Head Tale

Went to the
Hawksley Workman show tonight (early show – I think London is the only
place on the current tour that got two shows because of high demand.
)  I might do a full review later but I'll just say that Hawksley
Workman is awesome in concert and if you've never seen him before, I
highly recommend a) his music and b) even more highly, his
concerts. 

Now, I'm reading reviews of other shows from this tour on www.papershoes.com
and it's a bit of a blow that, from the sounds of it, Regina's show was
one of the best with the most unique setlist, most encores (they got
three, we got one) and most audience interaction.  This show was
great as I said but not quite what I expected.  I thought that
because he was playing smaller and more intimate venues, he would do a
completely acoustic show, perhaps re-imagining some of his “rockier”
songs.  But we still got full electric guitar fury on a few songs
in the middle part of the show and it just seemed out of place
somehow.  Still, a great show and the finale of “Ice Age” with the
lights dimmed sent shivers up my spine. One of my single best concert moments in a long, long time.

If funds allowed, I would definitely travel around following Hawksley
on tour (HawkHead?  WorkHead?)  His setlists tend to be
fairly similar but he always has unique, random, poetic, rambling,
hilarious, quick-witted stories throughout the concert that make it so
entertaining.  As someone said, they'd pay just to see Hawksley on
stage talking for two hours without any other band members or
instruments around.