My friend can’t make it so his ticket is looking for a home. It’s in the Circle, priced at around £30 but no reasonable offer refused. You’ll have to sit next to me but I promise I won’t be singing along or playing with my phone. Drop me a line at mikesargent56@gmail.com if interested. Thanks.
The Church – Another live weekend at Bush Hall 8/9 June 2019
Australia‘s finest are again taking over Bush Hall for the weekend, playing Seance and Starfish plus other stuff and solo sets. It was wonderful last year. It’s only £88. Be there or be square pop pickers.
https://www.seetickets.com/event/-of-seance-and-starfish-the-church-weekend/bush-hall/1332479
The Church Live In London this weekend
I’m probably the only person on the board that cares, but Australia’s finest are playing as support to the Psychedelic Furs on Friday at the Meltdown thing, then are running a fan weekend at Bush Hall in Shepherd’s Bush on Saturday and Sunday. They are playing The Blurred Crusade and a couple of other albums, plus solo sets etc. Meltdown is sold out, but there may be tickets available for Bush Hall. I’m going. See you there?
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-church-presents-a-weekend-crusade-/bush-hall/1208947
Spare ticket for Marillion in Reading, Thursday 19 April.
19/04/2018
As above. My local friends and family have no taste or are unavailable. You’ll have to sit next to me. I promise not to sing along. Email me on mikesargent56@gmail.com or ring me on 07480397199. I think it’s £37. Can meet at the Hexagon on the night.
Big Big Train play Basingstoke 11/7/18
Public service announcement.
Barclay James Harvest live in a church in Surrey
05/11/2016
I have a spare ticket for BJH in Farncombe on Saturday. £25 to you.
Could be good, I’d expect them to play some old.
Let me know if you’d like to join me.
Mike
Where to sell used Linn, Exposure, Sony, Nakamichi hifi?
I have an Exposure XV MM amp, a Sony ES 570 FM tuner, a Nakamichi Cassette Deck 2 and a pair of Linn Keilidh speakers with granite bases to sell, as I’m upgrading the amp and speakers and never use the radio or cassette deck. Other than eBay, can you suggest where I might get a good price for any or all of these?
Radiohead Live
Venue:
Lollapalooza, Treptower Par, Berlin
Date: 11/09/2016
My wife arranged this, having failed to get tickets for the London shows. I’m not a huge fan, having lost interest after the enjoyable but over praised OK Computer, although I have enjoyed the new album and liked most of Hail To The Thief which I found in Poundland. We had a great weekend, staying in the very quirky Nhow hotel, as seen on Travel Man with Richard Ayoade. Thom Yorke was on our flight going and memorably told a passenger to **** off after he snapped a photo without asking. The shy and retiring Johnny Greenwood was on the one back and Janet met him very briefly. We had VIP tickets which got us access to a separate area for drinks etc and a raised section about 250 yards back from the stage, not where we expected to be, but at least we could see. The view from half of the VIP area was obscured by a video screen, which was badly planned. Radiohead were excellent and played for approaching 2.5 hours, including Creep.
The audience:
Quite a mix, a very high percentage of women. Lots and lots of British Radiohead » Continue Reading.
Ryley Walker. Spare ticket for Guildford Friday 12th August. Lift available from Bracknell. Anyone?
I have a spare ticket. Let me know if you’d like it. He’s very entertaining. Look him up on Bandcamp or Spotify.
Anderson / Stolt – Invention of Knowledge
What does it sound like?:
This is the new album by Jon Anderson original singer with Yes and Roine Stolt multi instrumentalist and leader of Sweden’s Flower Kings. The publicity says it is inspired by the likes of Olias Of Sunhillow and Topographic Oceans, the latter being one of Yes’ marmite albums, but to my mind one of their best even if it seemed a bit disappointing on release back in 74. So it does sound like Olias with lots of multi tracked vocals very high (too high) in the mix but with much better guitar courtesy of the very talented Roine, who is like a more tuneful Steve Howe. There are some spine tinglingly good bits. I thought it was all a bit samey, then realised my car hifi had one track on repeat, but even after resolving that issue, it is all a bit one paced. The main problem my dear is the lyrics. It’s all about knowing truth, dreams and even ley lines. At times he can’t fit the words into the music. He used to write bizarre lyrics that made no sense but somehow worked, now they are of the hippy b******s variety. New track » Continue Reading.
Anyone fancy seeing Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) Tues 29 Sep at Royal Albert Hall?
He’s going to play a non standard set including early solo and Porcupine Tree songs. Seatwave has really good seats at only £35. Sadly I don’t seem to know anyone who wants to go and is free that night. Anyone fancy coming along?
Ryley Walker and Band
Venue:
Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen
Date: 02/09/2015
What an amazing night. Ryley and band mixed with the audience beforehand and were keen to continue afterwards. What a friendly guy he is. Support was Weather Station, a Canadian lady (playing solo guitar) who’d flown in that morning. She has the voice of an angel, with a touch of Joni Mitchell and Jerry Burns. Interesting songs without choruses. She played one song with Ryley’s band, which was especially superb. Must investigate further. Ryley and band played a new song to start with; like many of the set it was instrumental for the first few minutes as the band established a folky modal groove (what? – Ed.) before the song proper. Nice. Primrose Green was immense, teased out to about 15 extraordinary minutes. Pete Paphides was raving about it on Twitter afterwards. Hot. Ryley played a cover or two; If I Were A Carpenter, Cocaine, a Van song as the encore, I forget the title. But the band, upright bass, studious guitarist, keyboard player with goatee who played with his eyes closed, nervous looking drummer and Ryley himself took the music to another level. They were brilliant; I couldn’t stop smiling. » Continue Reading.
Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
What does it sound like?:
Amazingly good. Like it is still 1974, man. Percussive guitar like early John Martyn, sings like Tim Buckley, arrangements like Bryter Layter period Nick Drake, apparently also a bit like the late Bert Jansch. You really owe it to yourself to check this guy out. He is on Spotify, Facebook and available in a good record shops. You will thank me.
What does it all *mean*?
The progressive folk revival starts here pop pickers.
Goes well with…
a good book whilst sitting outside in the sun sipping a refreshing drink. What sort of question is that?
Might suit people who like…
John Martyn, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake. He is playing Hoxton 2nd Sept and Guildford 3rd Sept. I’m going to the London gig. It is only £10.70.
BOSCH – The Amazon Prime TV Series of the Michael Connelly books
What does it sound like?:
If you had a really, really good imagination, this 10 part series from Amazon Prime looks and sounds exactly as if it would if you read the Michael Connelly books and had your mind project what you saw in your head onto the screen. Titus Welliver nails the Harry Bosch role. A couple of the stars of The Wire are great in it. The story is largely that of City Of Bones, one of the best early Bosch books, but updated. I’ve read all the books and can assure you this is a superb adaptation, done with Michael Connelly’s input and blessing. TV doesn’t get much better than this.
What does it all *mean*?
It means I’ll have to read the books again. And that Amazon Prime is worth getting.
Goes well with…
Jazz.
Might suit people who like…
The Killing. NYPD Blue. Borgen. Nordic Noir.