DAZED but not CONFUSED
by THE PRIORY OF BRION

On Friday 26th May 2000 I went to the Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury to see a band called THE PRIORY OF BRION. Whilst the name PRIORY OF BRION may not mean anything or ring any bells, when I tell you that it is ROBERT PLANT's new band you may think (as I did) why is he playing such a small venue.

Whilst the band did not perform any tracks from his previous incarnations this did not matter as many of the new songs were still in the style of LED ZEPPELIN, and some of the other songs were great songs from around the time LED ZEPPELIN started out like VAN MORRISON's 'GLORIA', and TIM HARDIN's 'IF I WERE A CARPENTER'.

FULL SET LIST
A House Is Not A Motel
Lazy Me
Bummer In The Summer
Bluebird
If I Were A Carpenter
Darkness Darkness
Think

Early In The Morning
We're Gonna Groove
Baby Please Don't Go
Season Of The Witch
As Long As I Have You
Gloria
Runaround Sue/Trouble In Mind

During the performance he came out with little stories about some of the other bands that were around in the 1960's, one such story was that PETE TOWNSEND would play 'MY GENERATION' in a different key every night to fool ROGER DALTRY, (I wonder if that's why they wrote 'WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN?').

The Musicians in this band were:-

• ROBERT PLANT - Vocals
• PAUL BROWN - Bass
• ANDY EDWARDS - Drums / Percussion
• PAUL TIMOTHY - Keyboards / Rhythm Guitar
• KEVYN GAMMOND - Lead Guitar

Over all I thought the band were brilliant and that the music represented PLANT going back to his Roots.