and all that is on our minds now is impressing our fans again.' |
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The Star - 6 December "04 |
Monday 1 Brighton Thursday 2 Cardiff Saturday 4 Newcastle Sunday 5 Sheffield Tuesday 7 Manchester |
| M.E.N. - 7 December "04 |
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Wednesday 8 Glasgow Thursday 9 Glasgow Friday 10 Aberdeen Sunday 12 Birmingham Monday 13 Birmingham |
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Evening Times - 9 Dec "04 |
Tuesday 14 Nottingham Thursday 16 Belfast Friday 17 Dublin Sunday19 Wembley Monday 20 Wembley |
| THE............... Intro Sweet Little Mystery All I Want Wishing I Was Lucky Temptation Angel Eyes Sweet Surrender Hold Back The River Don't Want To Forgive Julia Says Walking On Water |
SONGS With A Little Help.... Gypsy Girl I Don't Wanna Fight Learn From Each Mistake Somewhere Somehow East Of The River Lip Service Goodnight Girl I Can Give You Everything Love Is All Around |
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 Wet 's Do It Again Review
Only About The Songs
Going to a Wet's gig is a real party. May some bands just play there songs, not them. There's so much more to enjoy. I even dare saying that their albums are great but their live act is TOP. I was so fortunate I could attend four concerts, it was an amazing week with friends and fans. A lot of travelling between Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow, and most of all a lot of fun.    From the first tunes of the Intro fans are on their feet and welcome the band with loud applause. Yes they are back and although we knew that, it's so good to get prove by seeing them for real. Sweet Little Mystery is their opening song, and an appropriate choice. It's catchy and oh so populair among fans. Welcome back for Tommy Cunningham on drums, Neil Mitchell on keyboards, Graeme Clark playing bass guitar, Marti Pellow on vocals and Graeme Duffin playing guitars, it looks like he uses another for each song, it's changing all the time. Also the brass section is back, it seems to me that those fabulous tones really suit the Wet's songs, or is it the other way around maybe....fact is, the whole lot sounds incredible. A gorgeous new ending on the first song and the crowds reception hits the roof off the venue when the lights dim by the last bit of tune.    New single All I Want follows and it was such a good choice as a single wasn't it? The melody is beautiful, it's quite fast and SO Wet's. I must admit I say that about a lot of songs the band writes. They attend such different kind of music but still the tracks can all be SO Wet's! Nicely added end line 'just you and I....' It seems Marti knows so well how we love those sweet adds. Wishing I Was Lucky was their first hit somewhere ages ago. The band has an amazing 26 hits string on it's name ever since. The songs is such a live act, with all of the audience showing their hands up and an incredible guitar part to end with. After Marti's welcome words he announces Temptation in a tempting way. It's the very name of this website and that's not coincidental, it's a bold and intense song, for me it's the best live song, although I will say that about more songs probably! Really gorgeous song Angel Eyes follows and Marti sings it so warm and deep, it makes you shiver on your spine.     Sweet Surrender sounding wonderful, and after that Marti starts talking again. He tells a bit about how Holding Back The River is about alcoholism and jokes 'if I'd only listened than' being very honest about it and his sobriety nowadays. It's a marvelous strong song, with great arrangements and a little piece of jazz in it. They do the track Don't Want To Forgive Me Now in a stunningly fast way and it suits the song totally, it sounds just fabulous like this. I can't understand how they can fix such a running tempo but they all can. Julia Says is lovely how it is unfolding musically, and Marti's long note is endless. In Glasgow Marti dedicates the beautiful slow Walking On Water to his dad, there present than. The on other moments so loudly expressing crowd is silent, you can hear a pin drop as he sings it soulful and warm, no one can do it like that I think, it's amazing how he knows exactly where to be bold, where to hold in. The song seems to be made for his incredible voice.    Moving on to With A Little Help From My Friends, their first number one, it seems they embrace the audience as their friends and yes we all feel so united. It's great how the song goes from a little breeze into a desert storm at the end. The acoustic set is one of my favorites. I love the whole band playing but certain songs sound just incredible leaving them plain and naked. Adding a whole lot of fun, the two Graeme's and Marti seem like three comedians at times, entertaining the crowd without doing the songs short in any way. Gypsy Girl, an older Wet's song followed by the beautiful I Don't Wanna Fight and the country like Learn From Each Mistake, both new material and all sounding fantastic. The band is back and warms the venue with full tones of Somewhere Somehow, a fabulous beauty of melody which should be played like they do it; extensive so it's filling up the place. East Of The River and Lip Service are both totally suitable live songs, the beat is incredibly strong and fantastic in the first one, it is giving so much energy. While Lip Service is special and interactive with a slice of New York's touch and restlessness. It is remarkable that Wet Wet Wet suits songs like Walking On Water but like Lip Service too.   All bandmembers do a karaoke kind of singing in Goodnight Girl, which I mean in a possitive way. It's absolutely lovely and very entertaining. Marti starts off sitting on a box on front of the stage, spreading his wonderful sound through the venue, pausing it with the question if we ever get that feeling, in his own warm Marti way. Than he's attending Graeme Duffin doing his bit nicely, Neil who seems not too pleased about it but doing quite well, going further towards Graeme Clark who has a lovely voice, closing with Tommy's funny Christmas sing-a long bits. There's a lot of entertaining in this wonderful part of the show, and also musically it's such a top song. It wouldn't be the same without I Can Give You Everything, such an up beat, totally energetic and performed in a marvelous way. I really love the new added bits on it, increasing the intensity even more. Wet Wet Wet ends with the band's biggest hit Love Is All Around, the song is lovely bold 'Wet's like' arranged and also because of the lyrics it's a crowd's pleaser. All this makes it a suitable choice to complete the stunning evening. A
Wet's gig is a must to go to,
but dangerous as you'd never want anything else anymore.... :-)  
 By Monique van Spellen
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