Richard Thompson - Across A Crowded Room (Live) [1985, Folk-Rock, VHSRip]

Thompson was filmed at a 1985 club performance in Ottawa with the band he formed after he broke up with his wife and singing partner, Linda Thompson. Although Christine Collister isn't the singer Linda Thompson was, the band puts a solid foundation under Mr. Thompson's voice and his guitar solos - magnificent postscripts to such songs as "For Shame of Doing Wrong" and "Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?".
It's not the ideal Thompson video. The selection of songs -nearly all of them about battling lovers - doesn't show Mr. Thompson's range. And the director, Larry Jordan, adds "special effects" from the checklist of MTV cliches, such as flames and slow-motion breaking glass. Still, the performance is stirring.
Clive Gregson and Christine Collister were the most moving and memorable U.K. folk-rock duo to emerge since Richard and Linda Thompson. Gregson's wry tales of the ins and outs of love, sung in Collister's heartbreaking voice have earned the duo (and subsequent solo work) respect and a devoted following though commercial success and mainstream recognition have eluded them.
Gregson (b.Jan 4, 1955) was the founder of Any Trouble, a pub-rock/new wave quartet, in Manchester in 1975. The band's sound, and Gregson's songwriting and singing, reminded some of Elvis Costello, and Any Trouble was signed by Stiff, Costello's label. The band made several well-remembered but poor-selling albums, then split up in 1984.
In 1984, Gregson discovered Collister singing in a folk club and, impressed by her talents, he offered to work with her on future projects. Gregson had already begun an association with Richard Thompson, initially singing back-up on the classic Shoot Out the Lights album in 1982. While working on Thompson's Hand of Kindness, Gregson suggested using Collister for additional backup vocal duties. The formula worked and the two continued for years as integral parts of the Richard Thompson touring band -- arguably the finest live band he's assembled. In 1985, Gregson made a solo album, Strange Persuasions, with Collister singing backup on a few tracks. The two began performing as a duo on the folk club circuit shortly thereafter. The duo's first release was a homemade tape sold at gigs, later released as Home and Away. It was followed by their first formal album, Mischief, in 1988, and by a Change in the Weather in 1990. Love is a Strange Hotel, released later the same year, was an album of cover versions of Gregson And Collister's favorite songs.
By 1992, the stress of constant touring and working together with out substantial success finally took its toll on them. The two decided to go their seperate ways after one parting shot, The Last Word, and on final tour. They both continued on as solo acts. Gregson eventually relocated to Nashville and has been the more active of the two, releasing the live "official bootleg" Carousel of Noise on his own label in 1994, People & Places in 1995, and I Love This Town in 1996 for Compass Records in addition to various production work and side collaborations with Boo Hewardine. Christine Collister continued to play the folk circuit, releasing a live album, Live, in 1995 and a new studio album, Blue Aconite in 1997. In 1998, after a brief stint in the group Plainsong, Gregson returned with Happy Hour.
~ Chris Woodstra and William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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