A question - Help! If you could have free tickets which night would you go to

[dubai_phil]

OK Jazz Festival in Dubai but a wide range of music included in the main events. I can use airmiles to go to ONE of the evenings.

 

Of course I know the names for night one but which is the best oh great and learned Music Meisters

 

Choice 1

 

Micah Paris - Alison Moyet - Jools Holland & his R& B Orchestra

 

Choice 2

 

Mindi Abair & Peter White - Macy Gray - Lifehouse

 

Choice 3

 

Jesse J - Joshua Radin - Train.

 

Any comments or advice greatfully received - I've done the You-Tube google stuff

[swannymere]

Got to be number 1 for a good night out, Jools Holland is great and will get any audience dancing and Mica and Alison have fantastic voices. Easy choice!

[chrisobee]

Got to be number 1 for a good night out, Jools Holland is great and will get any audience dancing and Mica and Alison have fantastic voices. Easy choice!

 

On a purely personal level I would have to agree. I like Jazz but by no means a music meister

[dubai_phil]

Cheers guys

 

I mailed some mates as well and it seems a unanimous choice

 

I like some of Train's & Lifehouse stuff & it certainly ain't Jazz, but the support acts just aren't going to make it rock.

 

Free nosh & all the booze we can drink, think as Swanny says Jools will be what we want to hear.

 

Went about 2 years ago - was supposed to get tickets for James Blunt (for the GF) & I screwed up and we saw John Legend instead. Well worth the 12 quid taxi fare & hangover!

[hamster]

Alf & Jools, wish I was there.

[NorthamSteve]

Jools everytime.

[dubai_phil]

Went to the event last night. 10,000 Emirates Airmiles per ticket (earn them from about two return flights to UK in cattle class)

 

Lovely chill out lounge at the back of the venue sort of two storey so sat upstairs. Free Champers all night until I very foolishly switched onto lots of extremely large Vodkas. Loads of nibblies didn't soak it up fast enough. Ouch this morning, luckily the GF managed to find us a taxi....

 

Micah Paris - wow she belted out a 40 minute set what a tremendous Soul voice she has, but she was on early and the crowd was still in "Have to rush to get there from work" mode She sang one "hit" that I recognised but would happily see her again in a smaller venue.

 

6.5/10

 

Alison Moyet - I mean WTF??!! When did she become HOT? Being over here obviously haven't seen or heard of her for like 18 years, so this fit chick with a great bod comes on stage.... She must have lost half a ton in weight since the days of Alf.

 

BUT. How to describe her set? Let's just say Alpine must listen to her music every day. It was very sort of Film Noir, dark and in her words "The Queen of Doom". Heck even her hits were re-worked with Piano so you just wanted to hang yourself. She was musically very good, and the band were very tight but it was just so downright sort of negative. If I were working for the Samaritans I'd make sure the first thing I asked any potential suicide victim would be - Please stop listening to her latest music.

 

Hard to judge really I wanted to love it but it was really dull

 

4.5/10

 

Jools - well I sort of imagined that we'd see some bloke come on stage with a big band and play music we'd never heard before and it would be happy and dance-a-long stuff. And it was. Great great Entertainer, great band and just belted out a whole 80 minutes worth of Rythm & Blues (NOT that Hip Hop rubbish version but stuff like Muddy Waters etc) and also some great Ska stuff - he had Rico Rodrigues (sp) in the band who he introduced as "the founder/King" of Ska. Ruby Turner came out and did a bunch of great stuff and Alison Moyet came back out and actually sang some Happy Stuff. He certainly got us up and dancing in the Hostility Tents although the "I'm a serious important person" in the front rows of seating could only be seen occassionally tapping a finger.

 

Have to say, anybody (apart from Hard Core Rap fans) who appreciates music should make an effort to get along and see him live. You won't know many (if any) of the songs but you'll be singing along and loving it (even without drinking the bar dry)

 

8.5/10

 

Overall for the event, a nice (but for us fecking cold) evening well worth burning an upgrade from Emirates

 

7/10

 

Go see Jools live.