 Guitar
virtuoso Newton Faulkner played a sold out show
at Bristol Academy which for him was just another
day on a mammoth tour across the UK but for Bristol
it was a spinoff of their annual Folk Festival
which was taking place over the road at the Colston
Hall.
Before the show we had a nice interview with Newton
Faulkner where he explained that he has been playing
over ten new tracks a night on the tour and that
so far they have been going down well with the
crowd and that how his last tour had a massive
production yet this time around he has gone back
to basics with a full on stripped back tour.
 Newton
Faulkner took to the stage dead on 9pm and when
he said he has gone for the stripped down approach
he was not kidding, the stage was set up with
really basic lighting whilst Newton situated himself
in the middle of the stage but slightly to the
back and on the stage he had a rug, a stool a
couple of guitars and a globe which opened up
to contain his favourite drink of choice honey,
lemon and ginger and also a digital camera for
his latest creative work of taking panoramic shots
of the crowd at every show for the Facebook generation
to enjoy.
 Tonight
Newton played for a solid 1hour and 45 minutes
and he opened up with the legendary ‘Badman’
and continued the set playing various different
hits as well as a mixture of new songs and half
way through the show faulkner spoke to the crowd
to thank them for coming along and also to tell
them how amazing they are for already learning
the words for his currently unreleased new songs.
As the set progressed Faulkner added some cover
songs in with both ‘Teardrops’ and
‘Superstition’ going down extremely
well with the crowd, but the main highlight of
the  night
came when Faulkner played his latest song ‘Write
It On your Skin’ and then split the audience
up to sing different parts of the song, it took
a bit of work and much laughter but after a couple
of cock ups everything flowed perfectly and Faulkner
and a strong crowd of nearly 2000 people pulled
off a great variation of one of Faulkner’s
forthcoming great songs.
Faulkner put on a great show tonight and spent
a lot of time interacting with the crowd which
often featured him making hilarious comments such
as asking the one and only guy in the venue who
had a red light shining on his face for the entire
show if he was Satan and also joking with people
who were shouting out how much they love him throughout
the show.
 There
were a few downsides to tonight’s show and
the main downside was that the sound needed to
of been turned up a few notches as if you were
stood near the back then you really couldn’t
take in what Faulkner was saying and during many
songs the chatting at the back of the venue over
powered that of Faulkner but then this was only
an issue for the people at the back as everyone
at the front were having a great time, but overall
Faulkner is a great musician and I can see 2012
being another bright year for him.
4/5
Review By Trigger
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