Thanks Richard. Help Me is not everyone’s favourite, but one of the reasons I chose to do this song was that it was an obscure, tucked away song in the Ferry canon.
Although there are a lot of die-hards at the convention, we were also aware that there are a lot wives, husbands, friends who want to hear the hits. It was a case of balancing that.
We looked at songs that neither Bryan or Roxy had performed live before, so within the set were: Help me, Is Your Love Strong Enough? & No Strange Delight.
We also wanted to put our own spin on some songs too, so we did a sort of piano/vocal intro & first verse to Pyjamarama, and similar to Angel Eyes. These will all end up on YouTube eventually as we edit each video as we had 5 cameras recording it all. It takes time song by song to edit them.
Katie is someone local to me that I am producing an album for and her late father was a huge Roxy fan, so she was delighted to do the gig. Oliver is of course the sax player in Roxy Magic, and also a member of the convention committee. I did guitar & keyboards. I did backing tracks with bass, drums and some keys at home. It was neither practical or efficient to rehearse a full band for this so the backing tracks were the compromise.
This video is of the opening of the show where I used themes from two Roxy tracks to seque into the opening song. One of those themes ‘Trash 2’s intro had never been performed live before.
https://youtu.be/-TfJZW5QqMU?si=K4gC6xzFwdP4Y9WR
