Reports from current and previous Ray Wilson shows
Ray Wilson does not play in football stadiums or big arenas, quite the opposite. His shows take place mainly in smaller venues for up to a couple hundred people. Ray’s shows thrive on this closeness to the audience, an intimacy that is almost always lost in larger venues. Sönke Bohm attended several of Ray’s shows in late 2007 and early 2008.
Ray Wilson will be touring in 2008 – as a duo with Ali Ferguson as well as with Stiltskin. On both tours he will present songs from his new album Propaganda Man.
In summer 2006 Ray played a couple of shows to warm up, as it were, for the upcoming Stiltskin fall tour. It was suffocatingly hot when he played a small club in Heiligenhaus near Essen, Germany, on July 19, 2007. Christian Gerhardts tell us his impressions.
On February 14, 2005 Ray Wilson played the KKC, a student-run club at the Duisburg-Essen University, with Irvin Duguid and his brother Steve Wilson. Christian Gerhardts set up this gig. Here are his impressions.
After a brief acoustic tour Ray toured again with a full band in 2004. Melanie Hohmeyer saw several shows.
In the autumn of 2003 Ray Wilson toured Germany with a full band for the first time since Cut_. Melanie Hohmeyer watched and listened closely.
In 2002 Ray Wilson brought his acoustic programme to German audiences for the first time. On June 15 he was headliner at the Park-Kult-Tour festival in Duisburg; the day after that he played his first real solo concert in Germany at Kaue, Gelsenkirchen. Christian Gerhardts was in the audience.
Ray Wilson has a home game every year at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. In 2001 Ray played 13 sold-out shows in a pub called Madogs. Martin Christgau was there.
