Confession Time - First Live Gig & First Record Bought

[Tim]

Barbican Hall - 14th June 2011
London Symphony Orchestra with Bernard Haitink.

Bruckner - Symphony No. 4

Bloomin' marvellous

[idc]

Battles at the Arches, Glasgow. At the moment my next gig is Gomez in Edinburgh.

So many bands do festivals during the summer it kind of dies a death for local giging at this time of year.

[DanJennings]

At the moment my next gig is Gomez in Edinburgh.

I saw Gomez last night at the HMV institute in Birmingham, it was great. plenty of old favourites, a few new ones I didn't know... The sound was great, as was the atmosphere, it was sweltering in there though!

[idc]

Brilliant, thanks DanJennings. I can't wait. I got into Gomez right at the begining and Whippin Picidilly is one of my tester tracks. I was not particularly taken by the new album on its first listen, but I will keep listening.

We head right up to the bar at the top of the HMV Picture House in Edinburgh if we can get a seat in the circle.

[The Grand Wazoo]

I've just got back from a fantastic Ron Sexsmith gig. An absolutely brilliant performance in a fantastic funky old venue - the Holmfirth Picturedrome, with a really good audience.

It does happen, but very rarely in my experience, that a crowd are so appreciative that a band come back on-stage again to do a second round of encores. Tonight was one of those nights.

[Elvis's last movement]

Roger Hodgson, excellent

[aquapiranha]

Just back from Custom House Square in Belfast. We were at the Coors Light Open house festival, where we saw The Low Anthem, Villagers and Fleet Foxes in the same evening back to back! I now have aching feet, a sore neck and ringing ears! (we were at the very front).

All of the bands were outstanding ( I had only recently heard of Villagers and The Low Anthem but had got some of their music before hand) and though I have seen Fleet Foxes before they still rocked! The Low Anthem were very good too, and Villagers were just bloody brilliant!

Some pics off the mobile...

The Low Anthem



Villagers



Fleet Foxes

[WAD62]

Went to see Battles @ the HMV institute/library in Brum last night...very good indeed, the drummer is something to behold

This is their glasto set from 3 days earlier...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/festivals...tists/battles/

[The Grand Wazoo]

I went to see Isobel campbell & Mark Lanegan tonight in Manchester Cathedral. It was turning out to be a great gig and much anticipated. What a venue too!

Unfortunately about 2/3rds of the way through the set, the fire alarms went off & everyone had to leave the building. So audience and band were mooching around outside for a while chatting and ignoring the security folks telling everyone to move further away from the building, band members running around taking photos of the fire brigade arriving and a fun time was had by all.

The fire turned out to be a toaster in an adjacent room and after it was unplugged, a jug of water was applied - while it was solemnly stood round by several gents in protective clothing!

Once the scare was all over, the decision was made by the management that the gig would not continue, so it turned into a bit of a let down really!

What we did see was really good though.

[keiths]

Once the scare was all over, the decision was made by the management that the gig would not continue, so it turned into a bit of a let down really!

What we did see was really good though.

Why the hell didn't it continue? The source of the 'fire' had been identified and made safe, so what was the problem? I'd have been livid.