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Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: GruB on 29 May, 2010, 01:14:06 pm
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Pendulum at Swindon on Monday night.
We are listening to their new album - Immersion - right now too.
Brilliant band with a great sound.
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Cool!
And here was me thinking you might be heading over to Brizzle a week on Monday to see your fellow countrymen..
Tickets for concerts, theatre, football, family days out. Official Ticketmaster Site (http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/search?tm_link=tm_homeA_header_search&q=powderfinger&search.x=0&search.y=0)
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:thumbsup: I'm looking forward to seeing them in July supporting the prodigy at MK
Should be a good one.
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Are they a swing band? :facepalm:
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I know theres a few fans here:
Explosions in the sky 20th anniv tour next year. Got 2 for glasgow date
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Congratulations.
Not on the tickets, but for the hunting down and resurrection of a nine year old thread. :thumbsup:
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I know theres a few fans here:
Explosions in the sky 20th anniv tour next year. Got 2 for glasgow date
A, thanks for the heads up
B, bugger I'm running out of holidays for all these gigs...
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I know theres a few fans here:
Explosions in the sky 20th anniv tour next year. Got 2 for glasgow date
Oooh, ta! I'm tempted to go and see them in Sacramento in September too :smug:
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I know theres a few fans here:
Explosions in the sky 20th anniv tour next year. Got 2 for glasgow date
A, thanks for the heads up
B, bugger I'm running out of holidays for all these gigs...
Going to see them in Bexhill-on-Sea. Have booked a room almost opposite the venue. Would have loved to see them at the Hammy Odeon (yes I know it's now the Eventim Apollo), but am likely to be taking CET Junior 2 up to Scotland for a Winter Mountaineering course that weekend as it's half term. It's a bit of a commute into London the next day for work but needs must.
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Still trying to decide between Utrecht, Ghent & Antwerp.
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I'd fancy one of those also, but why not just go to glasgow ?
The only gig I've ever been to abroad was when I was on holiday anyway, and it wasn't a great gig. I'm interested to know, Do you reckon the (e.g.) Utrecht gig would be better than Glasgow and if so why ? Better atmosphere ?
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A. Because if it's midweek and I'm going to have to take a day or 2 off to schlep down south anyway I might as well go somewhere nice and make a trip of it. (If they were in Furryboottoon that would be another matter). Also I'm running out of holidays to take, the European gigs will be in a new holiday year.
B. I'm a grumpy bastard and I hate going to gigs where people do that dog whistle thing almost constantly or talk the whole way through the gig (Explosions in the Sky in MCR).
We've been to several gigs abroad now and find the audiences to be much more respectful and just generally less full of knob ends. We went to see 65 Days of Static in Ghent a few years ago. Not only did you get decent Belgian beer, served in glasses (only 1 dropped the whole night) but in the super quiet pieces you could have heard a pin drop.
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B. I'm a grumpy bastard and I hate going to gigs where people do that dog whistle thing almost constantly or talk the whole way through the gig (Explosions in the Sky in MCR).
This ^^^^. Yesterday there were people near us who, having coughed up 90+ quid to see His Bobness were still gobbing away throughout his set. My grate frend Mr Woolrich gave them a telling-off, which earned him congratulations from a swarthy Scotsman afterwards :thumbsup:
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The Idles @ Barrowlands in December 🙂
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B. <snip>
I didn't know foreign audiences would be less full of talkers. That is a problem in a lot of the gigs here.
But not Rhiannan Giddens who we're off to see again in Edin in November. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Welsh National Opera's Carmen in that Cardiff in October.
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While we're at it, we've got tix to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard in Utrecht in Oct, which I'm quite excited about.
(And not music, but the exceptionally sweary Janey Godley (she of the 'Trump is a c*nt' sign) and Johnathan Pie.
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Postponed from Christmas 2018, we have tickets to see The Primitives early next month in Birmingham.
Likelihood of attending our first gig in ages.... low given my current lack of mobility :(
It's funny when you get old, you go from going to a couple of gigs a month to a couple a year if you are lucky. :facepalm:
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.....and Oysterband with June Tabor at Gateshead in November :)
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The very splendid Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson in Hemel Hempstead on Friday. My grate frend Mr Woolrich is fummin, having thoughtlessly arranged to go to the HPV World Championships in France that weekend.
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Clint Mansell introducing a live performance of his music for the film Moon, tomorrow.
Sisters of Mercy in September too.
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La Boheme in Leeds in October and Samantha Fish next February.
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The Orb in Brighton on a Friday.
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B. I'm a grumpy bastard and I hate going to gigs where people do that dog whistle thing almost constantly or talk the whole way through the gig (Explosions in the Sky in MCR).
This ^^^^. Yesterday there were people near us who, having coughed up 90+ quid to see His Bobness were still gobbing away throughout his set. My grate frend Mr Woolrich gave them a telling-off, which earned him congratulations from a swarthy Scotsman afterwards :thumbsup:
I'm old enough to have been at the Newcastle leg of Bob's "infamous" electric tour - first half acoustic, second with electricity. Someone shouted, "Bobby, (obviously knew him personally) we've come to hear a folk-singer, not a rock-singer!" To which, the response was, "And e've come to hear him, not you!" BD only said one thing all night, I think. It was, "Don't bug me, I'm a sick man." I remember the "controversy" as being blown up by the press out of all proportion. You had to be there. It was a great concert, in at the start of something epochal. It's also why I probably won't be going to see his upcoming shows - too many memories to keep intact!
Peter
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I actually forked out for the 36-CD box set of the 1966 live recordings...
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E Minor and some of his mates in a gig that's part of a local circus fetival.
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Going to see Mollys Party Band tonight. In fact I’m a band member, their videographer to be fair. At least that means backstage pass and artists village.
Then there is Muete, Orbital and quite a few others. I’m always edumacated here...
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John Mayall in November; Samantha Fish next March; Laurence Jones somewhere in between.
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E Minor and some of his mates in a gig that's part of a local circus fetival.
He broke his arm just before the gig was due to start... Not good for a juggler. The start was delayed for a while so that the others could work around his absence.
We've just got home from A&E.
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Just waiting to see Orbital. Everyone will be able to see them on account of their kit being on a platform about 12 feet above the stage.
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Johnny Marr at Meltdown tonight. I don't really like him...
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Black Mountain (again) at Audio in glasgow next month. :thumbsup:
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Sisters of Mercy at the Roundhouse on Friday. 🖤
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Los Pacaminos at a beer festival in Worthing, 6th October :-)
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Divine Comedy tomorrow evening! Hurrah!
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I have actually had the tickets for about eleven months, but yesterday I learned that Robyn Hitchcock is to be joined at the Union Chapel on 29th inst. by former Soft Boys Kimberley Rew and Morris Windsor. Hurrah!
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David Grays tour for 20th anniv of White Ladder
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Taiwanese dance group Cloud Gate at Sadlers Wells. :)
End of February. :(
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Nick Cave @ Glasgow SSE May 2020 :)
I sold the tickets I had for 2017 gig due to the work situation at the time.
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I have actually had the tickets for about eleven months, but yesterday I learned that Robyn Hitchcock is to be joined at the Union Chapel on 29th inst. by former Soft Boys Kimberley Rew and Morris Windsor. Hurrah!
I often see Kimberly Rew (also of Katrina and the Waves) when he plays in a local ‘pub band’...
And to get back on topic of tickets to..., The Darkness, on consecutive nights in December! :D
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Got tickets for John Mayall next month but the poor old sod's been ill and has had to postpone everything. Fuckles!
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Larkin Poe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larkin_Poe) @ Shepherds Bush Empire. In May 2020 :o
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Tedeschi Trucks Band - Wembley Arena in February.
Supported by Blackberry Smoke so all round should be a good gig. Maybe they will have some guests as well, Doyle Bramhall II and Warren Haynes played on the album they are touring.
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Poliça on Thekla in Feb.
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Banff Mountain Film Festival in April (!) Nothing like planning ahead.
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Banff Mountain Film Festival in April (!) Nothing like planning ahead.
Oooh, i've enjoyed that before.
I've got a ticket to the Rouler Classic. I'm not quite sure it's my cup of tea, but I need a day off.
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David Grays tour for 20th anniv of White Ladder
Fuck off it is not twenty years.
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Joanne Shaw Taylor, Nells in West Ken, March 14th.
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Not everyone's cup of tea, but James Blunt in Manchester on 15 Feb, with some mates from work.
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But not Rhiannan Giddens who we're off to see again in Edin in November. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
No you're not. I've just made my parents buy tickets, and it's Dec 1st.
(If she's half as good as at the Festival Hall on Friday, you'll have a damn good night.)
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Yeah, it is.
I also got tickets for Sierra Hull (bit of a pot luck) in Celtic connections in February. I later read somewhere that RG is to be a guest on this.
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As You Like It at the Barbican, on the 19th Dec
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Drive by Truckers - Leeds Irish Centre in June.
Strange really as their only other UK gig on this tour is the O2 in London, bit of a different scale.
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Off to see Dr JCC this evening.
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Seth Lakeman this evening.
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65 Days of Static in Embra in May.
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My grate frend Mr Sheen reckons them the greatest band in the history of all things evvah but I just couldn't get on with them.
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So far, 2020 tickets bought include Lindemann, DJ Shadow, Therapy?, Kodo, Front 242, All Points East (Kraftwerk, Iggy Pop et al), Faith No More and Rammstein. Might just have some time left for cycling at weekends!
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The Orielles in February at The Waterfront in Norwich.
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Wales v Scotland :thumbsup:
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Mrs G's been given 2 tickets to see Fontaines DC at Newcastle O2 Acadamy in January :thumbsup:
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Crowded House at the Roundhouse.
Last seen sometime in the early 90s at the Town and Country Club, although I've seen both Neil and Tim Finn since.
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Bugger !! I'm so out of touch with music, I had no idea they were touring. All three dates are sold out.
Bugger bugger bugger.
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Bugger !! I'm so out of touch with music, I had no idea they were touring. All three dates are sold out.
Bugger bugger bugger.
I'd keep watch - more may be added. These ones did come out of the blue - first I know of them reforming was an email from Ticketmaster on Wednesday night promoting a show in Birmingham. I found out about The Roundhouse by going to CH's own web site and I'd bought the tickets from the Roundhouse site before I got any email offers from the agencies.
It's always a bit hit and miss finding out about gigs in time to get decent tickets. Even subscribing to artists' emails or twitter feeds doesn't always work, depending on how conscientious their PR people are.
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I thought about the CH tix but there's not really anywhere I want to see them except Berlin or Glasgow and that's midweek.
To me it looks like a summer festival tour so if there's more announced through Europe during the autumn I wouldn't be at all surprised.
The emails came out to registered fans about a week or 2 previously.
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Pop Will Eat Itself next weekend.
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Not John Mayall any more chiz. He had to postpone his tour in the closing overs of last year because Illness and it's now been cancelled altogether :(
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Seeing Keb Mo tomorrow evening one of this year's acts at 'The Big Burns Supper' in Dumfries
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Joan Shelley at the Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol.
But not until May....
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Mark Thomas, tomorrow, for lefty rantz.
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Terry and Gerry at the Hundred Club next Saturday. Top cowpunk skiffle, starring turista OTP (although he hasn't bee round these parts for a while). If I'm not mistaken, support is the equally splendid United Stoats of America.
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Momentary glitch from one of my Social Secretaries when he asked if I was up for Joanne Shaw Taylor next month, a gig which has been writted on my Abandoned Mattresses of Walthmstow calendar for a Several of months. "I thought you'd already got tix for that one?" I said. He checks. He had. Hurrah! We shall go to the ball!
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Abandoned Mattresses of Walthmstow calendar
What what what?
<Fires up google>
It is A Thing.
My day, she is complete.
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Flo & Joan tonight
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In an attempt to claim some sort of medal for "longest period elapsing between getting tickets and actual gig" Miss von Brandenburg and I now have ours on order for Robyn Hitchcock at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. March 19. 2021.
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Encounter with my grate frend Mr Sheen at Hammy Odeon has resulted in the offer of a ticket to see Rich Hall in Greenwich tonight. Yay!
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Not everyone's cup of tea, but James Blunt in Manchester on 15 Feb, with some mates from work.
That. Was. Awesome.
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Hopefully one or other of my Social Secretaries was awake at hours 10:00 of the clock this morning when tix for the mighty George Thorogood & The Destroyers @ Shepherds Bush Empire went on sale.
(Crosses fingers)
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Hopefully one or other of my Social Secretaries was awake at hours 10:00 of the clock this morning when tix for the mighty George Thorogood & The Destroyers @ Shepherds Bush Empire went on sale.
(Crosses fingers)
Just bought 2 for Glasgow :thumbsup:
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Alexei sayle tonight.
Eh? Eh?!
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert Musical @ Carlisle
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Pina Bausch company's Rite of Spring at Sadlers Wells. For my wife, one of her bucket list things to do.
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Hopefully one or other of my Social Secretaries was awake at hours 10:00 of the clock this morning when tix for the mighty George Thorogood & The Destroyers @ Shepherds Bush Empire went on sale.
(Crosses fingers)
Just bought 2 for Glasgow :thumbsup:
Miss von Brandenburg and I are going as the future Mr von Brandenburg has decided not to and my grate frend Mr Woolrich will be hard-pushed to get back from Amsterdam in time.
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Dr Feelgood, tonite.
No idea what they are like without Wilco, but I'll find out. Last time I saw them was at their peak of fame. Probably in the Cambridge Corn Exchange...
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Dr Feelgood, tonite.
No idea what they are like without Wilco, but I'll find out. Last time I saw them was at their peak of fame. Probably in the Cambridge Corn Exchange...
First concert I ever went to was Dr Feelgood at the Malvern winter gardens in the late 70s. None of the current members of the band were in that lineup and most roles have changed hands several times since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dr._Feelgood_members?wprov=sfla1
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Hopefully one or other of my Social Secretaries was awake at hours 10:00 of the clock this morning when tix for the mighty George Thorogood & The Destroyers @ Shepherds Bush Empire went on sale.
(Crosses fingers)
Seen him twice. Fantastic fun.
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Hopefully one or other of my Social Secretaries was awake at hours 10:00 of the clock this morning when tix for the mighty George Thorogood & The Destroyers @ Shepherds Bush Empire went on sale.
(Crosses fingers)
Seen him twice. Fantastic fun.
We've seen him a Several of times, but not for seven years, coz the last time he was in That London he played the Albert Hall. Which is Just Wrong.
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Genesis in Manchester on 8 December. V excited!
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Bollox - Santana postponed :(
Please see below message from the promoter:
We regret to announce that due to public health concerns and European travel & performance restrictions, Carlos Santana is postponing the European leg of his upcoming Miraculous 2020 World Tour including the concerts at Glasgow The SSE Hydro on Thursday 26th March 2020 and London The O2 on Friday 27th March 2020.
More information to follow within the next 2 to 3 weeks relating to the new dates for the Glasgow and London concerts. All tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled concerts.
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David Grays tour for 20th anniv of White Ladder
This is coming up: Mar 21st at the Hydro. I dont think this will go ahead.
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David Grays tour for 20th anniv of White Ladder
This is coming up: Mar 21st at the Hydro. I dont think this will go ahead.
Another one :(
My next one (originally) after Santana is Nick Cave in May.
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Yeah, we've got a couple of gigs in May :-\
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Saxon - postponed from the autumn - now waiting for it to be postponed again.
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Steve Davis tomorrow night - postponed
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My tickets for Larkin Poe at the SBE in May have just landed on the doormat, but whether the show will still happen ??? Last time I looked Joanne Shaw Taylor is still go for Saturday though.
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Saxon - postponed from the autumn - now waiting for it to be postponed again.
Excellent (not the postponed bit). Saxon are great fun. Biff lives about a mile from here in the next hamlet. Has a recording studio in the barn.
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Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House on 1st April, a Christmas present from our Melbourne daughter.
I'm hoping they cancel the performance tbh. Then at least she/we can claim a refund. I'm pretty sure that we won't go.
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I bought a ticket earlier today for a gig at my local and most frequented independent venue tonight. Not sure I can be arsed to go, mind.
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I didn’t go to Don Letts tonight on account of it no longer being on.
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This will soon become a thread of lament
I've got tickets to Womad :'(
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This will soon become a thread of lament
I've got tickets to Womad :'(
King King the week after Easter, Larkin Poe in early May and George Thorogood in July all seem dubious from this range. The Holidaymakers have already cancelled next Saturday's triumphant return to The Royal Albert chiz, although that was a free show so doesn't really count.
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The Burning Hell and Amy Rigby, both due in April, have been cancelled not least becasue of travel restrictions - the former rescheduled to November, hopefully.
I'm dubious about Yorkston/Thorne/Khan, and I think that even if Sambroso Allstars isn't cancelled 300 sweaty people dancing in a club with zero ventilation sounds like a recipe for disaster. Caribou, Eliza Carthy and the Pictish Trail are a few weeks off so by then I reckon they'll all be cancelled although currently all of the venues/promoters are staying open.
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This will soon become a thread of lament
I've got tickets to Womad :'(
King King the week after Easter,
We were looking at getting tickets for King King as well. I dont think we will bother now. Robert Plant in June is looking doubtful as well but I might get tickets anyway as its only round the corner (geographical speaking) and hope things go OK.
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This will soon become a thread of lament
I've got tickets to Womad :'(
King King the week after Easter,
Saw the other day that King King frontman Alan Nimmo is – or was – also playing some dates with his brother Stevie, but the nearest they were getting to London's famous London was Milton Keynes so we decided not to bother.
We were looking at getting tickets for King King as well. I dont think we will bother now. Robert Plant in June is looking doubtful as well but I might get tickets anyway as its only round the corner (geographical speaking) and hope things go OK.
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Kodo on Saturday were great. Might be the last show for a while. Supposed to be seeing Therapy? in Camden on April 4…can't see that being on. Ditto Front 242 four weeks later. Kraftwerk et al at All Points East (Victoria Park) at the end of May looks doubtful already, if only because of the sheer numbers. Faith No More (June 16)…I can only hope. Rammstein's European stadium tour (Coventry June 20) will probably be off because of sportsball requirements if not the virus…
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Saxon - postponed from last October to March and will now be on September 5
Ozzy Osbourne + Judas Priest - postponed from somewhen to March and now to October 31 - down to Ozzy's health rather than Covid-19
Last gig I went to see was A.A.Williams at the Purcell Room in Southbank Centre last Wednesday. Probably the last in quite a while.
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Kodo on Saturday were great. Might be the last show for a while. Supposed to be seeing Therapy? in Camden on April 4…can't see that being on. Ditto Front 242 four weeks later. Kraftwerk et al at All Points East (Victoria Park) at the end of May looks doubtful already, if only because of the sheer numbers. Faith No More (June 16)…I can only hope. Rammstein's European stadium tour (Coventry June 20) will probably be off because of sportsball requirements if not the virus…
…and Therapy? are rescheduling for September. So (assuming October's shows go ahead and I can make the rescheduled date) that's two in a month…
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Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson from Parks And Rec) 27 April Royal Concert hall, Nottingham.
Sadly...
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The optimists at Islington Assembly Hall have just announced Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three for May 2nd. Mr Woolrich and I will likely buy tickets even though the chances of it happening are lower than an adder's armpit, on the grounds that they'll probably show up to play eventually.
Edit: No, we won't, because he's got another likely-to-be-postponed gig on the same day. Bah!
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Borderline Arts and Entertainment, but we have Easter holiday tickets for the Tutankhamen exhibition in London, which has been cancelled up to the end of the month. I can't see it being reinstated by the time our tickets are valid and, I presume, it won't be rescheduled as the whole package is probably scheduled to move on to another location as soon as the planned exhibition period is over. Shame - I was too young when it came in the 70s and I doubt it will return in my lifetime. :'( Hopefully, my son will still get his chance at some future date.
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I know theres a few fans here:
Explosions in the sky 20th anniv tour next year. Got 2 for glasgow date
A, thanks for the heads up
B, bugger I'm running out of holidays for all these gigs...
Well that's the first of our gigs (Utrecht) cancelled. No doubt to be followed by 65 Days of Static in Embra 2 weeks later. :'(
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808 state has been pushed back to October.
The Mission postponed, no date yet.
I think that's all the tickets I've actually got already.
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King King and Larkin Poe both off. The former has been rescheduled for February 2021. On my birthday!
It's worse than 2005, when we had tickets for The Mars Volta and Queens Of The Stone Age on 5/7 and 7/7. Former cancelled because one of 'em had a sore throat, latter because suicide bombers.
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I know theres a few fans here:
Explosions in the sky 20th anniv tour next year. Got 2 for glasgow date
A, thanks for the heads up
B, bugger I'm running out of holidays for all these gigs...
Well that's the first of our gigs (Utrecht) cancelled. No doubt to be followed by 65 Days of Static in Embra 2 weeks later. :'(
65DoS rescheduled to December.
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Nick Cave rescheduled for 20/04/21
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I have tickets for Crowded House - a band I nearly saw but missed in the 80s - in July. Email from the venue yesterday said they are still waiting to see whether the gig can go ahead. Even if it does, I'm not sure I want to risk going so soon after the (anticipated) peak, so I'm hoping it's rescheduled for next year.
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Looks like many of the events at the local venue I'm photographer for are being rescheduled. :thumbsup:
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I forgot, I also have train tickets from Carlisle through to Paris for the final day of the Tour. 😕
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Larkin Poe at Hammy Odeon rescheduled for February next year.
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Took a calculated gamble: bought tickets for Oz Pink Floyd in the Hydro in Dec 2021. The David Gray White Ladder tour from March 2020 was rescheduled to March 2021 and recently to Sep 2021.
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I’ve bought tickets to see Jane Weaver in June at Village Underground in London. Feels a bit reckless but I’m trying to be optimistic, and supporting the industry in my small way.
Will also actually buy her new album, rather than just streaming it.
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I’ve bought tickets to see Jane Weaver in June at Village Underground in London. Feels a bit reckless but I’m trying to be optimistic, and supporting the industry in my small way.
Will also actually buy her new album, rather than just streaming it.
:thumbsup:
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Mrs Dan bought us tickets for Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra later in the year.
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I’ve bought tickets to see Jane Weaver in June at Village Underground in London.
Had an email to tell me it's been pushed back to November. Mixed feelings about that, but it's understandable.
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Maxïmo Park, live in my living room on Saturday.
This is 'compensation' for the delayed live shows at the Riverside. I think their April date is, erm. Ambitious.
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Larkin Poe at the SBE on May 7 last year rescheduled. Again. This time to May 5. 2022.
Bah!
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Rammstein, unsurprisingly, rescheduled again, a year later, to June 2022. Expecting Faith No More (currently 12 June) to get moved again. Front 242 now (hopefully) Feb 2022. Have a ticket for Einstürzende Neubauten in September (fingers crossed), Therapy? tour might be OK the following month…
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Just bought tickets to see Squid in London in September. Probably the hottest new band on the planet right now. So excited.
Also fingers crossed will also be getting tickets tomorrow to see them in June at the community centre in Cliftonville, Margate. It will be a *tiny* socially distanced gig - seated, so no dancing, alas, but could well be amazing.
ETA: tickets now confirmed for the latter. It's going to be fantastic.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/thanet-venue-to-host-socially-distanced-gig-245850/
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I'm obviously feeling the effects of a year with no social life and have gone a bit mad on the ticket buying front... turns out the wonderful Katy J Pearson and Jane Weaver are also playing at Elsewhere in Margate, in September and February respectively, so I've now got tickets to see them too.
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I've got tickets to see Emily Cappell in that Brighton. I first (only) saw hersupporting Terry and Gerry (ob. YACF: That's the band turista OTP is in) at the Hundred Club a couple of years ago. The gig isn't until November mind.
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I've got tickets to see Emily Cappell in that Brighton.
Never heard of her, so I looked her up. Apparently, she has "a wide range of influences from Dolly Parton to The Clash". Yep, that certainly is a wide range of influences!
The gig isn't until November mind.
Looks like lots of venues are still being very tentative about re-opening, which is understandable, but there is much planning ahead for happier times, which is good. Was discussing this with m'colleague the other day and she reckons she has never bought tickets so far in advance - she already has tickets for a couple of gigs in March next year.
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Just been informed that the DBT gig I bought tickets for that was supposed to be autumn 2020 and was then postponed to June 2021 is now postponed again until June 2022.
I have never bought tickets that ended up being for a gig two years into the future before.
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My grate frend Mr Woolrich and I are still waiting to learn of the new date for John Mayall from late 2019 though that was originally postponed because Mr Mayall was ill with not-Coronalurgi.
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Public Service Broadcasting in November (in a fit of optimism).
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PSB in Exeter in late October.
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PSB in Exeter in late October.
Pet Shop Boys were never really my scene...
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Arab Strap in Bristol, September (frustratingly the rearanged Richard Dawson gig from March last year has been scheduled for the same date but I think I'm going to go Arab Strap as I've read their reunion shows have been very good and I think there will be more opportunities to see Richard Dawson in the future)
Yo La Tengo in Bristol, November (only doing a few UK dates so really pleased they're doing Bristol)
Godspeed you Black Emporer in Bristol, January
tindersticks in Bath and London, May (still have a ticket for their rescheduled Festival Hall show and they have a new European tour and have included Bath on the itineray)
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PSB in Exeter in late October.
Pet Shop Boys were never really my scene...
I would have loved to see Pet Shop Boys, say, 20 years ago. One of my all-time favourites. But they've been off the boil for years now. My 13yo nephew is a massive fan, though, and his 11th birthday present was tickets to see them last year. The gig is now scheduled for next year. That must feel like forever at that age.
Not a massive fan of the other PSB but wouldn't turn down the opportunity to see them live. Enjoy, Pingu and hatler!
The aforementioned Squid gig in Margate is TOMORROW NIGHT!!!! Too exciting. This is the final date of their "Fieldworks" tour. Here's a review of the first night - "A krautrock kite caught in a prog-rock squall":
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/23/squid-live-review-cornish-bank-falmouth
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Godspeed you Black Emporer in Bristol, January
Why did no-one tell me about GY!BE comin' over 'ere? I hate you all ;)
Two gigs in That London, one of which has already sold out. Urgent communication with Miss von Brandenburg has been put into effect.
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Edit: We shall go to the ball! That’s Miss von Brandenburg's birthday present sorted for next year :thumbsup:
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Sigh.
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Sigh indeed. Coventry ent exactly local for Pingus…
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They're playing in Glesca...
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Looks like they are going to Glasgow but a)it's Glasgow and b)Barrowlands was manky enough even pre-Covids.
I was mainly sighing at all the nice places in Europe they're playing, which I would have been considering in the before times.
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Ah. I suspect the ticket shysters used the “location” wossname on this fondleslab and didn’t bother telling me about far-flung venues, though Coventry and Brizzle aren’t exactly next door.
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Yeah ticketmaster only listed 2 locations but a bit more digging found more.
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I've bought tickets for 3 concerts at the RLPO, these will be my first since February last year I think. A tribute to Piazzolla tonight. https://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/classical-music/royal-liverpool-philharmonic-orchestra-viva-piazzolla/3931
I'm still a little dubious about being in a hall with others, even masked & distanced, but the audience skews middle to old aged, so should be vaccinated.
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Stewart Lee at the Phil. Booked for last June and duly postponed until this June, Now postponed again until 17/6/2022.
He's busy writing a Covid remix for the new show.
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Not a massive fan of the other PSB but wouldn't turn down the opportunity to see them live. Enjoy, Pingu and hatler!
Thanks to Pingu and hatler for revealing, in time for me to get tickets for Brixton in November, that I hadn't in fact signed up to the PSB mailing list.
I wasn't particularly a fan, but then got a freebie to see them at the Albert Hall two or three years ago. One of the best gigs - well, not so much a gig, more a live experience - I've been to, despite being in crap seats (well, they were free), and now I'm a convert.
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I saw them at the Albert Hall about two or three years ago. The gig was superb. The finale was really stirring.
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The aforementioned Squid gig in Margate is TOMORROW NIGHT!!!! Too exciting.
I don't know if it's because a) I'm out of practice at going to gigs, or b) the fact that I was sitting very near the front, or c) I'm just getting too old for this kind of thing, or a combination of all three* but my head was ringing for at least 24 hours afterwards. *Also d) it was very loud.
Bloody fantastic show though. Atmosphere was really strange - everyone being seated and spaced out, and the fact that it was in what was essentially a village hall (with no blackout), made it all a bit subdued, but it was still a great effort from the band. Sound quality not the best, but they made up for that with sheer volume (Ollie the drummer kept looking over at the sound man and pointing his finger to the sky to indicate that he wanted it cranked up...). I don't normally approve of people getting their phones out at gigs, but I did sneak a couple of pics...
I love a band that takes percussion seriously - here we have Ollie on drums, Laurie on guiro, Arthur on cowbell and Louie banging away at the tom tom for all he's worth (Anton, just out of shot, was on boring old guitar at this point):
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51252579091_96db40a0fa_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2m61S9K)
Squid Margate 12 June 2021 (https://flic.kr/p/2m61S9K) by citoyen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/103760266@N08/), on Flickr
Laurie, here on cowbells, is mainly the bassist, but also plays guitar and trumpet:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51252584011_0d6ae07b26_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2m61TBz)
Squid Margate 12 June 2021 (https://flic.kr/p/2m61TBz) by citoyen (https://www.flickr.com/photos/103760266@N08/), on Flickr
Arthur, who is primarily the keyboards player, also did some fun stuff with cellos and much banging of gongs. At one point, he was even 'playing' the gong with his cello bow.
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EMinor and colleagues in their end of year show at Circomedia.
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Whoever plays on No. 1 court on Mon 5th July
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Found out that Genesis in Manchester has been rescheduled to 24 September. Unreasonably excited!
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We're going to HARDWICK LIVE tomorrow. We narrowly escaped a trip to Scab by seeing them in Co Durham.
Got my dancing shoes out (https://youtu.be/kik0xiFUmNA?t=1367)
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Coming up I think I've got Mica Paris, David Rodigan and Albert Lee, with Waterboys and KT Tunstall in the middle distance.
Oh, and Fairport Convention.
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I 'ad that Mica Paris in the back of my cab once ....
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I had a spur of the moment trip to see Sonic Boom on Thursday. It was a bit odd to be in such a crowded place, but a mellow first post lockdown gig.
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My Genesis tickets arrived this morning… :thumbsup:
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We haz tix for Rory McLeod at the Green Note next month :thumbsup: First gig for seventeen months. It ent natural.
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David Rodigan tonight. :thumbsup:
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/David%20Rodigan.jpg)
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Was great. A musical tour through the decades of Jamaican influenced music. The hard drum and bass and the frenetic jungle was a welcome surprise
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DJ Shadow at Brighton Dome tonight.......the second-last show I saw was his Brixton gig last February.
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(https://i.ibb.co/jVg8647/IMG-20210917-200408-597.jpg) (https://ibb.co/DG51VK3)
Let's see what tonight brings
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Had to use a voucher on ATG as some show I had booked got cancelled quite early in lockdown. Had almost forgotten about it until my e-tickets arrived today for Ross noble - just after cop26. Lookin fwd to it but a bit wary too as I have other things lined up shortly after.
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Fat Boy Slim next week. Except Mrs Dan can no longer come, so there might be a spare ticket.
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Big Bike Film Night - will be my first event since March 2020
https://www.facebook.com/rbcfilmtheatre/photos/a.269824249873579/1839764382879550
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We haz tix for Rory McLeod at the Green Note next month :thumbsup: First gig for seventeen months. It ent natural.
How as it? I remember when Rory first popped up on the London folk club circuit in about 1982. I think he had just got back from his travels in South America. He wandered into the singaround club at the Freemasons' Arms in Covent Garden quite late in the evening and, due to the time, was only allocated a one song slot. He played Death To The Apartheid Fascists and blew the place away! After that he was doing floor spots all over town for a few weeks but it wasn't long before he was getting bookings.
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We haz tix for Rory McLeod at the Green Note next month :thumbsup: First gig for seventeen months. It ent natural.
How as it? I remember when Rory first popped up on the London folk club circuit in about 1982. I think he had just got back from his travels in South America. He wandered into the singaround club at the Freemasons' Arms in Covent Garden quite late in the evening and, due to the time, was only allocated a one song slot. He played Death To The Apartheid Fascists and blew the place away! After that he was doing floor spots all over town for a few weeks but it wasn't long before he was getting bookings.
Very excellent, as noted in the “Last Gig…” thread. Though he didn’t play the trombone this time chiz.
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We haz tix for Rory McLeod at the Green Note next month :thumbsup: First gig for seventeen months. It ent natural.
How as it? I remember when Rory first popped up on the London folk club circuit in about 1982. I think he had just got back from his travels in South America. He wandered into the singaround club at the Freemasons' Arms in Covent Garden quite late in the evening and, due to the time, was only allocated a one song slot. He played Death To The Apartheid Fascists and blew the place away! After that he was doing floor spots all over town for a few weeks but it wasn't long before he was getting bookings.
Very excellent, as noted in the “Last Gig…” thread. Though he didn’t play the trombone this time chiz.
He still going :thumbsup:
Last saw him in the 90's - Hibernian in Birmingham
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Just got an e-mail to tell me our GY!BE tix for next month have been posted*. Now Bloody Stupid Johnson will lock the country down again or the band will decide that staying in Canada wrestling BEARS is safer.
* Miss von Brandenburg insists on Proper Tickets so she can pin them to the wall of the Schloß living room, which is another reason she's contemplating moving – she’s running out of wall and/or there’s yet another drum kit in the way.
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The good news about my
2020 2021 2022 Nightwish tickets is that Beast in Black will now be supporting them. Always like it when I'd be happy to see the support as headliners.
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We've got tickets to see Bill Bailey on the 30th but that won't be happening now, unsurprisingly.
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We've got tickets to see Bill Bailey on the 30th but that won't be happening now, unsurprisingly.
I got a ticket for the Wembley show, which was Boxing Day…but rescheduled to Jan 10. Not only would I need a night off at fairly short notice- and might not get it- but a Monday too. So getting refunded.
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Our is moved to 9th May I think.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane, tonight. VIP tickets, with access to the private lounge, drinks, snacks, etc.
Wife and son are going and my ticket is being taken by one of his school friends.
Bloody COVID :(
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor next month postponed until September. Shittens &, moreover, fckles >:(
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Rosalie Cunningham - Railway Inn, Winchester, 30th March
Should break the 2-year gig drought. Didn't get to see Saxon at the weekend as I was isolating with Covid, but now I've had the bu**er, am less worried about catching it again at short notice.
Only problem is that the reduced train timetable means I will have to drive there as the last train back from Winchester is at the crack of dawn 10:24pm
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As CET Junior is moving to darkest Essex, Saxon at Ipswich Regent Theatre in November.
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The CBSO next month. Nielsen's Helios, Grieg's Piano Concerto & Sibelius's Finlandia. Very Nordic programme more suited to Midsummer, but who cares?
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All Them Witches, Brighton, end of September.
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The Bat Out Of Hell musical next week. 👍
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The Infinite Monkey Cage week after next
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The CBSO next month. Nielsen's Helios, Grieg's Piano Concerto & Sibelius's Finlandia. Very Nordic programme more suited to Midsummer, but who cares?
D'oh, I hadn't realised it's an afternoon performance! Time to claim back the day's leave stolen from me when I was off sick with Covid, plus interest, methinks...
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Cirque du Soleil at the Albert Hall.
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Wildlife photographer Gordon Buchanan giving a talk about his work in the City Halls, Glasgow.
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The Cycle Show at Alexandra Palace :)
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Miss von Brandenburg has just alerted me to the long-delayed Robyn Hitchcock gig wot we had tickets for now being on March 19th :thumbsup:
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Nine Inch Nails at the Eden Project in June (fingers crossed...). Would have seen Front 242 a couple of weeks back, but that got moved to July. Gojira (was March 4) now rescheduled to next February. Therapy? in Pompey might, hopefully, be the next actual show I get to see- end of March…
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Merry Hell at the Half Moon, Putney.
"The sound of dreams realised, joy unconfined, your favourite yesterdays returning and the promise of tomorrow." is what it says on their website.
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Dylan Moran in Leeds, sometime in March. The tickets are a gift, and I'm not sure how high my expectations should be as I haven't seen any work of his for a loooong time.
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The Bat Out Of Hell musical next week. 👍
It was great fun it’s not about Meat Loaf as I expected but that didn’t matter The voices were almost all to my great liking and the set (designed to look like a comic strip) was superb. Minor ocd nitpick was the motorbike which was done up to look like a Harley and not a souped up Ujm as per the cover. 😂
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The Mouse Outfit.
Who, I am led to believe, are a Popular Hippy Hoppy Beat Combo.
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War of the Worlds, with Jeff Lynne conducting.
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Wildlife photographer Gordon Buchanan giving a talk about his work in the City Halls, Glasgow.
Worth every penny. Great talk, inspirational with a homely delivery style, amazing stories and of course , the pictures.
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Did he say 'Jeez-o!'?
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haha, not I dont think he did. I was hoping he'd mention how the west coast midge compares around the world to other wee biting beasties but he didn't.
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War of the Worlds, with Jeff Lynne conducting.
Not Jeff Wayne?
(I bought my elderly parents tickets for that a couple of years ago. It's finally taking place in a few weeks but I don't think either of them will be well enough to go :'()
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Ah yes, Wayne. Nearly got it right!
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We might or might not have tickets for Joanne Shaw Taylor at Shepherd's Bush Empire next month, depending on whether my grate frend Mr Woolrich has been successful in his Great Quest.
(Crosses thumbs, presses fingers, gets cramp)
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Most excitingly, the Magnetic Fields in Leeds.
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Ticketmaster, may the people who built your webby SCIENCE die an early but lingering DETH >:(
Edit: But we shall go to the ball Joanne Shaw Taylor gig on April 26th. Hurrah!
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Nish Kumar, tomorrow.
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He just tested +ve for covid.
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Oh good. Superspreader event.
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We might or might not have tickets for Joanne Shaw Taylor at Shepherd's Bush Empire next month, depending on whether my grate frend Mr Woolrich has been successful in his Great Quest.
(Crosses thumbs, presses fingers, gets cramp)
The artist (I think) I have been to see perform more times than any other - starting with a guest appearance on the Blues Caravan in Cranleigh, Surrey in about 2009. Partly because she tours a lot and partly because her gigs are great.
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Blues Pills, June 15th
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Tickets not required but The Holidaymakers, feat. Mr von Brandenburg on drums, will be making their plague-delayed but nevertheless bound-to-be-triumphant return to The Royal Albert in Crystal Palace on April 23rd.
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Not sure if I have said, GONG
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Aren't they dead yet?
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Aren't they dead yet?
Only some of them
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Rosalie Cunningham - Railway Inn, Winchester, 30th March
Should break the 2-year gig drought. Didn't get to see Saxon at the weekend as I was isolating with Covid, but now I've had the bu**er, am less worried about catching it again at short notice.
Only problem is that the reduced train timetable means I will have to drive there as the last train back from Winchester is at the crack of dawn 10:24pm
Gig postponed to 4 November. Not Covid. Just lost voice. I think that means the Blues Pills on 15th June will be my first gig in 2 years.
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The cycle show and the mission. Both in my pocket as i type.
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Rage Against the Machine - August in Edinburgh
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Granddaddy at concert hall in Glasgow. Imagine my surprise when I was informed I’d double booked and cannot go.
Anyone want a ticket for granddaddy Glasgow RCH 29-April this Friday ?
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Blues-rock guitar prodigy Toby Lee either at the Half Moon in Putney in late May or the 100 Club in early June. Date tbc when my grate frend Mr Woolrich gets back from his hostipal appointment.
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Erland Cooper a rather brilliant composer, he has buried a piece of his work on master tape which he is releasing clues for to find. It's been buried for a year so far and will be retrieved if not found
It will then be played in whatever state its in at a special show
Which I have tickets for
In June 2024!
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Coldplay only been waiting 10 years
i had tickets for Max Richter's 4 Seasons Recomposed 2 years ago, it never happened but a local sinfonietta recently did it at our local church for £8; it was probably better!
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We've just been to see The Book of Mormon. It was amusing but about an hour too long (plus it was a million degrees up in the balcony). We don't really do musicals though, normally.
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July is going to be a good month for gigs -
Squid at Somerset House on the 8th, which is going to be all kinds of awesome.
Then a couple of in-store album-launch events - Katy J Pearson and Working Men's Club.
Seeing Katy J Pearson again in September in Margate - at Olby's Soul Café, which will be a very interesting venue.
And way down the line, Wet Leg in November - by which time, they will no longer be fashionable, I expect.
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Only three years after I ordered the tickets and several reschedules including a change of venue due to covid I'm finally off to see Drive by Truckers at Leeds University on this Thursday.
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I shall shortly, I trust, have a ticket for HMHB on 2023-01-20 at the 'leccy Ballroom in Camden. Just waiting to hear from Miss von Brandenburg whether she wants to go too.
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Chemical brothers in September. Always a bit of a laugh
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Nation of Language in November. Yay!
Very excited about this one. Their album A Way Forward was one of my top highlights of 2021, but I missed them on tour at the start of this year through being too slow to buy tickets. Completely fortuitous that I noticed they're touring again later this year, but I made sure I nabbed a ticket while they're still available.
For those not familiar with the band, the singer has confessed to being influence by the OMD tapes his dad played in the car when he was a kid. Not that you'd ever guess...
https://youtu.be/QikHjoLtfcw
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I've just booked my seat for the next season at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. 30 concerts with the main orchestra & 10 chamber music concerts. £869 after my discounts have been applied. :jurek:
That's the same as a season ticket for Anfield. I'm glad I don't like football as well.
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An acoustic Waterboys.
Mike Scott and Brother Paul. Last night. COVID Fail.
Rescheduled for a week and a bit...
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George Thorogood and the Destroyers in August and Billy Bragg next February.
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(Perks up coz we have tickets for Good Time George from 2020)
(Then remembers Clare is in NZ)
(Bah!)
Edit: Miss von Brandenburg tells me “July 29th” :thumbsup:
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Green Day @ London Stadium this coming Friday. Mid train strike so I have no idea if I'll be able to get home or not...
Waited 3 years and instead of looking forward to it I'm worrying about getting myself home :facepalm:
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The Infinite Monkey Cage on 5th July.
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SEJ at Vicarage Road. ;D
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Some eejit just bought tickets for Porcupine Tree in Berlin. A bit of a Homer bowling ball moment...
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Arcade fire 👍
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King King, SBE, October 18th.
Hurrah!
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All sorts of stuff at Womad.
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Arcade fire 👍
Supposed to be on Monday. Wouldn’t be surprised if it gets cancelled. Right now I’m still planning on going
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The Bootleg Beatles. Playing the venue 60 years after the original ones.
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Sabotage, by No Fit State Circus, in Caerdydd.
We've seen it already, but Mrs E and I fancy seeing the final performance of what's been a great summer tour.
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Chemical Brothers, plus a load of other stuff on Sunday.
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Really sad to be missing that!
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Arcade fire 👍
Supposed to be on Monday. Wouldn’t be surprised if it gets cancelled. Right now I’m still planning on going
https://twitter.com/feistmusic/status/1565389664579686400?s=10&t=VSCsIZZYf4L18wLSZ1Zmbg
The support band pull out. I was looking fwd to them as much as AF but that’s a good strong stance there
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Really sad to be missing that!
You could always sneak out for the evening ;)
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Really sad to be missing that!
You could always sneak out for the evening ;)
I could, but it would be a 250 mile return sneak out!
Tempting, though...
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George Thorogood and the Destroyers in August and Billy Bragg next February.
George played my halls of residence during my first year at uni. Hard to believe. Harder still, I didn't go...
I'm bad to the bone.
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The Bootleg Beatles. Playing the venue 60 years after the original ones.
Well, tonight the Bootleg Beatles played quite a long, and special set, tailored for the event.
They are a 'tribute' band, and they generally did really well (from an old cynic!)
What really brought the house down was when they asked if any in the audience had seen 'their' first gig, 60 years ago, and at least four people put their hands up.
Their sign-off was "see you in 60 years!".
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So you didn’t go as the Bootleg Mark Chapman?
</HMHB>
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the Taylor Hawkins tribute/ Foo Fighters concert at Wembly tomorrow.
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Green Day @ London Stadium this coming Friday. Mid train strike so I have no idea if I'll be able to get home or not...
Waited 3 years and instead of looking forward to it I'm worrying about getting myself home :facepalm:
We drove down as couldn't guarantee a train home - turns out they were running ok. Excellent gig and an extra little bonus(?) was that I caught the dreaded COVID :facepalm:
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ISIHAC at the Fairfield Halls in a few weeks.
<Excited>
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Ricky Ross solo next week at a small venue in Billericay. Acoustic set plus readings from his new book.
(I think Deacon Blue were my first gig in 1990)
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The Private View at the RWA Open Exhibition in Bristol on Friday (I'm in it).
Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita in Bangor in a couple of weeks.
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Well, I was off to see the wonderful Andy Fairweather-Low tonight, for photos and fun. Sadly he has had to cancel.
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The Men They Couldn't Hang on Saturday, up in That London. I saw them (counts on fingers) in 1984 in Battersea Park, back in the days of the GLC. I've seen Swill (Phil Odgers) a few times more recently.
Support are the wonderful United Stöats of America, a band local to me , who are guilty of "Not Taking Life Seriously."
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Nine Below Zero.
Never seen them before, nor heard much by them.
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At 3 o'clock in the afternoon?
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Ryan Adams in York next April.
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At 3 o'clock in the afternoon?
;D
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Ryan Adams in York next April.
Nottingham Royal Concert Hall on 12 April. I know nothing about him - someone's bought me a ticket.
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The Skints next March
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King King (again) at the 'leccy Ballroom in March. Coming soon: Larkin Poe at the Roundhouse in October and Toby Lee at the Half Moon on the 20th :thumbsup:
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A recording of Paul Sinha's Pub quiz, wot is a programme on
HerHis Majesty's Home Service.
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Supposed to be going to Working Men’s Club tonight at Kentish Town Forum but can’t make it. Anyone want the ticket? I don’t want anything for it, just don’t want to see it go to waste.
Gutted I can’t go. They are an awesome live band.
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Ryan Adams in York next April.
Ditto.
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My BiL and gig going companion bought me a ticket for KY Tunstall at Uork Barbican next year for Christmas.
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My BiL and gig going companion bought me a ticket for KY Tunstall at Uork Barbican next year for Christmas.
Interesting images there…
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Stiff Little Fingers at the Roundhouse in March. One of my bestest Christmas presents.
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Moar tickets:
Counterpoint, week after next, Infinite Monkey Cage the week after that. Harry Hill in between the two.
Fingers crossed train strikes don't get in the way..
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Stiff Little Fingers at the Roundhouse in March. One of my bestest Christmas presents.
Stiff Little Fingers at The Hammersmith Odeon are the only gig I've ever retired from and ensconced myself in the bar.
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Stiff Little Fingers at the Roundhouse in March. One of my bestest Christmas presents.
Stiff Little Fingers at The Hammersmith Odeon are the only gig I've ever retired from and ensconced myself in the bar.
How long ago? I saw them many times in my youth, first encountering them as support for TRB in Brighton.
One occassion, several years after that, I went to see them at the National Ballroom, Kilburn. I'd waited about an hour for my grate frend Nic to turn up and when he did I handed over his ticket, which he propmptly paid me for. This nearly resulted in a lynching from various ticket touts hanging around as they thought I was muscling in on their territory. Happy days.
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The Uplifter in January, then The Skints, and Ishmael Ensembke in march/april
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Lewes Psychedelic Festival in February.
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^so many questions
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^so many questions
I’ve been a few times and it’s always a good day out. But it is fair to say that Lewes isn’t, on the surface, a hotbed of that sort of thing. :)
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The "Cycle Ball (Finals) and Artistic Cycling (Qualifying and Finals)" at the world champs in glasgow in August. :thumbsup:
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Martin Turner* in Chelmsford on March 3rd; Pokey LaFarge at Islington Assembly Hall on April 19th.
* him out of Wishbone Ash and featuring Mr Von Brandenburg on drums
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Just got my S Club 7 tickets!
I used to accompany my daughters to their gigs twenty odd years ago (didn't take much persuading).
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Never seen them myself. Are they particularly wild?
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I don't know about their music but apparently their parties are unique.
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Samantha Fish at York Barbican 24th October
Saw her just before lock down in Leeds and she was brilliant. Looks likes she has moved up to slightly bigger venues for this tour.
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My grate frend Mr Woolrich says that whenever both of us go to see La Fish the gig is something of a disappointment. He saw her recently without me and apparently it was æxcellent.
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I've just realised that I had tickets to see The Musical Box performing its recreation of the 1974 Genesis 'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' show at the former Hammersmith Odeon last Saturday. I think they were originally bought about three years ago and the show was rescheduled a couple of times because of Covid.
Oh well. I hope it went well ::-)
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I've just realised that I had tickets to see The Musical Box performing its recreation of the 1974 Genesis 'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' show at the former Hammersmith Odeon last Saturday. I think they were originally bought about three years ago and the show was rescheduled a couple of times because of Covid.
Oh well. I hope it went well ::-)
I thought I was going to have that problem with Ozzy Osbourne with tickets that have been rescheduled since 2019, and the date had moved to Mrs CET's milestone birthday trip to Le Mans. But he's solved that problem by stopping touring. The only gig I actually missed through forgetfulness was Keith Emerson and the Nice.
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Siouxsie Sioux is playing down the road.
But How Many ££££s? Moar than I paid to see Bowie. That can't be right.
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I don't know about their music but apparently their parties are unique.
Very good!
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Beast in Black on Monday. First time that I will see them headlining, after a couple of great support slots for Nightwish
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Jehst on Saturday :)
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Orbital, in Brighton on April 8. New album arrived today :)
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Martin Turner* in Chelmsford on March 3rd; Pokey LaFarge at Islington Assembly Hall on April 19th.
* him out of Wishbone Ash and featuring Mr Von Brandenburg on drums
“Have you already got your ticket for Martin Turner?” asked both Miss and Mr Von Brandenburg today. “Only we could put you on the guest list!” :facepalm: Oh well, perhaps they’ll swing for a freebie T-shaped shirt instead.
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Half Man Half Biscuit at the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket, but not Cambridge the night after, which is normally a blast, as the Travelodge is 50 yards away from the venue.
The CBSO performing the Four Seasons, Vivaldi, not Valli. This one's at Birmingham Town Hall, not Symphony Hall, which is unusual. I've not been to the Town Hall for a concert this millennium.
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So I had tickets to see Camel on their "The Final Chapter" tour in June. Was trying to blag a Photo Pass too...
Can't go now, on account of them cancelling through illness. :'(
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They'd only have played one song though, so you won't have missed much ;D
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1.5 hours long though ;D
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Indeed
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No worries, if they reschedule, I’ll get you a ticket.
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They must all be about 80 by now. Everything mutates to bluegrass at that age
Last time I went to a gig with you, you saw Leftfield and I saw The Orb :demon:
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They must all be about 80 by now. Everything mutates to bluegrass at that age
Last time I went to a gig with you, you saw Leftfield and I saw The Orb :demon:
Ah, you are forgetting that you paid to see The James Taylor Quartet.
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Didn't really. Was a weekend all inclusive ticket for the jazz festival. Funnily enough just got one for this year's.
Anyway The Orb/Leftfield thing was a reference to that photo I took ;)
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Yes I got that, but you did pay for the JTQ ;)
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Stiff Little Fingers at the Roundhouse in March. One of my bestest Christmas presents.
That's this Saturday. Excite!
I first saw them in 1979, supporting TRB at the Brighton Top Rank.
I was chatting to a colleague today and mentioned I was going to see them.
"What, The Stiff Little Fingers?" Turns out someone she knows did a bit of roadie-ing for them BITD.
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Yes I got that, but you did pay for the JTQ ;)
Yes, but not in a monetary sense.
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Curzon cinemas are having a special 25th anniversary screening of The Big Lebowski next Friday. I can't remember if I saw it in the cinema when it first came out, but it's not an opportunity that comes round very often so tickets booked.
"There will also be a special themed cocktail, The Dude's Beverage, available, plus a costume competition where the winner will receive two complimentary cinema tickets."
Think I'll pass on both of those elements, thanks.
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Got a ticket to see The Damned in a couple of weeks.
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WOMAD.
Had tickets for 2020 but pandemic put paid to that. Even though it is only 30 minutes away, I've never actually been. Don't know why not.
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Danny Baker
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Just bought tickets for BC Camplight in Ramsgate in June - this is his solo piano tour, which he only announced yesterday. It's at Ramsgate Music Hall, which is what you might call an "intimate" venue - capacity around 100 - so it will be amazing.
Also seeing his full band show at Shepherds Bush Empire in November, which will also be amazing but in very different ways.
June will be a good month for gigs - also seeing Dave Gorman in Canterbury and Nation of Language in Camden.
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Got free tickets to filming of the rebooted Gladiators in Sheffield on 4 June. I think/hope my lads are going to love it!
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The Spooky Men's Chorale in That London in August.
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Rant at the Fleece Inn in deepest Worcestershire. Well, near Evesham, anyway. Booked the caravan in the back yard too.
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Luther Vandross
Can't wait.
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Kim Wilde
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Was going to see John Cale, but have an invite to the Royal Enclosure at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, which trumps Mr Cale
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Luther Vandross
Can't wait.
*deepest possible voice*
Oh Baby.
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Kim Wilde
Quite fancy that - off to look up tickets near here...
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A flurry!
Bridget Christie in Nottingham 19 Oct.
Rev Richard Coles in Loughborough on 3 November
Billy Bragg 2 December*
(*I sometimes see other musicians)
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Miss von Brandenburg and I also have tix for Mr Bragg, on December 7th.
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Miss von Brandenburg and I also have tix for Mr Bragg, on December 7th.
✊🏻
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Also coming up, Steve Harley, PP Arnold, Mica Paris, Ukelelelele Orchestra, Steeleye Span.
See Harley manually corrected ;D
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Saw Mica Paris a couple of years ago. Was good
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Luther Vandross
Can't wait.
I’ve heard he hasn’t been performing m much in the last 18 years on account of ill health, so you’re very lucky!
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Yes, he's been very poorly
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Courtney Pine this evening.
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Sisters of Mercy tomorrow. My hopes for the music aren’t super high, but I’m looking forward to being there all the same.
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Officially on the guest list for Martin Turner in Banbury next week :thumbsup:
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Sisters of Mercy tomorrow. My hopes for the music aren’t super high, but I’m looking forward to being there all the same.
We're going to the Roundhouse too
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We have been offered tickets for Fascinating Aida tomorrow at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff. I see that they have an accompanist other than Dillie Keane. She produced a few videos during the pandemic and she was looking old and frail.
Example from May 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRWYanceCe4&ab_channel=DillieKeane
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Sisters of Mercy tomorrow. My hopes for the music aren’t super high, but I’m looking forward to being there all the same.
We're going to the Roundhouse too
Bloody hell - the queue to get in!
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Sisters of Mercy tomorrow. My hopes for the music aren’t super high, but I’m looking forward to being there all the same.
We're going to the Roundhouse too
Bloody hell - the queue to get in!
Haha yes. I'm having a bite to eat while it goes down!
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Sisters of Mercy tomorrow. My hopes for the music aren’t super high, but I’m looking forward to being there all the same.
We're going to the Roundhouse too
I missed this earlier. If you want to say hello, I've got a stripey top - though black and grey - so mostly blending in!
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Not sure that description would have narrowed it down much ... and we were sitting on the balcony in any case
Enjoyed it, but by god they were playing for themselves not for the crowd! I mean, they quite liked us being there, but I don't think they needed us!
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The Times didn't like it... ★★☆☆☆
With his jet-black mane of hair now a distant memory, Eldritch prowled the stage in a black hoodie, growled his way through old favourites such as Dominion and More, and singularly failed to connect with a cheerful, mostly middle-aged crowd of faithful fans.
Part of the problem was the sound. Whether by accident or design, it was so muddy that it was extremely hard to make out what Eldritch was singing about. There was little variety in the funereal metallic rock dirge, and with the band members in silhouette — although the guitarists Ben Christo and Dylan Smith did their best to strike some classic rock poses — not much in the way of character emanating from the stage. You had to admire Eldritch for finding his style and sticking to it for over 40 years, but the audience were not getting a great deal here.
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I'm going to see Jesus Christ Superstar tomorrow evening and my plans have just been upended as that Newcastle United are at home to Man City.
Bugger. Town Centre will be this: drunken chaos.
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Ranulph Feinnes 23 October, down the road after work. HK is a bit of a fan. I don't know how good a musician he is though...
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If a guitarist I'd imagine he'd be a better strummer than a fingerpicker.
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Ranulph Feinnes 23 October, down the road after work. HK is a bit of a fan. I don't know how good a musician he is though...
Let us know what he’s like. I’m tempted: Scottish dates (2 of) are next year
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Rich Hall, trialling his new offering “Shot from Canons” at the Court Theatre, Tring. Not until December tho.
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Honeymoan - an up-n-coming indie rock combo whose tracks I've heard I quite like. Was sold out but got a return thanks to a gig-booking app which I was forced to register with.
They're at the Lexington, my local small venue. One of those where you play twice in your career - once on the way up and once on the way down. "Nice to see you back" are the words you don't want to hear.
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My Young Lady has got tickets for us to see the Brain of Britain Final. Excite!
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The Mission, tomorrow night.
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Ranulph Feinnes 23 October, down the road after work. HK is a bit of a fan. I don't know how good a musician he is though...
Let us know what he’s like. I’m tempted: Scottish dates (2 of) are next year
Interesting evening, done without obvious notes but obviously following a script at times. There is a fair chunk on his time as a mercenary in Oman without quite mentioning that he was a mercenary. Obviously mad as a box of frogs and unsurprisingly a product of his time, it was a bit of a shock to glimpse the toll that the life he chose has taken on him.
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Thanks lwab
And sooner than his Scottish dates, explosions in the sky again, this time in manchester
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...explosions in the sky again, this time in manchester
Git! :thumbsup:
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...explosions in the sky again, this time in manchester
Git! :thumbsup:
Ag, they’re playing the poxy Troxy. Saw GY!BE there a few years ago and the crick in my neck lasted for weeks.
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...explosions in the sky again, this time in manchester
Git! :thumbsup:
Ag, they’re playing the poxy Troxy. Saw GY!BE there a few years ago and the crick in my neck lasted for weeks.
Hmmm. I'm going to a gig at the Troxy tomorrow night. Never been there before but this doesn't sound promising.
The band what I am seeing is Squid. This will be the sixth time I've seen them. I quite like them. The eagle-eyed among you will spot me at the 1m30 mark of this video (https://youtu.be/qn9vPM9Q6bU?si=aLACQfeXQOEhvSTB), in the front row of their Printworks performance in Sept 2021.
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Depends where you are in the Troxy. If you’re at one of the tables in the circle like wot I was last time then you’re sideways on in relation to the stage. Miss von Brandenburg and I saw $BAND there from the regular seats further back and that was fine. Might have been GY!BE too. All a blur these days…
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Depends where you are in the Troxy. If you’re at one of the tables in the circle like wot I was last time then you’re sideways on in relation to the stage. Miss von Brandenburg and I saw $BAND there from the regular seats further back and that was fine. Might have been GY!BE too. All a blur these days…
Sitting down at a gig? Nothing so refined as that for the likes of me* and my companion - we were down in the pit with the hordes. Managed to bag a good spot right by the sound desk so had a decent view and didn't get bashed around - it was looking a bit lively down towards the front though.
(*Actually, I've got tickets for the sitting down bit at the Shepherd's Bush Empire for BC Camplight later this month. Haven't been to the SBE for many years, wonder if it's still a massive shithole...)
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Anyone want to buy a ticket and accompany me to see King Gizzard........ Edinburgh May 27th 2024? My son made a mistake when buying tickets and ended up with 2 standing and 2 seated tickets. I'm taking one of the seated ticket and the other one is on offer.
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ISIHAC at Dorking Halls 04/12/2023. Hurrah.
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Kosheen
Never seen them before...
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John Crace, then Dr Phil Hammond a few days later. Some music promised with the latter.
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My sister is having a significant birthday next year (one with a 0 on the end of it) so she has organised a family trip to Abba Voyage. Excellent! Not my kind of thing at all, as a rule, but I'm really looking forward to it.
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A Grime Supreme, with Moses Boyd
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^ was a bit pants.
Was a showcase of young local talent, but the output was a bit...err...generic.
Moses Boyd did a set with a saxophonist which was really just a 40 minute improvised jam.
Anyway, upwards and onwards, have just got tickets to Womad.
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John Crace, then Dr Phil Hammond a few days later. Some music promised with the latter.
Actually the other way round. Crace is next weekend. Dr Phil was brilliant, moving seamlessly between humour serious health & political stuff. And there was food.
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Billy Bragg. Feb next year.
a 3 minute walk away, which will be handy. Sold out, 150 capacity venue. :thumbsup:
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Billy Bragg. Feb next year.
a 3 minute walk away, which will be handy. Sold out, 150 capacity venue. :thumbsup:
After 14th Feb? ;)
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:P
4 days before, unfortunately.
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Onipa. In just over a week. Riotous afro-fusion.
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:P
4 days before, unfortunately.
Valentine's Day's not over then ;D
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My sister is having a significant birthday next year (one with a 0 on the end of it) so she has organised a family trip to Abba Voyage. Excellent! Not my kind of thing at all, as a rule, but I'm really looking forward to it.
I've just bought tickets for my wife and three of her friends to go for her birthday next summer. I can't believe how much it costs to watch some machinery in action, but there you go. Like you, it's not my kind of thing but I know they will enjoy it. (Separately, Mrs Redlight went to a hen night at the Mamma Mia restaurant experience last Friday night and they found themselves sitting two tables away from Adele and a bunch of her mates. Fortunately, she didn't get up to sing.
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My sister is having a significant birthday next year (one with a 0 on the end of it) so she has organised a family trip to Abba Voyage. Excellent! Not my kind of thing at all, as a rule, but I'm really looking forward to it.
I've just bought tickets for my wife and three of her friends to go for her birthday next summer. I can't believe how much it costs to watch some machinery in action, but there you go. Like you, it's not my kind of thing but I know they will enjoy it.
In fairness, it's not just machinery - there's a live band as well, who are more than competent - and even the bits that are machinery and electrotrickery are quite amazingly well done.
We enjoyed it, but you do know you're at a show not a gig - and no matter how realistically the avatars seem to perform, they still look dead behind the eyes ...
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Yeah, I'm going to enjoy it for what it is. I like the songs anyway.
At the other end of the spectrum, next week I've got a double-header of Jockstrap at the Barbican on Wednesday and Warmduscher at the 100 Club on Thursday. Both of which should be the polar opposite of mechanical.
Unfortunately, I missed out on seeing Jockstrap when they played at the tiny Olby's in Margate earlier this year and then they blew up with the whole Mercury nomination thing and I doubt I'll get the opportunity to see them in that size of venue again but the Barbican will still be good.
I saw Warmduscher at Rough Trade in June and they were amazing, but that was just a short set. The full gig experience promises to be something else. They are incredible live performers.
Annoyingly, the Warmduscher gig clashes with Panda Bear and Sonic Boom at Heaven, which I'd also very much love to see. Dammit.
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Just bought tickets to the live version of WOTW at the O2, with Jeff Wayne conducting, Liam Neeson as the narrator, and hopefully Justin Hayward back as the Journalist
in April 2025
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In the year 2025
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find…
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Oysterband and June Tabor @ Sunderland in October - their last tour together and probably my last chance to see the band :'(
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Rhiannon Giddens at the Barbican on Wed 22nd.
And, we've got two spares owing i) to the folk we though we'd go with inconveniently moving across the world, and ii) to me not making any effort to move them on.
Middle of the front stalls, £40 or so I think, and I can return them to the box office until Tuesday. I know there's some RG love around here - let me know if interested
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor in October.
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Sadly Miss von Brandenburg has a prior engagement on the day they’re playing in London’s famous London >:(
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Tosca tonight. I haven't actually got the tickets myself but I'm hoping the person with the tickets will turn up or I won't get in.
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Something different Garden of Cosmic Speculation (https://gardenofcosmicspeculation.com/)
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Something different Garden of Cosmic Speculation (https://gardenofcosmicspeculation.com/)
I've been fascinated by that for years, but only open two days per year - think I'll nominate them to Right to Roam as the location of their next mass trespass.
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Think BC Camplight at the Crescent in York is next.
Excitingly, the Magnetic Fields are touring 69 Love Songs, the whole album over two nights. In order. No encores. Got tickets for both nights in Manchester and in London.
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Something different Garden of Cosmic Speculation (https://gardenofcosmicspeculation.com/)
I've been fascinated by that for years, but only open two days per year - think I'll nominate them to Right to Roam as the location of their next mass trespass.
;D ;D ;D
May 4th/5th this year ;)
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor in October.
Snap, except we're going in Sep
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AC/DC at Wembley in July
One of my life’s ambitions
A
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AC/DC at Wembley in July
One of my life’s ambitions
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Makes me feel old - Stafford 1979
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Something different Garden of Cosmic Speculation (https://gardenofcosmicspeculation.com/)
I've been fascinated by that for years, but only open two days per year - think I'll nominate them to Right to Roam as the location of their next mass trespass.
;D ;D ;D
May 4th/5th this year ;)
And it's sold out. :'(
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The Pretenders at Hull in the autumn.
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Something different Garden of Cosmic Speculation (https://gardenofcosmicspeculation.com/)
I've been fascinated by that for years, but only open two days per year - think I'll nominate them to Right to Roam as the location of their next mass trespass.
;D ;D ;D
May 4th/5th this year ;)
And it's sold out. :'(
I joined the Scottish Gardens mailing scheme and got notification of when tickets were going on sale (scotlandsgardens.org). 1st time successful since I moved to D&G
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Think BC Camplight at the Crescent in York is next.
Is that with the full band or solo?
Saw him three times last year. Twice was just him and his piano, and both times were great, but the last one was at Shepherds Bush Empire with the full band and it was one of my gig highlights of the year. He was in full rock star mode. Totally brilliant.
Support was Personal Trainer who were also v.good indeed.
Magnetic Fields sounds fun. Just had a look at tickets for the London nights but "not available" - is that because they've already sold out? Nuts.
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I'm old enough to have been at the Newcastle leg of Bob's "infamous" electric tour - first half acoustic, second with electricity. Someone shouted, "Bobby, (obviously knew him personally) we've come to hear a folk-singer, not a rock-singer!" To which, the response was, "And e've come to hear him, not you!" BD only said one thing all night, I think. It was, "Don't bug me, I'm a sick man." I remember the "controversy" as being blown up by the press out of all proportion. You had to be there. It was a great concert, in at the start of something epochal. It's also why I probably won't be going to see his upcoming shows - too many memories to keep intact!
Dylan remains at the top of my personal hit parade; I don't see him ever being knocked (https://youtu.be/rm9coqlk8fY?si=fcIHN7Rg0Qm-rure) off.
A long time ago I was an intern at The Village Voice, home of the legendary writer Nat Hentoff, who wrote the liner notes for one of Dylan's albums. I asked him what his favourite was. Don't remember what he said(!), but he definitely didn't like "the newer stuff" circa the 80s, which I personally loved (Tight Connection To My Heart being a particular favourite).
Saw him live twice:
- The first time was in the venerable Scribner's Bookstore where I was working and he was buying. Sir Bob (https://twitter.com/jollygoodthen/status/1159062902265040898) actually had to step out of my way as I walked by carrying a stack of books.
- The second time was on stage twentysomething years ago, about a million miles away from my seat, a birthday surprise from my wife. He came on after what seemed like ages and rushed through everything, as is his way. I think (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ommCRso46_Q) the only way to listen to him, as opposed to experience him, is plugged in. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=127422.0)
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My Young Lady has got tickets for a recording of Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics this Wednesday. She had better take me with her or I will be sad.
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Nick Cave - Glasgow in November
3rd time lucky? 1st time I had tickets was suspended from work, in mental turmoil and sold the tickets, 2nd time was cancelled due to covid.