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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7047 Registered: 05-2005 |
Perry Keyes - January 18 The Clean - January 20 Roger Knox - January 25 Three gigs in a week is a good start to the year. All three are part of the Sydney Festival's three-for-$69 deal. Bargain. I've seen Keyes twice before, he's superb. (He was the last person in Australia to contract polio.) I've never seen The Clean, and I know they play very rarely, so to see them for $23 is fantastic. I've never seen Knox either, but know his music pretty well. His music, country, is a much more traditional choice for an Aboriginal musician than Keyes' Warren Zevon/Lou Reed-style '70s American rock. But Knox does country as well as Keyes does rock. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 945 Registered: 04-2005 |
Anyone in Melbourne ? January 10th Malcolm Ross (Josef K/Orange Juice/Aztec Camera/Buckleys Chance/Coral Snakes) playing some songs as well as Steve Miller Band, Dave Graney and Clare Moore and Stu Thomas. All of who will be backing Malcolm up. 6pm show at Handsome Steve's House of Refreshment 397 Brunswick Street (Enter via Leicester St) Fitzroy, 3065 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7051 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think I'm the only Antipodean regular on this board any more, Andrew. All the Melburnians are long gone. I think we're not good enough for the Victorians. | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 130 Registered: 10-2005 |
Too bad I'm in Stockholm ... | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 121 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ryan Adams in March, Cork. Calexico in May. Kilkenny. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 231 Registered: 08-2005 |
Gruff Rhys in February (Komedia, Bath), Belle & Sebastian in May (Colston Hall, Bristol), and possibly Julian Cope in February at the Fleece and Firkin, Bristol. Not a bad start to the year. (The end of last year had a couple of Philip Glass gigs and the Blue Aeroplanes - gotta love a band with four guitarists on a very small stage). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7099 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw Perry Keyes in the Spiegeltent at Sydney Festival Village this evening. It was my third time seeing him. He played a lot of new songs that I had not heard before, but most sounded great. He is also an excellent storyteller, which very much suits the ambience of the Spiegeltent. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7103 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw The Clean this evening. It was a great show. The pop-to-experimental ratio was about 2-to-1, which was fine with me. Several times I had a big grin on my face. I even sang along to the chorus of the brilliant Draw(in)g to a (W)hole. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1773 Registered: 08-2006 |
Padraig, I'm so jealous. "Vehicle" is still one of my favorite NZ albums. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Me too, Rob. It was the first of their albums I bought - a secondhand cassette in 1992 at a record shop in Sydney which still exists and which I still go to. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7107 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw an extra gig tonight, taking my daughter's ticket as she couldn't go. It was for Body/Head, which was Kim Gordon and some bloke who looks about 16. What a load of tuneless bollocks. We left after two "songs", which were 15 minutes long each, and featured discordant noise and Kim moaning like a drunk on Grafton St. Truly awful. My daughter was lucky to have missed this crap. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 235 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Stranglers in Bristol next month with a friend who's an ex-punk. He saw them last year and reckons they were great, so I'll give it a go. As long as they do 'No More Heroes', which I nearly mistyped as No More Herpes, which is a very different cup of thrills... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7110 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ed Kuepper, last night at the Sydney Recital Hall. It's a beautiful venue I'd never been to before, hidden away on a side street in the city centre, across from the entrance to a sleazy nightclub. Ed, playing acoustic guitars, was accompanied by a string quartet, a drummer/percussionist, a bass player and pianist/trumpeter. It was quite wonderful. You could see Ed's joy at playing with these musicians (who are all from the Sydney Chamber Orchestra) and in such an august room. He mostly played solo material, but also played some Saints and Laughing Clowns. I had never noticed before, but he seems to have an obsession with hanging - Swing For The Crime, Collapse Board and two songs from Jean Lee were all played. Randy, you would have loved it. Four gigs in a week and another this evening. Outside of festivals, it's been quite a while since I've seen so many gigs in such a short space of time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7111 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, you would have loved the Roger Knox show too. As well as Roger with his wonderful voice, his son played guitar, his grandson played bass, his nephew played drums and a niece came on to sing a couple of songs with him. But there were even more on the crowded stage too, with Jon Langford (from "old south Wales" via Chicago) on acoustic and vocals, and Jason Walker (from New Zealand, but a longtime Sydney resident) on guitar. And then, the biggest surprise of all, Vic Simms came on for the last song, a track from The Loner which has been covered by Knox. (I managed to get a copy of The Loner after first becoming aware of it through seven of its songs being covered by The Painted Ladies.) After five gigs in eight days (four great, one dreadful), I'm ready to declare the Sydney Festival the best festival in the world (or at least the best one held for two weeks in January every year). | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 241 Registered: 08-2005 |
Aw, I'd have loved to have seen the great Ed Kuepper again. First saw him in 1988 with Hunters & Collectors and Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls at the Hordern Pavilion. Last saw him at Camden a few years ago (Nick Cave in quite a small audience); was on the guest list for a few of his gigs in the UK in the 1990s (Thekla, Bristol; Borderline, London). Happy days indeed! (Like your description of 'tuneless bollocks' in one of your posts. Been to a few gigs like that, though not recently) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3454 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for your reports Padraig. It was just yesterday that I was thinking about what a nice solid collection of excellent songs Ed Kuepper can boast about, just from his post-Laughing Clowns solo career. I wandered onto this line of thinking when the iPod in the car pitched up "This Hideous Place." Sure, he cranked out too many albums larded up with filler for a while there but when the dust settles, Ed Kuepper wrote a lot of great songs. I find a lot to like on the Jean Lee album and was wondering whether he'll ever do another. I would have loved to have seen him do some of his work in a chamber pop format. It would certainly beat Dylan subjecting us to his interpretations of Sinatra standards. Interesting about Vic Simms. I don't know why but I just assumed that he was long deceased. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7112 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was afraid to say it above, but so did I! My first thought when Roger Knox introduced him was "He's still alive?" The answer is, very much so. He brought a Red Eye Records bag (kudos for that) with him onto the stage and pulled out vinyl and CD copies of his and the Painted Ladies albums. He's obviously delighted that they covered his songs. They should, perhaps, have gone a little further and mentioned that he's still among the living. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 124 Registered: 01-2007 |
The Replacements Amsterdam May 30th. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 242 Registered: 08-2005 |
Just been to see Gruff Rhys at the Komedia, Bath, mainly performing American Interior, based on the life of Welsh Explorer John Evans. Very good, though I'd have still preferred less bass and drums (though I can't think of any gig I've ever been to that wouldn't be improved by less bass and drums, more vocals, but that's by the by!). | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 364 Registered: 05-2005 |
Roddy Frame and Buzzcocks in march for me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7187 Registered: 05-2005 |
Going to see The Waterboys soon. I interviewed Mike Scott recently. I was aware of his reputation in interviews, so I was prepared... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 960 Registered: 04-2005 |
Songhoy Blues in Bordeaux this Friday. It's in a very small venue...ça va bouger !!! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 249 Registered: 08-2005 |
Off to see the Rezillos and the Stranglers on Thursday in Bristol - where (at the age of 52) I suspect I'll be one of the younger members of the audience. At work, I'm pretty much a dinosaur! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7241 Registered: 05-2005 |
Will you risk pogoing, Simon? | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 250 Registered: 08-2005 |
What, with two dodgy knees!? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1127 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ah, Where's the boy for me, one of my favourite ever singles! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1776 Registered: 08-2006 |
Went to see Lloyd Cole last night at the Old Town School of Folk Music and damn if he wasn't great. I probably wouldn't have gone but a college buddy was in town for his birthday and he's a big fan. I'm glad I didn't miss this one. He played solo for two hours with one intermission, and I probably only knew about a third of the songs (I think the last Cole I'm familiar with is his eponymous solo debut). But there wasn't a bad song in the bunch and a lot of them were spectacular. It was kind of a revelation. It made me wonder if, with all the pressure on him to be marketable, he didn't make some bad choices on his albums, production-wise and otherwise. Because last night, damn near every song hit home. Yet aside from "Rattlesnakes," there's no Lloyd Cole record I love. I feel like he's a pretty major songwriter who somehow never shone as brightly on his albums. One other observation: Damn if his vocals and chord structures didn't recall Grant. I know they knew each other. Since Cole was such a big deal in the 80s when the Go-Betweens were just hitting their stride I wonder if he had an influence on Grant and then McLennan returned the favor later on. Anyhow, the similarities were striking - and sometimes kind of touching. If I closed my eyes at times I felt I was listening to a Grant song that never got written. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3476 Registered: 03-2005 |
Rob, I have a friend who is a huge Lloyd Cole fan and thanks to him I've seen him play live a number of times over the years and have been exposed to a lot of his records. I recommend that you aim for some of Cole's more recent, less expensively produced records and also his various odds and sods. I am thinking of releases such as "Music in a Foreign Language" as an example of the former and "Cleaning Out the Ashtrays" for the latter. I'm not sure which of these two camps "Etc" falls into. I think he largely self-releases now, which is almost always a good thing. My guess is that Lloyd and Grant found themselves in the same places throughout the 1980s and beyond. As sympathetic personalities it makes sense that they'd influence each other. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 2 Registered: 03-2015 |
Rob, I also was at the same Lloyd Cole concert at the Old Town School of Folk Music Friday night. It was a good show and I also can hear some similarities between Grant and Lloyd. They both have a way with words that many songwriters do not have. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 133 Registered: 01-2007 |
John Murry this coming Thurs in a bar in Waterford, he's on an Irish tour. This is big news for my town. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 253 Registered: 08-2005 |
Saw Lloyd Cole at the Komedia, Bath, last year with a die-hard LC fan and I was very impressed too, in spite of not knowing that much of his material - I've only got the 'Best Of' CD. By the way, the Rezillos and Stranglers made a great double bill. Jet Black was rolled out for a few songs - he's in his 70s and ill, with a roadie perched behind him in case he collapsed. Well, that's what it looked like! Some great songs including All Day and All of the Night. They didn't appear to be going through the motions either, which is good to see. And any band that has been touring with few line-up changes since the mid-70s should know what they're doing... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1777 Registered: 08-2006 |
Fred, nice to see another (I assume) Chicagoan on this board. I was feeling kinda lonely. Glad you enjoyed the show. The OTS is such a great venue for live music I'd probably enjoy Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem there. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 3 Registered: 03-2015 |
Rob, there is another longtime Go-Betweens fan living in Chicago. I have written some posts in the past as a guest but have recently joined. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7266 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys last night in the Opera House. I really enjoyed it, though I do think Mike Scott should make more of an effort to indulge his audience rather than himself. They played the entire new album which, fine though it is, most of the audience would not know. The roar of approval that greeted Fisherman's Blues made me think "See, Mike, you could have had that response all night if you played a few more tracks people actually know". | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1778 Registered: 08-2006 |
I agree, Padraig. There's a balance a band needs to strike. One reason I've never enjoyed Rolling Stones shows as much as I might is they're essentially greatest hits revues, "Hot Rocks" on stage. Their newer stuff sounds so much more vital live, yet god forbid they don't play "Paint it Black" or whatever hoary oldie they don't give a shit about. On the other hand, I've seen veteran artists who are quite stingy about doling out anything familiar, favoring new material that's either not up to par or so new as to be entirely unfamiliar. Then they play their classics as encores and leave the new stuff dangling in the wind. I thought Lloyd Cole, for one, did a great job entwining old favorites and newer stuff throughout his show. It added perspective to his catalog as a whole and made me a lot more curious about what he'd been up to the last 15 years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7267 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well put, Rob. I sawLloyd Cole in 1996 and he seemed not to enjoy playing Forest Fire. He has obviously rethought whether giving the punters what they want is a bad thing in the meantime. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 968 Registered: 04-2005 |
How not to please your audience (Pt 256) New Order at Coasters Edinburgh 1983 A member of audience "Play Ceremony !" Bernard Sumner : "Stick 'Ceremony' up your f*****g arse" | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 368 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw Roddy Frame (with Andreas!) in march. He was all alone (with three guitars..) and played all his classics and new material. He's a funnier guy than I thought, joking with the audience between each songs.. Concert was truly brilliant,something I'll remember for a long time. I've iphoned the last song of the last encore of the last concert of the tour : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNsToxSP Wlg#t=103 I've also highly enjoyed the Buzzcocks. Gentle pogos during most of the set, Steve Diggle in great form (Pete Shelley, I couldn't recognize..), immortal classics (and new songs) for a perfect evening.. Next are Ormonde, the band of genius Robert Gomez for my first houseshow, Dominique A and Chameleons. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 298 Registered: 11-2007 |
The Roddy Frame concert in cologne was very special to me, too. It was the first time for me seeing Roddy, hasn't played in germany for such a long time and all the postcard bands meant and mean so much to me! Was very nice meeting Trou again  For a very long time I thought that there were only very few people attending, but in the end it were more than I thought. As Trou said he was very, very communicative that evening and the concert got even better than I had imagined! i think that the next time for him playing cologne will not take too long! He really enjoyed coming back to cologne! He has been there for a longer period together with Edwyn Collins and the Orange Juice in their beginnings for recording one of their early albums! Next concert for me will be Robyn Hitchcok on april 16th in cologne! Hope to see you soon again, Jon | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 137 Registered: 09-2004 |
Regarding Lloyd Cole, there was those shows that Lloyd headlined when Robert/Grant opened for him in the 90's that were really spectacular. So, their paths certainly crossed at least on one USA tour. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 972 Registered: 04-2005 |
Piers Faccini and Vincent Ségal in Bordeaux last Saturday. Almost ! 5 minutes before going into the concert we get a phone call that our daughter has injured herself during a basketball match. Mad 2 hour dash back home and visit to accident and emergency. Luckily nothing broken, just a very badly sprained ankle. To add to the Lloyd Cole thread, I really enjoyed seeing him solo some 15 years ago. It was a bit of a guilty pleasure as Edwyn Collins always hated him (much jealousy about Polydor marketing budgets !). Also I had friends that interviewed him early on and he admitted that despite writing the line "She looks like Eve-Marie Saint in On The Waterfront" he had never actually seen the film. And I did see the Commotions' first ever gig in Edinburgh (same bill as Paul Quinn and Bourgie Bourgie) To finish, if you ever get a chance to see them, Songhoy Blues are excellent live ! Music for the soul...and their record "Music in Exile" is wonderful. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7294 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm glad your daughter is OK, Andrew. Having badly sprained my foot 23 years ago, I know how painful it is. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 539 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Church just announced Australian dates for July, and European dates for May/June. No Irish show. I have as much chance of getting to Brisbane as I do to Bristol... :-( | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 301 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi Catherine, thx for that hint! They are playing the cologne luxor on sunday may, 31st. Going to buy me a ticket! | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 274 Registered: 06-2005 |
Sharon Van Etten - Vicar St, Dublin Having released one of my favourite albums from last year I was really looking forward to this & she did not disappoint. The set drew from all past material & she finished on heavy hitters such as "your love is killing me" & "Every time the sun comes up" in the last few songs but the new material shone bided well too.."I don't wanna let you down" reminded me of Keren Ann's brilliant "Lay Your Head Down" & another performance of a song in the making drew complete silence until rapturous applause. Next up is an impromptu trip to Kilkenny's Roots festival if there are any tickets left. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 140 Registered: 01-2007 |
This May Bank Hoiday weekend, Kilkenny Ireland, http://www.kilkennyroots.com/. I have tickets for John Murry, Sons Of Bill, Lee Bains & The Glory Fires and Calexico. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3496 Registered: 03-2005 |
Keren Ann -- Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles) This is my second time seeing her, last time was also at the Skirball but in a crummier smaller room, at least five years ago. That time she was accompanied by a drummer and a saxophonist. This time she was accompanied by a keyboardist. She looked great. She sounded great. When she spoke between songs I honestly couldn't pick up anything but an American accent; it's amazing how she's acclimated. She did what I wanted to hear her do--"All the Beautiful Girls--and she did "Chelsea Burns" always a winner and she did one of her old French language songs. She did "The Harder Ships of the World" and the glorious "Strange Weather." She reached back to "I'm Not Going Anywhere" as an encore. She did one new song, with admirably long verse chord progressions, a feature I always like. One of my companions thought it sounded like Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" though I couldn't hear that. I was trying to decide whether she's amped up her singing style to suit the Americans or if it was merely the sound guy's fetish for reverb but realized that it simply didn't matter because she can write rings around everyone else; her songs carry the day whether she sings as a chanteuse or an anglophone belter. She has reached the point where she can grab songs almost willy nilly and the set will be stupendous. And so it was. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7315 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beautiful review, Randy. Wish I'd been there. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 541 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Murry at Carroll's Pub in Thomastown next Wednesday night, for an acoustic set. Having been blown away by his set at the Kilkenny Roots, I'm looking forward to this! | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 146 Registered: 01-2007 |
@Catherine His Kilkenny gig was awesome. Those Deise boys made him rock. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 306 Registered: 11-2007 |
- Ticket for FFS at cologne Gloria on July 1st - Mercury Rev in November also in cologne in Studio 672 (very nice little venue) - | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 543 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lewisdhead, John is playing a short residency in Carroll's. First two are acoustic, third is with Duende Dogs, who I believe are from Waterford? By the way, what was the name of the band who backed him in Kilkenny? | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 147 Registered: 01-2007 |
@Catherine They called themselves The Three Wishes:Ray Kehoe, Tom Carey ,John Haggis and I think the other guy was John Hegarty. Can't say I'm familiar with Duende Dogs. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 275 Registered: 08-2005 |
Portishead in Cardiff on Thursday - last-minute gig I was very lucky and very pleased to get tickets for. Huzzah! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1178 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sun kil moon – Umbertide Ironic that in my fairly gigless life it’s Kozelek who should turn up in a dusty one-horse Umbrian town down the road, but his concert here, with Slowdive’s Neil Halstead on guitar and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, in a muggy medieval piazza with seating, cold beer to hand and the stars overhead more than made up for my disastrous experience in Rome. It was all very relaxed, people chatting, coming and going with kids running around, dogs here and there. MK was as pseudo-grumpy as ever, still bemoaning the lack of screaming womanhood at the front: “Man, there are a lot of bald old f***ers down there…” During song breaks, he cheerfully harangued an old shirtless guy leaning out the window that overlooked the stage. He got a wee blonde girl up to help him out with a song, thanked her for her contribution, thanked her parents, then found out it was in fact a wee blonde boy. He stole someone’s phone because they kept taking photos. His guitar amp didn’t work. He sang brilliantly, however – man, has his voice come a long way since RHP days. He did a moving cover version of the Weeping Song. He talked about his experiences in the new Sorrentino film (still never read anything about how that actually came about, but he got another good song out of it). He threw in some invented lyrics as he went along to fit the surroundings. I missed his guitar work, but on the other hand his voice made up for it. A beautiful evening. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7419 Registered: 05-2005 |
Going to see Blur tonight. About 17 years since I last saw them live, though I did see Damon Albarn play a wonderful show at the Opera House last December. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7420 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur were magnificent. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7421 Registered: 05-2005 |
There’s No Other Way is reborn as a Faith No More-ish funk metal song. (I’m not kidding.) One of the Magic Whip songs (of which they played many) has been brilliantly Steely Dan-ified. There’s a horn section. There are backing singers. Damon works the crowd like Jagger. Graham’s on fire. Dave brings the thunder and Alex, well, blessed are the cheesemakers. Setlist: Go Out There's No Other Way Lonesome Street Badhead Ghost Ship Coffee & TV Out of Time Beetlebum Thought I Was a Spaceman Trimm Trabb Tender Trouble in the Message Centre Parklife Ong Ong Song 2 Pyongyang To the End This Is a Low Encore: Stereotypes Girls & Boys For Tomorrow The Universal | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7422 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don't know if you'll be able to access this outside Australia, but Blur's Sunday night show is being streamed live right now https://www.telstra.com.au/community/spl endour-in-the-grass?ti=TR:TR:Mar13:tcomm usic:vanity:redirect | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 372 Registered: 05-2005 |
For my first ever houseshow , I’ve been to see Ormonde in a pretty old house of Brussels. Nearly fifty listeners in the living room. As a starter, Last Harbour, unknown band from Manchester, gave very interesting set of songs. Ormonde is the charming duo Anna-Lynne Williams - Robert Gomez, the musician I’m fan of everything he’s doing (« Pine Stick an phosphorus », I’ve put this cd alongside the » Affectionate Punch » in the masterpieces section of my record collection). They performed songs from their second album. AL Williams has one of the best female sweet voices i’ve heard in years, They played nearly one hour. A bit too short moment but we ‘ve forgotten that drinking some national Chouffe. Few days later, I was brought to see Dominique A in a quite big brusseler place.. I must say I know only two or three things of him (mostly duos with Etienne Daho or Yann Tiersen + the new single). Concert was above average. Most of the songs I liked and the band was excellent, so I definitely need to listen to the records. He’s coming back next januar in a more intimate place, I’ll go again. After the concert, I talk to the guy. He was quite surprised to learn he has some fans in the US. And then The Chameleons. First time I saw them. It was a bit strange but exciting to see this band perform songs i’ve heard a million times thirty years ago. It seems theses tunes have aged very well. Brilliant energic show. Next are Marc Almond in Koln, I'll try a ticket for Morrissey in Bxl (Koln was instantly sold out) and hopefully Robert Forster somewhere near me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3538 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, Trou. You are seeing a lot of great shows! See if you can make a quick trip into France to see the Apartments in September. Peter Milton Walsh's voice isn't beautiful but the songs are! https://www.facebook.com/theapartments/p hotos/a.347264862027226.83146.1558981678 30564/831205766966464/?type=1 I am so jealous of your Dominque A show. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 283 Registered: 06-2005 |
Lewis/Catherine Caught John Murry playing free in Cleeres of Kilkenny last week while there on holidays. Some Graceless Age & new material with covers of Brass Buttons, Thirteen, Tracks of my tears, Dead Flowers and more. He was playing with John Hegarty who has just released a fine album of his own. GBs fans might enjoy this one: https://thumped.com/bbs/threads/john-heg arty-down-on-murtagh-road.94711/ John is also involved in planning a Go-Betweens tribute night with other musicians in the same venue on September 24th. Pity it's a Thursday but could be worth a trip. Check with Willie in Rollercoaster Records closer to date for confirmation if interested. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 149 Registered: 01-2007 |
Hi Peter. Yeah heard about this. Hope you enjoyed John. Cleeres is a great spot. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7438 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw Irish comedian Pat Shortt in the Enmore Theatre on Friday night. What a show. I laughed for two hours straight. About 99% of the audience was Irish. Heading back to the inner west this afternoon to see reformed Melbourne power poppers Icecream Hands. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 851 Registered: 03-2007 |
Heading to the Grand Ballroom, Sloans, Glasgow, on Monday 7 September, 2015, to see Haiku Salut perform their Lamp Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQFc5Ii kk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IAskFA j7U | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 548 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi Peter, I was at that John Murry gig!! I've even started guitar lessons with John Hegarty, since then.. Really like his album too. I'll miss the Go-Betweens tribute night in Cleeres, but I have a good reason, as John Murry will be playing in Wexford the same night. It took me long enough to organise it!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7486 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw Luna tonight. Great gig. Small venue and only about 180 people there. Surely they can't be making any money on those numbers? I was hoping they would have some music for sale so I could help defray their costs, but they only had T-shirts, and I'm long past the band T-shirt stage. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 288 Registered: 06-2005 |
Catherine, Good luck with the John Murry show, I have a couple of friends down there and I've recommended they go along. I see it's in The Sky & The Ground, it's supposed to be a really great bar and is on my wishlist. It has to be named after the Pierce Turner song? Toying with heading to Cleere's, bit of a spin on a school night! Didn't realise that Luna were back together Padraig, maybe for not too long by the sounds of it. Only saw them play once to a similar sized crowd in Spirit and they were great that night too. Never too late for a decent band T-Shirt... picked up a grey soft cotton "Horses"cover one at Patti this summer. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 380 Registered: 05-2005 |
Saw Marc Almond (for the 6th or 7th time) in Koln and Morrissey (for the 4th time) in Bxl. Both concerts had their moments but I must say the sound was bad for these two shows, the musicians not too good and there was some very dispensable songs in the setlists. As I'm superfan of both they're forgiven.. Next are Ducktails (my fave album of the year), Robert Forster in Koln and Natalie Merchant(for 2016). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7546 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just back from seeing Ron Sexsmith in the same very small venue I saw Luna in two months ago. A good show. My companion thought it was great, but she's a big fan. | ||
| David Gagen Unregistered guest |
Danny Widdicombe et al performing "The Last Waltz" at the Triffid her in Brisban a few weeks ago. Superb. Many highlights, especially Ben Saltner and Gin Club colleagues version of "It Makes No Difference". | ||
| Yan Unregistered guest |
I saw the Apartments (including Amanda Brown and Clare Moore) at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne on Jan 1. A great venue though you never know how many people have come for the art (Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol exhibit was on) and how many for the band. Turned out quite a few had come for the band. A nice set, finishing with '21' - a little difficult to follow that one and even though Goodbye Train was on the setlist he didn't come back to do it. Thanks to Andrew Kerr for this link to photos of the evening. http://thedwarf.com.au/photo/21297/the-a partments |