Hello. I was at Sean’s concert in Madrid, but I’ve been ill during all this time and I haven’t had time or didn’t felt like writing a review until now.
Sean appeared on stage and introduced himself in Spanish: “Hola Madrid: Mi nombre es Sean Lennon” (Hello Madrid: My name is Sean Lennon) and started a joke about the many pronunciations of the word Madrid: “How do you say: Madrid, Madriz, Madrit, Madrí? Breaking the ice and creating instantly a close relationship with the audience by addressing to them in such a direct way.
Then he started unfolding all these beautiful and sad songs about loss, death and disappointment: “Spectacle”, “Dead Meat”, “Wait for me”, “Friendly Fire”, “Would I Be the One”…
From time to time, between songs, he used to address to the audience in his peculiar shy and polite way to make some jokes or comments. One of the best moments was when he asked for a camera to take some photographs of three people in the front row that wear some T-shirts printed every one with one word, so when the three get together you can read: “SEAN” “ONO” “LENNON”. Sean and specially Yuka Honda (that looked a very wonderful and nice person) took several pictures of them. Sean, smiling said:”It’s very nice you have done that. “
In another moment he said that he knew a song in Spanish that he learned by a Spanish friend when being in a boarding school in Switzerland, and started singing a kind of joke-silly-song, the kind of songs people sing when drunks: 'Una cerveza, dos cervezas, tres cervezas y un... gato!' (One beer, two beers, three beers and a... Cat!). But I think that maybe this Spanish friend was from some South American country, because I never heard this song and nobody in the room seemed to know it. Few people from the front rows started to following him shouting the words of the song but not knowing the tune at all. There was no way to explain to Sean that the song was in Spanish, but it wasn’t from Spain! But the whole thing was very funny and people, I think appreciated the effort Sean made for communication.
I’m not sure, (maybe it’s my appreciation, because that night I was ill and with no energies) but I think that Sean was a little tired, because they have played the previous night in Barcelona and they have made the trip from Barcelona to Madrid by bus, which is like 8 or 9 hours.
In the second part of the concert he changed the acoustic guitar for an electric one and did a new song called “Smoke and Mirrors”. When he reappeared alone for the “encores” and started playing 'Tomorrow' on acoustic guitar, some loud techno music interrupted him from a very near place, but he joked about it: “What? I didn't know there would be another band playing tonight!” Then to finish, he did with the whole band a long version of “Mystery Juice”.
I was at the concert with my daughter and her boyfriend, and they loved the sound so much that told me to buy them the record immediately!
I wasn’t at the Barcelona concert, but some reviews say that when introducing Yuka Honda, he said that she bought three different types of Spanish ham, which they loved a lot.
(I have to tell you that the 3 better Spanish hams are those called: “Jamón de jabugo” Jamón ibérico de bellota” and “Pata negra”. They should be cut in very thin slices. I hope Sean and Yuka eat these kinds of Spanish hams.)
Sean also said that people from Barcelona should be very happy for their luck of living in a city with that wonderful sea, fair weather, beautiful girls and ham!
When introducing the song “Mystery Juice” from his debut album “Into the Sun” he joked that just interesting people loved that album when released.
When somebody from the audience asked for a Beatles song, he joked “I’m sorry, but I think you are in the wrong concert. I just do covers of Black Sabbath”
And that’s all. Jorge
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