Squeeze- Lighting Up The Beacon and seeing stars in NJ

There's nothing better than walking into Squeeze Reader Towers on a Summery Saturday afternoon and finding an inbox full of lovely letters from our readers :0)

As it's such a nice day here, I've decided to take my mail bag outside into the Squeeze Reader Garden and have a picnic... C'mon you're all invited!



Squeeze reader Hernando Lammers, has sent in a link to his brilliant photos of our heroes playing the Beacon Theater:

Click here to see his Flickr album!


Ah, it's lovely to be sat under a tree having a picnic with you all.
There's enough tea and cakes here for everyone, so please eat, drink and be merry!




Now last (but not least), those nice people at Kweevak have sent in a link to their groovy review of the Starland Ballroom gig:

"Squeeze is tight. The reformed power popsters that took the stage on Monday, August 6, 2007 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey had a firm grip on their past as they tore through a rapid 90-minute set of their biggest hits."

Click here to read the complete review, with photos and setlist.


And with that, it's time to open up a nice bottle of wine and put some Squeeze on the boom box.


Hernando and Kweevak, we salute you :0)



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Squeeze vs. The Police, a steel cage match!

Well, not quite. But a guy at the Huffington Post is very pointed in his assessment of Squeeze vs. The Police. I'm sure you all would guess where I would fall in this category.

My iPod seems to like the Police, despite my own tastes. I only have about one-quarter their greatest hits album on there, and in random shuffle often I have to skip through two of their songs to get to a band that I want to hear. (Why, yes, I do program my own iPod. But if I can't skip through songs occasionally, I don't feel like I'm really listening.)

Also, I gotta wonder about some of those commenters on that site. What was that one guy's point, that he likes Soundgarden? Non sequitur much? Maybe he just likes to drop in conversation that he likes Chris Cornell just kind of randomly. Sheesh.

New Jersey Praise

The paper that Tony Soprano takes liked the show at the Nokia Theatre, and promote the show that will in Atlantic City tonight. (Or maybe it's just the paper's blog? I can't tell from this.)

Not sure if the reviewer interviewed Glenn or not, or if Glenn said this as part of his stage patter:

"We haven't played any new songs tonight, because, well, there aren't any," said Tilbrook, no doubt a bit sensitive since he declared in 2004 that a tour without new songs is the "kiss of death."

He said that? Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't remember that!
Anyway, the Star-Ledger continues:

But along with pitch-perfect renditions of such staples as "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" and "Hourglass," the band pulled out the more obscure "I Think I'm Go Go," roared through the power-pop of "Trust Me to Open My Mouth" and added a break to the new-wave drollery of "Cool for Cats" that was almost funky.