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Tedeschi Trucks Band

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07/11/2015

Due to incompetence on my part I find I have double booked myself and so have two tickets for this gig.

Face value is £35 and if anyone would like to take them off my hands for that (or seek to negotiate more favourable price), please let me know and we can make appropriate arrangements.

Do you have enough Dead?

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If not you might be pleased to learn they are releasing an 80 (that’s not a typo, that’s eighty) disc set of live gigs.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/grateful-dead-archivist-details-massive-new-80-disc-box-set-20150602

I’m flabbergasted. Will anyone actually listen to 80 discs? It beggars belief, but Deadheads are known to be obsessive.

I know we have some Deadheads hereabouts. Are any of you thinking “Why yes!. There is a gap in my Dead collection and it’s about 80 discs long” and shell out for this?

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Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express

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Venue:

The Garage, Islington, London

Date: 28/05/2015

And lo, the Prophet sang “Shake Some Action, That’s What I Need….” Action well and truly shaken and needs abundantly met.

The audience:

Followers of the Prophet.

It made me think..

Yes he’s honoured, but not nearly enough

 

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Nashville – finally!!!

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Inexplicably, with no fanfare at all, E4 started Series 3 of Nashville this week. We only found out, after the broadcast, when my wife spotted at snippet of information in the London Evening Standard.

It’s available for catch up on All 4 and I’m sure if you scour the TV listings you can also find a repeat showing before Episode 2 goes out next Wednesday.

However this lack of dedication to a previously popular show is something I’ve observed before on Channel 4 (and its offshoots). They don’t give it publicity, move the time slot around, say audiences are too low and drop the programme from the schedules (cf Homicide:Life On The Street and Tour De France coverage).

Meanwhile enjoy my favourite song from S2, Black Roses performed by Scarlett (Clare Bowen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oepZYpCuac

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Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free

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I’m trying to cheer myself up. A spark of good news is Jason’s new album is out on July 17th.

He’s doing a big US tour that currently goes through to August. Maybe we can hope for UK dates towards the end of the year.

Meanwhile Dave Cobb, Jason’s producer has been working with the guy in the video – Chris Stapleton. I think this song, Traveller, the title of his debut album sounds might fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YADQ6MhQuuU

Just when you were wondering what happened to Kathleen Edwards

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There are a fair few of us round these here parts who are fans of Kathleen Edwards; who love her music, especially Voyageur and think it’s time she got it together to do something new.

I’m sure I read somewhere that she has quit music altogether. That it seems is wrong.

Read about Kathleen’s current (and past) life here as a Kickass Canadian (not my terminology):

http://kickasscanadians.ca/kathleen-edwards

An here’s a video that goes right back to the beginning – Six O’ Clock News on Letterman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdJmPuMucnU

The thread that hangs its head in shame

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So in response to Tigger’s thread suggestion back in the Prostitution thread about Bruce’s worst song triggering a thread, I’m starting said thread.

Here’s my suggestion – Pony Boy. Jeez, he even played it live. Talk of lack of self-awareness.

However I’m not limiting it to Bruce. Any decent sized back catalogue has a stinker or two (yes, Mr Young I’m looking at you as a multiple offender) so let us have your bona fide, rotten blue cheese, stinkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45m3bGQQwKk

Hannah Aldridge

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Venue:

The Troubadour, West Brompton, London

Date: 11/03/2015

Despite jet-lag and about three hours sleep in the previous 36 I made it to this gig. After last year’s stupendously good introduction I didn’t want to miss out. Mrs P was too tired out though Hannah made my effort worth it and didn’t disappoint in the least, other than her set was barely 40 minutes. She came on promising new material though she recognised most of her songs would be new to the majority. In the event only the opener and another titled Goldrush were new and a good part of her set came via requests, including mine for Black And White. A brilliant addition to the set-list is Jason Isbell’s Cover Me Up, but for those who know Jason’s work I can testify Hannah’s own songs are equally as good. She just has that essence of star quality about her. With respect to the other acts playing before her, while none were bad, from the very first chord of her first song it’s clear Hannah is a class act and the others comparative journeymen. Last night she was top of a four act bill in a small venue; hopefully » Continue Reading.

I Am Pilgrim

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Author:Terry Hayes

It has been a long, long time since I read a thriller that I couldn’t put down; that at every opportunity I’d grab the chance to read a few more pages. A post 9/11 thriller telling a tale of international terrorism. As with Day Of The Jackal, though you know the ending it grips from page one. A retired agent from a secret US intelligence group is brought back to trace the Saracen. What is his weapon? They don’t know. It’s just known he’s dangerous. He can bring catastrophe to the USA and has to be stopped. Fragmentary clues are pieced together as Pilgrim chases him down. Is it literature? No. Is it a potboiler that explodes with excitement? YES. From New York, to Saudi Arabia, to Turkey and to the Hindu Kush, with death and danger everywhere. I loved it. There is a flaw in the unlikely connection between the sub plot and main plot, but that’s a minor quibble. It gallops along and we, the readers, just hang on for the ride.

Length of Read:Long

Might appeal to people who enjoyed…

The aforementioned Day Of The Jackal, The Name Of The Rose or The Straw Men. » Continue Reading.

2015 – the choice is yours (no, not the election)

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I’m talking about proposed London Mingle

I did suggest on the Mingle thread about using one of those polls, but have now decided that you can just vote here and state preferred date and venue and I’ll count them up and we’ll have come to a decision by the end of next week (February 27th).

So make your choices on:

1) I propose dates of either March 20th or March 27th (both Fridays)

2) A poll on aard-stryder’s suggestion of The Betjeman Arms (http://www.geronimo-inns.co.uk/london-the-betjemank) at Kings Cross / St Pancras stations against the old location of The King & The Queen in Foley Street.

For myself I can do both dates but lean towards the 28th and fancy the new Venue.

If we get enough takers I’ll sort out a booking with the venue

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A celebratory Mingle?

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Well as we’re back up is anyone interested in a 2015 London mingle?

They seemed to have fallen out of favour with many if the low attendance at the last one is anything to go by, but a it’s been a long time, so if at least a dozen say they are up for it I’m in favour of going ahead, in say mid to late March