![]() ![]() In a very short time you would have to build an event space and deliver a VIP littered show on a street where you can imagine not everyone would be happy with the idea. That the BBC were on board was bound to complicate things further, broadcast trucks are not small, neither are the cranes that would be used in filming. In and out, with as little inconvenience as was humanly possible.Īny event would necessitate all kinds of council sign-offs and legal requirements, licensing, crowd control, physical infrastructure, bars, bogs and closing roads at either end of the Avenue, creating its own chaos. If it was going to happen it was going to have to be quick and dirty. This was going to be a different ball game. Cyprus Avenue is a residential street in East Belfast, lots of nice houses and lots of busy people with things to do. Morrison had played the festival previously, but that was in a nice marquee, in tree-lined a park. I had heard about the show in advance, friends of friends had come up with the concept as part of the East Belfast Arts Festival, an idea that at the time must have seemed like lunacy. A sublime idea, bringing the man back to the place that inspired him so. One of the most remarkable things I think I’ve ever witnessed, via the wonders of the internet after leaving Belfast, was seeing Van Morrison playing sold-out shows on Cyprus Avenue. As Van Morrisons Astral Weeks turns 50, Getintothis’ Chris Flack takes a look at what could easily be considered Morrisons finest work ![]()
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