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Totally deafened by teh Wildhearts. Wobbly setlist, brilliant show.
Stealing sheep were bloody awesome last night in Cardiff
- Both Aphex Twin 2019 Cochella sets are on MixCloud if useful...
Today, IncinerationFest. My very favourite fest of the year! \m/ \m/
Looking forward to Big Thief in Bristol at the end of the month. Saw them a couple of years ago at Greenman, Met Adrianne at the Rough Trade stand afterwards.
Fields of the Nephilim at the Barrowlands tonight.
Quite excited, though I know it'll be a goth sweatfest, and too much flour will mean we'll all be walking backwards and forwards through wallpaper paste. 😉
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Fields of the Nephilim at the Barrowlands tonight
been considering a trip over to Sheffield this Saturday to see them.
Netx up for me is Living Colour in about three weeks
Wednsday next week Eddie Vedder in Dublin!
Off to see Gun, Terrorvision, the Wildhearts ad Baby Chaos in... 26 minutes. In the park, not in the barrowlands- always a bit chancy but it's paying off today!
Now which of the bands will split up midset or suffer a near deadly medical emergency?
The Neph were really really good. The whole sound is spot on.
@northwind, it was a tough choice, gun et al, combichrist or the neph, all playing the same night.
Awakenings in Amsterdam this Weeke d for me to try and survive 2 hours of DJ rebekah
Saw Mac Demarco at the piece hall halifax last night. Engaging performer, good laugh, and good gig, crowd knew all the words. Surprised people manage to er, mosh and even crowdsurf to a moderate chug along song like 'together', but they did...
Saw The Stroppies at The Smokehouse in Ipswich on Sat night. Couple of cool local bands in support.
Enjoyed it far more than the previous day at Latitude.
Summer Fest season in full swing. We've had two trips to All Points East, plus Glastonbury (and tickets for End of the Road and Gruff Rhys on the board and a few more in the e-ticket bank)
APE was as slick (and corporate) as before - sponsorship from American Express, Huawei phones, Firestone Tyres all feeling well out of place. Also the Tinder bar/stand/meeting area - WTF?
No new discoveries there but Chemical Brothers show is better than ever on big outdoor stage. Interesting seeing Primal Scream as a stripped down 4/5 piece now .
Ezra Furman's mid afternoon set was OK (APE does feel like it sells mostly on the headliner so a lot of the audiences can be a bit lacklustre but we picked up tickets for his 'secret' gig at the Shacklewell Arms the next night which just blew the roof off. New record is punkier so all the old material has had a garage band update. He's simply fantastic live - UK tour in November (so we've got tickets for the London gig on that as well).
Glastonbury highlight was, without a doubt, Janelle Monae. Made everyone else look like an amateur,
Lizzo also a force of nature. Mavis Staples still has it at 80.
I'm looking forward to James Holden And The Animal Spirits this weekend at Farm Festival in Bruton, Somerset. I'm also looking forward to a few pints of Wild Beer Co's finest.
Saw Cowboy Junkies last Tuesday, one of only three UK gigs as part of a 30th Anniversary Tour for The Trinity Sessions, and they played The Trinity in Bristol, part of a larger River Town Festival organised by the Colston Hall while it’s undergoing a huge refit.
Great gig, a bit over two hours, with an interval and no support. Margot in fine voice, and the band as tight as you could want, hardly surprising when the guitarist and drummer are your siblings. Another bloke on lap steel and mandolin, which he managed to make sound like a Les Paul playing lead!
I rather liked Margot rearranging the flowers on her table, and standing back drinking her tea while the boys were playing instrumental stuff. Got to chat with Margot afterwards as well, she’s lovely! 😍
Next up, Opeth in Bristol, and possibly Jessca Hoop in Bristol as well.
The Trinity Sessions
Still love that album. Beautiful.
So I think it's entirely People Who From That Other Band for the next few months. Colin Macintyre from Mull Historical Society, Frank Iero from My Chemical Romance, Laura Jane Grace from Against Me, Craig Finn from the Hold Steady, Frank Turner from Million Dead... Oh and Machine Head, which is now made up almost entirely from people who used to be in a fairly different Machine Head in the 90s.
No gigs for what seems like ages and now 2 to look forward to this week, both at The Brudenell in Leeds
First up tomorrow it’s the Easy Star All Stars mainly doing Dub Side of the Moon
Then on Sunday it’s the Kaiser Chiefs album release gigs
http://www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk/whats-on/kaiser-chiefs
Looking forward to both
I shall mainly be musing round the smaller stages at ynot festival this weekend as non of the bigger artists particularly float my boat. Hopefully will find someone to watch like teef who we found by accident last year and were subsequently awesome
Bluedot was good. I now ‘get’ Hot Chip who were much better than I expected, up for it crowd made it. Thought that Kraftwerk would get boring. I was wrong, they were excellent, good show, 3D was good and not overdone. Of course, New Order kicked it out the park. So that’s 3 out of 3 festival headliner wins where usually I see no headliners at all. Daytime lineup was a bit patchy but there was science.
Doves at Tramlines in Sheffield last night. Best set by far from the weekend. Always been a bit sceptical of Tramlines since it moved from being a city centre free event to paid for and out in Hillsborough but it was a thoroughly enjoyable three days.
I was at Edinburgh castle to see the Proclaimers on Saturday, pretty good they are although when they play a few lesser known newer stuff that was when you really felt the nipple hardening gusts of wind
Fabulous New Order gig in Bristol last week - lovely to hear some of the original Joy Division tracks with a backdrop of film showing Ian Curtis in their heyday.
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I was at Edinburgh castle to see the Proclaimers on Saturday, pretty good they are although when they play a few lesser known newer stuff that was when you really felt the nipple hardening gusts of wind
My wee brother lives down in Abbeyhill, he was out in the back garden trying to figure out what prick was playing the Proclaimers really loudly, and it turned out it was the Proclaimers
PSB at the RAH on Thursday. Playing RFS with the MSO as part of the BBC Proms.
Enough with the TLAs.
Saw Neurosis on Saturday night. Absolutely amazing. No talking, no visuals, almost no coloured lights, just 5 middle-aged blokes grinding out the slowest, heaviest riffs you ever heard for about 2 hours.
Best gig I've seen in yonks. Still buzzing.
(They were supported by YOB who were also very good. Godflesh were so so)
Anyone fancy planning my festival weekend for me!! 🙂
Idles are nailed on cert, Gerry Cinnamon too. Fontaines DC have pulled out.
Sunday is troublesome - Foals, Bunnymen or Band of Skulls!? :-/
Who from this lot would you recommend I see...
https://ynotfestival.com/day-splits/
Definitely Wolf Alice and Foals. (it's not the [i]real[/i] Echo & the Bunnymen)
Although I'd probably catch the Porn Crumpets and Pulled Apart by Horses - they're supposed to be good live.
(With my sincerest ****ing apologies for slagging off everyone's music taste, natch)
The Snuts are pretty good too.
Quite like to see Porn crumpets, Pip blom, Rev and the makers, wolf alice. Never seen them live but they pop up on my spotify bubble. Actually no, I have seen wolf Alice at a festival and they were ok.
Would probably go to the mondays for a laugh if I was feeling merry
Picked up tickets for public service broadcasting prom at Albert hall tonight for 7quid. Going to be a bit hot in there I think.
It was, but it was well worth the sweat....... surpassed my expectations, such texture and depth to the sound with the orchestra and choir, and also being able to watch them work rather than what the camera shows you.
I watched the percussionists bowing the xylophone for ages, just adding tiny details that alone are nothing but together with the rest. Great craft, to arrange it to that complexity.
It's on BBC4 tonight at 11pm. Set to record.
Sounds like that'll be worth a record theotherjonv. cheers 🙂
(With my sincerest **** apologies for slagging off everyone’s music taste, natch)
it's also on 6 music (online https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000715z ) don't know if there's a way to download it because I'd love to keep it.
Some apps let you record programmes - like TuneIn Radio. I've looked on TuneIn and couldn't find it, so not that one 🙂
PSB and orchestra was fantastic.
Proper tingles down the spine stuff.
@theotherjonv were you standing or seated?
I was in the arena. Well worth the trip to London and rolling home at 2.30am on a work night.
I was up in the seats. Been raving about it all day to anyone that'll listen.
Simply amazing.
Muffin have you stuck it out? It's Derbyshire at its brutal best! Hope you saw the reytons. Possibly one of the best sets I've ever seen. Foals for us shortly, we've hid most of the day in the tent.
I have to attend wilderness fest again this year, unfortunately the music options aren’t inspiring me very much (Robyn & Errol Alkan excepted).
So it’s just “sexiflexi” and the rum tent for me.
Hi wrightyson - ashamed to say I didn't go back on Sunday!
The wife and I packed all the stuff up on Sunday morning and took it home with every intention of going back later - but... had a bath, big fry-up, had a kip, watched the F1 - then just couldn't be arsed to go out again. 🙂
My daughter and her friends stuck it out though and the wife has gone back to fetch her this morning.
Best band I saw all weekend was Sports Team. Breath of fresh air. Hid away in the Squid on Saturday night and watched The Damned who were great - and as Captain Sensible said at the end of their set, at least I can say i saw them before they are all dead!
Idles - well - overated is putting a polite spin on it in my opinion. Load of row with only one decent song.
Here's an interesting gig development for you. We went to see Skepta a couple of weeks ago at Manchester Depot (which is a bloody great new venue)
As you went in you had to put your phone into a little neoprene sleeve which was then sealed with one of those magnetic tags they use to stop shoplifters. This blocked your phone signal and means that nobody in the venue had access to their phone for the whole gig.
It was bloody brilliant! No dickhead in front of you waving their iphone around trying to film it. No people posting stuff to Instagram.
As you left the gig, you simply ran the sleeve over a magnetic strip and it 'released' your phone
I hope that this is going to be a regular thing at gigs
I hope that this is going to be a regular thing at gigs
That would be my absolute dream! I know Jack White did this at his gigs. Definitely the way forward 🙂
On a self-indulgent whim, a pal and I are heading to Austin TX to see Papa M and Mogwai in a couple of weeks. Always wanted to visit Austin and Mogwai gigs never disappoint. Looking forward to it!
Richard Thompson for me next week and Johnny Marr in Sept. Very much looking forward to both 🙂
just the one for me, Clutch at the Roundhouse in December. This will be awesome.