I just got my copy of the Flook! Live! CD and Oh WOW!
This is a must-have for people interested in flute playing. Amazing playing, using all the tricks. I was surprised what these 4 could do, in a live setting. I’m speechless.
Available by slow mail from http://www.flook.co.uk/home.htm
Oh good! I’m still waiting for mine to arrive, this just adds to the anticipation 
I hope you enjoy it. Mine took 1 month to come from England to the US. I think they fit them with tiny sails and set them afloat on the ocean. 
Delivery time to South Africa normally pretty good; if things arrive from Britain, they arrive quickly: ordered a whistle from Tony Dixon, it arrived less than a week later.
Impressed, I ordered another whistle from Tony. A month and a half later it hasn’t arrived. We think the whistle was hijacked somewhere over the Ivory Coast. Damn those whistle wobbers
-Q-
I remember listening to a couple of Flook CD’s 2-3 years ago and thinking that they were a rather boring band to listen to. Then I saw them live at the Danish Tönder festival last year, 2003. I was very impressed then, thought they were very good live, good tunes, energy in abundance. Sarah and Brian were rocking. So I borrowed their CD “Rubai” from a friend to have another listen. Didn’t like it though I’m afraid. Prehaps the live CD is better then?
I would agree that they come across better live than on their CDs. I have heard them in concert twice now (three times by October!) and have been blown away both times. On the other hand, although I do own all of their CDs (including “The Four Of Us”, neek, neek 
) I actually seldom listen to any of them…
Jens
I’m in the same boat – when I heard them live in Milwaukee last fall, they rocked my little planet! But every time I’ve heard the CDs I’m left rather flat; it seems more like your standard-issue funky celto-world stuff.
I thought maybe either a) the studio work was just too perfect, too polished, too modulated or that b) it was a “need-for-visual thing”, because they are so daggoned fun to watch in person – but it sounds like the Live CD captured that energy?
Is it so, Glauber? If that’s the case, I’ll pony up for this one.
Thanks!
I don’t have any of their other CDs and i haven’t heard them live yet, but maybe they’re like Lunacy, a band that comes across much better live than in the studio. The live! CD definitely rocks (except for the accordion track they added later, which is nice but sedate). It won’t agree with people who’re looking for pure drop Irish; it’s very jazzy and improvisational. But it’s great flute playing and very high energy.