What was your last concert you went to ?

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Originally posted by Paper Plane:
The mighty Status Quo at the excellent Harrogate International Centre last night.

Good honest rockaboogie. No pretention, no trying to be 'cool', no insulting the audience, just good honest fun. Something a few more bands could do with trying.

Rossi is an underated guitarist to my way of thinking.

steve

I agree steve a great night out, if a bit loud, well it was last time we saw them.

Jan Garbarek - The Sage Gateshead

Jan Garbarek: saxophones
Rainer Brüninghaus: keyboards
Yuri Daniel: bass
with very special guest Trilok Gurtu: percussion, drums

Took the wife (who hates Garbarek) as my son who was meant to be going, had rugby training and too much homework. The wife is now a convert, at least in a "live" setting. Great sidemen, and the percussionist was something else. Hard to take your eyes off him.

Regards

Nic

Sounds good Nic - I see him Sunday.

Adrian,

I think you will enjoy it, but make sure you are there on time.

Because of the late finish of my son's rugby we were pushing to get there in time, and they kicked off at promptly at the advertised time of 7.30.

There is nothing worse than arriving five minutes late when you are in the middle of the second row!

They played until 9.45 without an interval, including one encore. Fairly elderly crowd, so nobody was dancing on their seats, despite a set with the pulsating rhythm of the bass and percussion combo. The pianist was pretty good too.

Regards

Nic

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Originally posted by nicnaim:
Adrian,

I think you will enjoy it, but make sure you are there on time.

Because of the late finish of my son's rugby we were pushing to get there in time, and they kicked off at promptly at the advertised time of 7.30.

There is nothing worse than arriving five minutes late when you are in the middle of the second row!

They played until 9.45 without an interval, including one encore. Fairly elderly crowd, so nobody was dancing on their seats, despite a set with the pulsating rhythm of the bass and percussion combo. The pianist was pretty good too.

Regards

Nic

Thanks for that Nic - will arrive timely. Hopefully I'll lower the average age! Pianist is Rainer Bruninghaus. It is well worth tracking down his solo ECM album Freighweit. It's very good. Cheers

Lorin Maazel conducted Bruckner's 8th in Disney Hall, it was breathtaking from beginning to end.

Jan Garbarek Group at the Barbican. First concert in two months and first of the year so glad to get back into the new concert season.

I hate the bloody Barbican - I always find it such a pain to get to and the signposting in the area is dreadful. But tonight the sound and acoustics were good once in the seat.

I have seen the Jan Garbarek group many times over the years and always love the folky, cold Norwegian sound that draws you in from records like Rites, I Took Uo the Runes and Visible World. Tonight was a little more "jazzy" and they did not play the old stuff and to me it was not as good as the group of old with Eberhard Weber. It was all fine but there were no wows, except maybe for Trilok Gurtu on percussion who is highly talented.

Antony and The Johnsons - Sydney Opera House Concert Hall with Symphony Orchestra.

Very "different" and interesting with some amazing vocals and increadible arrangments.
Most enjoyable.

Jeff Lang @ The Spirit, Havant last night. He's just at the start of his current UK tour.

Seen him three times now, great value every time

http://www.myspace.com/jefflangmusic

Cheers

John

Hi John that Jeff Lang sounds interesting. I'll see if Sally would like to see him, he's at The Ravenswood near us , next Monday.

Howard, I'm sure you'll both enjoy it.

I even asked if he'd release some of his stuff on vinyl! Please add to the encouragement.

John

Last night my Wife and I went along to See Jonatha Brooke at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen .
I have only in the last few months discovered this artist after a recommendation by another forum member . Her albums are very good , however live she was unbelievably stunning , what an amazing voice and performer !
She performed an acoustic set with guitar and piano with a mixture of her past music and from her latest album 'The Works' a collection of songs that she wrote from the archives of Woody guthrie .

Wonderful night out , catch her if you can .

Ed

Went to see national treasure Carol Kidd in St Andrews on Thursday last. A lovely intimate set, just a voice and an acoustic guitar. Worryingly we were about the youngest folk there, and we're no spring chickens.

Ian

Jeff Lang has been cancelled ,lack of ticket sales. Will try and catch him elsewhere.

Rammstein at Wembley Arena - incredible gig, and the best acoustics I've heard at the usually atrocious sounding arena!

Herbert Bloomsted conducting LA Phil in Hyden's Clock symphony and Beethoven's 8th.

It was wonderful and cracking with energy, the timpanist was set up center back row and really did a knock out job.

British Sea Power at the Westie ( accompanied by Seagull and 'The Student'.)

Absolutely cracking - a mix of crowd pleasing classics and some new....From a persoanl perspective Waving Flags and the encore (first) Lucifer.

This was a warmup for the forthcoming tour - should be a really good one..

Seagull - was involved on an 'unusual slapping incident' which suggeste British Sea Power contrary to reports has not declined' I was not witness to the incident and so my lips remain sealed!!

It was an excellent gig.

The Westie is a great venue, small and intimate so you get up close and personal with the band (too close for comfort sometimes!)

Seagull jnr really enjoyed it too. He'd seen them at Reading but said that it was so much better in a small hall.

The crowd demographic was interesting, the average age was much older than the band, seagull jnr was one of the youngest there by some way. Not sure what that says about BSP or the Westie's regulars. Perhaps the kids weren't allowed out as it was a school night.

Barney (the Westie's manager) was on Mark Lamacq's (sp?) show on Radio 6 this evening talking about the Westie in a spot called 'Halls of Fame'.

Pat Metheny - Orchestrion at the Barbican London. Pretty good and quite an amazing thing he has constructed to play along with him. Just him, a computer/robot and instruments all controlled from guitar and pedals. Technically brilliant guitar playing and Pat was on good form telling us all about it. This is a couple of weeks into the tour and the Orchestrion has behaved to date. He said he had been having sleepless nights worrying about it all and then on the last track his nightmare became reality when it all stopped working. Still he gave us a couple of wonderful solo pieces instead which capped off a good night. The audience loved it all. Standing ovations all round.

German Krautrock legends- Moebius and Roedelius-Cluster- Birmingham Town Hall Thurs Feb 11th.
Supported by Einstellung- Neu meet Black Sabbath.

Excellent though short gig
Einstellung gave good support show- showed Krautrock influence-worth catching

Cluster were superb- short vignettes of at times real beauty-very inventive and pin sharp sound-like listening to my Hi-Fi.

Steve

Wow that was a big show!

Oooops wrong thread. Should be in "last vinyl bought".

Rick Foot & Keith James performing their New York Poetry show at Selby Town Hall.

Mrs Plane won 2 free tickets in a competition and quite likes Leonard Cohen, who features heavily in the show.

It started with a film hagiography biography of Cohen, through which I just managed to stay awake.

Then we had some covers of individual songs by Suzanne Vega and Bob Dylan, a few Cohen ones - Raincoat, Waltz, something else (I'm not a fan) - and some of Lorca's poems set to music, by the duo.

I enjoyed Foot's double bass playing. It's an instrument which I haven't seen played live, in a small venue, before in this spare style and I was much impressed.

Mr's Plane's first words after we left the hall was "That's two hours of our lives we won't get back."

Just as well the tickets were free.

steve

Went to see Nanci Griffith a couple of weeks ago at the splendid Bexhill De La Warr Pavillion. An enjoyable concert though I would have preferred to see her with a bigger band. It was a nice mix of new songs and old favourites, including of course 'From a Distance'.

Chris

Friday 12th at the Stables MK - Stackridge.

Having seen them in the early years, and (yawn) interviewed them in 1975 (just wanted to be casual and rather pretentious) I was looking forward to this with a degree of trepidation. My last encounter in the late 90's at Guildford had not left a great memory BUT this lineup with Mutter promised much.

I love the Westie and the Electric Theatre but there is something about the Stables...... (fond memories of the earlier building, but I digress (no pay per word!!)

Stackridge always were a 'live band' and this did not disappoint. I was accompanied by 'The Prof' for whom I had played some tracks to less than general enthusisam.

However, accompanied by a video show they certainly rolled back the years - now an 8 piece (Andy/Mutter/James/Crun) from the early years this was something else. Not a tour - just gigs.

A mix of tracks from the 2009 album and especially a really strong set of crowd pleasers. They went down a storm. 'The Prof' was on her feet joining many others in giving a standing ovation - thoroughly deserved! To see a band enjoying themselves these days seems to be rare

All of the band were in the bar afterwards and it was really good to reminisce, happy days.

The Set

Lummy Days - over the video intro
Red Squirrel
The Old Country
Lost and Found
The Last Plimsoll
Everybody's Got to learn Sometime (Korgis) from James/Andy's venture
Long Dark River
The Galloping Gaucho
Cheese and Ham
Slow Train - Flanders and Swann - inspired by Andy having a letter published in the Grauniad and - Crun sings!!

Syracuse The Elephant - Oh yes this was it!!!!
The Road to Venezuela
Purple Spaceships Over Yatton (a personal delight)Encore One
Old North St Grande
Boots and Shoes
The Day the World Stopped...


Encore One
Slark (edit version)
Do the Stanley

Encore Two
Dora The Female Explorer

I know I'll be travelling to see them again - Yes it really was that good