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A quick catch up

1 gig 3 weeks ago, English Teacher at the hare & hounds near Birmingham. Can’t Reccomended them high enough, I see they were on Jules Holland Later just after we saw them 2 gigs last week.

Little simz, in the O2 in Birmingham…because my daughter loves her. Not my genre of music, but I enjoyed her performance.

The next night an unknown Australian band called Dust with only about 50 people in the hall. They were good.

Two gigs this week.

Thursday was Sister of Mercy at KKsteelmill in Wolverhampton ……. Support band called the virgin Mary’s were great, Sisters of Mercy were less than average.

Friday was the Rezillos at the Assembly in Leamington Spa ….. support band was the professionals, which is Steve Cooks band (he was the drummer in the sex pistols), they were ok. the Rezillos on the other hand were fecking epic. Still don’t take themselves too seriously, but have all the energy they had at 18 even though they are now mid 60s, and the vocals are still able to hit all the same notes.
Top of the pops, destination Venus, I love my baby cause she does good sculptures, somebody’s going to get their head kicked in tonight, no …. I forgot how many good songs they did

But feck me the crowd were old

''But feck me the crowd were old...''

So you fitted right in then... Hehehehe...

Twin Atlantic tonight at the Forum, Tunbridge Wells.

Mad Dog McRea tonight in Tunbridge Wells.
Jiggly Irish sort of music, but I'm not sure if they're Irish.

I've seen them before but can't remember them
So either they were very good and I drank too much, so can't recall, or they didn't make much of an impact.

We'll see

Last night I went to see Divorce at the Sunflower lounge in Birmingham. Really enjoyed them

As 2023 is now heading out the back door, i think I have now seen my last band of teh year, so here is the list of the 2023 bands that I have enjoyed.


Gigs (including the support bands if I saw them. And many of them were bloody good)
Big Joanne, GHUM, Nature boy. (Hare & Hounds)
Bad Manners. (Leamington Assembly Rooms)
PWEI (Pop Will Eat Itself). (H&H)
Murder Capital. (The Mill)
Stiff Little Fingers, Slim Jim Phantom. ( O2 Academy)
Pixies, Swim School. (The Forum (what used to be the Hummingbird))
Damned, Nightingales. ( Bham Town Hall)
Bug Club, Mock Tudors. (Manchester White Hotel)
Billy No Mates, RVG. (Manchester New Century Hall)
Inspiral Carpets, The Institutes. (Coventry HMV Empire)
Long Ryders, Autumn Sprints. (Leamington Assy Rooms)
The Chats. (O2 Institute)
Arctic Monkeys, Hives, Mysterines. (Coventry Building Society Stadium)
Pozi, UH. (H&H)
Jeffry Lewis & the voltage. (H&H)
Mock Tudors. (H&H)
Waterboys. (Symphony Hall)
English Teacher, Alien Chicks. (H&H)
Little Simz. (O2 Academy)
Dust. (Sunflower Lounge)
Sisters of Mercy, Virgin Marys. (Wolverhampton KK Steelmills)
Rezzilos, Professionals. (Leamington Assy Rooms)
Divorce, Brian Lightening Experience. (Sunflower Lounge)
Big Moon, Liz Lawrence. ( O2 Institute)
Big Special, Big Hell. (H&H)

Bearded Theory Festival (just the bands I saw):
Heartworms, Oh No it’s The Church, Hot 8 Brass Band, Panic Shack, Girl Band, Snapped Ankles, Bug Club, Yard Act, Gogol Bordello, Opus Kink, Coach Party, Elvana, Billy Bragg, Gary Newman, Bans on Toast, Men they couldn’t Hang, Echo & the Bunnymen, Undertones, The Lovely Eggs, Pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs , Snayx, Warmducher, Mysterines, Primal Scream, Public Service Broadcasting

Manchester psyche fest (Just the bands I saw):
Mysterines, Lovely Eggs, The underground Youth, Panic Shack, Hamish Hawk, Nuha Ruby Ra, Deadletter.

What an achievement Al

I'm guessing you hit your target

Chris.

Wow that’s a great effort Al


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"Navigator" - the Pogues, quality. Hi all you fells that remember me, I keep pointing Storm owners your way, hope few have signed up.

Still got the 900LC, thinking of chopping the 390 Duke commuter for a 650 V-Strom.

Mav617 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:20 pm "Navigator" - the Pogues, quality. Hi all you fells that remember me, I keep pointing Storm owners your way, hope few have signed up.

Still got the 900LC, thinking of chopping the 390 Duke commuter for a 650 V-Strom.

Good to hear from you Mav

I found that song on Youtube

Are you missing a few ponies from the 390 Duke

Chris.

Clockworks tonight, once again at the Forum.

Recently discovered that I actually really like Joy Division! Can’t explain how it took so many decades to switch on to them. In a totally different direction, I stumbled across “Freestyler, wacka macca fo! Great tune with a cool pop video on YT. Can’t beat a bit of NIN now and then tho.
Did the Glasto thing the year that Faithless played and Rolf Harris slayed Sunday, and am pleased to report that I only had 3 hours kip the whole weekend (hero!) then drove back to Penwith ( idiot!)

At the host gig on Saturday.. the ghost tribute band..great nite.

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Went to see deadletter last week, support band were sh1te, but deadletter were great.
There was a good mosh pit going, so I was having a good laugh down there till the lead singer landed on my head!!.
I was too busy keeping an eye on the others in the moshpit and hadn’t spotted the singers plan to stage dive!


Off to see Sprints on Friday then Overpass on Saturday