Last night on "Newsnight Review" BBC TV, four critics gave their assesment of S+G's concert in the UK. Two of them were of the generation that grew up on S+G the other two were under 30 I think.It was very interesting to hear what they said. The older two talked about lyrics plus nostalgia of course, and enjoyed the concert. The younger two made no comment on content, but only talked about presentation and participation. They called the audience "polite", bemoaning a lack of energy and the fact that they were listening quietly and seemed happy to just be there rather than being part of the show and noisy. One also complained that Art "did nothing" except stand and sing!
It was fascinating to see what these two different generations wanted from the concert. The older two represented a generation happy to just listen and appreciate the craft of songwriting and singing alone, the younger two appeared to demand something visual and participatory with content coming a bad third.
Interesting differences I thought.