Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
London Palladium
London
UK
26th October 2025

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taper: rayrad


Set 1

01. Set 1 intro
02. Elvis Presley Blues *
03. chat
04. Midnight Train
05. Empty Trainload Of Sky
06. chat
07. Howdy Howdy
08. Cumberland Gap
09. tuning
10. The Bells & The Birds
11. Turf The Gambler
12. chat
13. Wayside / Back In Time
14. Ruby
15. chat
16. The Way It Goes *


Set 2:

17. Set 2 intro
18. Lawman *
19. What We Had
20. chat + tuning
21. Hard Times
22. chat
23. Hashtag *
24. chat + tuning
25. Six White Horses *  
26. chat
27. Wrecking Ball
28. China Doll  (The Grateful Dead)
29. Red Clay Halo *


Encore 1:

30. chat
31. Everything Is Free
32. Look At Miss Ohio
33. crowd


Encore 2:

34. Revelator *
35. chat
36. Goodnight *
37. I'll Fly Away


Gillian Welch - vocals / guitar / banjo / harmonica /   clogging + ham-boning
Dave Rawlings - vocals / guitar / banjo / harmonica
Paul Kowert - upright bass (except *)


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fourteen fucking years

it's enough to make a continent feel like it's being ghosted

but i guess if you're terrified of flying, it's a hell of a train ride

and a presumable fistful of sleeping tablets later...

the obvious thing to say here would be that it was worth the wait

and, much as i hate being obvious, that's really all there is

as the final note of opener, 'elvis presley blues', reverberates around the palladium's gilded walls, people go predictably bonkers

but the duo on stage still look a little like they just stepped out of their house into a hurricane

it must be something to stand up there and get that kind of validation from almost three thousand people

they swiftly try to even out the ratio a little by summoning reinforcements - in the form of upright bass player, paul kowert

he adds elegantly subtle touches for most of the rest of the show

stepping aside at the end of each song to allow gil and dave to confer on what's next

then slipping back between them as they decide

the full band arrangements on much of latest record, 'woodland', get in the way of things a little for me

but those newer songs soar in the live setting

why do you need a band anyway - when dave rawlings sounds like six people playing guitar at once?

fourteen years (like tomorrow) is a long time

but after a date like this, all previous behaviour is forgiven

and we are very much an item again

enjoy
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