What was the last concert you went in 2016?

Tears For Fears - Newmarket race course, 29th July 2016

I've always LOVED Tears For Fears but never saw them before last night.

It was their first UK gig for 11 years. 

They were absolutely brilliant, kick-starting the night with "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" and they played many of their hits as well as some surprising songs - "Badmans Song" being one such song - I was pleasantly surprised that they would tackle that particular song in a live gig. The rendition of "Woman In Chains" was also impressive - although I would have preferred Oleta Adams to have sung the female part!!! The singer (sorry, I missed her name) who did the performance did perform admirably however.

They played songs from "The Hurting", "Songs From The Big Chair", "The Seeds of Love" and "Elemental" of of which I know well,  plus a couple of songs I wasn't really familiar with, which may have come from "Roal and The Kings of Spain" or their other album from 2004 which also passed me by...

Finishing the night with their classic anthem "Shout" was just what we all needed and the crowd did just that!

I hope it's not 11 years before their next UK gig, as I really would love to see them again.

THE KILLS 29 July Wellington.

Very good.

Alison and James have lashings of star-power.

Deep Purple in Munich July 19 - in a very, very hot tent at the Tollwood festival here. They were ok, but I wasn't really convinced anymore. Jon Lord was greatly missed. Also I am not so sure their politic to have them all play a solo is really up to date :-) At least I was looking forward to solo by Ian Pace, but that one did not happen...How strong did I love Made in Japan.

Looking forward to Ministry next week.

Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers - Louisville Street Faire.  They were pretty good.

Junior Brown - The Louisville Street Faire. 

A lot of fun - think Lyle Lovett plays rockabilly. 

Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the Coronet Elephant & Castle

Firstly many thanks to whoever posted elsewhere that GYBE were touring - I'd somehow missed that they were in the country.

if you've seen them before you know the drill, 8 band members (mostly seated), 5 ish 'songs' over 2ish hours, apocalyptic grainy b&w projections, no vocals, no lighting, no recognition of the audience. 

The Coronet made for a suitably well worn backdrop.  The gig was simply stunning. Behemoth was, for me, the highlight.  Who else invests in 10-15 mins of drone to maximise the impact of the next chord change?  The quiet bits were disarmingly beautiful, the crescendos bowel botheringly brutal.  The PA was properly loud.  An absolute belter of a gig. 

mfan posted:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor at the Coronet Elephant & Castle

Firstly many thanks to whoever posted elsewhere that GYBE were touring - I'd somehow missed that they were in the country.

if you've seen them before you know the drill, 8 band members (mostly seated), 5 ish 'songs' over 2ish hours, apocalyptic grainy b&w projections, no vocals, no lighting, no recognition of the audience. 

The Coronet made for a suitably well worn backdrop.  The gig was simply stunning. Behemoth was, for me, the highlight.  Who else invests in 10-15 mins of drone to maximise the impact of the next chord change?  The quiet bits were disarmingly beautiful, the crescendos bowel botheringly brutal.  The PA was properly loud.  An absolute belter of a gig. 

I was there as well, my first GY!BE gig. It certainly was loud & hot, feeling like a journey to the centre of the earth with all the windows kicked out! It would be good to see them again, at a better venue with a cleaner PA. With so many channels to cope with, I like my PA's to deliver distortion with more clarity

King Crimson at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre.  Quite wonderful.  One of the encores was Heroes, Robert Fripp playing the guitar part he wrote all those years ago.  An emotional moment.

Jonathan H posted:

King Crimson at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre.  Quite wonderful.  One of the encores was Heroes, Robert Fripp playing the guitar part he wrote all those years ago.  An emotional moment.

Wow! I'm jealous, Jonathan.

Jonathan H posted:

King Crimson at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre.  Quite wonderful.  One of the encores was Heroes, Robert Fripp playing the guitar part he wrote all those years ago.  An emotional moment.

Yes, a wonderful moment during a great concert. I saw them a year ago there as well and they had improved, which was a surprise. Before that I hadn't seen them since 1969!!

Clive 

Not quite the right thread but I'd add that KC have just released Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind which was recorded live during last year's tour but has been edited to omit all audience noise and is therefore an interesting hybrid.  It features the three drummer line up that is a sight to behold (and sound to hear).

Jonathan

I got invited to Saturday nights Friends and Family pre tour King Crimson show in Aylesbury.

Really very good although I think they over did the drum sound with the mix - hopefully that was fixed next night. Certainly was not so over powering when I saw them last year. As Jonathan has said Heroes was excellent.

Lots of rock heroes in the audience this night and highlight of the night for me was meeting Steven Wilson and getting to chat for quite a while with Dave Kilminster (now off for Roger Waters rehearsals before returning to Steven's tour later in the year).

Great night.

The pre-tour show sounds fun! As for the unbalanced drums...my friend had got tickets in the front row on the left so were were directly in the line of fire of Pat Mastelotto which was quite an experience! There was a monitor not far away so the sound was less unbalanced than I thought it might be.

Clive

In Hyde Park right now. Anyone else here?

(With us and about six million others)

Went to Wembley Stadium last night to see Billy Joel.  Both he and his band were wonderful - unbelievably versatile.  He has a guitarist who sang Nessun Dorma and a roadie who gave a brilliant version of Highway to Hell.  We also had a rousing chorus of Rule Britannia.  The set lasted for over 2 hours and covered his entire career span.  He had nothing to sell and it was obvious that he loves what he does.  I only hope that I have his energy at 67.

Lloyd Cole playing solo.  I missed the Commotions.

Mogwai - playing Atomic - living in dread & promise. Fantastic venue was Coventry Cathedral, The band playing the soundtrack while the documentry played above them. The footage of the atomic bombs exploding was so scary with the MASSIVE soundtrack to carry it off, I thought the roof was going to come down!

An amazing experience indeed...

review here

Singlespeed posted:

Mogwai - playing Atomic - living in dread & promise. Fantastic venue was Coventry Cathedral, The band playing the soundtrack while the documentry played above them. The footage of the atomic bombs exploding was so scary with the MASSIVE soundtrack to carry it off, I thought the roof was going to come down!

An amazing experience indeed...

review here

Sounds like a good night. Thanks for the links. 

Just back from Mr Gilmour at the RAH. Very fine. 3hours of music including many favourites. A birthday presant from Mrs Lutyens. 

Last weekend we saw Los Endos again. These guys are a Genesis tribute band and very good they are too. This tour is the 40th Trick of the Tail tour , doing the '76 set list plus a few other numbers from Trespass to Land of Confusion. As usual excellent evening of great music, well played.

Looe Music Festival Saturday 24th

To many bands to list so a few of highlights for me were:

Suzi Mac - Without a doubt highlight of the day for me, local girl from Looe, wow what a voice she sang most of here own work but did a cover of Amazing Grace, had the hairs standing on back of my neck. If you ever get the chance check her out.

Boundless Brothers - another local band... think Cornish King's of Leon.

Puppini sisters - good fun group that got the crowd going.

Eddie  Reader - She can still hold a note and tell a good story.

Headline act was Brian Ferry, sadly the Cornish weather had turned, lots of people left but was worth getting soaked to the skin for. Played a mixture of old a new material.

Two concerts within a week - the first was in a small local theatre in Reading to see Dean Friedman ably supported by Michael Armstrong.  Dean Friedman was hilarious and we were treated to some really fun songs as well as a number from Well Well Said the Rocking Chair.  Michael Armstrong does a really interesting version of Billy Joel's Allentown. Definitely worth a listen.  On a completely different note last night we saw 10CC at DeMontfort Hall in Leicester.  The first half was the entire Sheet Music album and the second was the hits - I had forgotten how many they had.  The encore consisted of an Acapella version of Donna followed by Rubber Bullets. They were consummate professionals, started exactly on time and sounded better live than on record.  It has been a great week for live music and independent artists.  Hopefully this is the future of music.

The Kills, at Leeds Beckett last night.

As anticipated, the gig was reassuringly LOUD, with some trouser flapping bass. 

Jamie Hince was in splendid form, after a long lay-off following his hand injury and subsequent surgery.

Alison Mosshart was bonkers as ever, and the music clattered around the hall wonderfully.

See them if you can during their current tour.

A new John Adams piece at the LAPhil last Thursday "Absolute Jest" string quartet in front of large orchestra, he seemed to be jousting with Beethoven early on but ends up all Adams.  2nd half was Yefim Bronfman Beethoven Piano Concerto #4, wonderful playing between orchestra and piano.

BAD COMPANY last night in Leeds, amazing. Shooting Star song of the night.

Nice to see Fangfoss Flyer 4 rows in front of me. I'm sure he'll post some pics later

I'll be in touch Richard 

Kevin