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Originally Posted by Cremallero
Any more info on the emotional part before Blower's Daughter? I saw on reddit it had something to do with his tour manager, but the details were scant after that...
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It wasn't his tour manager, he'd been talking about how pleased he was that after such a long time without a tour that people remembered who he was (think that was a bit tongue in cheek)and the tour tickets had sold well and the promised new album/songs was mentioned. Then he paused to mention his former manager was in the audience before he got quite emotional and Sylvia and Jana had to help him compose himself on stage.
This what the Telegraph review said about the part before the song. I thought it was Blower, but Telegraph say it was Cannonball.
"He broke down in tears during a no-microphone rendition of Cannonball, one of his best-known songs, because his former manager Bernadette Barrett was in the audience. Without her, he said, he wouldn’t be there; he took some time to compose himself. Yet Rice has been doing this for years, and must have sung Cannonball thousands of times; the moment served to highlight his refreshingly unfiltered openness."