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... by Joanne Corsano ... joanne@picturelake.com

Peter Noone
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of the concert

I'm Into Something Good - Don't Know Much About History - Love Potion #9 - Dandy - She's a Must To Avoid - Ring Of Fire - Sea Cruise - Daydream Believer - All My Loving - Glad All Over - Just a Little Bit Better [guitarist dances] - Silhouettes on the Shade - Everybody's Got To Love Somebody Sometime - Travelin' Light ["I'm at the Tupelo Music Hall"] - No Milk Today - The End of the World - [Perils of Alcohol story] - Bus Stop - For Your Love - I'm a Man - Jumpin' Jack Flash - Can't You Hear My Heart Beat - Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter - Henry The VIII, I Am - There's a Kind of Hush

Scroll to below video for a review of the show.

For Your Love

Anyone who is a fan of British Invasion music is going to love a show by Peter Noone and the current day incarnation of Herman's Hermits. In addition to the best known songs by the Hermits, the show includes a dozen or more other hits from that era, running the range from the very sad to the very rock 'n' roll. A few of the songs listed on the set list were very brief snippets, but for the most part they were the complete songs.

We had just seen Peter and the HH about two months ago at an outdoor show on Cape Cod near where we live, and we decided to make the longer drive to this show to accompany some family members who were going. Everyone had a blast, and the family members got to shake Peter's hand as he made his way around the theater. Seeing him for the second time in two months was even more entertaining, in a way, since we knew when some of the really funny gags were coming.

There were two new songs since the show on the Cape, Bus Stop and For Your Love. They played most of the same songs, but the track order was very different, and Peter commented a few times that he was missing a set list, and also said that at his age he needed it to be in large print. He gleefully made fun of himself for being of a certain age, of members of the audience for coming in late, and of one of the guitarists, whose shaggy haircut was supposedly acquired at Petco. There was a lot of laughter from the close-to-sold-out audience and abundant singing along.

When we saw the Hermits in the summer, the audience was composed of many multi-generational families. At this show that wasn't really the case, with most of the concertgoers being of the age to have heard the Hermits when they were on the radio. But the crowd was just as enthusiastic as at the outdoor show, and you could tell the good time everyone had by all the happy smiles on the faces of the audience as they filed out after the show, and by the length of the line at the merch table as folks queued up to take some of this entertaining music home with them.