Your 2015 Concerts

Ex Hex at Hafenkneipe, Zurich

The Mastersingers of Nuremberg 14^th Feb at ENO London

Magic Flute WNO Birmingham 5^th March

Hansel & Gretel WNO Birmingham 7^th March

Pelleas And Melisande WNO Birmingham 13^th June

And last but not least Parsifal, in a concert performance at Symphony Hall Birmingham.

I am particularly looking forward to hearing Rachel Nicholls sing Eva in the Mastersingers after hearing her Brunnhilde at Longborough over the past few years, a real star in the making I hope.

She will also be singing her first Isolde at Longborough this summer.

My wife and I are off to hear Nina Stemme & Stephen Gould sing Tristan und Isolde at Covent Garden this evening.

As you may have guessed, I quite like Wagner!

Hawkwind  (with Focus as support band) March 6th, Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton

Public Service Broadcasting, May 6th, B'Ham Institute, "Race for Space" Tour

Steve Hackett, Oct  30th, B'Ham Symphony Hall, "Acolyte to Wolflight with a sprinkling of Genesis"

Steve

Aussie Pink Floyd Show 27 February. Brighton Centre.

Booked so far:

- Ocean Colour Scene - Acoustic tour

- Jeffrey Foucault

- Fleetwood Mac - never saw them live at their peak, so this tour (along with the return of Christine McVie) seemed to good to miss. Now, if Peter Green had been making a comeback, that would have been even better - but unfortunately not.

- Christy Moore & Declan Sinnott. 

So far I have for 2015:

Khatia Buniatishvili

Yuya Wang

Martha Argerich

Martin Stadfeld

Anne-Sophie Mutter

North Sea Jazz Festival

Only one on the calendar so far:

Mark Knopfler at the Hallenstadion in Zürich.

2015 Bookings...

Interpol - Fri 6 Feb @ The Roundhouse, London

Rae Morris - Thu 12 Feb @ Electric, Brixton

The Staves - Tue 17 Feb @ The Junction, Cambridge

Steven Wilson - Thu 12 Mar @ Corn Exchange, Cambridge

Steven Wilson - Tue 17 Mar @ Troxy, London

EppyFest 4 - Sat 11 July 2015 @ The Lansdown Hall, Stroud, Gloucestershire

Death in Texas + Firefly Burning + Trojan Horse + Unto Us + Arch Garrison

+ Headliners - Andy Davis & James Warren (Stackridge / The Korgis)

Reminded by the post of GregW:

I missed Mark Knopfler out of my earlier list.  

Paul Heaton & Jacqueline Abbot Castlefields Bowl, Manchester 03/07

Saw them last Friday at the Mcr Apollo and they were superb with a mix of Beautiful South, Housemartins and new material.

Allready booked Ms. Wang with Prokofiev #2 in Munic.

Looking foreward for S. Khachatryan

War on Drugs - 02 Academy Newcastle - February

Joan Armatrading - Sage Gateshead - March

Warpaint - Sage Gateshead - March

I went to hear The War on Drugs in Zürich about 6 weeks ago and despite a sticky overcrowded venue, they were excellent. Lost in the Dream was one of my favourite albums of 2014.

So far, I've booked:

Future Islands at The Roundhouse - March

Public Service Broadcasting at The Roundhouse - May

Belle & Sebastian at Westminster Central Hall - May

All we have so far are The Who twice (May and October), and The Decemberists in April.  Thus far I don't see a lot coming to the States of interest.  Much of what I read about here are EU and UK-only tours as of now

The Decemberists in February and Dr John in March, both in Bristol.

Oh, and the Glastonbury Festival again...

Beat me to it by 24 hrs! 

Not so much a definite, tickets on the mantlepiece job, but a wishlist, fanciful or otherwise.

For me:

Depeche Mode

Muse

Blackmore's Knight

Polly Paulusma

Chetham's Symphony Orchestra: Butterworth, A Shropshire Lad

So far:

Cara Dillon, Birmingham, March

Orquesta Buena Vista, Birmingham, April

Roberto Fonseca & Fatou Diawara, London, May

If you would have told me 20 years ago that the only gigs I had in the calendar were of the World Music genre and that there were no punk or metal gigs planned, I never would have believed it!