Playing at End of the Road this year. Got to do a school run in the middle of the festival so hope I don't miss them 🙁
I'll tell you who I won't be seeing - Angine De Poitrine
Me neither. ****in awful overhyped internet novelty ****ery.
Angine De Poitrine
If it wasn't for some reasonable musicianship I'd swear it was Vic and Bob
I'll tell you who I won't be seeing - Angine De Poitrine.
Every gig within reach is already sold out, there was one local venue who put tickets up today at 11. At 11:00:05 I loaded the page and pressed two tickets. I was sent into hold/a queue ~ 11:00:20.
By 11:02 my place in the queue came up and they had already all gone.
Damn
Same here, gutted. But they’ve just been added to the bill for Edinburgh PsychFest and that’s sooner!
Hype be hype. I think they’re mega.
Currently on the train to Liverpool to enjoy and eve ung with Nightmares in Wax and friends.
Happy zombie Jesus weekend people.
Joe and the Shitboys lastnight, finest gay vegan punk you'll find from the Faroe islands at Fuel, Cardiff
Milk tonight for some rock and roll fun
Cardiff Psychfest tomorrow PM should be decent, Spithood are playing so will be energetic
Grabbed tickets for Nothing at Clwb later in April, Punchbag and Noisefest at the end of the month, have Shlug coming up at Canopi next week, there's a tonne going on in Cardiff for the curious.
I dont really listen to this type of thing at home or in the car, but when I'm out I kind of want to see something happen
Not a gig per se, but just enjoyed Tina the musical.
Wall to wall bangers.
grabbed a pair of tickets for Ferocious Dog, a pair for Lincoln, same for their last ever show at Rock City. Nearly didnt go for the Rock City tickets as they were a tenner more than Lincoln, but thought '"come on grandad, move with the times, £38 for a band you like at their last ever gig....." good job i did as it soon sold out.
James at the Utilita Arena, Birmingham were excellent on Friday. 2 hours of a good mixture of songs from their career.
Doves were the support and they were also really good.
Next Thursday it’s Rosadocs at The Louisiana in Bristol.
Saw Henge last night in Huddersfield. Bonkers but brilliant.
Angine de Poitrine
in October
(tbh, I’m pretty sure it’s Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee under the masks😂😂😂).
Just seen Ist Ist at The Garage in London. Not my kind of music, just sounded like Joy Division to me. Really good, would bother again.
In contrast Kreator at the Brixton Academy last week was shit - dreadful sound quality. Carcass were good, but couldn't hear anyone else. The pyrotechnics were wild. Would not bother again.
I quite fancy seeing Henge as mentioned above!
Shlug at Canopi in Cardiff last night, support from Lung, sludgy Sabbath inspired metal, they were really good!
Last night we went to see Carsie Blanton and The Burning Hell pretty much based on one song I'd seen on Instagram. I don't usually go to gigs unless I'm pretty familiar with the music. But last night was awesome, life affirming, hopeful and funny. Molotov cocktails around last night.
Henge played a free gig on the field behind my house last year (maybe the year before). It was amazing apart from one thing. I'd been ill all weekend with the squits.
I watched as much as I could take and then urgently shuffled home. I opened the bathroom window and listened to the end of the set while sitting on the bog. It really ramped up at the end in more ways than one.
I've got tickets to see Angine de Poitrine in October. It'll be my first time going out and travelling to see a band in years.
I don't usually go to gigs unless I'm pretty familiar with the music.
I don't usually question people's life choices, it's up to you. But that one, you're just 100% wrong 😉
I don't usually go to gigs unless I'm pretty familiar with the music.
I don't usually question people's life choices, it's up to you. But that one, you're just 100% wrong 😉
Same. I spent 15 years going out to pubs all week listening to unknown bands.
You never know what you'll find. Some of it will be total crap and that's fine. Some of it will be amazing.
None of it's crap. There's just stuff you like, and stuff other people like (but are wrong about) 😉
(and then there's good stuff played badly, but that's a different thing. Some of the best shows I've seen have had bad sound, and mucking up the middle eight or repeating the second verse by mistake, but that's what live means. It's not an exam, and if you want perfection you're missing the point)
Someone mentioned novelty nonsense with good musicianship.
Nick Cage Against The Machine were great fun at the Crescent in York last week. Audience was a really good mix of young and old, punks and rockers too.
Not entirely sure that Killing in the Name should be a novelty song, but I am sure I want RATM back. We need them in these times.
RATM were the last band I made a proper effort to get tickets for and I was foiled 3 times. First by COVID and then by Zach blowing out his knee.
Maybe one day. Saw them at Leeds fest in 2000.
Each to their own and all that but due to financial and time constraints I'm generally only going to go and see acts I'm familiar with. I also like to go to comedy gigs which are generally cheaper and easier to get to.
What a week of gigs that was.
Buena Vista Social Club, some quality Cuban jazz
James, wonderful gig, they've so many hits. Having 2 drummers adds to it.
Prodigy with Carl Cox in support - sonic onslaught from the moment we walked into the arena for 3-4 hours.
Samantics on a boat, spoken word with loops of Ukulele / keyboard. Such a chilled Sunday afternoon cruising up and down the Dee, so good we snuck onto the second sailing to do it all again
Tues night, went to lovely little Heartbreakers in Southampton - , band I saw as support a month or so ago "headliners" this time (3 bands for £8 🙂 ) called One Lung, great fun, passionate punk attitude, so young..! Weird crowd, lot more kidz than I expected, but they were mostly just stood still watching. Left a 3 foot gap in front of the stage, too self conscious to get close? Me and my friend just went in the gap and bopped. One point these 2 young females came down the front next to me, danced for all of 15 seconds, thought we were gonna start a mosh going... but they then got their phones out, took pics for their insta (presumably) and disappeared back into the "throng". Bloody weird kids these days. Good that they are getting out seeing unknown bands in little venues though, so ho hum. 😀
Next is Just Mustard
In contrast Kreator at the Brixton Academy last week was shit - dreadful sound quality. Carcass were good, but couldn't hear anyone else
Saw kreator at Glasgow O2 academy and the sound was the best I have ever heard there. Carcass also had great sound . Exodus sound was awful
I don't know why bands play there, it's a rubbish venue and the sound is normally really poor
Was looking forwards to 2 gigs at Rock and Roll Brewhouse in Brum but I've broke a finger, dislocated another and banged a knee up last week coming back from a gig-2 good bands so worth it-in Rednal.
Saturday its Surface Air and Sunday its Rock Of Ages new bands show. Still a day n a half to recover more.
I'm seeing The Wildhearts in May. Then toying with the idea of going to Texas is the Reason on the 31st, but it would mean driving back from Manchester to Hull on my own on a school night, because apparently no one else knows who Texas is the Reason are.
I still reckon it'll be worth it though.
Out of Just Mustard, now waiting for my wife to get out of her Ramones tribute gig.
Just mustard were very good, though the place smelled like the incense from my 1990s bedroom, combined with vocal similarity to Alison Shaw from the cranes I was convinced ifd passed through a time machine.
Seriously though, what a noise, brilliant.
I was thankful to see a few fellow grey heads and not just a sea of youth. Though I did catch myself thinking the sound engineer looked about 12...
Ahh. Didn’t know Just Mustard were on in Glasgow tonight, I like what I’ve heard of theirs so far. Damn.
A cool wee one at the Rum Shack last night - Deyu does MF DOOM, jazz band from Bristol (I think) doing live workings of tracks from across DOOM’s catalogue. Dead good, supported by the sax player from Kai Reesu, who are supporting Makaya McCraven the week after next.
vocal similarity to Alison Shaw from the cranes
Ha! Funny that, my mate sent me a release by Alison Shaw yesterday (she's from the same hometown as us), I was like ooh yeah, I hated her vocals, but I bet they're similar to Just Mustard..! Coincidence 😀 I listened and they're not really though, Cranes were much wetter 😆
Deyu does MF DOOM, jazz band from Bristol (I think) doing live workings of tracks from across DOOM’s catalogue. Dead good
Also - I hope they were better than DOOM live - managed to see him in Brighton and not only did we have to wait until midnight for the gig to start, but he was dull as anything. And I love his recorded stuff.
Went into Brum Saturday and Sunday and very glad I did,Surface Air were Excellent,Very Prog with 2 drum solos,a bass solo n a twin neck lead guitar. Their recording an album atm and are playing at StourJam on 5th, 6th n 7th June at Stourport on Severn.
Sundays first band were Sideborg a 3 piece with a very loud drummer, a bit Nu Metal i assume. Main band were Sue,Very intense n loud with the singer/guitarist performing barefoot which had me whincing in case he stubbed a toe as he danced around the small stage.
Just Mustard surprised me with their grooviness. Really enjoyed that. The slightly generic shoegaze support had me wondering if my trip to Brighton (alone, mate let me down 🤨 ) might have been wasted . But no, Chalk has great sound and the wall of shoegaze/gothness was quite excellent.
Next is good ol' Johnny and PiL for the 3rd time. Never doing old bands again, I said! But he's legendary. Can't wait
Just Mustard surprised me with their grooviness. Really enjoyed that.
Did they aye? Or are you just being paid to say that 😉
THEGUARDIAN.COM Quite an interesting read, but hardly a surprise that band and record 'pluggers' now have a new way of doing it.
Steve Craddock, out of Ocean Colour Scene tomorrow and then Jon Allen in October, both at our local 60 seat venue. Proper up close performances
Did the Prodigy at Wembley Arena on Saturday with Carl Cox
Went with my OH, she's Danish, moved here around 2000... so the old school stuff was new to her but she seemed to get it, she absolutely loved the Prodigy, i don;'t think she'd given a massive listen before but was familiar
i think this was my 4th or 5th time, first time was about '91
What a gig, Carl Cox played so many old school tunes... he kept it pretty cool though, very few were played that weren't on the underground side, proper old school, pre uk hardcore / jungle.
The prodigy, let me just preface this, it's been a long long time since i've found a space on the main floor were i wasn't being jostled with people going in and out and unable to move or dance. We found a space, maybe 30? back to the side and it was perfect.. the people around me similarly minded.. all able to dance, with a fantastic stage view. Incredible show, loud, but no ringing in my ears.. amazing light show, 2 hours of jumping around 🙂 brought out Ruff in the Jungle which really made my day, was my favorite B-side from back in the day, modernised... And the music only version of Firestarter with Keith being beamed from huge laser cannons onto the sidescreens.. .wow.. then have way through it comes back in with a more uptempo D&B version (Andy C remix maybe??). Absolutely incredible
Just got back from Cowboy Junkies. Been listening to them since their first album in the late 80s but never got round to seeing them. Excellent gig but I hate sitting down - last time I went to Bexhill to see Rag n Bone man it was standing so was a bit disappointed in that. Her voice was still superb though and there was some great mandolin!
Busy Autumn gig season ahead. Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy performing R.E.M.s Life’s Rich Pageant, Swervedriver, The Surfrajettes and just booked tickets for Little Barrie. Barrie Cadogan of Little Barrie is a real deal guitar player. Up there with Marr, Squire, Mascis etc.
Bit annoying it's in arenas this time around, but have booked for the Suede/Manics co-headline tour as, when they did it a couple of years ago, the date I went to was one of my best gigs in a long time.
Just nabbed tickets for Makeshift Art Bar at the fab Green Door Store, Brighton. Excited. My kinda noise. Apparently, being fellow Irish, they've supported Just Mustard a few times. (...Now to read tojv's linked weird article 🙂 )
Did they aye? Or are you just being paid to say that
Ah, I see.. there's a new way to promote bands, so they are using it... hmm. Well, I use my ears (and think the most mentioned, Geese are shit) so it has no effect on me. I'm more likely to ignore or instinctively dislike things (like Geese)(like Antoine de ****offnowplease) that have that kind of buzz about them! Unless they are good, of course. Being influenced by an influencer is pretty much the antithesis of me- I actually still read read paper music magazines 😀
Went to see PiL tonight with my big bruv. We both had some hassle with old ****s in the crowd (bloke in a "Punks not Dead" shirt, moron 🤣 ) but laughed it off and had a great time. Nuts how much Johnny still gives it at his age! Back to the younguns for me with er Tricky next 😅
heading to Primavera Sound, Porto in a few weeks. First big festival in years and years. Staying in a hotel across town and we'll probably dip in and out though I've no idea how realistic that is in terms of logistics...
