Gigs
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda, Didn’t
Here’s another pesky but obligatory year-end list for me to get out of my system: it’s my Top 5 list of the gigs I really would have liked to have gone to in 2008 but for one reason or another didn’t. I’m sure I can come up with something snappier than that. 5. Public Enemy, [...]
My Top 5 Gigs of 2009
Why Top 5? Why not a Top 10? As a lapsed Discordian I was going to knock out a rather elaborate, mind-bending explanation based on the ‘Law of Fives’ (which, according to Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus! Trilogy, claims that everything in the universe can be connected to the number five if you [...]
Tom Waits, Grand Rex Paris, 29th May 2000
I’m off to see Tom Waits at the Grand Rex in Paris in a few weeks time and, needless to say, I’m rather excited. It’s won’t be the first time I’ve seen him live. In fact, I saw him at the very same venue 8 years’ ago. Here’s something from the archives: He’d given two [...]
The Plastic Beer Skiff Snake
Over the years I’ve seen many jaw-droppingly odd things happen at gigs. I went to an Eric Clapton concert in 1988 where the person standing directly in front of me spent the night yelling “JESUS! FORGIVE ME! SAVE US FROM OUR SINS!” at Old Mano Lenta. I can only assume he once saw the famous [...]
Flu Fighters
Well, I didn’t get around to writing a proper review of last Saturday’s absolutely Goddamn awesome Foo Fighters gig at Wembley Stadium because, since then, I’ve been sick as a pike. Even on the day of the gig I was far from ship shape and Bristol fashion. I started the morning with some low-level nasal [...]
Tom’s Wait is Over
Séance: Tom WaitsDate et heure: 24/08/07 20:00Endroit: Rex Theatre, Paris Translation: Fucking-A!
This is why I like Tom Waits
I’ve never made a secret of the fact that my all-time favourite recording artist bar none is Mr Thomas Alan Waits of Pomona, California. My all-time favourite album is a Tom Waits album, my all-time favourite concert was a Tom Waits concert and my all-time favourite song about inebriated pianos is a Tom Waits song [...]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Birmingham Carling Academy, 5th May 2008
There’s cool, there’s uber-cool and then there’s Nick Cave. Australia’s finest export – the Black Crow King himself – was on particularly fine form as he performed in front of a sell-out crowd at the apparently soon-to-be demolished Academy on Monday night. He certainly looked the part. Dressed in a black, open-top silk shirt and [...]
Slight return
“We met a crazed speed garage afficianado from Northampton, who advised us not to buy a double gin and Red Bull (and not because of the taste), and told the most uninteresting interesting anecdote about the Astoria. It’s a bit scary to get stuck talking to somebody like that, but looking back it means that [...]
The Breeders, Birmingham Academy, 13th April 2008
So here I am, and there I was – enjoying a sticky-floored Sunday evening at Birmingham’s bijou Academy 2. I was there to see The Breeders and it was all thanks to my friend – macaroon chomping Friend-of-Garfield Jez Higgins – who generously gave me the ticket that he bought just seconds before he realised [...]
Nick Cave
Looks as though I’ll be seeing Nick Cave twice this year. Over the weekend it was announced that Nick Cave would be appearing at this year’s bloody marvellous Latitude Festival. As I’m going to Latitude, have already bought a pair of tickets to see him play at the Birmingham Academy next month and am currently [...]
My Top 10 Gigs of 2007
Don’t you just hate those end of year countdown shows? Cheap, schedule-padding fodder consisting of cobbled together clips and witless pundits pontificating witlessly. I even wrote about me intense dislike for this pernicious genre here. Oh, how I hate them. Here’s a countdown of my favourite gigs of 2007: 10. Jeffrey Lewis & The Jitters, [...]
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