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😂 That’s what I thought when i got the email that they were playing in Southampton… a bonkers name from the past. Never heard them, they might be brilliant… but I know they won’t be. I really find old men playing heavy metal quite hilarious 😹
Few gigs coming up - with some of my favourite bands.
- Beta Band.
- BRMC
- Suede
Also Suzanne Vega who I’m sure will be good.
Unfortunately, missed out on Radiohead tickets.
Got The Beths next week and Gurriers in October. 😍
Saw Suzanne Vega last time she toured, was a great night. Self Esteem at the Sage in Gateshead last night - brilliant uplifiting gig, came out smiling and danced out.
got gorillaz tickets for mrs750 am 750 jnr yesterday, £217 !!!
coming up I have Bob Vylan , discharge and less than jake
I have more gigs in the diary at the moment than for many years;
Oasis
Self Esteem
Idlewild
Suede
(and have booked Latitude for next year)
Annoyed I missed out on the Belle & Sebastien Tigermilk/If You're Feeling Sinister tickets as I was away on holiday, but hopefully some will appear on Twickets at some point.
That’s what I thought when i got the email that they were playing in Southampton… a bonkers name from the past. Never heard them, they might be brilliant… but I know they won’t be. I really find old men playing heavy metal quite hilarious
I've just listened to their songs Silver And Gold and Love Potion No.9. Dreadful. I'm glad they aren't gigging anywhere near me otherwise I'd be tempted to go to see if they really are that bad. Btw Love Potion No.9 was released before Spinal Tap otherwise I'd assume it was a parody.
I was amazed by the Northern Soul prom at last years Prom Concerts, and the band is touring this year as "Soul Brothers Syndicate featuring Darrell Smith and Judith Ude". They're coming to Stafford next Monday and I've got a ticket.
Clipping. last night at Koko in London was amazing! My mate was in the accessibility area, basically a balcony (koko is an old theatre) overlooking the stage right in line with the PA..so the sound up there was monstrous! So I stayed up there rather than squeezing on to the totally packed dance floor like I normally would! Had the freedom to fling myself about like a loon without the usual phones in the face or some hippy's hair in my mouth... Loved it! Even took a photo during a quiet moment, cos I thought this looked cool..she was doing gospelly vocals and live piano which added a nice touch.. Best band evah!
Got M(h)aol for a touch of modern punkiness tomorrow in Portsmouth.
Gigs I have coming up:
Gary Numan
Pop Will Eat Itself
New Model Army/Terrorvision
Aussie Pink Floyd
The Stranglers
Ash
Oh, I've seen some of those recently.. Ash in 1994, PWEI in 1989 and the Stranglers (when it wasn't just JJ!) in 1982 ! They were good! 😀
I've got a ticket for PWEI, the pre-tour album release show in Kingston - 150 capacity venue, should be brilliant, not seen PWEI live before.
Also got tickets for Levellers Zeitgeist 30 year tour in London in November, not mad for that album but they'll do a load of earlier stuff once they've played that album.
Annoyed I missed out on the Belle & Sebastien Tigermilk/If You're Feeling Sinister tickets as I was away on holiday, but hopefully some will appear on Twickets at some point.
Thanks for the coincidental heads up, I guess I'm going to see Tigermilk at the ROH for rather a lot of money for nosebleed seating. I hope it's good, last time I saw them was at their last 'curated by' ATP and it didn't really feel like my sort of thing by then but I still enjoy the older records.
M(h)aol last night was a wonderful little gig at Heartbreakers in Soton. I've seen some awesome stuff in that tiny venue and they were up there. Had a nice chat with them afterwards, asking why the guitarist faces away from the audience the whole time. He prefers it 🙂 He makes some brilliant noises, so we'll let him off 🙂 Few weeks break in gigs, then back to London for Factory Floor. Yip!
Also got tickets for Levellers Zeitgeist 30 year tour in London in November, not mad for that album but they'll do a load of earlier stuff once they've played that album.
The last time I saw them was excellent. It was also memorable for being my last gig before Covid lockdown and needed a drive home through a proper blizzard. I also saw Mark Chadwick do a rather drunk solo gig a couple of years ago. I think he started by saying that if you haven't got enough talent then confidence will do. He was good but ragged.
In the next few months I've got:
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Thekla
Echobelly - local
Ash - local
Swill (of TMTCH ^) in a solo Xmas shindig - London Water Rats
Can I fit in Drink The Sea the day after Swill in Thekla? (Peter Buck, REM, with a band from Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan Band, etc)
When my wife keeps mentioning Take That I'm hoping she has a friend to take...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Brighton, July 2026. I must be going mad, just spent £65 a ticket 😳 Better be ****ing good!
@desperatebicycle - if Nick is anywhere near as good as he was in Birmingham last year you'll be in for a treat. One of the best live performances in a big arena I've ever seen.
sisters of mercy@kelvingrove bandstand.
I thought it as a great gig. more of a performance than previous attempts. I was on the opposite side of the venue to you.
tonight is Theatre of Hate with Skeletal Family support, then I've got a packed weekend in October, with spear of destiny, assemblage 23 and then possibly new model army (if I'm accompanying my wife), then the following week Psychedelic furs, then the week after that Fields of the Nephilim, then maybe gary numan, I've not decided, PWEI, NFD and the Almighty ending November
Filming Tom Smith (Editors) gig up at Todmorden Unitarian Church next week I believe.
I've filmed him several times doing acoustic sets. Comes across well.
Might take my bike if the weather's good.
Shooting his video tonight for new single.
Was gonna get Tricky tickets for next year, but £56 can get in the sea. I've already blown my usual £20 budget on Nick Cave!
Got Belly next week, and Suzanne Vega, The Miki Berenyi Trio and Cara Dillon coming up.
Earlier this evening I was at Electric, formerly SWX in Bristol, for this outfit…
Just bought tix for yet another London gig next month, Jacques Greene & Nosaj Thing. just tipped over the 20quid mark, but only slightly.
Here’s an additional fun bit of information to add to the Sleeper gig last night; the support band were Rialto, who’s new single I heard recently on 6Music. Something about the name started ringing some bells, so I checked back to lists my mate and I used to keep of bands and their support that we used to see.
I was right, we’d seen them before on 21/2/98, at Swindon Oasis, supporting Sleeper! They’re very good, very much in the Britpop world, there’s hints of Blur and Pulp, but that’s hardly surprising, really.
75% of the way through Frank Turner's Lost Evenings festival/cult fest and tbf it's been completely bloody awesome so far. 6 bands a night (with some little overlaps) so you can't quite see everything but you can make it so you're always watching a band. And they've literally all been good. Standouts have been Deux Furieuses, Laura Silverstone and Midnight Ambulance, and seeing Chris TT play again (he sold me my frank turner hoodie when he supported him and ran the merch 17 years ago!) is lovely. Though I'll admit the songs did feel better when he was younger and angrier. Tomorrow we get actual *ing Arab Strab as a support band, that's ridiculous.
Oh yeah and 3 frank sets and one to go. Hardly worth mentioning! Tomorrow is "greatest hits" night and is the first time he'll replay anything over the weekend, I'm not sure I have the physio for it. I am carb loading like it's a race. At the end of tonight's show I had a sort of Happy Attack, like the equivalent of a panic attack, I was just so completely overwhelmed with the joy of it my head fell off. Live music is just the *ing best.
Belly in Leeds 25 September were mint. 30 years after I last saw them
Seeing Belly tomorrow evening at the Trinity Centre, Bristol. Seen them more recently than 30 years ago, though. Should be a really good show. 🥰
Photos to follow.
Added a late gig last night, The Joy Formidable at Rough Trade Bristol on 2 December. Intimate little gig with chat and music, apparently new stuff coming next year. Should be fun.
Just heading home after taking my daughter to see a gig at the Roundhouse. I'd forgotten what a lovely venue that is.
Here’s an additional fun bit of information to add to the Sleeper gig last night; the support band were Rialto, who’s new single I heard recently on 6Music. Something about the name started ringing some bells, so I checked back to lists my mate and I used to keep of bands and their support that we used to see.
I was right, we’d seen them before on 21/2/98, at Swindon Oasis, supporting Sleeper! They’re very good, very much in the Britpop world, there’s hints of Blur and Pulp, but that’s hardly surprising, really.
Saw Sleeper (supported by Rialto) on Saturday in Leeds. Thought Rialto were pretty good - everything they did sounded familiar to the point where it felt like some of their stuff was just blatantly ripped off. Some stuff was very much Lightning Seeds/Terrorvision-esque, there were hints of Abba and the last one they played (something at the Discotheque?) was just full on Village People!
Sleeper and Louise were as always, absolutely sublime. Felt quite loud/raw/rocky vs when I've seen them before which was cool.
I know you lot won't agree, but this was bloody epic last night...
Florence Black last Friday at Rock City. Absolutely banging. As always.
£22 inc, Skam (Leicester based band) as support.
No dynamic price gouging, no has-beens reforming to fund their coke habit. 110% from 3 boyos from The Valleys that are incredibly tight and fill the room with a wall of sound like there were 6 of them.
I went to Drumsheds at the weekend, for a bit of a rave up...
what a place, an old Ikea building, massive capacity, like 15000, the main room was the biggest space i have ever been in outside of an arena or stadium for a music event of any kind.. Decent sound if you get in the right place..easy to get drinks, loads of bars... Well organised transportation via bus from the local tube...very Epic
Thought sod it and bought a Tricky ticket for meself anyway, cos I love im. May 2026
I hope it's better than when I saw him perform Maxinquaye at Camden Roundhouse. One of the most disappointing gigs I've been to.
Yeah, I find those album anniversary gigs are invariably shite. So hopefully he won't just be going through the motions on this one. The venue (Troxy) looks interesting anyway 🙂
Yeah, I find those album anniversary gigs are invariably shite.
That depends on whose album it is, and how they go about it. Belly, for example, played the whole of ‘King’, which is 30 years old this year, and followed it with a selection of songs from ‘Star’, their first album, and ‘Dove’, their album from 2016. Nobody there would have left thinking “well, that was shite”, because it was bloody excellent! The band were clearly having a great time, and the album, played through live sounded like a greatest hits album, it showed what a great bunch of songs were on it.
Gail’s ‘Damaged Goods’ tee shirt is doubly appropriate for her - she went through cancer treatment while touring ‘Dove’, and earlier this year she played bass with Gang Of Four on their farewell American tour. She was in L7 at one point, I’m not sure, but I saw them in Bristol back in the 90’s, and she might have been with them then.
She’s doing ok for someone in their 60’s as a touring musician.
@daveyboywonder - back when Rialto started out there were comparisons being made between them and other 90’s ‘Britpop’ bands, like Blur, Pulp, etc; inevitable I guess because they all had the same reference points in music as they were growing up.
I could certainly hear all sorts of different things that were familiar, but almost impossible to actually pin down the other evening.
I’ve added another gig before the end of the year, The Joy Formidable are playing at Rough Trade Bristol on December 2, which I’m really looking forward to - they don’t tour here that often, they’re very popular in America, so I never miss an opportunity to see them when they do play somewhere local.
Seems like it’s a forerunner to something happening next year, so I’d guess a new album and tour.
They’re very loud and great fun.
Sunday night we saw Steve Steinmans "Anything for Love" Meat Loaf show. Imagine a northern club tribute act wins the lottery and goes large. Great fun if you don't take it seriously.
Saw Sandi Toskvig last night - lovely couple of hours discussing her love of books, touching on diversity, visibility and censorship. And some of the books she has collected over the years sound amazing - "Images Not to Masturbate To" anyone?
Nobody there would have left thinking “well, that was shite”, because it was bloody excellent!
Yeah, but seeing as my idea of a great gig isn't standing around taking photos of women on stage, we're clearly looking for different experiences 🤣 🤣
Just tried getting Asha Banks pre-sale tickets (for Manchester) for my daughter this morning - got on, added them to my basket then tried to checkout but got a message saying they weren't available. Damn you Ticketmaster.
Managed to get some for London though (Roundhouse have their own ticketing system away from Ticketmaster) - but it's a Sunday night and it will be a bitch to try to get home to Yorkshire. FFS.
Also wanted to get The Cure tickets, but it's in the middle of August and we ordinarily have our family summer holiday around that time.
I’ve added another gig before the end of the year, The Joy Formidable are playing at Rough Trade Bristol on December 2, which I’m really looking forward to
Enjoy - I love them, criminally underrated. And another female fronted band to add to your photo collection.
Also wanted to get The Cure tickets, but it's in the middle of August and we ordinarily have our family summer holiday around that time.
Just got tickets for The Cure at Wythenshawe Park - may be away as well but I'll have no trouble shifting them on if we are.
Damn you Ticketmaster.
Quite fancied taking my partner to see Underworld... saw Ticketmaster, didn't bother.
Enjoy - I love them, criminally underrated
Seen them twice (no! 3 times, forgot the Joiners one in 2010 🙂 ), they were great. No photos of Ritzy's legs to prove it, sorry.
Beta Band last week. Hmmm, nostalgia ain't what it used to be! Nice to be at, happy for them and nice to see them happy buuuut it was just a bit pish compared to 20 years ago. Should have known better - Creative Peak Rule and all that.
billy woods this coming weekend - this'll be the third time I've seen him in the last year, he's ace.
Still coming to terms with coughing up 250 quid for 3 tickets for the Cure for next year, but Mogwai! Slowdive! The Cure! That'll be a day.
Also got a ticket for Geese, that's not for ages either. Brilliant record.
Bunch of stuff in the coming weeks - Cannibal Ox, Emma Pollock, Carl Craig/Mike Banks, the Liminanas, TTFFSU and a couple of others.