@niallb review of the gig here:

That’s very kind of you, @colin-h. I apologise for treating you like a mere NI-music-info vending machine. The version of the band with Joby in it remains my favourite: they were such a blast live.

Thanks for sharing, @colin-h. Looks like it was a terrific evening; hopefully your post foreshadows a return to such affairs in the not-too-distant future.

I’ve been meaning to pick your brains about a m […]

Ironically, the monitors and on-stage speakers were so loud that those of us standing in the front rows, and the E Streeters/HJHM themselves, didn’t know that the PA serving the rest of the park had been cut. W […]

Thanks for your hard work, Sir Lodestone.

Here’s Katie Pruitt for you. I’m sure someone else here will like her.

Thanks for organising, Mr Wrongness:

1 Katie Pruitt – Expectations
2 Taylor Swift – Folklore
3 Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You
4 Haim – Women In Music Part III
5 Bob Dylan – Rough And Rowdy Ways
6 Maria McKee […]

Matthew Kelly was in rep at the RSC in Stratford during 2015. He did Marlowe (The Jew Of Malta) a John Ford play not performed in 400 years (Love’s Sacrifice) and Ben Jonson (Volpone). He’d also previously won […]

…is the correct answer. Thanks for representing.

Marillion have now been going for 31 years with the “new” singer…

And Fleetwood Mac have obviously had numerous “sets” of singers, too, during their different incarnations.

1964…

Top flight champions: Liverpool; second tier champions: Leeds; third tier champions: Coventry City.

We all went on to enjoy a fair bit of success in the ensuing seasons. Let’s hope for more of t […]

Co-written by guitarist James Walbourne, who is Richard Thompson’s son in law…

Have an “up” for that. Magnificent call.

I delayed by Damascene moment until the Royal Albert Hall in 1997, and so wish I had got my shit together earlier and made more of the opportunities to see them live. I did enjoy the Buchanan / Bell Barbican show […]

Glad you enjoyed it, Niall. I had a whale of a time too and concur with every comment you make. Rick Vito was terrific all night long and really had that lovely thick Greeny tone down pat. And as for Jeremy […]

The current plan is, apparently, “Season’s End” later this year, then “Holidays In Eden”, and finally “Fugazi” in 2021.

Tip of the hat to you, Mr Wrong and Small Gary. Your sterling efforts are much appreciated.

For what it’s worth:

1 Jenny Lewis: On The Line
2 The Rails: Cancel The Sun
3 Taylor Swift: Lover
4 Ben Walker: Echo
5 Bruce Springsteen: Western Stars (although I prefer the soundtrack version)
6 Marc C […]

Your theory supposes that the current-model Tories might possibly take advantage of a widely acknowledged political strategy: using the “Overton Window”.