Which artists are you seeing in 2009?

With my parents visiting us I added two more classical performances to my agenda.

The first one on Monday at the Recital Hall (amazing acoustics!) -

Genius is not a word to be used lightly, but Australian pianist Geoffrey Lancaster has it. His astounding performance of a Haydn concerto in the 2006 Mozart series won an ovation and showed just how brilliant and exciting Haydn’s music can be. In 2009, the bicentenary of Haydn’s death, we bring him back to Angel Place in a recital of four great sonatas, performed on a fortepiano such as the composer might have played himself.

The second one on Friday at the Opera House -

In the concert, Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the orchestra and violinist Sasha Rozhdestvensky in Shostakovich's powerful First Violin Concerto, plus his own dark, rich and deeply felt orchestration of Mussorgsky's famous Pictures at an Exhibition. In the hands of these two Russian-born masters, this is as real and intense as Russian music gets!

Jools Holland & his Rythim & Blues orchestra,Imelda May,Ruby Turner & Dave Edmunds, on at Carrickfergus Castle Co.Antrim 28th August.
Hope the weather improves.

Status Quo & Hayseed Dixie on the following night (seen Quo a few times ,so will give this one a miss.)

Jakob Dylan, June 19, Wonder Ballroom, Portland, Oregon

Last night:

METALLICA in Stuttgart/Germany.

Best show I ever seen.

Reprieved! I had been scheduled to see The Specials last Wednesday only to have a 'must attend' work commitment take precedence over the whole of last week.

I arrived back yesterday after being locked away in the Lake District for 4 days to discover that the gig was cancelled and rescheduled for Saturday 16th May.

Result!

Mark

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seen Quo a few times ,so will give this one a miss.

What!!! Miss one of the greatest live bands in the world?? How could you?

steve

ENGINEERS - LONDON: Bush Hall, FRI 10TH JUL, 2009 7:30pm (tickets)

Engineers' long awaited second album, Three Fact Fader, is released on Kscope on July 6th.

To mark the release, the band will be playing their first live gig in almost 4 years on July 10th at the Bush Hall in London. For this gig they shall be joined by Ulrich Schnauss (www.myspace.com/ulrichschnauss).

Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree / ex-Japan) shall also be performing a very rare live set on what promises to be a special evening.

All star Fairport Convention with Richard Thompson, at the Barbican 18th July.

Eddi Reader tonight at Falmouth Pavillions

Queen Elizabeth Hall 26th May.

Eddi and the band were in great form last night. First time to one of her concerts. Highly recommended.

Opening with the wonderful "Wild Mountainside", the set focussed on selections from "Love Is The Way" , "Peacetime" and the Burns album. Eddi was in fine voiuce and good mood and it was enthusiastically received .

Before Eddi came on, Heidi Talbot did her support set with Boo Hewerdine
& John McCusker for accompaniment and I thought she was terrific too. She provided backing vocals for Eddi later on and they sang "Muddy Water" as a duet. Plus Boo got a couple of solo songs during the support slot and that was an added bonus.

They were selling John Mc Cusker vinyl with enclosed cd, also Heidi Talbot in same format, Only had cd versions of Eddi Reader material though.

I have tickets to see Laurent Garnier +band @matter in the O2 to promote his new album next week
He will then be DJ'ing into the early hours later that night

NEIL YOUNG

(and Leonard Cohen)

Just booked today:

Eliza Carthy, Bury Met, 10th September
Karine Polwart, Bury Met, 5th November

I got the following:

Pearl Jam in August
Pink in October
Lily allen in November

and whatever crops up inbetween.....

Looking forward to it all, and surprisingly to Pink (it was her choice, but she gets to enjoy the music and I get to ogle. But I'm actually quite sure she'll put on a good show.)

Ryan

Went to see The Specials last night at Brixton Academy. Fabulous gig and absolutely bouncing all night! The Harrington jackets and Fred Perry shirts were out in force and the years were rolled back.

Great stuff.

Coming Up

Dave Holland Quintet - Brighton
Andy Sheppard Quintet - Brighton
Bruce Springsteen - Glasgow
Porcupine Tree - London
Porcupine Tree - Paris
Kraftwerk - Manchester
Maurizio Pollini - an evening of Chopin (in 2010) - London
Charlie Haden Liberation Orchestra with Robert Wyatt - London
Ornette Coleman - London
Steve Hackett - London

Recently added

Amadou and Mariam with David Gilmour - London
Keith Jarrett Trio - London

Massive Attack Brixton
Orbital Brixton
Dodgy at Bugjam
Bassment Jaxx and whoever else at Wireless festival.

Want to see the Scratch Perverts at Fabric...just need to get around to organising it.

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Originally posted by Chillkram:
Went to see The Specials last night at Brixton Academy. Fabulous gig and absolutely bouncing all night! The Harrington jackets and Fred Perry shirts were out in force and the years were rolled back.

Great stuff.

Delighted for you! We all had a great day on Saturday, eh?!

Neil Young at Nottingham - but only because he's God. To be honest I could afford to attend lots of concerts but I live near Sheffield Arena and the £5 car park charge on top of the ticket price just grips my shit.
And don't get me started on Ticketmaster.

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And don't get me started on Ticketmaster.

Just booked for 10cc at New Theater Oxford - 6th June.
Booked with ticketmaster... ouch

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Originally posted by Alfa4life:

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And don't get me started on Ticketmaster.

Just booked for 10cc at New Theater Oxford - 6th June.
Booked with ticketmaster... ouch

Have you seen the crap about the "processing charge"? Cost of postage, ticket processing and ticket printing!! Then they charge you postage again. I suspect they get a share of the ticket price as well, it almost makes you want to use the scalpers.......oh wait a minute just which ones are the scalpers?

We've added Sawdoctors in December.

Only 1 group I know in that lineup!

Its a load of crap..dont bother H