🗣 Gigs

Have you seen Queen with Adam Lambert, Mango-B?

Not really my thing, but a good mate went (masssive Queen fan) and said it was amazing.

No it is one and I mean next weekend

http://www.thesandscentre.co.uk/events/One-Night-of-Queen-218

Just heading into town to get comfortably numb before Frank Turner this evening at the Guildhall.

Don’t know why, but I haven’t looked forward to a gig so much for a long time.

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Nice, full report please Bletch!

Have fun.

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Well, well. In early 2006 I handed a folded ticket (worth 5 or 6 pounds) to the doorman of the Nexus; a student-favoured dive of a rock club sadly lost to the march of ‘progress’.

I stood with my nose pressed against the stage as a stocky, dreadlocked man towered over me. His band played a dirty, scuzzy brand of metal brimming with an infectious reggae vibe and rhythm.

That band was Skindred and on Wednesday - almost a decade on - I witnessed them slay an audience 10 times the size of the Nexus crowd with a set worthy of just about any arena in the land.

My, how they’ve grown.

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Just got my tickets for Frank Turner in Manchester in March. Mighty fine chap he is!

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Excellent.

FYI, ant, currently drinking Punk IPA. Loving g it.

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He puts on such a good show, it’s a bit relentless as he just doesn’t take a break. But love watching him.

Colleagues at work were shocked that I would see a band/singer 10 plus times.

Suede next week.

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If you like a band there is not a limit to it.

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Of course, Dub War were better.

Every Time I Die were pretty mental at The Talking Heads last night. Ended the gig with both footprints and blood upon my person, not to mention a very tender shoulder, a sizeable bump on the back of my head and a little mild concussion.

Epic.

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Shakey Graves is playing the UK for the first time!

Full Tour Dates at www.shakeygraves.com/tour and below:
||| 2016 UK/EU Tour Dates |||
Apr 21 - Dublin, IRL - Whelan’s
Apr 22 - Belfast, UK - McHugh’s Bar
Apr 23 - Glasgow, UK - The Hug and Pint
Apr 25 - Manchester, UK - The Deaf Institute
Apr 26 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Institute Birmingham
Apr 27 - London, UK - Dingwalls
Apr 29 - Paris, FRA - Le Pop-Up du Label
Apr 30 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso Amsterdam
May 2 - Cologne, DEU - Studio 672
May 3 - Munich, DEU - Ampere
May 4 - Zurich, CHE - Bar Rossi
May 5 - Vienna, AUT - Club Chelsea, Vienna
May 7 - Hamburg, DEU - Nochtspeicher
May 8 - Berlin, DEU - PRIVATCLUB Berlin

:lou_lol:

Waiting for the Guns N Roses tour dates to come through any day now. I think I will have to get tickets for this one.

Saw them ‘back in the day’ - they were fucking good.

Off to see Teeth of the Sea this week. Should be full on. New album is a monster.

Headed out to Roundhouse for some heighten security (sure it’s the first time I’ve been metal detectored going into a gig).

First half they played their new album with a film playing in the foreground. Quite haunting. Then a bit of a break and onto the hits. Over two hours too. Unfortunately a giant happened to stand in front of me.

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I’ve had some trying moments in recent weeks. Deadlines. Scraping an alloy on a hire car. The death of a papmobile. In all cases, a happy little bubble floats up, pops, and says “you’ve got Glastonbury tickets, guv”.

And all is good.

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Closely followed by, and headling 2016 is…Olly Murs.

Troublemaker.

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My street cred is so intact that I had to Google that joke to confirm my suspicions.

The Goat is obviously well into Murs.