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    Well I'm not going to see Föllakzoid in Leicester tonight, cancelled for reasons we all know about.
    The email I inevitably received telling me about the cancellation also unfortunately said it hadn't been rearranged for a later date.

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    Wilko Johnson at the Apex (Bury St Edmunds) last night.

    First concert since this bloody Covid emerged.
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    Quote Originally Posted by guy View Post
    Wilko Johnson at the Apex (Bury St Edmunds) last night.

    First concert since this bloody Covid emerged.
    How was it? His recovery from 'inoperable' pancreatic cancer is remarkable.
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    "In 2014, Wilko was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer and was told he had a year to live. One year later, a photographer friend Charlie Chan (who just happened to be a doctor) commented that he looked too well and was still doing his routine and fast-paced musical performance, that something was perhaps not right about this diagnosis. To cut a long story short, he was retested and re-diagnosed with a Neuroendocrine Cancer with a primary in the pancreas. However, it was a large tumour (7 lbs 8oz in weight and the size of a melon)"

    https://ronnyallan.net/2015/12/01/th...wilko-johnson/

    Bloody lucky

    Wilko, Norman Watt Roy and drummer - Dylan Howe, I think, were all excellent. Just wonderful being out and listening to live music.
    Wilko looked very good, very skinny but he has always been on the slender side and given the amount of tissue removed during operation hardly surprising.

    Possibly bass was a little over emphasised by the desk? But beautiful seeing Norman getting in the groove.

    Only thing that would improve the band, in my view, would be the addition of a harmonica player (and better singer, as it's not Wilko's strongest point ), but then I was hearing "Feelgood" material and thinking of the originals with the wonderful Lee Brilleaux.

    Support from John Otway was amusing, but a bit shit - although I suppose that's how its meant to be

    EDIT: Also I love the Apex, very civilised small venue, plenty of cheap parking nearby, and an easy forty minute drive from where I live.
    Last edited by guy; 12-02-2022 at 18:25. Reason: additional thought
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    wilko, wasnt he with feelgood back in the day?
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    wilko, wasnt he with feelgood back in the day?
    Yes indeed, Wilko was an original band member and writer of classic "back in the night" - which I was very pleased to hear last night
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    Quote Originally Posted by guy View Post
    Yes indeed, Wilko was an original band member and writer of classic "back in the night" - which I was very pleased to hear last night
    Me and Mrs. P saw Wilko a few years ago at some one-day outdoor festival near Doncaster, and he was great As you say, not much of a vocalist, but loved his choppy playing style, and he was very entertaining. Did "Roxette", which is my favourite.

    One of the support bands was Mickey Finn's T. Rex. Which was odd as Mickey had died years ago.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Saw Van Morrison on Monday night at Liverpool Philharmonic. He was his usual miserable self not even saying hello but he sang for a full hour and a half before leaving the group still playing for another twenty minutes. They were really good musicians, Van himself is a great sax player.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimK View Post
    Well I'm not going to see Föllakzoid in Leicester tonight, cancelled for reasons we all know about.
    The email I inevitably received telling me about the cancellation also unfortunately said it hadn't been rearranged for a later date.
    Forgot I posted this, actually got to see them in Bristol a couple of weeks ago, and rather good it was too.

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    Not the last gig, but the last time I was in Washington DC. In the space of about one week I saw Shaun Colvin, Al Stewart, and Joan Armatrading at the Birchmere Theatre!

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