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Meltdown curator turns cover band with his favourite songs from the last millennium

RT: Today the hoary bohemian was everyone from Richard I to Britney Spears.Scott Penner

Richard Thompson'southward engagement as curator of Meltdown 2010 split opinion at theartsdesk. I was ane of those who hoped the hoary one-time bohemian would exhilarate with daring new acts. Others feared information technology would just exist a folk-in. In the cease the plan contained Iranian punk, some folk and a whole lot of Thompson himself. He's offered film scores, a new show, and a collaboration.

And this afternoon he turned "cover band", romping through 818 years of songwriting. If this were Stars in their Optics, then last night Thompson was everyone from King Richard I to Britney Spears.

Thompson has occasionally been performing the "Thousand Years" concert since 2003. The often-told story goes that he was asked byPlayboy to give a list of his top 10 songs of the millennium, no doubt expecting him to give the usual candidates from the final thirty years. He couldn't do it; he gave them 20 which they refused to publish. So he decided to take the songs on tour. The drove, a flavor of hummable short-format song music through the ages, isn't necessarily suited to an album (although it is available as a live CD). The styles are as well disparate, and sometimes the choices take as much novelty or involvement value as musical. Only it'southward perfectly suited to this sort of outcome - as much "an afternoon with" as a directly concert.

For the fans, used to Thompson playing either in his rock or folk idiom, hearing him effortlessly modify styles seemed to be an unvarying pleasure. The rationale of the show was to brand yous think about the art of vocal-craft. Although the vocal option has been refined since the live DVD was released, these songs were still a fairly capricious lot. But Thompson, Debra Dobkin (percussion, vocals) and Judith Owen (vocals, keyboards) gave a fun and frequently boggling celebration of well-crafted, accessible music. 

From walking on with a hurdy gurdy and singing "Hevene Queen" to bringing the business firm down with "Oops I Did it Again", the two-and-a-half-60 minutes afternoon edification was roughly chronological. In that location seemed to exist echoes of prog rock in "Three Ravens", musical theatre in Purcell's "When I am Laid in Globe" and rock anthem in "Remember O One thousand Man". More surprising still was that the selection of early music eschewed dear for treatises on hell and mothers murdering babies. Possibly that was why the dejection was skipped altogether; or why he ended the commencement section with a low-cal celebration of music hall.

Nearly now it was becoming articulate that Judith Owen was a secret gem of the show. A "Thousand Years" may exist a vehicle for Thompson to showcase the variety of his guitar-playing, his surprising ability to sing outside his normal range and his charm as a host; however, not just was his vocalisation augmented by Mrs Harry Shearer's  song gymnastics, she also took four spellbinding leads. More than impressively, she too managed variously to convey the essence of an Elizabethan gentlewoman and an Edwardian trollop simply by the way she waggled her cloak.

In the second half, the modernistic-era song choices were equally left-field. The Ink Spots' "Java Jive" gave Thompson the opportunity to bear witness what a tasteful jazz thespian he could have been and the Easybeats' "Friday on my Mind" gave him a take a chance to rock out. But it seemed to exist with rock'n'scroll that Thompson had most fun. In fact in that location were moments in Jerry Lee Lewis'due south "Breathless" and Nancy Sinatra's "Jackson" where he was getting and so animated his trademark beret looked in danger of falling off.

The set ended with its all-time-known song: Britney's "Oops I Did it Over again". But the three encores meliorate encapsulated the essence of the afternoon: a song by Richard I, a gorgeous Judith Owen rendition of "Cry Me a River" and a barnstorming "Twist and Shout".

Richard Thompson performs 'Oops I Did it Once again on The Andrew Marr Testify

His choice of early on music seemed to concentrate mainly on hell and mothers murdering babies

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