With a two-hour show split into three parts, this was no ordinary performance.
The opening section was built around their gold-plated classic Rock Opera, ‘Tommy’ backed by a full orchestra opening up with ‘Overture’ and closing with ‘We`re Not Going To Take It’ stopping by the ‘Acid Queen’ and the timeless standard ‘Pinball Wizard.
Full Setlist below.
Hit singles ‘Who Are You’ and ‘Eminence Front’ with Pete Townshend on lead vocals, brought the first section to a close.
The Who Setlist
at Sandringham House, Sandringham, England
With Orchestra
Overture
1921
Amazing Journey
Sparks
The Acid Queen
Pinball Wizard
We're Not Gonna Take It
Who Are You
Eminence Front
Band Only
The Kids Are Alright
You Better You Bet
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Substitute
I Can't Explain
My Generation
Cry If You Want
Won't Get Fooled Again
Behind Blue Eyes
(with violin and cello)
With Orchestra
The Real Me
I'm One
5:15
The Rock
Love, Reign O'er Me
(Extended piano intro;… more )
Baba O'Riley
Zak Starkey's band Mantra of the Cosmos share new single - X (WOT U SAYIN?)
After releasing their first single ‘Gorilla Guerilla’, surrealist, psychedelic, psychotic, abstract art installation Mantra of the Cosmos played The Box Soho and headlined the Glade stage at Glastonbury to an ecstatic, rapturous reception and much anarchy, chaos and hypnotic music from the Cosmos. the track was released on August 16
Their second single ‘X (WOT U SAYIN?)’ is out 16 August and it’s a summer banger with allegorical Dylanesque lyrics over subterranean Velvet Underground-type drones exploding into a groovy knock-u-out horn riff. And a lyric from Shaun that asks many questions.
MANTRA OF THE COSMOS is Shaun Ryder • Bez • Andy Bell • SSHH • Zak Starkey
Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and band have taken the stage backed by a full orchestra – the Heart of England Philharmonic, this evening at Sandringham Royal Estate for the last concert of the tour.
Speaking to USA Today for a new interview, Daltrey spoke about the band’s latest live record ‘The Who with Orchestra: Live at Wembley’, the 79-year-old singer shared his thoughts on The Who touring the US again, saying he’s “very doubtful” it will happen, though he says “never say never”.
When asked if The Who have plans to tour America again, Daltrey said: “Nothing at the moment. I don’t know if we’ll ever come back to tour America. There is only one tour we could do, an orchestrated “Quadrophenia” to round out the catalog. But that’s one tall order to sing that piece of music, as I’ll be 80 next year. I never say never, but at the moment it’s very doubtful.”
Besides his age being a factor, Daltrey went on to explain that “touring has become very difficult since COVID”. He added: “We cannot get insured and most of the big bands doing arena shows, by the time they do their first show and rehearsals and get the staging and crew together, all the buses and hotels, you’re upwards $600,000 to a million in the hole.”
“To earn that back, if you’re doing a 12-show run, you don’t start to earn it back until the seventh or eighth show. That’s just how the business works. The trouble now is if you get COVID after the first show, you’ve [lost] that money.”
