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Got a few booked up now
Inhaler - Next Month
Normandie - November
The Men the Couldn't Hang - Dec
Palaye Royale - March-23
Fatboy Slim - March-23
The Girl in Red (taking my daughter) April-23
Luke Combs - the O2 - Oct-23!
Did anyone go and see Ian Brown in Leeds last night then?
Came to ask the same thing after I just saw this article
Craig Finn from the Hold Steady on wednesday, sadly it's a full band show so won't be as breathtakingly depressing as his true solo shows but it should still be great
binners
Full MemberHe turned up with no band and sang (as much as Ian Brown sings) along to a backing track.
That's exactly what he did when I saw him, maybe supporting the manics? Absolute ***** tbf. I wasn't sure if he knew what was happening tbh.
Long shot but does anyone want a ticket to Anthrax at the Birmingham O2 Academy tonight?
Drop me a PM if interested.
Pixies just announced a U.K. and European tour, tickets on sale Friday… 😎
Pixies tickets obtained! Took four minutes from sales going live to confirmation, thanks to Gigantic. An example Ticketmaster should try to follow, they seem determined to make buying tickets as difficult as possible. 😖
Leftfield in London in December. I definitely won't be getting wide eyed and fuzzy...
The 1975 booked for Liverpool in Jan, not my cup of tea but kids and missus like em.
Also managed to get tickets for Arctic Monkeys for next June at the Emirates Stadium (I think). That should be a belter.
Just booked a couple of tickets for me and the other half to go see stanley odd in a few weeks. Second time they've played in my local town but had already planned a trip up north last time. Looking forward to it
Frank Turner was so good on Friday that I found that tickets were still available for Norwich on Saturday. It would have been rude not to! Me and the daughter went for another go.
Ears ringing a touch and I now need a snooze.
10cc tonight in Carlisle. Excellent.
Sandwich
Full MemberFrank Turner was so good on Friday that I found that tickets were still available for Norwich on Saturday. It would have been rude not to! Me and the daughter went for another go.
Ears ringing a touch and I now need a snooze.
I'm doing tuesday and wednesday 🙂
I have a 0 birthday in December and we're off to Berlin for a short break. We're seeing Billy Talent, PABST and Frank again on 15 December. Just a bit excited.
got a mixed bunch coming up:
October
Katy J Pearson
Mr Bruce
November
Bob Dylan
Belle and Sebastian
Next Year
Yungblud
Was a bit unsure about Dylan but as he's 81 not going to be many more chances to see him and it's not like the voice was that good to start with
Clutch and Sepultura in November, should be good!
We're off to see Snarky Puppy at the Apollo tomorrow night. This has come about because my mate Callum, a retired university lecturer, ageing hippy and all-round lovely bloke is really into his freeform jazz. Me and another mate, Rob, relentlessly take the piss out of him about it, when we're having a beer and he puts a 20 minute brass section and bongo mash-up on, so he's only gone and called our bluff and got us tickets for a Jazz-tastic evening tomorrow night
Snarky Puppy are described as an American instrumental ensemble who combine a variety of jazz idioms, rock, world music, and funk
I'm quite looking forward to something different 😀
!!! (chk chk chk) last night were excellent as always. I was a sweaty mess by the end. Never seen so many people dancing at a gig. Fact that the singer kept prowling through the crowd and dancing with people was something to do with it. Proper entertaining. Baba Ali, the support were great too. I bought their cd 😀
Frank Turner last night in Glasgow. He was my Last Show before the lockdowns, also in Glasgow. TBH that gig wasn't the best but last night was rock solid, with a pretty epic encore. Tonight, more of the same but in a venue about 1/3d the size
@binners my lad (aged 21, studying fine art at MMU) was into snarky puppy but says not listened to them for a while. Still into a bit of jazz though… it’s what all the cool kids like… he goes to weouthere festival nowadays, ask your pal Callum it might be his thing. Saw pharaoh Saunders this year- R.I.P
@Northwind The PA was a little "off" for both the gigs we went to. Leeds there were problems reported with the foldback and Frank's mic. So much so that he broke things during the last song.
Hopefully the kit in Germany will be better.
Iron Maiden have just announced a UK tour next year so that's going to be added to my list:
Aussie Pink Floyd
The Cure
Ozzy Osbourne (he's rescheduled again – although I am not holding out much hope)
Iron Maiden
Dub pistols tomorrow at my local, then Bodega at Bedford esquires at the end of the month
The Dears at The Exchange in Bristol tonight, nice little venue, let’s just say compact and bijou!
I’m still trying to comprehend what it was I actually watched last night. Snarky Puppy was my first experience of live Jazz Funk fusion stuff, which involved instruments I’d never seen before and lots of bongos
It felt a bit like being trapped in a factory that was manufacturing the theme tunes to 1970s American TV shows
They’re clearly amazing musicians but I’m not sure I ‘get’ it, with my aversion to too much noodling. There was A LOT of noodling
Snarky Puppy was my first experience of live Jazz Funk fusion stuff, w
saw them on their last tour, in Manc, on the strength of youtube clips basically, and frankly it was a bit too heavy a dose of amazing solo after amazing solo, after a while it's a bit yeah yeah. I'd no clue they were so popular.
We're off to see this guy next week in Manc again, and I'll be missing likely okay surf to do so and not even minding, much.
Dub pistols tomorrow at my local
I'd forgotten that was on and have made other plans. Drat.
Got cheap tickets to Public Service Broadcasting in Keele, Stoke is becoming my go place for gigs at the moment. Probably going to see Sea Power and Billy no mates at the Sugar Mill in the next month.
Public Service Broadcasting last night at the Ironworks in Inverness.
Absolutely superb!!! Fairly small venue (which is getting flattened to build another hotel unfortunately).
PSB are on my list of bands to see whenever possible.
They’re clearly amazing musicians but I’m not sure I ‘get’ it, with my aversion to too much noodling. There was A LOT of noodling
That’s jazz for you, file alongside stoner hippy bands (see: Grateful Dead).
Oh, and some Prog; they were often jazz influenced. Yes’ ‘Topographic Oceans’ probably the nadir - a triple album that might just have made a half-decent single album.
I’m still trying to comprehend what it was I actually watched last night. Snarky Puppy was my first experience of live Jazz Funk fusion stuff, which involved instruments I’d never seen before and lots of bongos
It felt a bit like being trapped in a factory that was manufacturing the theme tunes to 1970s American TV shows
They’re clearly amazing musicians but I’m not sure I ‘get’ it, with my aversion to too much noodling. There was A LOT of noodling
I was there too - thought it was truly excellent. However, even I, a self-professed fan of the noodle - struggled a little to attend properly at times. It was funny watching a vast sea of bald middle-aged men's heads bobbing in time to the music, tho 🙂
Saw the Paul Farr Trio at MASH in Macclesfield last night. Excellent gig. Luke Flowers is a bloody amazing drummer, a joy to watch & listen to.
@barney - definitely guilty of being a bobbing baldy bonce 😃
Annoyingly, both my retired friends I went with, despite being considerably older than me and Rob (also bald) are both sporting full heads of hair
I thought it was great! Something really different. Like I said, they’re all clearly phenomenal musicians. I loved the way they had the big screen showing you the close ups of the ridiculously skilled noodling
I saw Shijin at The Verdict in Brighton last night. I went because a friend wanted to, I'm not into jazz.
Well I'm still buzzing from it now, I thought I'd at least enjoy it but I didn't expect to totally love it.
Anyone know of a jazz venue that does food? Reading this makes me wanna eat noodles whilst listening to noodles.
Pavement a week on Tuesday, Bill Callahan and Stereolab next month and Mogwai late December in Glasgow.
Grand.
Ive seen Public Service Broadcasting loads over the years and to be honest I was a little board last night some good bits but I didn’t do it for me. It may have been that atmosphere wasn’t great compared to the usual drunken festival crowd.
Yes yes yes! Gabriels (finally!) at SWG3 in Glasgow in just over a week.
No no no! Means coming home from Aviemore a day early. Tyred weans not impressed. But screw them, Gabriels!!
After King Tuts being cancelled and them being billed to support Michael Kiwanuka then not being there, I won't believe it til I see it.
@sillyoldman - forgot about Bill Callahan, just ordered them now, cheers!
Pavement a week on Tuesday,
Just had a look at tickets at the Roundhouse in London out of interest.
£172 standing!
£183 in Manchester!
Are they absolutely effing bloody twuntin mental!? 🤣
I love Pavement, but.. Jesus wept! 😳😳😳
Going to see PSB tomorrow night. Wasn’t panning to but been offered a ticket tonight. Also seen them a few times since 2013. Most recently blue dot this year. They can be absolutely great (2018 larmer tree) or bang average. Anyway, I’m looking forward to it.
PWEI tonight in Oxford, like a fine wine!!
Teetering on Sepultura at the qmu in November... Not sure, may be good, Sacred Reich support, so could be rowdy. 🙂
Just bagged half price tickets for Fields of the Nephilim in December in Edinburgh... One I'm looking forward to, if they don't cancel .
Teetering on Sepultura at the qmu in November…
Worth it just for Casagrande.
Saw the mind blowing Gilla Band in Brighton last night, saw em a few years back (called Girl Band) and they were amazing that time. They've got better. Staggering noise. In fact, I've got a weird vertigo thing going on in my right ear and I did stagger out of the venue at the end.
PVA in Southampton tonight if my lug'ole can take it. 😀
Mogwai in December (first time seeing them for me, can't wait!), Brian Jonestone Massacre and Weyes Blood early next year then Roger Waters in June - all in Glasgow.