Cheers dd! Never seen him solo before, but have watched Dinosaur Jr 3 times and always been
impressed. Need to listen to that 6Music session from yesterday…lots of people on Facebook
were complaining about him him being antisocial during Lauren’s interview, but he’s just incredibly
withdrawn and I’ve always quite liked rock stars who feel a bit embarrassed about being rock stars!
I heard the whole thing, and I thought LaLa did a stirling job getting as much out of J as she did, but she has previous with him, as she mentioned, and clearly knows how difficult he is to interview.
She was working bloody hard, though.
Could have been a lot worse, it could have been Van Morrison…
Got one next week, Gemma Hayes at Oslo, rescheduled from last year, which I’m looking forward to, great singer, haven’t seen her for quite a while, plus the food and beer there is outstanding.
Another singer/songwriter who I love to bits, and who I’ve not seen for six or seven years has just announced a UK tour in April, dates to be confirmed, Kris Delmhorst is her name, she’s from Massachusetts and has the most wonderful warm voice, and writes beautiful songs, so I’m hoping she’ll play somewhere around Bath/Bristol, it’s a ten-day tour.
It’s getting so expensive for tickets though, fifteen-eighteen quid at a small, 4-500 capacity venue, and I just can’t afford to go as often now. Wasn’t unusual to have three or four across seven days, including going up to London, but that’s out of the question now. 😐
I have got tickets for the IOW Festival in June, though; first festival since 1995!