2003 Oct 16 Indianapolis USA The Patio

Jerry

It's weird when JR get's political...but it happens so rarely that you know it's a subject that means a lot to him

The first of two recordings that we made ourselves during the Spring 2004 tour, the other one was at the next night's show, 'Night and Day Cafe', Manchester: both nights were excellent and featured a clutch of new songs, some of which, hopefully, will find their way on to Jonathan's next official CD.Tonight's show is in a small pub-type venue with a pretty tightly packed audience, well pretty tightly packed where we were anyway, of probably about 150 people, tops. There's a little bit of conversation picked up on this one, but not too much, and it sounds fine.Tonight's highlight is a great sounding 'Let her go into the Darkness' with the full boyfriend/girlfriend argument done in all five languages... English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Hebrew... great fun!A bit of special show for me too, coz it's the first one that I could take my daughter to: she's now just old enough to start going to see shows, so I was really pleased to be able to take her to a Jonathan one, and Yes, she had a great time too! her words afterwards were... 'I enjoyed it loads...take me again!!'

2004 Apr 9 York UK Fibbers

How is JR able to point out things that rarely get pointed out in such a lucid way?

She's not so scary she's got all of my records! 

The term "Vampire Girl" has entered into my natural dialect because of this song

Another great show from the UK spring tour... and the last recording of a run of four successive nights from different cities.You can clearly hear, across the four nights, a couple of new songs being developed and worked on...  'Older Girl' and 'For drama we have the seasons'.

2004 Apr 11 Bristol UK The Fleece and Firkin

Doesn't seem to get played much anymore, but I love this song

"That Summer Feeling" is cut due to tape flip

2004 Apr 20 Madrid Spain Sala El Sol

Some tape cuts on "Girlfirend", "Maybe a Walk Home...", and "My Love For Her Ain't Sad"

2004 Apr 23 Santiago de Compostela Spain Sala Capitol

A pretty good show this, with quite a lively audience and a pretty long one. The sound for the first 30 seconds is a bit off but from there on the recording sharpens up and the sound is pretty good for the rest of the night. Like I said it's a pretty long one this - at about one and three quarter hours and with several encores... Jonathan has has said in the past how much he enjoys playing to Spanish audiences.. this is a good example why... the rapport's great here!

In "She Cracked", the beginning is cut due to a tape flip

2004 Apr 24 Bilbao Spain Kafe Antzokia

I received a few short extracts from this one a while back - just 3 or 4 songs in total and of pretty poor quality really; the taper wasn't happy with it either - and had been hoping that someday a better recording would  turn up? Well, it now turns out that there was someone else there taping, and he got the full show. So, here's a complete copy...

2004 May 2 Amsterdam Netherlands De Melkweg

"I Love the World", "That Summer Feeling", and "Not So Much to be Loved as to Love" are clipped

2004 May 10 Stockholm Sweden Mondo

This is a great show, with a great unknown song "Mystery of the Summer Night"

2004 Jun 4 Huntsville USA Flying Monkey Arts

An absolutely spot on recording with extremely crisp and clear sound, right up there with Caesars Tampa 92 for sound quality and one of the best sounding shows we have.

2004 Jun 5 Atlanta USA Echo Lounge

2004 Sep 24 Menorca Spain Sala Akelarre

A pretty short concert from the Island of Mallorca - at about an hour long only. Not a bad recording though.

2004 Sep 25 Mallorca Palma Spain Teatre Lloseta

Not a good recording here, too much background noise and its a bit muffled as well. 

2004 Sep 30 Toledo Spain Picaro Cafe

A good show this one, Jonathan's quite talkative and speaking mainly in Spanish throughout the evening.

2004 Oct 1 Segovia Spain Centro Cultural Caja Segovia

Jonathan & Tommy did three consecutive nights at the Jazz Cafe this is the 2nd one and the whole concert's here. The recording from the following night is incomplete.

2004 Oct 5 London UK Jazz Cafe

This was a pretty long and stand out show from all accounts, and most of it's here, but not all unfortunately... so the recording cuts out maybe 20 minutes before the end, even so it's a pretty good recording.

2004 Oct 6 London UK Jazz Cafe

2004 Nov 4 Des Moines USA Vaudeville Mews

This show and the ones directly below and above it were recorded by the same taper... they're all high quality recordings, each of them but, of the three, this one sounds the best, to my ears anyway. The atmosphere is just better somehow, so the performance has moved up a notch... What are the highlights?Well 'El Joven se Estremece', and 'Joy over Sorrow' are both sounding terrific tonight...

2004 Nov 5 Chicago USA Double Door Lounge

2004 Nov 6 Cleveland USA The Grog Shop

I grin from ear to ear each time I hear The World Is Showing It's Hand.

The bus fumes from the diesal motor. My two-year-old mind could only applaud that odor.

Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love (2004)

Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love

Very short interview, only 4 minutes long

M80 Radio Interview (2005)

M80 Radio Interview

2005 Apr 13 Valladolid Spain Cafe Espana

Yo Tengo Una Novia is cut at the beginning

2005 Apr 14 Madrid Spain Sala Arena

2005 Apr 16 Murcia Spain Garaje de la Tia Maria

Has a bit of a muffled sound but includes a few unrecorded songs.

The beginning is cut from "Her Mystery..."

2005 Apr 17 Castellon Spain Sala Van Van

The instrumental is funky (Funky Goodtime?)

2005 Jun 9 Atlanta USA The Earl

Chris

2005 Jun 10 Huntsville USA The Crossroads

2005 Jun 11 Athens USA 40 Watt Club

Post about this song: http://jojofiles.blogspot.com/2008/06/stupenda-e-misera-citt.html

2005 Jun 23 St. Louis USA Blueberry Hill

I've never heard this song. I wonder if it's a full song or some sort of poem

2005 Jun 25 Kansas City USA The Hurricane

Jonathan's in a really good mood tonight, still on an up from the last nights show. Its a fun recording too, with lots of people singing along... especially on the Spanish language songs.

2006 Nov 3 Valencia Spain El Loco Club

Jonathan performing this in someone's backyard!: http://vimeo.com/1385299

2007 May 19 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain Teatro Felo Monzon

"I Was Dancin' in the Lesbian Bar" has lots of dancing and guitar flips

The show starts with a fragment of "Egyptian Reggae"

2008 Mar 1 Athens USA 40 Watt Club

A faulty recording here, the sound keeps dropping out from the left and right channels randomly, so not an easy listen.

2008 May 6 Milan Italy La Casa 139

Recording levels seem to have been set too low - a pretty quiet recording.

2008 May 7 Paris France Le Nouveau Casino

A Que Venimos Sino A Caer? (2008)

A Que Venimos Sino A Caer?

2009 Mar 7 Madrid Spain Neu! Club

The recording stop's at "You Can Have a CellPhone..."

2009 Mar 14 Murcia Spain Auditorio Victor Villegas

2009 Jun 16 New York City USA Bowery Ballroom

Unlike any other song JR has written.Incredibly moving.

A review of this show written by Alberto from the Jojoblog: http://jojofiles.blogspot.com/2009/10/big-mama-rome-25th-october-2009.html

2009 Oct 25 Rome Italy Big Mama

"Si el Sexo hay que Planificar" is more of an improvisation with a couple of sentences in Spanish

2010 Oct 13 Paris France La Boule Noire

"Celestial" is in Spanish and English. "We'll be the Noise..." is in English and Italian. "If You Want To Leave Our Party" is in English and French

2010 Oct 24 Madrid Spain Casa de America

The unknown song (number 14) is the party song. Does anyone know a good name for it?

2011 Oct 28 Bloomington USA The Bishop

What could be said about this song? For me it's the epitome of Jonathan Richman

JojoBlog post for the song with a live performance: http://jojofiles.blogspot.com/2011/11/door-to-bohemia.html

I hope that Bohemia shows up on the next album but aren't there quite a few excellent JR songs that never appeared on any of his albums?

Some unreleased recent songs: Mr. Sorrow, Bohemia, Her Love Is From Somewhere Else, Hard Time Saying Goodbye, Italian Party Song, Hebrew Party Song (barbeque), Keith Richards. There's even a few that I'm missing

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