Not my cup of tea either...still if that's the worst thing about the place then it's not too bad...Quote:
Originally Posted by chris@panteg
I'm hoping to make that one too, we'll see if I can get organised this time :)
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Not my cup of tea either...still if that's the worst thing about the place then it's not too bad...Quote:
Originally Posted by chris@panteg
I'm hoping to make that one too, we'll see if I can get organised this time :)
Goldie Looking Chain - Kasbah Coventry
Worth £5 of anyone's money, top quality light entertainment...'you knows it' ;)
Bit of a fuzzy head this morning though :doh:
You little tease, Chris! :)
The Stranglers gig I attended earlier this month was for the most part a mess. Some songs sounded just crap & they had to restart the second song in their set three times. I was very dissapointed but the support acts were good epecially Wilco Johnson.
Hi Alex , i can't tell how much i enjoyed it :) I just want to see them again .Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Just after this picture was taken they came back out and played Sleepwalkers :) Banton kept doing his thing with the bass pedal :eek: OMG i think i need some Sir Galahad's or maybe Marco's wardrobes :eyebrows: .
Lol - who's the guy on the left who looks like Frank Skinner? :eyebrows:
Marco.
Frank Skinner? :scratch: - I thought that was Billy Bragg!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Yes he does a tad , :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
That sir is Peter Hammill , he's knocking on a bit but still gives it everything and i mean everything :eek:
Elbow @ the O2, very good
Jethro Tull at Belfast Waterfront Concert Hall.
Good gig, Tull still able to do it after all these years so not to old to rock n roll:)
However I feel that a few of the older gigs I have seen them do were better.
Camera use at that venue very hard to pull off, they watch like hawks for them.
Regards D S D L
Romeo and Juliet performed by The Russian State Ballet & Orchestra of Siberia at the Anvil, Basingstoke, last night. I'm not a great ballet enthusiast but I did enjoy the costumes and fabulous dancing. For me, though, the music of Prokofiev is wonderful and I revelled in the sound of the small-ish orchestra playing superbly and with some incredible crescendi - I wish I had my SPL meter to measure it but they must have gone well over 100dB on a few occasions. A great night out and good to see provincial touring companies like this visit little old Basingstoke.
Did they play any of the old stuff ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalek Supreme D L
:)Quote:
Originally Posted by baron
Excellent band live :) Do you have the new album ?
I don't wish to speak on anyone else's behalf, but I see them pretty regularly, and they ALWAYS play the old stuff :)Quote:
Originally Posted by chris@panteg
Unfortunately I find Ian seems to struggle with his voice a little these days. His flute playing however gets better and better.
Adrian Sherwood & On U Sound @ Cov West Indian Club
Oh dear I've just got back :doh:
Excellent night, time for bed :)
Marillion Weekend 2011 - Port Zelande
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...marillion1.jpg
What a fantastic weekend this was, 3 days of Marillion at Center Parcs, Port Zelande in the Netherlands. Quite an experience as Marillion have a very unique relationship with their long time loyal fans since leaving EMI records, with people coming from the four corners of the globe to attend the biannual events. First night was the full album Holidays in Eden, plus other songs. Second night was A - Z of Marillion, with a song for each letter of the alphabet from their 16 album catalogue (with a couple of cheats and surprises!) and the final night was 'The Glow Must go On'. Everyone in the hall was given a glow stick and asked to vote for certain song choices by cheering and waving your glow stick in the air..... very silly, but great fun. Over 8 hours of music from one of my favourite bands, plus some excellent supports acts too.
There was stuff going on all weekend, with the band mingling in with us in a very relaxed and jovial atmosphere. For a Marillion fan it is an exceptional weekend, if you didn't like them though, the weekend would suck, as it was total immersion in the band and their music!
This was funny too, despite the audience being mostly 'rather ancient' prog rockers, there was still a nightly stampede for the barrier. In fact somebody got injured one of the nights :scratch:
Bet that was a good gig. Hope the PA was up to the bass :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by WAD62
Yorkshire Blues Festival if anyones intrested, some old names there
http://www.yorkshireblues.com/
Ooops, wrong thread, i do need to wake up :doh:
Yes Chris, I just ordered the vinyl as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by chris@panteg
They performed a mixture of the old and the new.
Sorry for the late reply.
The soundsystem was immaculate...liquid bass!!! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Beechwoods
The evening was a mutual friend's 50th b'day bash, he's a sound engineer himself so Mr Sherwood didn't let him down...he started at 11 and finished at 5, playing with various MCs and musicians, a real treat, everyone was dancing and smiling :)
2 Red stripes & 2 large rum & cokes £8!!! :cool:
Always a good live band IMHO, saw them a few times in their early years at Glastonbury, and managed to catch them in Leicester on their last tour, did they have the mini orchestra with them? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by baron
You've just reminded me that I need to order the new CD :cool:
I have the new album on vinyl , its a double and at 45 rpm :)Quote:
Originally Posted by baron
I have a special memory of being back stage at the V festival 2009 when Elbow came on and did Starlings , just great :)
Wow! Last gig I went to was Chris Bowsher & The Faction, supporting Dub The Earth at Bristol's Arc Bar, a few weeks ago. Chris was fantastic, but the sound system was bad; completely unsuited to dub, the bass was completely lost in a buzz that took the edge off a great performance.Quote:
Originally Posted by WAD62
I guess Adrian Sherwood is in the well deserved position of being able to dictate the sound system at his gigs. I'd have liked to see that show :)
Just a string quartet from what I could see, we were a long way back.Quote:
Originally Posted by WAD62
If its as good as the seldom seen kid vinyl I can't wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by chris@panteg
Its very good , more low key than Seldom seen kid , but another excellent album :)Quote:
Originally Posted by baron
I went to see Chas and Dave's farewell tour at the Wolverhampton Wulfren Hall last week.... they were great!
They played a really long show, which started with them playing stuff from their early days which was quite countrified blues stuff, and ended in a right knees up, great atmosphere, great fun.
I went to see Blackfield in Manchester last night, and it was like this you see, just a bit
DULL
My Kebab on the way home was more exciting.
Hmm, going to see them tonight and that's kind of what I am expecting too :( Very disappointed in the new album.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Pink Panther
I was going to try and off-load my ticket, until I saw Pineapple Thief were support, now I'm just going because they are playing!
Hugh Cornwell at Leamington Assembly , tonight , tickets still available :)
Went to see Sandi Thom at the O2 academy in Oxford last Monday. Sandi and her band played a storming set with material mainly culled from her 'Merchants & Theives' album plus a few earlier tracks and a few covers. Half way through the set Sandi was joined by a young 13 yr old guitarist called Aaron Keylock whose Les Paul was almost as big as he was, but this lad could certainly play, a name to watch for the future me thinks;).
The big dissapointment of the night was the size of the audience, barely 60 people. I found this somewhat depressing given that Sandi can produce the goods live and is supported by a band of 5 excelent musicians. I guess the fact that it was a Monday night and that times are tough right now may have kept some away, but it is hard to see how talented artists such as this can continue to afford to tour with such low turnouts:(.
That is a pitiful turnout, isn't it? I too was surprised at the Tina Dico gig last month at how few people there were for a relatively "big" artist - when you think of all the other labour costs (engineers, roadies etc.) as well as the band, how much it costs for the venue, then I'd say on that sort of turnout they would actually be losing money - which is serious news for musicians such as these, as live gigs is probably as much if not more of an income than record sales.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mothman
Perhaps we should start a campaign to encourage more of us to get out to gigs, and those that do, to go to more. (Don't worry Tim (GreatGig), you're excluded on this one! :lol:)
My understanding was that gigs don't pay for themselves per se & that generally the only profit to be made is from the sales of merchandise.
Maybe that's got something to do with the average venue size nowadays. I still prefer small gigs to big ones & I hate stadiums.
Chris, I think it's a pretty varied picture dependant on where you are at in the market place. As I understand it in the 70's & 80's playing live was a loss leader for most acts and was more about promoting the latest album, but I think today the top acts make a significant amount of there revenue from touring and the associated sales that go with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Grand Wazoo
At the other end of the market I would imagine smaller acts are more intent on building up a following, though one would assume venues will be increasingly reluctant to book artists however good they may be if they don't feel they are going to draw the punters in. I don't know what the bar takings were last Monday but they wouldn't have amounted to much.
Phew, that's a relief - you already have me buying too many CD's! 11 gigs so far this year and a weekend in the Netherlands for Marillion too (so that's 14 nights). I would struggle to do anymore :scratch:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
You're off the hook on that score tonight - off for a nice meal with the missus this evening so no bad influence... got a few up my sleeve for another time though... :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatGig
Small independent bands continue to struggle along and play 'loss leader' gigs, my mates band 'Souvaris' did a bit of a tour of France last year, and were really chuffed that they were only out of pocket by £15 each...probably the cost of the petrol :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Grand Wazoo
However within the last 5 or so years the commercial side of the music industry has realised that live gigs are one of the few guaranteed ways of ensuring revenue, in this download age. Ticket prices for established artists are now around £30 to £35, whereas about 5/6 years ago they'd be £17 to £20.
Most festivals are also run on this model, the 'mean fiddler' have been involved in running Glastonbury for about 7 years now, likewise the Big Chill has gone the same way...add to this the 'popularisation' of summer festivals by the likes of the BBC. In the late 90's I could pick up a Glasto ticket the day before for about £80 (to share with 80k people), now you need to form an orderly queue 6 months in advance and fork out about £200 (to share with 250k people), and it's mostly commercial rubbish so I no longer bother, we'll see who's on a this year's big chill before I fork out on that one.
There are a few bright sparks on the horizon, people like ATP (all tomorrows parties) promote events from a more artistic perspective, I recently saw Mogwai for £20 in Brum on an ATP tour, and regularly attend their less commercial festivals. But they're no charity either...£190 for the nightmare before christmas, but at least you get an appartment ;)
Lots of older bands are coming out of retirement to play 'classic album' tours, probably due to the decrease in CD sales, and there's a market.
I remember my first gig, Rush in '76 "All the worlds a stage tour", the ticket for the gig was less than half the price of the album, now a live gig costs about 5 to 10 times that of an album...how times change ;)
Just got back from the Cheltenham jazz festival, which conveniently doubled up as my mate's stag do, so I'm a little fatigued...:)
Saturday Night; Lamb @ Cheltenham town hall; Played a mixture of their new 'to be released' album and what could be termed 'favourites'. A slightly more acoustic set than normal, probably in sympathy with the surroundings. The new stuff seems a little more low key than one would normally expect, with more emphasis on Lou's vocals.
Sunday Night; Bonobo @ Cheltenham town hall; Magnificent as always, pretty much the same set as last year's big chill, a full band with both female vocalist present, Andreas Triana & Bajka :)
Sunday Night; Roots Manuva @ Cheltenham town hall; A real treat, Mr Smith took to the stage in a full dinner suite & bow tie, the boy has some style, all the favourites & 3 encores, an excellent way to finish off proceedings.
One other little treat was some local youth Jazz orchestra playing a big band rendition of 'Freebird', a nice way to spend Sunday morning in the sunshine :)
Got tickets for Yes at the Hammersmith Apollo this November :)
Got mine for Birmingham symphony hall on 11/11/11, hope Wakeman's son and the French vocalist are up to the task...;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Off to see Rush on the 14th...of this month in Glasgow.
Yes they are and you will be very impressed with Benoit David's vocals - he's also a very personable chap too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by WAD62
Went onto the Albert Hall Proms site this morning at the dot of 9am (when it opened for business) and was no. 717 in the queue! Luckily it went down fairly quickly as many people must have not read the instructions and refreshed or moved away from the 'waiting room'. Anyway, got the tickets I wanted by about 9:30 when I checked the queue and it was over 4,000!!
Prom 34 (Bridge, Holt, Dupré & Saint-Saëns) in the bag :)
Ah good to know, I shall look forward to it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatGig
Bonobo are excellent. Dial M for Monkey / Days to Come especially. Just got hold of Blank Sands :¬) Enjoy!Quote:
Originally Posted by WAD62
Last gig: Fleetwood Mac. AC/DC before that.
Jeff Beck at the Ryman Auditorium w/
Narada Michael Walden
Rhonda Smith
Jason Rebello
Just spotted this...
Top tip for anyone in the Birmingham area, the Mostly/Mosely jazz festival is hosting the 'Cinematic Orchestra' amongst others, early july!!!
http://mostlyjazz.co.uk/line-up/friday/
If you've not seen them, give yourself a treat :)
Is there anything on Spotify or anywhere else where I can hear this vocalist in action? I do hope he sounds like Jon Anderson as that voice is essential to carry off Yes songs.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatGig