![]() ![]() In the manner of an avuncular neighbour returning a football to some children and asking them to play elsewhere, he politely entreats the audience not to film or photograph the concert. Over the tannoy come the measured West Country tones of Fripp. ![]() It looks like the undiscovered tomb of a particularly musically ambitious pharaoh. So anyway, here we are again, the stage strewn with drumkits of varying widths and complexities, numerous guitars, basses and wind instruments propped up on their stands on a stage to the rear. What next? The new face of the Waitrose ad campaign? A Twitter account? Since resolving his long-standing contract dispute with his record label he has not only appeared looking cheerful and relaxed on All-Star Mr and Mrs, but then reactivated King Crimson in a three drummer formation which for the first time is playing predominantly older material, and furthermore seems to be having a fine old lark as he does so. Of all the unpredictable things about King Crimson’s latest reunion, perhaps the most unexpected of all has been the clear evidence of Robert Fripp – the stern, headmasterly keeper of Crimson’s jazz-rock-improv flame – showing clear signs of enjoying himself. ![]()
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