Last Gig You Went To...

Thunder at the Manchester Academy on Friday night 21/12/12.
Excellent gig :D

Blimey I forgot to report in... back 15 October Ultravox in http://www.amagerbio.dk/

Solid as always. The oldies with a handfull of their new tunes added

Cowboy Junkies
Barbican Centre, London
Friday 25th Jan 2013

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Margo Timmins at the Barbican last night, clutching some red roses a member of the audience gave her.

Well what a way to open my 2013 gig calendar - simply fantastic.

Cowboy Junkies have been a favourite band of mine since seeing Natural Born Killers in 94' and buying the film soundtrack. They performed a cover of the Lou Reed (Velvet Underground) Sweet Jane song for the film and I was hooked on them from that moment. Not to everyone's taste I know and they have been described as country music on valium, as they have a very laid-back sound which is uniquely an unmistakably Cowboy Junkies. Anyway, the show started at 8.00 and we got a selection of songs from the new Nomad Series (4 albums) for around 60 minutes, a short break then all the old favourites, this included opening the second set with Sweet Jane, which met with loud approval from the crowd. They also played requests from people who had emailed or left messages on their website - the show went on till around 10.30~40 (forgot to check watch) and the full house just lapped it up.

The evening was fantastic, but what really made the event stand out was the sound quality - if anyone thinks all live shows sound shit (which some do), then they should have been in the Barbican last night. It was truly glorious, every note and chord, every pick at the guitar, every beat of a drum and every word sung by Margo Timmins was pitch perfect and clearly heard. It was astonishingly good and I know being at the Barbican clearly helps, but nonetheless the sound was immaculate last night.

I also got a chance to meet Margo and shake her hand after the gig, as she came out to spend some time with fans and sign CD's - what a night :D

Oh, as they are a Canadian band and as stated by Margo, "Every Canadian band should play at least one Neil Young song", then ended their two song encore with a brilliantly timed cover of Don't Let it Bring You Down.

I have quite a few gigs booked for 2013 already, but TBH its going to be very hard to top last night :scratch:

I'm pretty sure this is the set-list, but I'm not 100%

Wrong Piano
Sit Sadly by Your Side
Stranger Here
See You Around
Square Room
3rd Crusade
Late Night Radio
Damaged from the Start
Fairytale
INTERVAL
Sweet Jane
Common Disaster
Cheap is How I Feel
Spiral Down (this was awesome......)
Working on a Building
Lay it Down
A Horse in the Country
Five Room Love Story
My Little Basquiat
Good Friday
ENCORE
Blue Moon
Don't Let it Bring You Down

Agreed, great show, as always..

I was at the Jamaican High Commission last Wednesday, to film their Bob Marley 68 th birthday celebration, 9 acts recorded by Steve Rispin of Liscome Park Studios soon as I get the sound track I will edit the video and post it on Musicosis. What a great night out, the cream of talent from Jamaica, of Jamaican extraction or just lovers of Bob Marley. Each gave their own interpretation of his music. I loved it.

For me it was Barb Jungr on Saturday 9th February

Wonderful night, Barb is on tour promoting her new album Stockport to Memphis. Both of us originally coming from Stockport, it was rude not to go and see her perform at the art deco wonder, the Stockport Plaza.

Tremendous, and I was able to meet Barb at the end of the gig.

I went to see Eli scarecrow at the snooty fox in Wakefield. Check out ROBOTRON it's the funniest thing I have ever seen at a gig.

Was at the Tate for the opening show of Kraftwerk last Wednesday which was a good night out.
Back there tomorrow to see The Mix :)

Not long since returned from seeing the Antonio Forcione Trio performing at The Band On The Wall in Manchester.
A excellent performance by a superb band, and the sound was amazing too :D

Thoroughly recommended :cool:

I went to see Justin Currie in Kendal on Thursday night. What an excellent gig it was.
A great story from the guy who played the support slot....

"We were on our way here to the gig & we stopped by a river to have a cup of coffee & so on. There was a guy there with a bag full of puppies and, thinking the worst, we engaged him in conversation. When we asked him about the puppies he told us he was going to chuck them in the river. We spent ages trying to persuade him to save the poor little cute things and eventually, we came up with a plan.
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.....so tonight, all sales of my CDs in the foyer, will go towards looking after those poor little pups!"


I reckon Justin Currie is one of the UK's best songwriters and is criminally under-rated.