Dizzee Rascal is coming to my local city. Not the local mobile phone provider named 1741 capacity venue? But one of the smaller independent venues with a capacity of 520 …… say what??? Yes it’s an outstore, one of the the local record shops overseas the flow of artists promoting there albums through small venue…
It has been 34 years since I walked into Woolworths and bought ‘Unbelievable’ on CD single, followed quickly by ‘I Believe’ on CD single then Schubert Dip on Vinyl. My love for those songs has never wavered, they were at a perfect time at the start of the 90s. Support was from ‘The Dirt’ from…
Miles Kane and his not so One Man Band played a packed Engine Rooms in Southampton last night with support from The Royston Club. First time seeing The Royston Club and obvious from the outset there was a following in the crowd. No theatrics or showboating, no crowd banter, just straight to business with a…
Why The Fantastic Four? Ok maybe I’ve misappropriated/stole a phrase but simply put it was a one night, four bands. Four bands I felt lucky to see perform, four bands that could have been the headline act! Four bands now firmly in my Spotify playlists. No disrespect to the Clause who definitely did deserve to…
That’s twice now, could become a habit! King Nun + Support from Hypothetics & President Elect It’s Independent Music Week, a great effort every year to support local venues and I saw King Nun announced. The plan was to see them In Bournemouth on the Thursday but then last minute I saw that I’d missed…
This is a retrospective After starting this blog I was not going to go back over past gigs just look forward but as Depeche Mode played this week at the O2 and tour roughly every 4 years, plus I went and saw this tour already, I feel its appropriate, especially as I have not missed…
So I was headed to New York for a few days, time to see what’s on, I had three evenings there, two of which were already taken so it was all about the 12th of January, there are a good number of venues big and small covering a lot of genres but the first online…
Everyone’s alright Paul, everyone’s good. When the Happy Mondays album ‘Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches’ was released in 1990 it helped define a generation. Yes I know it was their third album but that one was everything. 5 years later ‘It’s great when you’re straight’ had the same impact, for me anyway. Once again it…
No long wait. I arrived at the door time on the ticket, grabbed a drink, walked up to the front and within half an hour the support act were out. The crowd quickly took notice, moving from the bar area with Hinckley a song or two in telling/gesturing everyone to move closer. Tom Hingley’s voice…
We were not ‘Bilked’ by this band, they paid there fans back in full and a gave a tip. I remember hearing Spiked (released 2018) a few years ago and instantly adding it to my regular playlist where it has remained since leading me to order the Vinyl of the self titled debut album on…
