I was delighted to be given tickets for this gig by generous wife as I have been a fan for quite a while now - mainly as an offshoot of my obsessive collecting of Bert Jansch albums.
Reunited in their original form in 2007 to receive a Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and I guess the time was right for the worlds greatest (only) folk-jazz-rock band to perform again. The band have much name checked as an influence by the likes of Devendra Barnhart and a whole new breed of acid-folkers.
Pentangle took the stage with little fanfare and no support act. The sound was excellent and the playing (although a little off tempo in parts) was for the most part excellent too, with Jansch driving things forward musically and McShee's voice in excellent shape, if anything slightly sweeter and less shrill that on the 70's classics "The Pentangle" and "Cruel Sister".
Jansch swapped between guitar and banjo while Renbourn even had a crack at a bit of sitar at one point - conjuring up the late sixties a treat. The band were obviously enjoying each others company with any animosities well in the past.
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