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Not gig per se but Gig adjacent, we missed Ghost on their tour last year but I'm taking the Metal Kid to see their "2 night only big concert film thing" Rite Hear, Rite Now in a couple of weeks.

Also can we mention the new and exciting way concert organizers have worked out to fleece fans?  The "Golden Circle" guaranteed STANDING space right down the front for circa double the price of General Admission. Except "right down the front" apparently extends 2/3rds of the way back down the floor of London's O2 arena.  Though sometimes it makes for comedy...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/05/thirty-seconds-to-mars-review-jared-leto-gives-half-empty-arena-his-full-attention

The first sense that this might not be the busiest show in the O2 Arena’s history comes in the concourses: no one is having to queue at the bar before the show. Inside, the top tier is closed, and the arena floor is bizarre: a packed back third, of general admission, and a vast golden circle that is barely a third full. It looks awful, and visitors to the toilet during the show are accosted by arena staff trying to persuade them to take wristbands to go to the front. Thirty Seconds to Mars singer Jared Leto even appeals before the encore for people to go in search of wristbands to come and join the little throng at the front of the stage.


 
Posted : 07/06/2024 12:57 pm
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Glastonbury just around the corner so spent an hour trying to work out who I’m going to watch
Looks like you’ve posted a lineup from about 1992. Might want to check again 😆

Last year, my wife and girls suggested we go to Glastonbury as a family this year. I pointed out that I wouldn't see them all weekend because my schedule would include obscure folk-rock bands and ancient bands on side stages, so what's the point in going as a family. 😀


 
Posted : 07/06/2024 3:05 pm
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Not really ever been too bothered about going to gigs. Partly cos I've always lived fairly rural, miles from big cities and decent venues. But oddly for me, I've got two lined up for the autumn and am fizzing quietly with excitement for them both:

'The The' at Wolverhampton Halls in September, then a month later 'Iron And Wine' at SWX in Bristol.

Loved Matt Johnson's stuff since I was 18 (54 now) and always regretted never having made the effort to see him live. Took my eye off the ball and completely missed the Comeback Special at the Albert Hall a few years back, and thought I'd never get another chance. Till recently! Snapped up a ticket for his Ensouled tour as soon as they went on sale.

Sam Beam seldom comes to these shores, and I simply love what he does so I cannot miss him this time round.


 
Posted : 07/06/2024 3:07 pm
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Gigs this week,so far and planned.

Wednesday- James Oliver at The Actress n Bishop in Brum. One of the best guitarists out there.Free and 9 people there to see the gig.

Thursday-open mike at The Station in Cannock,Saw 3 young bands,cherry B,Tech2 and didnt catch the name of the 3rd band.Also a solo vocalist Melissa. All good and would see all the bands again.

Tomorrow Saturday-The Heels at The Actress n Bishop.Brass heavy soul and funk,very danceable.Possibley followed by Stickey Mouse at The Gunmakers Arms.Both in Birmingham.

Sunday KD and The Dogs at The Brasshouse followed by Jo Baldwin Project at Snobs. Also Melvin Hancox at The Actress and Highway 61 at The Gunmakers Arms,all in Brum.

Birmingham is doing well atm for Blues/rock and theres metal/thrash/indie at The Flapper,Sunflower Lounge and various places in Digbeth.


 
Posted : 08/06/2024 1:00 am
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Saw the smashing pumpkins last night in Brum, supported by Weezer. They were both great, in fact the Pumpkins, who I didn’t hold out much hope for as Billy can be odd, were on top form rifling through their extensive catalog with a something for everyone set.  Really really pleased. Mayonnaise, which I’ve had as an alarm clock for about 15 years was brilliant. Made me cry it was so good.

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Posted : 08/06/2024 11:00 pm
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DJ Shadow in July.


 
Posted : 09/06/2024 8:56 am
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Going to see Beth Gibbons at the grand old Usher Hall tonight. Saw Portishead about 25 years ago and it was one of my all time favourite gigs so have high hopes for tonight.


 
Posted : 11/06/2024 1:16 pm
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Another one for Beth Gibbons tonight - a bonus having Bill Ryder-Jones as support after missing out on seeing him in Glasgow a couple of months ago!


 
Posted : 11/06/2024 1:26 pm
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Anyone going to Download this weekend?


 
Posted : 12/06/2024 12:34 am
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Extreme + Scorpions last Saturday night at Wemburlee.

Nuno Bettencourt's guitar playing is phenomenal, though it's a shame that the acoustics of the nuclear bunker leave half of the fast-playing notes unheard.

Scorpion's much simpler straight forward rock playing etc sounded a lot clearer.  For a couple of fellas in their mid 70s, Rudi Schenker seemed to be having a ball, and Klaus Meine got stronger as the night went on.  Mathias Jabs as good as he ever was.


 
Posted : 12/06/2024 1:32 am
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Machine Head next. Excuse me, I meant to say Machine ****ing Head. Not the biggest fan of their recent stuff and the ins-and-outs of the band's become a bit of a pantomime but I honestly don't care, I'm going to lose my shit completely for Davidian and Old and all that other 30 year old goodness and have a breather during the acoustic songs about depression or whatever.


 
Posted : 12/06/2024 2:10 am
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High on fire doing the doom (and sludge).

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maybe Nile next month?


 
Posted : 17/06/2024 1:48 am
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I quite enjoyed Simple Minds in Le Mans on Saturday night

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Posted : 17/06/2024 10:25 am
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Tom Morello last week in Camden was fun. Bit of a mixed bag, he covered much of the RATM stuff with a couple of fun medleys, some acoustic numbers, and quite a few with the band. Not sure all of it worked but we all had a good time as did he. Highlights were a solo cover of Tom Joad, and Killing in the name with the crowd doing vocals. Great fun.

Also saw Blondie at the Piece Hall the week before. A great gig, they came out and tore through the classics, Debbie Harry was having a blast and the band were tight. Really glad to have seen them. She is brill, funny and charismatic.


 
Posted : 17/06/2024 11:48 am
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Haters will hate.  Coldplay in Budapest... great concert and quite spectacular show.


 
Posted : 17/06/2024 12:18 pm
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Haters will hate.  Coldplay in Budapest… great concert and quite spectacular show.

They are headlining Saturday night at Glastonbury. I can't wait personally. As in I can't wait to catch Orbital and The Magic Numbers on other stages. I unapologetically hate Coldplay.


 
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Last week I took my 2 daughters to Doja Cat in Brum, good show, very well done if not my usual cup of tea. I was definitely dragging up the average age of the audience.

I've got John Grant at an acoustic in store set this evening which should be good - that's a bit more my thing


 
Posted : 17/06/2024 12:43 pm
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My wife went to see Foo Fighters on Saturday night.

Get the impression she wasn't blown away by them - just got a 'yeah, it was good' response when she got home and not much more! (other than lots of moans about ****s in the crowd).

She felt the 3hr set was an hour too long too, which is one reason I gave it a miss. There's only so much shouting I can be doing with.


 
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Speaking of haters gonna hate, I had a brill time at Liam Gallagher doing Definitely Maybe last week thank you very much 🙂 And yes I dared to hold up my phone for a few seconds, sorry STW (my only defense is I held it in landscape format like an old person).


 
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I came back from Drownload a day early as Electric Callboy cancelled due to Nico falling ill. Nobody playing on Sunday were worth another day in the slop and another night in a tent.

Hanabie were awesome opening the festival on the Opus stage but 30 minutes was way too short, especially compared to Babymetal on the main stage.

Mr Bungle were disappointing; I could barely make out the words most of the time.

Heilung were both bonkers and amazing.

Offspring were great, especially the two closers.

The band of the festival for me were Billy Talent. The set was amazing, the crowd was jumping and the Avalanche tent was way too small for them.


 
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Saw this lot on Monday evening at Bristol Beacon, first time since it reopened after being gutted and rebuilt - seems more intimate now, somehow. Great gig, too.

Sat third row back, so people’s heads were unavoidable. People were requested not to use flash when taking photos, it upsets the bass player! 😁


 
Posted : 19/06/2024 3:01 am
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Machine Head were pretty damn good, getting out of festival slots and doing a headliner seemed to suit them, still a lot of the Robb Flynn Script Bot but he seemed to get out of that and have more fun later on. Mixed set but good and long so the misses weren't too bad, gave us a bit of a break for the good stuff. Old still sounds absolutely amazing even after like 30 years.

I miss the covers/mess about section though 🙁


 
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Kings of Leon in Leeds tomorrow, one for the Mrs really but looking forward to a night out.  Yard act/English teacher/fat dog and ultimate thunder in Millennium square in August.


 
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Saw this lot on Monday evening at Bristol Beacon, first time since it reopened after being gutted and rebuilt – seems more intimate now, somehow. Great gig, too.

For those not in the know, it's Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets band.
Yep, I was at the Birmingham Symphony Hall gig last night - bloody superb. It reminded me how much of the early Floyd stuff, including several tracks written & performed by Syd Barrett, has been overlooked recently in favour of DSOTM, WYWH, The Wall etc

People were requested not to use flash when taking photos, it upsets the bass player! 😁

"I've only worked with 2 bass players in my life, both of them were difficult" - Nick Mason, with his tongue possibly slightly in cheek


 
Posted : 19/06/2024 3:10 pm
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People were requested not to use flash when taking photos, it upsets the bass player!

Thread grinds to a halt when I load it cos of a load of duff photos of ugly old duffers 😠


 
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Last Saturday at Rock n Roll Brewhouse was Kid12-Brilliant,they've won a guest slot at Glastonbury,all originals.Main act was Low Red Moon,all originals and made a great noise.

Sunday was Draculas Garage punk afternoon starting with The Mighty Intercepters-Good,loud n fast phsycobilly with the main act being The Dead Marshes,again good n loud with a darker set than last time I saw them.

Tuesday was Snobs on Broad Street to catch Rich Dickensons Driving Force.If you like long guitar solos its heaven and a walk out to the bus stop to check the wireless range. All classic covers.

This Saturday it'll be the Actress n Bishop for Midnight City n their soul/Tamla covers.

This Sunday will be Pete Hyde and The Villiards at the Brasshouse doing a mix of original n covers.A proper feel good smiley band. Up the road at Snobs will be the Worried Men doing blues/rock covers as far as I know because I've never seen them yet.

All these are Brum.


 
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Finally, it is Glastonbury week – working today and tomorrow, then chilling on Wednesday and getting the train down on Thursday. When I get in, my tent will be up and ready for me as the rest of my small group are going down for gates on Wednesday and are staking out our little circle. Really looking forward to a few days of relaxing and it finally looks like the weather should be quite settled. There aren't many acts I am desperate to see, but I'm particularly looking forward to Fontaines D.C., SZA, Paul Heaton, Last Dinner Party and New Model Army. The rumours are strong that it's Pulp doing the secret set at Woodsies on Saturday evening – that would be superb.


 
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I thought it was Kasabian doing the secret set in Woodsies? Missus and kids are going, I get a week of peace at home on my own! They travel down tomorrow….juat packing up the car at the moment.

Yesterday was Deacon Blue, Lottery Winners and Rianne Downey at the Waterfront in Liverpool yesterday. Weather couldn’t have been any better….im now hung over and slightly pink from too much sun. Deacon Blue were absolutely amazing.

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we're flying to dublin tomorrow, see idles, lcd soundsystem and young fathers at malahide castle on wednesday.

seen idles a few times now, im more excited about seeing young fathers for the first time.

also never been to dublin yet, so looking forward to a couple of days there and trying the local guinness.


 
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Green day tomorrow in Glasgow, not a huge green day fan but got the tickets as a present.
Body Count next Tuesday, looking forward to that
maybe Cro-Mags on Wednesday , not sure yet

and then Bob Vylan later in the year , missed him the last time he played Glasgow so really looking forward to that


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 3:57 pm
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Bob Vylan is a them - Bobby and Bobbie (on the drums). Fab live 🙂


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 4:42 pm
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Bracing myself for popping my Hellfest cherry this week.

Current plan

* Fly to Nantes on Weds

* Try not to die of alcohol poisoning over 4 nights of Rock and Metal (plus a warm-up on Weds night)

* Fly back on Monday


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 4:46 pm
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I'm looking forward to Air and Michael Kiwanuka later this week at the Piece Hall in Halifax, be great if the weather holds out 🙂


 
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The festival collaboration of the summer. Anyone inviting Taylor Swift, Dave Grohl or Bruce Springsteen to join them, at Glastonbury, Leeds, Reading, wherever ....... can just **** off now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0020yx4/idles-x-hey-duggee-stick-song


 
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I thought it was Kasabian doing the secret set in Woodsies?

Just another of the rumours - The XX and Kings of Leon have also been mentioned

I’m looking forward to... Michael Kiwanuka later this week

Yeah he's on my list to catch at Glastonbury too.


 
Posted : 24/06/2024 5:01 pm
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@stevie750, I was tempted by Bodycount, saw them at Reading a few years back (uh, probably about 15 years, you know how that goes) and they were fantastic. Start to finish great.

Off to Mogwai's mini festival thing at teh weekend, should be interesting. Was looking for the right expression for the lineup, someone said "crowd-displeasing mutual masturbators" and that seems about right 🙂 But Mogwai'll kill it and there's some decent stuff in the support bill.


 
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Bristol...

Join us instead 🙂 ... well after Glasto, anyway.

https://www.severnfest.com/2024/03/23/line-up-2/


 
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@jondoh Hopefully Jaqui will be fit for you.


 
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Correction: Nile tour in September.

Korn in Scarborough.

I booked with viagogo. Wish me luck…


 
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Just returned from Alvvays at The Troxy, London. Very good as usual. Hopefully they will be part of this weekends Glastonbury coverage.


 
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back yesterday from dublin, went to see young fathers, idles and LCD soundsystem at malahide castle.  cracking concert in a great setting.

seen idles a fair few times now and love them so knew what to expect.  hadnt seen YF or LCD but theyd been on my radar to go see for a while now.

all 3 bands were excellent and im so pleased to finally get to see YF live.  mrs ex-p loves idles and wasnt too fussed about the others but shes now a convert 🙂

didnt twig til we went in that we had 'gold circle' tickets so got right on the front rail.  only downside to that for my wife is that she'd been expecting to sit on the grass and watch so was wearing flipflops 😀  but.... its probably safer at the front than a few rows back where it was all going mental so her tootsies escaped intact.

i NEED to go see young fathers again!!!


 
Posted : 29/06/2024 12:50 pm
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What's the craic with Pearl Jam cancelling last minute? I'd heard rumours a while a go of very low ticket sales and slashed prices to try and get folk in


 
Posted : 29/06/2024 4:58 pm
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They're saying due to illness and I think that's probably true? They'd already attracted an absolute shitstorm by cutting prices halfway through the run, so loads of people had already paid full price and no refunds were offered... and inevitably that'll be a lot of more hardcore fans. (it got a bit stupid because there was a fan presale which was quite small and sold out, and then people lost their minds and bought tickets from touts at several times the face value, and then the main sale started the day after, I'm kind of half laughing at that but also, gig ticketing is so demented now that you can't really blame people for getting the fear). Last minute cancellations are always shit but this one's a bit extra shit.


 
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Excellent day at Big City Glasgow yesterday, some really good sets but especially from Michael Rother, Kathryn Joseph and Nadine Shah, barely a band I didn't at least enjoy. I'd seen Sacred Paws before and didn't dig it but really enjoyed them this time. Definitely a wee bit of shoegazing fatigue by the time Slowdive were on, so we took a wee break before Mogwai, who absolutely killed it- more new stuff than I expected and leaned more towards the beautiful side of Mogwai than the brutal side (I like the horrible noises more). Still a wee element of fatigue in a day with quite a lot of similar music, like, Rano Pano just seemed to go on and on and never go anywhere, especially compared with We're No Here which does basically the same thing but better. But ending it with Remurdered and the most ridiciulously massive OTT version of Fear Satan ever was just incredible. I'd always like to hear Helicon though

I'm liking this boutique mini festivals thing,new thing for me- got parked right outside, 2 tents and no outdoors stages so weather was no stress, no band clashes (well, some weird 5 minute overlaps), everything within a short walk, enough people to feel like a proper event. About 1 minute's walk from one tent to the next. Drawbacks were the crowd didn't fit in the smaller tent (cos with nonstop bands, most people just went straight from one to the other, it was less like a normal festival little stage) and the food and drink stalls were a bit overwhelmed. And you couldn't <not> miss a band, which would have bothered my completist brain except that luckily Cloth were really dull and a good food break.

This is the whole festival, you could almost fit it in a bigger tent.
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What’s the craic with Pearl Jam cancelling last minute? I’d heard rumours a while a go of very low ticket sales and slashed prices to try and get folk in

A colleague went to see 30 Seconds to Mars the other week and said it was poorly attended  They announced that they were playing in London the following night, and as "a special thank you" their tickets would also be valid for the London gig.


 
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Nile Rogers and Chic last weekend with Mrs P.

His songwriting/production stretches from lots of disco classics, to Madonna, Duran Duran, Bowie and Daft Punk, so they were able to fill the 90 minutes with wall to wall classics. A very tight band and a polished performance meant lots of dancing. Not cool, but very enjoyable.


 
Posted : 30/06/2024 8:40 pm
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Alvvays this week. Sadies next week. 100% Canadian loveliness


 
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We're up to be filming Public Service Broadcasting in Durham Cathedral on Friday - doing the whole of their Every Valley album.

On the day of the election result!

Should be great - I like the band a lot.


 
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My wife went to see Foo Fighters on Saturday night.

Get the impression she wasn’t blown away by them – just got a ‘yeah, it was good’ response when she got home and not much more! (other than lots of moans about **** in the crowd).

She felt the 3hr set was an hour too long too, which is one reason I gave it a miss. There’s only so much shouting I can be doing with.

Sounds standard for modern Foo Fighters. Seen them a fair few times and each time just got more and more "meh".

Just booked to see Bad Nerves in Leeds in December. Can't wait for that!


 
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Another thumbs up for Big City Glasgow.

I only went for Slowdive and Mogwai. Mogwai were tight and blistering and brilliant, but for sheer smiles and wonderfulness, Slowdive won the prize for me.

Was home inside the hour after the event finished too. Much goodness.


 
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"We’re up to be filming Public Service Broadcasting in Durham Cathedral on Friday – doing the whole of their Every Valley album."

I had a ticket for that but had to sell it on - was double booked, we're off to the Stanhope Weekender (tribute mini festival) Fri & Sat this week. Have seen PSB a couple of times now and am booked to see them at the Glasshouse later in the year. Would have loved to see them at the Cathedral with a brass band, it'll be a unique experience I'm sure!


 
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Another satisfied Big City customer here. Missed Sacred Paws, but Kathryn Joseph, Michael Rother, Beak, Nadine Shah and of course Mogwai were all amazing. Great event and location - hope it happens again in the future.


 
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Mad how thin on the ground music gigs are for me this year. Last year was packed. Got a Canada Day comedy gig tonight, headliner Bobby Mair, he's an utter loon so that should be fun.

Next music is Death From Above 1979 in a few weeks. On me todd.


 
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After catching them at Glastonbury, I have just bought tickets to see Fontaines DC at Leeds First Direct Arena – really not sure how they will translate to an Arena-sized audience, but fingers crossed they pull it off.


 
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Roach junior's band Subterrania playing the big smoke on Saturday @ the Tooting Tram and Social, there's a few bands on for the London Music Showcase, should be good.


 
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My gig going seems to be entirely nostalgia based nowadays. And in that vein the Manic Street Preachers and Suede co-headline tour date I went to yesterday at Ally Pally was an absolute blinder.

I think when I booked the tickets I'd assumed it was inside Ally Pally, but it was actually outside. Was a great set up with the stage at the bottom of the big slope outside the building so made for excellent viewing.

While I've seen Suede a few times in the last decade, I think it was my first time seeing the Manics this millennium. Both bands we on far better form than they deserved to be, but The Anchoress guesting on "Little Baby Nothing" and "Your Love Alone is Not Enough" were particular highlights.


 
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Saw Bobby and Bob Vylan a couple of weeks back, outstanding as always. Got tickets for the November tour booked as well. Before that though it's the Boss next week and Libertines in Oct. Might head up to see Danbert Nobacon in Preston on Wednesday.


 
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Frank Turner, yet again. Didn't quite click for me til halfway through, maybe just being a packed relatively small venue and hot as hell, crowd was enthusiastic but mostly pretty static and so was I which is not normal for me. Setlist maybe not the best balanced. But still ace.


 
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Got tickets booked for Alison Moyet next year - that’s all I have on the horizon.

Think of booking Travis, Massive Wagons and Confidence Man (all at Rock City).


 
Posted : 19/07/2024 11:49 pm
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Waxahatchee in Brighton next week, Wednesday in August, Robyn Hitchcock in September and Pom Poko at the Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth in October- 6th time I think.


 
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Death From Above 1979, Sunday night at Chalk Brighton, was great. Frist gig since English Teacher back in May. Really really sweaty and really packed, but I wore my old Big Black t-shirt and went for it 😀

Brighton was packed with people watching something on the Beach (read it was the Libertines, but sounded more like the Kooks).  Outdoors would've been nice!

Tickets purchased for Xiu Xiu in Nov. Awesome live. Plus B Dolan at the Joiners in Oct. Be about the 5th time I've seen him.

But Ivo Graham comedy on Weds first, hopefully this isn't cancelled like the last one.


 
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So, after a recap with my brothers (I forget what I have said yes to), I have the following coming up:

Bowie tribute act
Electric Six
Fontaines DC
Aussie Pink Floyd


 
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Jon Hopkins in Bristol this coming Friday night, 26th July and Submotion Orchestra at London Village Underground in November.  I'm hoping Hopkins plays the new album as I've seen him a few times performing the older stuff.


 
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Waxahatchee in Brighton were very good - what’s not to like about banjo and steel - but 4 hours 22 minutes parking in The Laines multi-storey at £33.50 was a bit of a stunner. Mainly see gigs at Concorde 2 where parking on Madeira Drive is cheap/free after 8. No signs on the way in I could see.

back there next month but will be making parking plans in advance!


 
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Going to see Ash and Idlewild at Fringe by the sea in North Berwick in a couple of weeks. Not a massive fan of either but tickets were only £30 and £15 for my daughter so seemed rude not to.


 
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We heard Waxahatchee in the distance yesterday at Latitude, sounded good but the comedy tent was compelling at the time.

Frank Turner, The Vaccines and Goldfrapp were all superb, though a singalong and dancing gig with Frank at 1pm just felt wrong and his voice was not as good as it normally is as a result.

Justin Young was living his best life during the set.

We sacked it off early as 'the kids' were tired (tbf one is recovering from Covid and the other is adjusting to new medication).


 
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I would lile to see Waxahatchee - had the album on loop for ages. But that venue in Leeds didn't look like my thing.

We worked with PSB on the Durham Cathedral set. Really enjoyed it - spent a lot of time in the green room with them.

Interesting blokes. Have played some weird places apparently.

I think the film we've shot will do the rounds at some point.

Good choir too.


 
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Going to see Ash and Idlewild at Fringe by the sea in North Berwick in a couple of weeks. Not a massive fan of either but tickets were only £30 and £15 for my daughter so seemed rude not to.

I'm away for this one, gutted to miss it... Idlewild these days are a pretty weird proposition, they tend to do a main set of their more recent Major Key REM stuff and an encore of old idlewild punkier stuff, and Roddy always looks a bit like he's not sure why he's doing it. But still good. Ash'd be just for the memories really but they were ace in 1996

(seriously, every modern Idlewild song sounds exactly like this


 
Posted : 30/07/2024 5:51 am
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Last gig I went to after Nick Mason was Sleeper doing a Matinee show at Bath Komedia. A first for me, and for the band! They were clearly having a great time, as were the audience, and it was nice to come out of a venue before tea time!

Looking ahead, I’ve got the always wonderful Gemma Hayes at Bristol Strange Brew on 26 September, Seth Lakeman at Frome Cheese & Grain on 17 October, which I’m looking forward to, ‘cos he’ll almost certainly have his brother and sister-in-law on stage, as they live in Frome, that’s Cara Dillon and Sam Lakeman, then Judie Tzuke at Bath Chapel Arts, first time I’ll have seen her in years, followed by Laura Marling at Hackney Church on 30 October.
I’ve got one booked for next year, Wardruna, at Bristol Beacon on 21 March.


 
Posted : 31/07/2024 3:16 am
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A busy week of gigs for me..... But only because I'm off to Kendal Calling tomorrow 🙂

Looking forward to CMAT, The Streets, Paulo Nutini, Andrew Cushin, Lottery Winners, Pip Blom & more.  Am excited!


 
Posted : 31/07/2024 9:18 am
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Does anyone frequent Cafe Oto in Dalston? I've recently started working in London and Cafe Oto gigs are great - if you like that sort of thing.

This week I experienced an ambient quartet and a man absolutely hammering on a piano.

Wonderful stuff!


 
Posted : 08/08/2024 1:55 pm
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Today is the first day of the annual pilgrimage to Bloodstock - YAAAY!!


 
Posted : 08/08/2024 1:56 pm
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Does anyone frequent Cafe Oto

Been to a few rather leftfield gig type things there. Ambient sets by cello players, a video of an artist's mum reading a 1980s IBM manual, that type of thing. Interesting...  As you say, if you like that sort of thing!

The beer there is grim though! Trendy IPAs bleugrgh.


 
Posted : 08/08/2024 4:36 pm
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Seeing The Kills on Sunday at Docks in Hamburg (on the Reeperbahn) (I have a spare ticket if anybody wants it) then Fontaynes DC in November.


 
Posted : 08/08/2024 7:41 pm
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Just booked tickets n hotels for Gypsy Pistoleros in October at Castle n Falcon as well as James Oliver/Melvin Hancox  at Kings Norton Ex Sevicemens in Birmingham.

Still doing assorted Saturday and Sunday gigs around Birmingham regularly.


 
Posted : 08/08/2024 11:34 pm
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And still poured the rain…

https://flic.kr/p/2q8ZJYK

korn in Scarborough 🙂


 
Posted : 09/08/2024 12:06 pm
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A wee while ago we were in Perth (WA) visiting wife's brother and his family; I suggested to him that we see who's playing live and 'The Angels' were playing within walking distance - they're an Australian rock band that's been going in one form or another since the 70's.

However, it was the New Zealand support band 'Mi-Sex' (they had a few hits in the UK some 45yrs ago!) that blew us both away... so much so that we wondered whether the headliners would ever match their engagement and stage presence.  We agreed that we'd give them five songs, and we left at the end of the fifth song...

If they were to ever visit the UK I'd love to see them again.

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Posted : 09/08/2024 12:36 pm
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Opeth have just announced U.K. dates for next year, they’re playing Bristol Beacon, so tickets to be purchased soon, and another Pagan folk/metal band Heilung from Denmark are playing Brixton Academy next year as well, so another ticket to be purchased for them as well.


 
Posted : 11/08/2024 3:13 am
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Ash were really good last night, helped that they only played for an hour so the set was full of bangers. North Berwick was lovely and sunny and middle class but we still saw two women having a square go. The wee one delivered an olympic standard upper cut and then told her doomed opponent, "never underestimate me!". And we bumped into the artist formerly known as GW of this parish. Class night.


 
Posted : 11/08/2024 8:41 am
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Youngest Lister just came back from seeing Miss Swift at Wembley last night. Gutted I couldn’t go but sounds like they had an amazing time. £60 for 3 hours of Taylor Swift PLUS Paramore is actually a bit of a bargain.

I’ve got over it now and have a ticket for Therapy? in Bristol in November ?


 
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