The Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies setlist at The City Winery in Chicago...
The photograph above is of one of a couple of the set lists that has been circulating for the Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies Tour of America in 2016 on social media.
This current set list is quite different and more inclusive than the set list created in the previous post and used to sell tickets across America. There were bootlegged videos attached that in my opinion were not of great quality and did not do Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies and their music justice.
Some of the songs included in that set list such as 'Dream of Home' and 'Fast As I Can' are not included on this tour. Patrons could expect a more upbeat and dancing in the isles kind of concert than a sit down concert as indicated in the set list being circulated.
I found a brilliant range of videos including professionally made videos, some recorded live in studios and some fan bootlegs that I thought told a wonderful story of the music from Great Big Sea, the Boy On Bridge CD through to the So Let’s Go CD.
Professionally made videos should also be included as they tell wonderful stories as well. Alan’s music transfers so well from the recorded version to the stage, therefore I have included an official version and a bootlegged version.
I found it particularly difficult to choose videos, as I really wanted to show the evolution of the music from an Alan Doyle solo album to the Alan Doyle Band to the Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies band.
I was lucky enough to find some bootlegged videos that I have never seen including some Great Big Sea songs for example 'A Boat Like Gideon Brown' and 'Wave Over Wave' which were shared by a regular Great Big Sea concert goer from the first section of the American tour this year. 'I Am A Sailor' and 'Wave Over Wave' are two of Alan’s favourite songs to sing live and so I included them here. I found a wonderful version recorded from the Tonder Festival in 2014.
I have also included some of the descriptions. Regular concert goer Larry Steves provides an interesting opinion about taping at a concert...“Taking videos is a PITA but not capturing this would have been a big mistake. It's not just for me but it's to preserve moments of musical beauty, which is what this is. It's for anyone who cares”.
From the above setlist…many of these videos will be familiar to Alan Doyle and The Beautiful Gypsies fans.
Some of the bootlegged videos have been circulated on my Google + page.
'I Can't Dance Without
You' (Official Video)
Alan Doyle - "I Can't Dance Without You" (Live)
q on cbc
https://youtu.be/VSQ5iIMlagk
Published on 29 Jan 2015. Alan Doyle returns to Studio Q with his latest record "So Let's Go" to perform his song "I Can't Dance Without You". So let's go!
https://youtu.be/VSQ5iIMlagk
Published on 29 Jan 2015. Alan Doyle returns to Studio Q with his latest record "So Let's Go" to perform his song "I Can't Dance Without You". So let's go!
'The Night Loves Us' (Official Video)
Alan Doyle
Published on 19 May 2015
'Sea of No Cares' (Bootleg)
Alan Doyle February 1 2015 Sea Of No Cares Brampton
Larry Steves
Published
on Feb 2, 2015. Love Alan's sense of humour which in this case
pertains to the song that preceded this song. From the Rose Theatre.
'Laying Down to Perish' (Bootleg)
Laying Down To Perish February 1 2015 Brampton
Larry Steves
Published on 2 Feb 2015.
Full song with haunting story intro. One of the highlights of his spring tour.
Rose Theatre. So...there's good reason why it was captured at every show ;)
'Stay' (Bootleg)
Stay February 1
2015 Brampton Rose Theatre
Larry Steves
Published
on 2 Feb 2015. Taking videos is a PITA but not capturing this would have been a big mistake.
It's not just for me but it's to preserve moments of musical beauty, which is
what this is. It's for anyone who cares.
'Paper in Fire' (Official Video)
Alan Doyle
'Paper in Fire' // Np Sessions
National Post
Published
on 28 Jan 2015. See more at http://www.nationalpost.com/sessionsP... by Jonathan
Dekel. Camera: John Richardson, Graham Runciman Edit & Sound: John
Richardson
'Wave Over Wave' (Bootleg)
Wiskey2000
Published
on 4 Feb 2016. Alan
Doyle performing at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, PA on Wednesday,
February 4th, 2016.
'Shine On' (Bootleg)
Alan Doyle
Shine On February 1 2015 Brampton
Larry Steves
Published
on 2 Feb 2015. Another new nugget captured from
the Rose Theatre show. Love what Alan did with this arrangement for the live
show
'So Let’s Go' (Official Video)
Alan Doyle - So
Let's Go
Alan Doyle
Published on 16 Dec 2014.
'I’ve Seen A
Little' (Official Video)
Alan Doyle - I've Seen a Little
(Music Video)
Alan Doyle
Published on 3 Jul 2012.
'Testify' (Official Video)
Testify ft. Colin James
AlanDoyle VEVO
Published on 27 Nov
2012. Music video by Alan Doyle performing
Testify. Skinner's Hill Music
'1, 2, 3, 4' (Official Video)
Alan Doyle
Published on 2 Oct 2015.
1,2,3,4 (Bootleg)
dagalagas
Published
on 30 Apr 2015. City
Winery, NYC - 4/29/15
'I Am A Sailor' (Bootleg)
Alan Doyle Band - I Am A Sailor
Sussann Rudloff
Sussann Rudloff
Published on 2 Sep 2014 at the Tonder Festival.
'Take Us Home' (Official
Video)
Alan Doyle
Published
on 10 Dec 2014 (Official Release). This song was featured on the final
episode of Republic of Doyle.
Take Us Home February 1 2015
Brampton (Bootleg)
Larry Steves
Published
on 2 Feb 2015. From the beautiful and great sounding Rose Theatre in downtown
Brampton on a snowy Sunday night. This song is complete and has the band intros
in the middle.
'Where I Belong' (Bootleg)
ConceitedWombat
Uploaded
on 3 Sep 2011,
Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea performs his solo song Where I Belong as
part of Rootstock 2011 in Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario, August 28, 2011.
