I have spent all day checking my pocket. I have been doing this because all day it has had a ticket for tonight’s show in it and I have been paranoid all day about turning up at the door of the Student Union and producing either a ticket for a different city or – worse [...]
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How time flies when you’re having fun, eh? I’ve seen Mark Lanegan onstage in various guises in recent years whether it be with Soulsavers, Isobel Campbell, the Gutter Twins (as part of a band or just with partner-in-crime Greg Dulli) or just on his own with an acoustic guitar for company, in a host of [...]
And to think that I nearly didn’t go to this show. For shame. In fairness, I had a decent enough excuse in that I seem to have had a succession of bad colds from around just after Christmas that pretty much only completely cleared up last night. I had my fellow gig-goers’ best health in [...]
A bit of a slight revisit this one, as thanks to the joys of preordering I’d been enjoying the downloaded tracks for a short while beforehand (and enjoying to the extent that I’d included this among my favourites of 2011). Thanks to the arrival of the 2xCD package that arrived yesterday as well as the [...]
This was not a gig I was planning on going to see until last weekend (already having a ticket for Josh’s upcoming Manchester show in November), when a friend pointed out that Josh was to be once more supported by Richard Warren it was too good an opportunity to pass up. The impressively CV’ed artist [...]
I’ve been to some odd locations for gigs lately. A field with a massive radio-telescope in it, a patio-ed room with a metal staircase in the middle of the dance floor, an art gallery beside the sea and a chapel. And now, a full-on Cathedral. In as much as Cathedrals can be full-on. I’m not [...]
It’s certainly a good indication that a show is going to be something a little bit special when an Astrophysicist on the main stage radios his mate in a control room somewhere to move a 250-foot dish to “target location”. And this is something that the Lovell Radio Telescope does gracefully and majestically (as [...]
It was very hot. It was incredibly loud. The audience were stood on some sort of lovely patio. These are special nights when Greg Dulli brings his Twilight Singers into town. Not just because of longterm comedy injuries sustained by this scribbler whilst drunkenly walking a very long way home in the wrong direction [...]
Well, that was all a bit strange. I have to admit from the off that I’m not hugely familiar with Sam Beam’s recorded output, having only recently got into him through this year’s excellent Kiss Each Other Clean album, so I will be vague – if not totally ignorant – about what songs were [...]
Jaunts to our nation’s capital are not something I look forward to, in all honesty. Due to a largely crap transport infrastructure (thanks, Dr. Beeching!) getting there and especially home again takes the organisation of a military campaign. Sadly in my case, the campaign in question whenever I try to organise such a beano is [...]
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