An awesome show which is up there with the best gigs that I have ever seen or heard. Just a few words to sum up Jason Pierce's sublime Spiritualized performance at the Eventim Apollo, complete with a band / orchestra which must have covered the entire musical spectrum in two hours, while a gospel choir elevated the songs to unparalleled giddy heights. Simply wonderful stuff.
Posted by Andy Mac, Portsmouth. on 26/09/2018
Spiritualized, Eventim Apollo, London - 21st September 2018
Jason & Spirtualized took us on a mesmerising journey , with a truly mind blowing set , spine tingling experience! The orchestra , the choir , the emotion washed us away , we didn't want it to end , but , when it did we knew we had experienced something truly wonderful ! The only negative was people constantly getting up to to fill their bladders with more alcoholic drinks and missing half the show , the venue need to change their policy on taking drinks in to the auditorium , think of the paying public instead of your profits and if you want to drink , stay in the pub and leave concerts to music lovers !
Posted by Frank Spaceman . on 23/09/2018
Spiritualized, Eventim Apollo, London - 21st September 2018
Few bands have shaped the sound of British space rock quite like Spiritualized. Formed by Jason Pierce — better known as J Spaceman — after the end of his influential earlier band Spacemen 3, the group built its reputation on blending fragile, soul-searching songwriting with vast, enveloping arrangements of strings, gospel voices and swirling guitars. Their 1997 masterpiece Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space was named NME’s Album of the Year and remains a landmark of the era, part of a catalogue that also takes in Lazer Guided Melodies (1992) and Songs in A&E(2008).
Across the years, Spaceman has also performed a more intimate Acoustic Mainline set, drawing on both the Spiritualized and Spacemen 3 songbooks and accompanied by a string quartet, gospel singers and longtime guitarist Doggen Foster. Hushed and heartfelt, these performances reveal the quiet beauty at the heart of the band’s enveloping sound.