May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The Anchoress has announced more gigs for the spring and summer, which brings her as far north as Leeds, as far west as Cardiff and as far south as Aldershot. The tour is broken in two stages – dates during April comprise of Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool and London. Dates in June comprise of gigs in…
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Well, perhaps I can just about begin to end the ceaseless ribbing I have been giving band management for their interpretation of what a “Global” tour actually is? Lol. The dates are limited, but at least the band are heading further south than Mexico this time with dates in Chile and Argentina and further dates…
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So, this first part of the Global Tour 2024 came to an end last night in Milan. Jim has just posted a very heartfelt post regarding the show and his feelings on it. He wrote about how ill he was, describing having difficulty breathing, an infection in both lungs and that making him feel weak…
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Well, this is just a little bit awesome! Crowded House are gonna have to do a bloody good job next week to get near SM for best gig I’ve experienced (so far!) at the Hydro. Buzzing to see When You Come live though.
Hold that note! Because today….I am knucking fackered – so a proper review post will have to wait until tomorrow. But for now, I wanted to share what I think is the best photo I took last night. There a few other decent ones but I like this one most.
What does one do when the creative writing well seems dry? Find a topic? Pick something? It’s nearing the end of the first week of January. I could talk to you about howJanuary feels to me? It feels like a month of 62 days! Most of the time… But this time may just be different….
Ghost Dancer (aka Stuart Greaves) has shared another gem of a bootleg, this time of SM some seven months into the New Gold Dream tour of ‘82/‘83 – midway through the North American leg of the tour in April/May of 1983. Playing the Ritchie’s Club in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recorded by a member of the…
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In a small village called Little Chalfont, in the Buckinghamshire countryside near the town of Amersham…. five band members and a producer that they (the band) admit to having slight reservations about (they wanted Todd Rundgren but he only worked out of Sigma Sound in New York and Virgin deemed the idea too expensive to…
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The day has arrived! Sadly, my copies are in lockdown as currently Monorail are only open as an online store and I ordered my Dinked LP and CD to collect from in the store itself. I’ll be waiting some time to collect, methinks! In the meantime, there is Spotify and the digital download copy to…
This year’s RSD takes place on Saturday April 18th. There are some things that have piqued my interest, pictured below. There is also a Steven Wilson mixes edition of Roxy Music’s eponymous debut album. For me, Field Music and kd Lang’s All You Can Eat and Drag would be lovely on vinyl. I used to…