Concerts planned for 2018.
Posted by: dave marshall on 09 February 2018
I couldn't find a current thread for this, so, thought I'd start a new one, mainly 'cos it's a good way of bringing to folk's attention, tours
which they might otherwise have missed.
So, Eric Bibb is kicking off a short UK tour in April, and I've captured tickets for an intimate local gig ............ woohoo! 
The White Buffalo in Bristol on 20th April (just happens to be my birthday). I'm going with my best butty.
Haven't informed SWMBO yet, waiting for the right moment!
Just looking at the line up for Love Supreme jazz festival 2018 with a piqued interest. Mavis Staples, Parliament Funkadelic, Elvis Costello, Steve Winwood. James Taylor Quartet. Earth, Wind and Fire. wowza
Paul Weller is kicking off his UK tour at the Brighton Centre next Saturday night. I realise Weller is a bit marmite but he is a great live performer IMO and I'm looking forward to it very much.
Only one booked so far is to see Nerina Pallot again in April. I never get bored with seeing her live.
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Oxford
Nils Frahm - Brighton
Nils Frahm - Barbican
Lee Ranaldo - Hoxton
Steven Wilson - Lille
The Necks - Café OTO
Steven Wilson - Birmingham
Rae Morris - Brighton
Steven Wilson - RAH
Steven Wilson - RAH
ExEye - Milton Court
Robyn Hitchcock - Cambridge
Palm - Corsica Studios
Field Music - Barbican
Crikey! You've got a busy few months, Denis.
OK, I'm planning ahead here, but yesterday I booked tickets to see Julia Fordham with Beverley Craven and Judie Tzuke on the tour they're calling Woman to Woman. It's in November!
April
The Waterboys. Cambridge Corn Exchange.
Beth Hart. Cambridge Corn Exchange.
Tonight
Sam Baker
MDS posted:Crikey! You've got a busy few months, Denis.
Yeah, just booked - Let's Eat Grandma for 8 Mar as well
Documentary "Walking In The Opposite Direction" with performance of songs by "The Sound" with Carlo van Putten on vocals, members of "The Convent" and - well - me on drums.
Osterholz/Scharmbeck near Bremen. April 18th.
A beautiful day at Eden project to see Levellers, New Model Army, Dreadzone and Reef, thats in June then August is Cropredy Festival.
Broughton Dempsey in Hinckley tonight, Kevin Dempsey is one of the finest folky jazzy guitarists you will ever hear.
Very def seeing Antonio Forcione this year with Sarah Jane Morris. Saw him last year as well and come to think of it many times over the years but whose counting whatever the combination he's always stunning!
This weekend......
Sunday Night - Regina Carter: Ella -Accentuate the Positive & Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan (Portland, OR)
Monday Night - Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan (Seattle, WA)
Celestial Fire (spinoff from Christian celtic prog band Iona) next week in Bradford.
Snake Davis on sax in Halifax beginning of March
Dave Bainbridge and Sally Minnear - Bradford end of March (Bugger, just realised I'd double booked this date with the St Matthew Passion in York, time to book another Passion)
Paul Heaton/Jacqui Abbott supported by Elvis Costello - Manchester July
Cropredy Festival August
To hear that Elvis Costello is reduced to supporting the likes of Heaton is probably the most depressing music news I've heard this year...
Some of the things I've got booked: Imarhan, Julius Eastman, Roger Waters, Sun Ra Arkestra, Thurston Moore, Pretty Things, Terry Riley, Anthony VBraxton, The Blasters, Bugge Westeltoft, and of course, lots of Rachel "Ukebitch" Darcy, Peter Parker's Rock & Roll Club and Ese & The Vooduu People....
Mike1951 posted:To hear that Elvis Costello is reduced to supporting the likes of Heaton is probably the most depressing music news I've heard this year...
Couldn't agree more, surely this is incorrect and the billing is the other way around.
Transglobal Underground with Natacha Atlas - Under The Bridge, London - in May. Yay!
Boxer Rebellion; Calexico, Handsome Family, Eric Bibb, Gary Lucas, and Rich Hall's Hoedown (actually very good musically!).
Hopefully plenty more to come...
That's me in the pit for the Rolling Stones. Always like to stay away from the riffraff.
A trip to the Bolshoi, admittedly a ballet, but I will watch with eyes closed and listen to the music. And a few days later the Mariinsky theatre and a Saint-Saens opera. Both within the next couple of months. Let's see how good concert halls sound in Russia.
Natalie Prass at Bush Hall, London in April.
The Strolling Bones at Old Trafford in June ............. woohoo!
March to May always seems to be of the busiest for gigs. After not much so far this year I've got the following coming up:
01/03 Kali Uchis - Electric Brixton
05/03 Muncie Girls, Peaness - The Black Heart, Camden
20/3 Spinning Coin, Chorusgirl - The Victoria, Dalton
24/03 Martha - Moth Club, Hackney
20-21/04 Cologne Popfest http://colognepopfest.blogspot.co.uk/p/line-up.html
01/05 Angel Olsen - Union Chapel, Islington
05-06/05 Handmade Festival, Leicester http://www.handmadefestival.co.uk/