Supporting Act – Gentry Morris
Posted in Blog, Music, We own the Night by: Lottie
Our lovely little hamlet of Greystones has witnessed the opening of it’s first theatre aptly named, Greystones Theatre.
While the venue is only 30 seconds (32 seconds to be exact) from our house,last night was our first visit.
Falling in Love
I couldn’t believe it last week when I checked out the site and saw that one of my favourite artists, Juliet Turner would be performing. She is a big name. What was she doing in Gresytones?
My love affair with Juliet began about 8 years ago when I first saw her perform “Dr. Fell” on some British Saturday morning entertainment show. A few days later, after much raving on, a friend bought me her Burn the Blacksuit album (alas I was a very poor student and needed the charity). I know Darren is going to put up as post on both Juliet & the Theatre so I will lead you here for more on those.
Lending Support
I wanted to write a few lines about her supporting act, Gentry Morris.
Juliet has had some pretty good support since I first saw her in the Olympia 7 years ago. Most memorably, I first saw Duke Special, another favourite of mine, open for her sometime in 2001.
But back to Gentry. Despite having a chest infection he belted out the tunes, some of which clearly echoed Juliet’s own style. I didn’t have the foresight to get out my camera early enough and missed to opportunity to get him on tape but I have, for your viewing pleasure, robbed from You-Tube.
This song, The Waltz has made a very swift jump into my songs of the moment list.
Sounding Out
In spite of his illness, this song sounded incredible last night but that maybe due to the amazing acoustics in the Theatre. Whether intentional or not, this venue has the potential to be one of the most sought after musical stages in Ireland. The sound is pristine. Gentry even commented that it was his favourite venue sound wise.
I can imagine Other Voices would sound spectacular in there.
Ooh and the night ended on a climax. We got to meet Juliet. Yay!
July 19th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
[...] Lottie talks about the supporting act here so I won’t write much about him, except to say he was yet another excellent choice of support for Juliet. In the past we have been lucky enough to hear a number of great support acts, not least of which was Duke Special a good number of years ago. Last night Gentry Morris played and was brilliant. Slightly nervous and sporting a chest infection, none of it showed as he played a few beautiful songs and a couple of songs that I already find myself singing along to. Check out his MySpace page or his own website. [...]
July 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
[...] Lottie was at Juliet Turner. [...]
July 25th, 2008 at 9:42 am
We have an interview with Juliet on http://www.amuze.me/featured/juliet-turner-interview/
(also on DigMo!)
July 25th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Great. I look forward to it.