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Live Review: Heaven 17 @ The Birchmere — 9/25/22

Glenn Gregory fronts Heaven 17 at The Birchmere on Sept. 25, 2022. (Photos by Jason Nicholson; Words by Mickey McCarter)

Finally, on a full tour of the United States, Heaven 17 recently engaged a DC-area audience at The Birchmere with stories and song, providing a fascinating look at the history of the band.

The synthpop collective’s core duo of Glenn Gregory and Martyn Ware have known each other since they were teens in Sheffield, England, so they arrive to the United States more than 45 years into their association full of fond tales and bright tunes.

Glen recalled, for example, how Martyn might dress in a bright green jacket, tight white pants, and platform shoes before going out for clubbing with him in the ‘70s.

More remarkable than Martyn’s outrageous dress was the fact that no one would bat an eye at him while they were out on the scene, Glenn said. At The Birchmere on Sept. 25, Glenn revealed those nights out were the inspiration for the Heaven 17 song, “Geisha Boys and Temple Girls,” a track from Heaven 17’s debut record, Penthouse and Pavement. Just prior to that number, Heaven 17 performed the potent “Play to Win,” and both tracks sounded rather fresh and powerful, particularly with the insights of Glenn’s personalization.

Heaven 17 gave the 1981 Penthouse and Pavement album a fair amount of love during the concert, showcasing five of its songs across the 17 selections in the setlist. The band played the title track toward the end of the show, featuring some powerfully soulful vocals from backing singers Kelly Barnes and Rachel Mosleh.

Watch the official music video for “Penthouse and Pavement” by Heaven 17 on YouTube:

Glenn and Martyn were glad to field some questions from the audience. On occasion, they indulged too much from the small crowd, which disrupted the show too often with its shoutouts. Still, the back and forth yielded some interesting results, such as when Glenn described their old-school writing process in response to a query.

Back in the day, Heaven 17 would work out the music to a song, and then they would gather with notes to write lyrics. Glenn said he always thought it was an odd way of songwriting until recently watching The Beatles: Get Back documentary revealed the Fab Four had a similar process. Back in the day, Heaven 17 would mix and match their lines following the “cut up” process David Bowie often used in the ’70s.

Martyn reflected that the meaning of various songs might change over the years from the perspective of the author as he, in this case, ages. The discussion led into “And That’s No Lie,” one of a few songs taken from How Men Are, the band’s third studio album.

Toward the end of the show, Heaven 17 performed two of the band’s very best songs — “Let Me Go” and “Temptation” both from sophomore record The Luxury Gap. “Let Me Go,” with its distinctive rhythm was an excellent platform for Ware and synthesist Flo Sabeva. The band gave “Temptation” a grand treatment to close the set. Kelly and Rachel belted out a surprising and potent prologue that nearly served as a standalone song. The vocalists built anticipation until Glenn returned to stage and rolled into the traditional start of the song with his tremendous baritone.

Watch the official music video for “Temptation” by Heaven 17 on YouTube:

Heaven 17 also sprinkled some pleasing covers throughout their set. I was really impressed to hear a moving version of “Party Fears Two,” a hallmark tune of Scots new wavers the Associates, performed by only Glenn and Flo. The band recorded the cover on their 2008 EP, Naked as Advertised, and it serves today as a testament to the vocal power of the late Billy Mackenzie, its original vocalist.

In their encore, Heaven 17 covered “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie, which was wholly appropriate as the late pop maestro was discussed a bit during the show. Glenn in fact recounted how he alone among his bandmates performed from the Bowie catalog at The Birchmere in 2016 with Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey as Holy Holy. ( Read our Parklife review of Woody Woodmansey’s Holy Holy in 2016! )

All in all, it was great to finally see Heaven 17, as I never have caught their touring juggernaut in England, where they are often on the road year-round. Perhaps they will return soon to the United States and play a local venue where folks can appropriately dance the night away free of tables and chairs.

Here are some photos of Heaven 17 performing at The Birchmere on Sept. 25, 2022. All pictures copyright and courtesy of Jason Nicholson.

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Watch: Heaven 17 dishes out hits, covers David Bowie (twice!) in first-ever U.S. concert

This past week saw pioneering British synthpop group  Heaven 17  do something it never had done before: perform a live concert in the United States. Specifically, Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory brought their live show to New York City’s Highline Ballroom on Wednesday night.

The group performed hits “Let Me Go,” “Temptation” and the once again topical “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang,” as well as songs from Ware’s tenure in The Human League (“Circus of Death,” “Being Boiled”) and not one but two David Bowie covers (“Let’s Dance,” “Life on Mars”).

Heaven 17 long had been more of a studio entity than a live vehicle. The group, which formed in 1980, didn’t perform live until 1997, and, until this week, had never performed in the U.S. It’s a short run, though. Heaven 17 is playing one more show, today at the  Music Tastes Good Festival in Long Beach, Calif.

In a 2010 interview , we asked Ware about bringing Heaven 17 to the U.S. to play live:

“We’d love to. I’m desperate to do it. Only problem is finding promoters who can afford to pay for us to come over and make it economically feasible. We wouldn’t be confident in booking venues with more than about 1,500 seats, and that’s difficult with a six-piece band. … I’d love to do it. I know for a fact we’d do well in New York, but you can’t do that amount of work for one gig. If any of your readers are promoters who want to bring us over, we’d be very happy to talk to them.”

Below, check out the full setlist from the New York gig, and a selection of live fan-shot video.

Setlist: Heaven 17, Highline Ballroom, New York, NY, 9/27/17

1. “Circus of Death” (Human League cover) 2. “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang” 3. “Crushed By the Wheels of Industry” 4. “Play to Win” 5. “Geisha Boys and Temple Girls” 6. “Come Live With Me” 7. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'” (Righteous Brothers cover) 8. “We Live So Fast” 9. “Let’s Dance” (David Bowie cover) 10. “Let’s All Make a Bomb” 11. “Let Me Go” 12. “Penthouse and Pavement” 13. “Temptation”

Encore: 14. “Life on Mars?” (David Bowie cover) 15. “Being Boiled” (Human League cover)

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Thank you for posting. I Love Heaven 17. (I wish “Sunset Now” was part of the setlist). Thanks again!

“(Human League cover)”? They WERE the Human League!

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Live music, reviews and opinion / est. 2018, heaven 17 – o2 institute, birmingham: live review.

Heaven 17 finally make it to Birmingham again after the now obligatory postponements. I think the phrase ‘better late than never’ is extremely apt.

I was so eager to see this one I bought the ticket twice, something I didn’t realise until searching for the e-ticket beforehand: one purchased last year, and then again this, as, like so many shows, this is a rescheduled tour and I had forgotten. D’oh. But that was not enough to quell the anticipation as I trained and walked it to the newly dug up streets of Digbeth. In truth I was always more of a Heaven 17eener back in the day: the original Human League too “difficult” and then, as Ware and Marsh peeled off, Dare apart, the new band a little too “easy”. When Penthouse and Pavement came out in 1981, I had found the perfect solution, and Heaven 17 were my go to synth band for at least the next five years, a lifetime in those days. Now, 40 years on, this was a Greatest Hits tour and it did not disappoint.

But another treat came first, Pete Wylie, aka the Mighty Wah! With a small partisan section of the audience clearly rooting for him alone, as he shambled onto the stage they erupted. A decidedly odd and low-fi set ensued, almost endearingly, as he seemed to have issues from the start. He had problems tuning his guitar, promptly breaking a string, which bedevilled any useful capabilities to play it, not that he could stop fussing with it. In a white baseball cap, white denim jacket and voluminous baggy white pants and docs, and accompanied by his assistant “playing” a laptop, Ivan Seston, it all seemed a bit, appearance wise, like a bad Sleaford Mods tribute band. But kill that thought, as, low-fi or not, it was a delightful half hour. Kicking off with a ragged cover of Timmy Thomas’ Why Can’t We Live Together, as much as anything to break out his voice, he showed he still had it, with, glitches apart, glorious renditions of Come Back and Heart as Big as Liverpool. Whilst the backing music was all electronic, it was, he was at pains to say, all performed by him and him alone, and it worked well for the songs. A rumbling chord sequence then made itself apparent as being Heroes, his vocals now stretching a little, in preparation for the “hit”, Story of the Blues, which had all those of that age singing along. So everyone. A Johnny Thunders tune to close and he was off.

The Institute is an old methodist chapel, and is arranged in that style, the stage at the pulpit end, the large standing only floorspace where any pews may have been. Upstairs, on two levels, are seated balconies extending three sides around. With a capacity, overall, of, apparently, 1600, it was perhaps at 2/3 of that, which made for a pleasant throng. It can be hell when rammed, and it meant you could get to the bar without overmuch palaver, should your pockets stretch that deep. So, sufficiently restored, it was only a short break before the sounds of good old “difficult” Human League tune Introducing came wafting through the p.a.

As the stage lights went up, a curtain slowly undraped the back wall, resplendent in a garish backcloth, the band name across architectural designs. Two synthesisers on stage, one stage right, the other set slightly back, on a podium. Three microphone stands. Now down to the core of Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory, since Ian Craig Marsh jumped ship around a decade ago, they are now augmented by two female backing vocalists Rachel Meadows and Hayley Williams, with Flo Sabeva on additional synthesiser duties. Ware took the front keyboard, Gregory in the middle, the two women to his other side, one of them hugely pregnant. No messing, it was straight into Height of the Fighting and they were off. Gregory swirled the mike stand all about him, as Ware chopped out stabs on his keyboard, and the two women sashayed in the time honoured. With the Hey La Hu chorus swelled by the combined vocal chords of the room, it was clear a good time was being definitely being asked of by all. And delivered, as Fascist Groove Thang and Crushed By the Wheels of Industry were dusted down both efficiently and effectively. Clearly this was a night mainly about their glory years, and little came from much anything after The Luxury Gap, bar a couple of songs from How Men Are.

Giving the audience what they came for, the slight lull of Play To Win and Geisha Boys and Temple Girls was followed by an incandescent Come Live With Me. “We are all reasonably of a similar age, yes”, said Gregory, ahead of some reminiscing around the collective Top of the Pops essential experience lived every Thursday evening, as he introduced Ware as his dad. “I’m not your father”, responded Ware, in full gaucho garb, from broad brimmed hat to boots, “that’s not what Mum says”, the quick reply. Altogether the stage banter was like this, lively, undoubtedly rehearsed yet, like all the praise for the “best audience yet”, compellingly believable. The two songs from How Men Are followed, together with one of the lesser songs from Penthouse and Pavement, another way to extenuate the cut and thrust of the ending salvo. This began with, in hindsight, the frankly ludicrous duet You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling, Ware now also prancing the front, microphone in hand. On the night, however, wonderful, ahead of Let’s All Make a Bomb. With that blue touch paper lit, a majestic Let Me Go followed, Gregory insisting it their best song (and I wouldn’t argue.) The title track of Penthouse and Pavement next, the anticipation levels were high, knowing, one eye on the clock, what was coming next. Which it did, a deliciously extended run at Temptation, with a cheeky blast of Donna Summer’s Love To Love You thrown in for good measure. A magnificent performance, all credit due to the three singers.

Encores still being the fashion, I had my fingers crossed for their consummate version of Party Fears Two, offered on earlier shows on the tour. Sadly not tonight, it being the opportunity to play a different cover, namely of Bowie’s Let’s Dance, in a rousing Hi-NRG rendition, perhaps a better way to end this show, on a high. Being Bolied was the second encore, Ware playing the very same keyboard used on the original, all those years ago. I think a club night was to follow, the end point curfew of 10pm fairly strictly enforced and they were off. An early end to an evening but maybe that’s how us oldies like it these days.

Come back soon. With the Human League playing in a fortnight, albeit at thrice the price, and in the much larger Utilitas Arena, somehow I suspect this may well turn out to be the better evening.

You can check Heaven 17’s upcoming tour dates here ; there are plenty on the schedule!

Take a listen to Temptation by Heaven 17 from 2013’s REWIND Festival for a flavour of the extended run at the classic.

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Take That's full setlist at Utilita Arena Birmingham for This Life 2024 tour

Take That are bringing their huge This Life 2024 tour to Birmingham next week - and fans can't wait. The tour kicked off in Sheffield back in April - and they are now set to play six huge shows at Utilita Arena .

The shows will take place between Tuesday, May 14, and Wednesday May 15, and then Friday, May 17 to Monday, May 20. The two hour show is said to include songs right the way from their Take That & Party album, released in 1992, through to the band's latest album This Life, released last year.

The show has been winning rave views from both critics and fans alike so far. The band are renowned for their huge productions and incredible live shows, and currently hold the record for the most performances at London’s The O2 with 34 headline shows.

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And now fans in Birmingham might be wondering what songs might make the setlist this time. Hoping to hear smash hits like Patience, Back For Good and Rule The World, fans have been guessing for months which songs Take That might perform when they come to Birmingham.

And after the tour opened last month, the setlist has been shared across the internet. Obviously, setlists could be subject to change - but based on the shows so far, fans in Birmingham can expect to hear the following:

• Keep Your Head Up
• Days I Hate Myself
• Everything Changes
• A Million Love Songs
• I Found Heaven
• Forever Love (Gary Barlow solo)
• Clementine (Mark Owen solo)
• Speak Without Words (Howard Donald solo)
• Get Ready For It
• March of the Hopeful
• The Champion
• Greatest Day
• Time and Time Again
• Relight My Fire
• One More Word
• Hold Up A Light
• Back For Good
• Never Forget
• Rule The World

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Take That: Predicted setlist for band's Birmingham dates as tour reaches the West Midlands tonight

Take That are Back for Good! Well, not quite. The pop band are in the West Midlands for six nights only, and the fans are buzzing.

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This Life On Tour will see Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald play 29 dates across 15 cities around the UK and Ireland, including Utilita Arena Birmingham tonight. If that wasn't exciting enough, the guys will be joined by none other than special guest Olly Murs.

Performances will take place on May 14 - 15 and 17 - 20. Most of the dates are sold out already but there is still availability for May 20, next Monday.

But is it worth the money? Will they play all of your favourite tracks?

Even if they don't, you're in for a good show – Take That are renowned for their spectacular live shows, and currently hold the record for the most gigs at London's O2 with 39 performances.

Below is a predicted set list, calculated by setlist.fm based off the band's previous gigs across the country this year - topped and tailed by reliable hits Keep Your Head Up and Rule The World:

Keep Your Head Up

Days I Hate Myself

Everything Changes

A Million Love Songs

I Found Heaven

Forever Love (Gary Barlow solo)

Clementine (Mark Owen solo)

Speak Without Words (Howard Donald solo)

Get Ready For It

March of the Hopeful

The Champion

Greatest Day

Time and Time Again

Relight My Fire

One More Word

Hold Up A Light

Back For Good

Never Forget

Rule The World

Tickets are still on sale and can be booked at www2.theticketfactory.com/take-that/online/ .

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