Akkerman 08

Caught Jan Akkerman last night down in Putney with Rhodri. Excellent show. A jazz rock group called Db Infusion kicked us off with a decent half hour set. Then in came Akkerman and his band with an amazing two hour set. For the first half we kicked off with Tranquilizer and Weedstalker then "Focussed ourselves" for four tracks - Answers Questions; Focus 2; Anonymous and Palace of the King. At the beginning of the second half we had some blues then Paul Weller's You do something to me. Then it was back to Focus with a version of Tommy that included various other bits that reminded me of Fresh Air from way back. We also had Sylvia's Grandmother and a blistering Hocus Pocus. They finished off with Urban String and Pietons (with Hocus Pocus), which included drum and then bass solos. I bought a new nicely packaged DVD/CD set Jan Akkerman Live in Concert The Hague 2007 featuring a simialr set and one or two other things including a finally subtitled Dutch documentary.