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Frank was indeed awesome though @northshoreniall. Sorry if I bashed into you, haven't thrown myself about like that since seeing the Stranglers almost 40 years ago 😀
Some weekend, this!
billy woods on Thursday was short and sweet but brilliant.
Oracle Sisters on Friday and Saturday (logistical catastrophe but ended up ok) who I’ve been waiting ages to see and they were even better than I’d hoped. Bold cover of Teardrop in their encore!
Rounding off with Kamasi Washington and Emma-Jean Thackray at the barras tonight, that’ll do! 😎 😎
Did the Geordie Greep gig on Thursday, I enjoyed it more than I expected. Jazz indie rock is how my son explained it to my wife, which I guess it was.Mad rush to get a copy of sons birth certificate only to find out it was an 8+ venue 😐 Ticket price was a only £22 which made the vinyl purchase easier. Best bit was seeing my son enjoy it so much and how he he likes what he likes and doesn't care that his friends dont like what he listens to.
Front Line Assembly playing the same venue on the 20th, so he has to come with me for this😃
I'm not sure how I feel about this but I just got tickets to see The 900, the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1&2 Playstation Soundtrack Tribute Band. I mean, on the one hand that is a ridiculous sentence and it sort of goes against my entire sense of rock and roll and musical fidelity and basically right and wrong, dark and light. I'm literally passing on my last chance to ever see Refused live, and at the same time paying to seeing a covers band play New Noise.
But on the other, I think it might be the best gig in the world ever. THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE!
Also booked Davey McManus from the Crocketts/The Crimea. Man I loved the Crocketts.
Miki Berenyi Three at Rough Trade, Bristol - album promo gig.
Seeing them again next month in Bristol on their actual tour.
Pigs x 7 at New Century Hall Manchester tonight, support from Irked. So, should be nice and quiet then...
Holy moly. That was LOUD!!
I’m another for Bacon Chops Gammon Loin Lardons Fillet Shoulder - tomorrow night in Leeds. 👍
Just back from seeing Frank Turner in Ipswich closest I've been to the stage in a long while not quite in the mosh pit but close enough. Some older stuff in amongst the latest album tracks and the crowd pleasers.
A Polaroid Picture moment
We don't get a date on this tour 🙁 I suppose 4 nights in September is a good alternative though
Holy moly. That was LOUD!!
It’s Pigsx7, you expected Ed Sheeran? I saw them at EoTR a couple of years back, and I’m very glad I always carry hearing protection! Great band, really enjoyed them, I had no real idea what they were like live.
Got Honeyglaze tonight at the Joiners. It won't be stupidly loud and there won't be any crappy photos.
We don't get a date on this tour 🙁 I suppose 4 nights in September is a good alternative though
Lost Evenings?
I had a pretty nasty experience at Pigsx7 in Leeds on Sunday – stood toward the back, near the bar, and someone walked behind me, shoulder barged me, then accused me of pushing him and got *very* aggressive – really in my face and shouting. His partner was trying to make him 'leave it' and eventually left him (still stood really close to me) as he was being such a dick. The guy was very big (and I'm only 5' 7'' and 70kg) so I was very concerned he was going to flip and deck me – I wouldn't have stood a chance. So, in a fit of being daft, I went over to him and asked him to go outside to speak – he claimed he had said excuse me so I asked him how he thought I was going to hear him over the din of seven pigs (I was talking calmly and trying to explain that I hadn't pushed him as I didn't even know he was there). Eventually he calmed down and we even shook hands but jeez – it was so unnecessary, there was plenty of room and I had been stood there all gig without anyone else even touching me slightly, never mind walloping into me like that. What a way to put the dampners on what was otherwise a great night.
Lost Evenings?
Aye, I had tickets once before for a London one but couldn't go so I wasn't going to miss this, it's just down the road! Clashes with both the Ballo enduro and the resurrected Glentress Seven though.
I had a pretty nasty experience at Pigsx7
Bit shit. It's annoying that that sort of thing becomes the lasting memory of a gig when it happens. Like the one at a Brighton gig where this bloke got all fighty with me cos I told him he'd just blocked a girl's view, taking photos, like a prick. Rubbish gig that was anyway.
No such aggressive behaviour at Honeyglaze last night. All very "nice" and friendly. 🙂 Good band, especially the drummer, but I swear they did exactly the same set last time I saw them and it wasn't much of a thrill. Still I haven't paid for either ticket, so win win.
We don't get a date on this tour
Only the fourth time since 2006 that he's played here and we missed the last one due to being disorganised and having seen 3 of his gigs in the past 12 months!
Was asked if I travelled to gigs by the new girl at work yesterday. A little I said!
Bokassa at Sheffield Corp tomorrow night. Can't wait. The finest stoner punk.
Can't make it but would love to be at Swans one and only UK show tomorrow in London. Gutted...
got Ghost at the O2 on Saturday, hyped, the reviews are selling a spectacular phone free experience 🙂 just a shame i'm fairly high up, but ill take my best glasses 🤣
Heigh ho heigh ho heigh ho!We're heading out to the punk rock show!
- just got ticket through Twickets for Frank Turner at Southampton tonight. Very excited, never seen before.
Any locals advice where to park, as I'll be driving?
Joe Bonamassa next Saturday in Nottingham. Shouldn't be too much agro in the mosh pit !
Just got tickets for Cardinal Black in September at Rock City- Chris Buck is one talented guitarist.
Fabulous show. 1/3025 for me. It won't be the last.
I jumped, I crouched, I danced, I laughed, I hugged a stranger, I sang and I even cried (a bit)
But don't park in Grosvenor Sq car park unless your car is only 4 feet wide!
AJ Tracey at King Tuts last night - not bad, incredibly short (45 mins!) but it was cheapish. Not my cup of tea that much, but there's no denying Thiago Silva is a banger and there was a nice energy in the room.
Mildly sobering to consider that most people in the room were not born the first time the Def Jam tour was in Glasgow. Kinda good though.
Got the fluttering sax and mellifluous jazz grooves of Alabaster DePlume next Friday, can't wait for that!
Ghost was amazing
huge stage, basketball court size? maybe larger? with 9 musicians on it, all doing their part to play and entertain.
The stage show was pretty epic, usual video screen back drop, which at one point dropped away leaving church arched pillars with videos screens replacing the stained glass... and then later on the pillars dropped away leaving a new back drop and video screen, blew my mind
However
i've now decided to spend properly on big gigs i really want to see, i was sat high to nearly the side of stage, i appreciate the view won't be ideal, but the initial few tunes were massively distorted by being off stage front, it did clear up later, but i think both the visuals and the audio would have made it worth standing for hours OR paying a premium for better seating.
Saw Roger Daltry last night on his Alive & Kicking tour in Wolverhampton. For an 81 year old, his voice is amazing, played quite a few Who tracks and the band with him were superb. On stage for an hour and three quarters or so, a really good night. Trying to spot someone in the crowd that wasn't grey or bald was like the hardest Where's Wally ever though!
Just got tickets to see New Model Army, Terrorvision and Paradise Lost at a one-off gig at a new venue that's opening later this year called Bradford Live – I believe it's part of the city's 'City of Culture' (all three bands are from Bradford).
Saw Self Esteem do an acoustic set (just her + backing singers and a guitar) last week - she was good, looks like she has fun on stage.
Tonight we've got Greentea Peng at Rock City - I expect I'm not the target demographic but still looking forward to it
Trying to spot someone in the crowd that wasn't grey or bald was like the hardest Where's Wally ever though!
Arrived at our glamping Dome thing for the Machynlleth Comedy Festival. Josh Widdecombe this eve. Should be a good weekend. Even without the mass start bike ride on Sunday:(
Just got tickets to see New Model Army, Terrorvision and Paradise Lost at a one-off gig at a new venue that's opening later this year called Bradford Live – I believe it's part of the city's 'City of Culture' (all three bands are from Bradford).
That is a bananas lineup , love it. Ooh wop bop ba doo wop bop ba doo wop bop ba doo if all the people in the world turned up in your back garden would you slowly passing timeless horrors hives within all fear the mourning in my tears drown all the past we lived beneath these years awaiting for the call for all life to expire
Saw Joe Bonamassa at Nottingham last Saturday. Talented guitarist with a talented band behind him.
After seeing him at the Albert Hall last year sat up in the Gods, I splurged to be on the floor / relatively front-and-centre for this. Sound was better (similar experience at the Albert Hall as the post about Ghost earlier - the sou d initially wasn't moved right for where I was sat up high at the Albert Hall).
The audience is usually quite attentive / respectful - no most pit for Joe ! My only moan - how many people have to get up to go for a wazz or the bar or a fag , mid-song, causing everyone to have to get up, block the view, etc etc. FFS it was non-stop. If you've gone and paid £100+ for a ticket why go and miss 10% of the gig ? It's £1 a minute to watch (closer to £2 per minute close to the front) - why miss £10-20 quids worth - and be a PITA 1000 others in the process. There was a guy on state who's 78 years old that didn't need to go to the pisser for 2 hours, so why TF can't people half his age ? I concluded Nottinghamshire must be inhabited mainly by weak-bladdered incontinent alcoholics.
Also went to see Mark Steele in Chesterfield, if we're diverge to comedians. Another Radio 4 guy who's had cancer surgery - same disease as Rhod Gilbert.
Anyway- much about the treatment and experiences, in a typically British self-deprecating and stoical way. But not all. Quite positive and uplifting with it. And exceptionally funny to boot (probably helps if you have a middle-to-left-of-centre view of Governance - if you're a Reform voting racist/fascist/bigot/ Brexit-voting-moron (those are not mutually exclusive) you'll probably think he didn't like your sort.
Off to see Shack at the Ritz in Manchester tonight. One of the few bands I absolutely love who I’ve never seen live, but then the Head brothers did seem to prioritise heroin use over live performances.
Should be a belter
Kate Rusby on a whim next Thursday as herself got a deal through Central Tickets.
Kruder and dorfmeister tomorrow night and beruit on Thursday. Hope shack tour more widely would love to see them.
A couple of my mates were there last night. They described it as beautiful.. very jealous.
K&D Sessions attendee here too. Last night at the Royal Festival Hall. Brilliant night.
Jealous of anyone getting to see Shack, I missed the London tour dates until I was too late.
After failing to get Glastonbury tickets, I've just bought tickets to see Iron Maiden (it's on the same weekend) – it'll be about the 20th time I have seen them, I reckon (I first saw them in 1982 as a spotty 15-year-old).
Rival Schools last night. I didn't do my research, I kind of assumed it was going to be some sort of United By Fate album show (cos half the tours I see now are anniversary shows for 90s bands, and because they went with that cover for hte posters and ads and even the merch) but it turned out to be pretty much just a normal show, including loads of stuff off the later 2 albums that I never even heard before. So I might not have gone to that if I'd known, but as it turned out, it was fantastic and I just ordered those two albums. They're in leeds tomorrow I think, well worth seeing if you're even halfway interested.
(and then supporting Hundred Reasons at what I think is now their 7th or 8th last ever show, in London. Which I'm sure will be great but I was at their last 2 last ever shows and bought the cd and all that so I thought I'd skip this one and maybe catch the next one in 2027. But if you're going, definitely get along early and see Rival Schools)
Alabaster dePlume at Mono in Glasgow was a brilliant way to start a glorious bank holiday weekend!
Saw Alan Davies' stand up show in Buxton last night. Wasn't sure what to expect from him but very funny and slick.
Had 3 supporting acts, first 2 needed work but was impressed with Dinesh Nathan. Opening with "Any Hindus in?" at Buxton Opera House on a Bank Holiday Monday was deliberately optimistic.
Viagra Boys at Brixton was a riot last night.
Suspect I'm not going to be overly productive at work today...