RAY DAVIES (KINKS). FIRST PERFORMANCE OF VILLAGE GREEN ALBUM LIVE. 2 CD.

RAY DAVIES (THE KINKS).

The First Complete Performance of "The Village Green Preservation Society" Album.

Ray Davies and band with The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus.

Meltdown 2011 / 06 / 19.

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank, London, UK

Nice Sound Recording.

Set 1, time: 47:15

1. Intro

2. Village Green

3. Picture Book

4. Big Sky

5. Do You Remember Walter?

6. Animal Farm

7. Last of the Steam-Powered Trains

8. Starstruck

9. Monica

10. Phenomenal Cat

11. Sitting by the Riverside

12. Wicked Annabella

13. All Of My Friends Were There

14. People Take Picture of Each Other

15. Johnny Thunder >

16. Village Green Preservation Society

Set 2, time: 77:04

1. Intro

2. Shangri-La

3. Victoria

4. See My Friends

5. Sunny Afternoon

6. Imaginary Man

7. You Really Got Me

8. Dead End Street

9. Celluloid Heroes

10. The Way Love Used to Be

11. A Postcard from London

12. Waterloo Sunset

13. Days

---encore 1---

14. Lola

---encore 2---

15. All Day and All of the Night

---encore 3---

16. Come Dancing (band only)

17. Till The End Of The Day (band only)

18. Low Budget (band only)

Notes:

Premier of The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society" in it's entirety (though not correct running order), with 65 piece orchestra and 94 piece choir.

From Meltdown website:

"This year's Meltdown Director Ray Davies is the fitting close to the festival and here he performs an extra-special show with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the finest orchestras in the world, accompanied by the Crouch End Festival Chorus.

Before playing some of his solo material and classic Kinks songs, in the first half of this unique show Ray Davies revisits The Kinks' seminal Village Green Preservation Society, playing tracks from the record that is widely considered to be one of the finest albums of all time."

Band:

Ray Davies, Vocals, guitar

Bill Shanley, guitar

Richard Nolan, Bass

Damon George Wilson, drums

Ian Gibbons, keys