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Vince Black commented on the post, Awkward ways to hold a guitar 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Tab Martin with his upright bass guitar in the Peddlers. This is a brilliant performance. I love the bit from 01:10 where Trevor Morais plays a roll round the tomtoms with his left hand whilst stick twiddling with […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, 3 nights on board with Richard Thompson 3 weeks ago
There’s a very thorough article of the Fairport cruise here, detailing how they managed to play 4 nights without Simon Nicol.
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Vince Black commented on the post, Glastonbury 2022 3 weeks, 3 days ago
I’ve watched a load of the Glastonbury iplayer sets. My favourite by far is Self-Esteem at the John Peel Stage. I’d never heard or seen her before and thought it was a fantastic performance. I loved everything […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, 3 nights on board with Richard Thompson 1 month, 1 week ago
That cruise has now finished. My source tells me Simon played the first 2 nights and missed the remaining 4. She said the rest of Fairport did themselves proud in covering for him
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Vince Black commented on the post, 3 nights on board with Richard Thompson 1 month, 2 weeks ago
He played at least 2 new songs. Sorry I can’t remember the titles. He said they would likely be on an RT Band album due to start recording soon. I purloined the setlist from his 2nd performance and one song is […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, 3 nights on board with Richard Thompson 1 month, 2 weeks ago
My spies tell me he didn’t take part in last nights concert which was a Beatles Karaoke night with Fairport as the backing band.
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Vince Black commented on the post, 3 nights on board with Richard Thompson 1 month, 2 weeks ago
We had a Sunday Morning excursion in Koln which was mostly shut and noticeably untidy compared to other places we’d visited. Our first view of the cathedral was from the river path and the view was marred by a […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, 3 nights on board with Richard Thompson 1 month, 2 weeks ago
3 pics taken from my phone here. Click and scroll
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Vince Black wrote a new post, 3 nights on board with Richard Thompson 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Venue: The Amadeus Queen, Basel – Amsterdam
Date: 18/06/2022
About 3 years ago I was at Costa Del Folk in Portugal and chatting with a bloke I hsdn’t previously met. We did the standard “How many of these […] -
Vince Black wrote a new post, The Brother 2 months ago
The recent demise of James Seals led me to the fab pop fact that his brother was the Dan in England Dan & John Ford Coley. Which set me thinking; there’s plenty of examples of brothers in the same successful […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, Concheroo on Blond Faith at Hyde Park 2 months ago
These are terrific articles. I read that in one go and loved all the detail.
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Vince Black commented on the post, Obituaries 2022 2 months ago
They were quite groovy back in the day. My then girlfriend, now GLW for 45 years had a copy of Diamond Girl and we played it a lot. Interesting that they followed the Bahai faith and never lost it. And here’s a […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, Rediscovering a 50-year old vinly collection. How I fell for Noel Bridgeman's f**k off double-bass drum kit 2 months, 1 week ago
Great stuff Jay. I saw Skid Row at Belfast Ulster Hall in around Nov / Dec 1969 when I was approaching my 16th birthday. From memory Gary was wearing an Afghan coat and playing a cherry red Les Paul. I remember he […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, Blogger Takeover LXXXVII 3 months ago
Gigs; 4 this month, all good ones. Calan at Bury Met were very impressive, playing without their fiddler / singer on maternity leave, but if you didn’t know there were usually a five-piece you’d never have […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, Folk rock ahoy!!!! 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Estonian folk rockers Trad Attack play at Costa Del Folk Ibiza in 2018. They were like Rush on steroids! To say they were divisive would be an understatement. I thought they were amazing, especially the looping […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, Folk rock ahoy!!!! 4 months, 3 weeks ago
I have both of the albums released to date by False Lights. i like them a lot
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Vince Black commented on the post, Do you Wordle? 5 months, 2 weeks ago
I only started my Wordle trip yesterday, got a 4 and was quite pleased with myself. Unfortunately I hadn’t realised that the same letter can appear twice. So after 4 tries today I was faced with a word that only […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, Obituaries 2022 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Procul Harum website has announced the passing of Gary Brooker on 19th Feb, aged 76. He had been undergoing medical treatment for a while. He was a founder member of Procul Harum in 1966, and was the front man of […]
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Vince Black commented on the post, The Delines on tour in Europe, Spring 2022 – You've read the novels; now see the band! 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I had tickets to see them last Sunday at Bury Met. It got postponed a couple of weeks ago and rescheduled for Sunday 17th July
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Vince Black commented on the post, Obituaries 2022 6 months ago
As far as I know Bamber inherited from a distant relative the house used for the filming of Ghosts
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