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This Friday night I'm off to Rivermead in Reading to see Placebo.

They certainly get out and about regularly!

Last weekend we had what I think was the first ever gig by my new favourite Cork band:
https://youtu.be/0ip7nv-eY0Y
Headliner on the night was Wild Rocket:
https://youtu.be/4iOkWcKNYDI
If I could work out how to post a picture in here would show you the merch stall.

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Edit: Nope, that didn't work


The error comes from the ampersand in the link. Pasting the link with the & directly into the " " and it gives an error. Change it to & amp ; (no spaces) and it works.
eg: from your link...
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FB is a bugger for linking!
(interestingly, when editing this, Goodreads has changed the link back to a simple &, and it looks identical to the original link, but the original link still doesn't work! It must be a character or formatting problem on Goodreads causing the problem initially. (sorry for the technical bit!))

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Seems to work for me spacey.


But what do you reckon of the merch stall? :-)

I did however grab the two CDs at the front, I already have the other two. He gave me them both for €10. I looked them up when I got home, one of them is available for £26, the other is not available anywhere else on CD. That is the kind of thing that makes me happy.
Oh, and I forgot to add, I also won a vinyl copy of the Wild Rocket record for liking and sharing their facebook post.

Bad move there Sera, they were fantastic, just watch the clip I posted. I think that is three times I have seen them now, and their sound is really evolving. I got the CD when it was first released, but you can listen to and buy it from their bandcamp page (I linked that in the youtube clip).


Coming up tonight - gut wrenching underground death/punk metal, Destriers are the main band, and my mate Ollie gets his live debut with Coroza - can't wait!

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Well we'll be having a much more peaceful evening in the company of Richard Thompson at Colston Hall. Just hoping he doesn't play that Al Bowlly song again:-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34buN...
Tonight is Walter Trout supported by Sari Schorr in Wakefield, good old dependable blues-rockers all.

JB and I are seeing RT in Edinburgh on Tuesday, and I will be hoping for Al, it's one of my favourites.

JB and I are seeing RT in Edinburgh on Tuesday, and I will be hoping for Al, it's one of my favourites."
Nope, still Colston Hal at the moment. The odds on Al must be good (or bad for me) since he's done it every concert bar one that I've been to.

"The odds on Al must be good (or bad for me) since he's done it every concert bar one that I've been to. "
Al?
I've only seen RT once (in Manchester about 10 years ago) and can't think of a song he did that would be abbreviated to Al.

Ah. Al Bowlly's in Heaven & I'm in Limbo Now. Sorry, slow on the uptake.
I like that one, too. And he did perform it when I saw him.

Ah. Al Bowlly's in Heaven & I'm in Limbo Now. Sorry, slo..."
I'd like him to do that sports car song, but I bet he doesn't.

Ah. Al Bowlly's in Heaven & I'm in Limbo ..."
Just back from Bristol. Great evening with Richard Thompson on fine form. Good mix of classics and rarities (some of which I didn't even recognise, and not all off the Rarities CD). High points of the evening for me Uninhabited Man (a favourite of mine), Valerie for the cracking guitar solo finish and for pure comedy value and audience participation, Hots For The Smarts (even Richard got the giggles part way through.
An hour and forty minutes all told with two encores. No Al Bowlly (RESULT) and yes he did 'that motorbike song', but no MGB GT.

I hope you do nocheese. He was having so much fun with it I doubt that he'd not play it but you never know.

I think it would be described as dry wit. Anyway, someone who writes a story about Jimmy Shand must have a sense of humour.


Ah. Al Bowlly's in Heaven & I'm in Limbo ..."
MGB GT?

We arrived at 10 to eight just in time to see Sari Schorr take the stage. With only a 35 min support slot, she reined in her hippyish Earth Mother between songs emoting and belted out the songs with power and gusto with Innes Sibun ripping out riffs and solos by her side.
Not much you can say about Walter Trout as he always delivers and leaves nothing back in the dressing room. He laughed, he cried, he comprehensively spanked his plank and he bellowed his blues-rock songs for all he was worth. As he latest album is a bunch of collaborations he invited up variously a young teen lad who traded licks with WT like an old veteran, the roadie to play acoustic guitar and wail a couple of numbers, another guy to play bass, Innes Sibun to play Joe Bonamassa's part on a song from the album and Sari Schorr to do a song on which WT guested from her album. A great 2 hours plus of entertaining giggery.
Don't think 've ever had occasion to visit Wakefield before. I was certainly impressed with the venue but we had to drive out via the town centre which was heaving with lairy lads and underdressed lasses all blithely staggering out into the road in front of cars, smashed out of their gourds. Reminded me quite emphatically why I don't go out drinking much and especially why I stick to the 'burbs for a more sedate hostelry experience.
Mate a gave a lift to said he was off to Leeds tonight for the Supersuckers so I thought why not so that's tonight's entertainment sorted.

I think it would be described as dry wit. Anyway, someone who writes a story about Jimmy Shand must have a sense of humour."
Hi Steven, welcome! Two Left Feet is also a funny song,and 'Don't Sit on my Jimmy Shands' is a classic. I once saw him in Sebastopol in N California, and someone requested it.



Ah. Al Bowlly's in Heaven &..."
Correct Steven


First up, first gig from new Cork doom band Coroza:
https://www.facebook.com/spacepig.pig...
Then it got a wee bit noisier, another Cork band, Onkalo:
https://youtu.be/FWvJ1Du5iVk
And any remaining brain cells were vapourised by Dublin band Destriers:
https://youtu.be/GnXmHYVakrw
Someone once told me that as we age, our tastes in music mellow a bit - load of bollox, wait till you see next week's clips :-)


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dS8gtym...




I had no idea R&L Thompson had brushed the bottom of the top forty with I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight. The only version of that song I was aware of in the seventies was by Julie Covington.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PEN...
You can see why it was cheeky of him not to mention Linda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PEN...
You can see why it was cheeky of him not to mention Linda"
I have the R< album, nc, although I only bought it about 10 years ago. I was just commenting that I had no idea that they had come near the singles chart with the original recording of the song.
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Last Friday was the always thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts at Hull's Adelphi, a club in an end terrace with a bomb-site unpaved car park in the middle of an inner 'ull residential street. Last time I was there would have been a good few years ago for Detroit country rockers Deadstring Brothers when we were told it would be £10 pay on the door but no-one took any money off us until a bloke came round with a bucket asking us to chuck in a fiver. The place was a hovel, every inch of the bench seating was ripped with chunks of the foam padding missing so that it was impossible for even one with such a slender pert derriere as mine to have both cheeks on an intact bit of seating. I think there may have been a maximum of 25 people including a large party of Spanish-speaking students who didn't particularly seem to be there for the band. The toilets were so disgusting I nearly nipped outside; I certainly wiped my feet on the way out. Great gig though.
They've given the place a makeover so now it's a bit seedy rather than a rampant health-hazard. The place was fairly full and a great atmosphere and Jeffrey did his observational punk-folk-poet stuff, a bit like the New York equivalent of John Cooper Clarke/Billy Bragg with a bit of Jonathon Richman thrown in. His brother squatted on the floor where he played an occasional tiny keyboard which was also on the deck until the female bassist handed over the instrument (no banks of spares for this crew) for occasional punkier numbers and then he returned to the floor which was a weird dynamic. Jeffrey did his usual 'music videos' where he stands on a chair, intones some lyrics while turning the wonderfully cartooned pages of a large artist's drawing pad. Did a great song called WWPRD - What Would Pussy Riot Do? Can't see how anyone would not be entertained by his shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGBhB...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLA3H...
On Sunday forewent the slog to Nottingham to see All Them Witches, a wrench somewhat offset by an afternoon blues gig (4-6) in the wilds of Lincolnshire at the Hope Tavern with Deep Blue Blue Sea. The pub gets some fairly well-known artists, usually who're returning from Friday & Sat night gigs up north and are travelling back south making this a convenient stop-off. This band were driving back to London afterwards but their van was a clapped out scraped and beaten up wreck on wheels. The gigs are usually cheap too, this was £8. Had a lift so a few pints of Tom Woods golden ale (brewed on a farm nearby) went down a treat. The band were great - it's REALLY intimate there, I avoided the front row but was only 6' from the singer's mic. Maya is drop dead gorgeous making it hard to concentrate on the singing! The bass player's Firebird had a beautiful filigree plaque on his guitar too which can be seen in the video (along with the lovely Mayaaaaaaaaaaaa). They won't go anywhere (especially in that van) but it was a great gig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cl2J...
http://www.hope-tavern.co.uk/home/ori...
Next up;
Picturebooks at Grimsby Yardbirds on Friday
Walter Trout with support from the excellent Sari Schorr at Wakefield on Saturday
Best stop now, only got 8,600 characters left to play with.