Author Topic: What's the last gig you went to see?  (Read 225640 times)

Jaded

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1650 on: 09 February, 2024, 12:26:18 am »
Tonight was Geoff Norcott.

A very enjoyable evening...

It is simpler than it looks.

nicknack

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1651 on: 10 February, 2024, 09:12:13 am »
Soft Machine at the Gulbenkian in Canterbury last night. Absolutely superb.

The last SM gig I went to was on 12/10/73.

There's no vibrations, but wait.

Jaded

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1652 on: 11 February, 2024, 01:59:50 am »
Mr Billy Bragg.

Enticed to a small town venue to play a guitar that didn't physically exist at 6:00am this morning.

We have a fantastic community workshop here and one of their projects has been to make guitars. Helping people with challenging conditions to get involved. One of the workshop founders managed* to ask Mr BB if he'd come and play one of their guitars. One that was made in 12hours, today.

The gig was a selection of people involved in the project playing, ending with an 80 minute set from Mr Bragg, playing on the very guitar that was made today.




Yes, pink pickups.

*piggedly kept on through restrictive layers to get to meet Mr BB...
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1653 on: 11 February, 2024, 10:00:41 pm »
Alessandro Cortini at the Barbican yesterday was good, but not as good as he was in Brighton in October. The support, KMRU, a young Kenyan sound artist, more than made up for this

Jaded

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1654 on: 17 February, 2024, 12:02:16 am »
Just been to a local band night.  Mixed bunch, haven't gone through all the pics yet, but I thought this might be a keeper when I took it.

It is simpler than it looks.

Jaded

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1655 on: 18 February, 2024, 06:35:45 pm »
Last night was Rufus Wainwright.

He was excellent, but I didn't stay until the end, on account of being hungry.

It is simpler than it looks.

Mr Larrington

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1656 on: 08 March, 2024, 01:07:37 am »
Martin Turner at the Eel Pie Club in darkest Twickenham.  We didn’t let the von Brandenburgs know we were coming, thus there was considerable surprise.  Mr Turner gave me a namecheck at the end due to my arranging the use of the Fort Larrington motor-house for the storage of divers band-related Stuffs.  Yay!  Go me!

Edit: CBA to muck around with photos last night but...


Small stage ensures intimacy by Mr Larrington, on Flickr


Mr von Brandenburg being Serious by Mr Larrington, on Flickr
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Tim Hall

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1657 on: 08 March, 2024, 01:25:14 pm »
My Chum Stumpy has a son who is in a band in Brighton, called Ever Elysian and I went to see them on Sunday at the Folklore Rooms, wot is a tiny venue above a Thee Pubbe.

They are not really my cup of tea, listed as "a seven-piece alternative band on the Brighton scene, bewitching listeners with their evocative prog rock sound and enthralling live performance." but are very good at what they do. I detected quite a lot of Pink Floydesque influence in their sound but not much in the way of verse chorus verse chorus bridge verse chorus. 

There were two support acts, "Astral Gray", featuring a lead singer dressed as a wizard*, and not in a Roy Wood kind of a way and Nicolas & The Outlanders a Blues/Rock Psychedelic band. Six piece, including two backing singers who did fantastic justice to The Great Gig in The Sky.

Live music. Go and hear it.

* I messaged a colleague who lives in Brighton. "The lead singer is a wizard" "Welcome to Brighton" came the reply.

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Jaded

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1658 on: 08 March, 2024, 11:12:56 pm »
Peatbog Faries. Lively Skye music. Saw them last year here, and was prepared for some liveliness. Can't choose a greatest photo, so this one will do for now.

It is simpler than it looks.

Jaded

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1659 on: 09 March, 2024, 11:19:11 pm »
So tonight wasn't sold out like the PeatBog Faries.

Reasonable number of people there.

Really lovely support band, Burr Island, two guys, one guitar, harmony singing. A Devonian Simon and Garfunkel.



Main act, The Blow Monkeys. Really funky, with a saxophone, which always scores with me. Lead singer - voice a bit gone, maybe an off night...


It is simpler than it looks.

Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1660 on: 12 March, 2024, 12:52:23 pm »
Rafael Anton Irisarri at Cafe Oto. Ambient like a hurricane

Jaded

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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1661 on: 12 March, 2024, 01:02:43 pm »
Rafael Anton Irisarri at Cafe Oto. Ambient like a hurricane

 :thumbsup:

added to my playlist...
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Re: What's the last gig you went to see?
« Reply #1662 on: 17 March, 2024, 07:56:04 pm »
I go out virtually twice every weekend, supporting the live music in pubs and clubs in South Essex. Between 29th Feb and 3rd March, however, I got to see twenty or more of the fifty bands playing Legends of Rock "Yarmaggedon 12" 2024. 

This weekend I saw The Saviours at The Papillon in Southend, and last night I saw Solar9 at the Laindon Community Centre.

Looking forward to next weekend - Chinnery's are hosting Genesis Visible Touch again. First time I saw them, I was amazed at the accuracy of the reproduction of Genesis's studio sounds, live!
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