I'm quite chuffed! Been wanting to see Idles but they didn't gig near enough, then it's festival season, but I don't do festivals... then tour is announced- Brighton ... where? The Dome? £40? Brighton Centre? £60? No! Concorde 2! A lovely 600 capacity venue. £19! And it's in October so won't be as sweaty as when I saw Ty Segall there on Monday.
ooh punk rock me up
Nice one Dez,was Ty Segall good?
I hear him a lot on that radio station that you don't listen to 😉
Got tickets for the Lovely Eggs in none sweaty Oct and St Vincent in a full on August sweat fest.
was Ty Segall good?
Yep, excellent. Some lovely shreeky dual guitar soloing going on. Didn't think I'd be so into that sort of thing these days, but it was noisy enough to be great. He's got a good voice too. Included Hot Chocolate cover 🙂
Marc Reilly's Ty Segall session last night had me thinking I should maybe listen to him some more.
I'm not sure I have any gigs on the horizon until later in the summer but I saw Broken Social Scene last week and David Ford on Sunday and both were excellent.
Ty's latest album is probably his best, but if you fancy getting into him there's a lot of exploring to do.
Obviously nothing quite so thrilling as a Canadian woman with an acoustic guitar, but you can't have everything 😉
This makes me realise that I need to sort out some gigs. I've not got any nights out planned until October, but that is Jon Hopkins. I couldn't make it to any of his dates locally so I'm going to Paradiso in Amsterdam to see him instead.
I've suddenly got no amazing gigs on the horizon, it's not right. Nothing til 2 nights of ****in Mogwai anyway wooooaarghghghgh
I’m going to Paradiso in Amsterdam
Ooh, in't you posh! Travelling abroad for a gig!
I've got (eh? ANOTHER noisy GEEETAR band?? what is wrong with me?) the Oh Sees next, then Goat Girl and Idles (IDLES!! YAY!) in October. Oh actually, just remembered Don Letts Bass shenanigans with Wiley in July, so thats cool.
Wanted to see a local noisy guitar band - Melt Dunes on Friday in a lickle pub, but I can't make that one. Go see em if they're coming your way, they're excellent, part of that new psych pigeon hole most guitar indie rock type folks are getting lumped into. It'll only be a fiver or thereabouts to get in.
Cant beat a bit of gig anticipation.......
and i have just secured a ticket for Public Service Broadcasting at the Royal Albert Hall in November so really chuffed.....
thats 4 gigs lined up now in the next few months 😃
Stones,
Oh Sees
PSB
U2
and possiblilty of several more smaller ones if i sort out tickets
Twisted wheel next week in Blackpool
The coral later in the year and Ca<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">st in December</span>
Black angels but m not sure when that is
And providing we get tickets, idles at the Ritz in Manchester
I've seen Idles twice this year already, still tempted to see them on this tour too. Just trying to work out if the Leeds gig fits nicely with half-term for child care 🙂
I have Download Fest this weekend and Foos in a couple of weeks. Nothing smaller confirmed yet.
and i have just secured a ticket for Public Service Broadcasting at the Royal Albert Hall in November so really chuffed
Didn't think they were on sale yet?!
and i have just secured a ticket for Public Service Broadcasting at the Royal Albert Hall in November so really chuffed
Didn’t think they were on sale yet?!
A few Went on sale this morning to mailing list subscribers, rest on general sale Friday.
Jammy so-n-so 🙂
Oooooh Saw Idles a little while ago in Plymouth - they were fantastic...
Currently getting excited about Young Fathers & Massive Attack next Friday
Jammy so-n-so
That's what people are saying to me about the Idles pre-sale 🙂
Young Fathers & Massive Attack
Ooh yeah, saw that last tour. Great stuff. Shame (geddit) Young Fathers only have about 5 tour dates on their headline tour. One of my best gigs of the past 10 years was them in a little dump of a venue. Awesome.
Just booked me tickets to see Macka B at the Cambridge Junction in October, as the roots music will never die!
Mention of Albert Hall reminded me, I have tickets for GoGo Penguin there later in the year. Thanks STW, you've cheered me up.
Download this Friday-Sunday.
Electric Six
The Quireboys
Deacon Blue
Hazel O'Connor
Not all of them are my choices... but then I did drag MsBeej to Half Man Half Biscuit and Terrorvision a few times.
Tickets secured for Idles at the Ritz in October 👍😁
Oops, forgot to check the 10am sale for my mate 🙁
Still for sale, so got him one. Why hasn't this sold out in minutes?? Crazy 😆
Wahey!
Just got tickets for Public Service Broadcasting. Not at the Albert Hall though. At the Riverfront in Newport. PSB are doing a small venue tour in Wales before the AH gig.
The Riverfront only holds about 200 people so should be a great, up-front and personal affair.
Bargainlicious at £21.
MrsV has managed to get tickets for PSB at the RAH! Whoop whoop, never been there before, should be an experience in itself.
The Riverfront only holds about 200 people so should be a great, up-front and personal affair.
Sounds like my kind of venue!
Idles in kentish town, and PSB at RAH booked today 🙂 cannae wait.
I thought this was going to be about boats.
Is disappointed.
2nd single from Idles new album
DJ Lag, Kraftwerk, Kendrick Lamar, Dirty projectors, Ariel Pink and Peggy Gou all coming up for me!
Nice tip guys, IDLES booked 🙂
Beck t'other night was ok.
Madness local for me as in walking distance the the outdoor gig with a spectacular back drop. Downside is that it’s the day after I’m doing a 70 mile 24 hour walk. Ouch!
And whilst the CC was out, booked Lily Allen and Shame too
I am very jealous DezB as I want to see Idles more than any other band on the planet right now. Unfortunately Belfast is not on their new tour and they are yet to play here. I messaged them on Instagram to see if they would be interested in playing here and they got straight back saying that they had been asking to play here but as yet it hasn't panned out. I think their guitarist (BoBo) is from here so I am still hopeful.
Shame that isto, it is a massive tour they're doing too! I posted on it their Facebook (much to my shame) - 50+ dates in 15+ countries! Hard workin geezers. I'll report back in October how good they were 😉
Mate of mine saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs a few weeks back in Dublin, I was jealous of that. One band I've never got round to seeing.
saw yeah yeah yeahs at brixton academy twice. 2002 was f*cki* brilliant, 2009 was awful
It's been a busy one this year. Alvvays, Milk Teeth and Lovely Eggs so far then Lovely Eggs again, Wedding Present, Teenage Fanclub twice, The Posies and Neko Case all booked.
saw yeah yeah yeahs at brixton academy twice
I knew there'd be one! I bet you saw the White Stripes too! >:-(
Saw Idles at Heaven back in March, they were good, venue let it down though. It's a cool place but long and narrow, due to traffic we got there late so were miles from the front.
Saw them a few weeks later at the Wardrobe in Leeds (Live at Leeds mini festival), we were 2nd in the queue and got a cracking spot, although I think the size/shape of the venue mean it's be hard not to get a good spot. Best gig I've been to in years, took Mrs V who isn't really a fan of theirs and she came out grinning from ear to ear and said they were the best band of the whole day.
I don't need to see them again this year... Do I??? Do I!??!?
only seen white stripes once in Barcelona. festival rubbish sound
How about gig trepidation instead of anticipation? I'm off to see Slamboree tonight but given the festival it is at it will just be full of Ketamine fuelled teenagers shuffling around looking like zombies. I'll also be looking like a zombie but that's my natural state because I'm old and tired.
Sugar Hill Gang tomorrow though and that should be good.
Saw Idles at Heaven back in March, they were good, venue let it down though. It’s a cool place but long and narrow, due to traffic we got there late so were miles from the front.
Saw Factory Floor there last year - we got up on the balcony - room for 2! good view, good sound. Only trouble was there was some horrible freakish behaviour (not sexual) below us with a selfie stick, which we were full witness to also. Yeuch.
Of course you need to see Idles again!
Alice In Chains at Leeds O2 Academy next weekend
Killing Joke at same venue in November.
Kylie at Leeds First Diret Arena in Oct. not my choice but only fair as i’m dragging MrsD to Alice In Chains
A Perfect Circle next week. Then 2 nights of Pearl Jam the following week. Happy.
Not seeing L7 in Camden next. Sad.
The Riverfront only holds about 200 people so should be a great, up-front and personal affair.
Sounds like my kind of venue!
There’s a few venues in Bristol you’d probably like, then, The Fleece, which is about 400-ish, an old wool warehouse, used to be a pub, The Fleece & Firkin, The Louisiana, near the docks, it’s what used to be the skittle alley above the pub, seen many great bands at both of those, roughly 250-300, and The Thekla, an old banana boat, bought by Viv Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band back in the 60’s as an arts venue, still going strong, holds around 450, brilliant venue. You’d likely bump into Big Geoff, a legend of the Bristol music scene, gets name-checked by Steve Lamaq and even appeared on 6Music’s Round Table, manages something in the order of 350 gigs a year, and I’ve no idea how he manages it!
You’d likely bump into Big Geoff
You'll smell him before you see him.