Nothing together, then?

Must remember to stay at the other side of town that night.  

Jules

Oct 30th in Cheltenham... Gong at the Deya brewery taproom - hopefully loud enough to drown out any braying trendies only there to be seen (and, unfortunately, heard)!

Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips, August 24 and 27, Royal Clipper, sailing from Venice!

Fairport Convention acoustic, August 25 and 28, Royal Clipper, coincidentally sailing from Venice!

These were absolutely lovely concerts on the crowded deck of an old-school clipper ship. RT sat for the shows, as he is obviously still recovering from his injury. You wouldn't know it from the singing and playing, however.

I got to have brief but substantive conversations with everyone. Ric caught me jotting down the set list on my iPhone during a tune and accused me of "looking at [my] watch." Simon showed me his new inexpensive guitar made of resin, which won't replace his expensive wooden guitars but is "good enough" for shipboard performances. RT said he "may" come to Texas next year, but I'm not holding my breath. He hasn't been back to Austin since 2013... Love the gents and had a smashing vacation.

Up next - September 13, The Swell Season at ACL Live!

I don't think they can top the show we saw last July in Rochester, NY, but I'm sure they can equal it.

A reminder, and a poster.  Dr Strangely Strange in London on the 4th Oct.

Dee Palmer...in Knighton

Jethro Tull's Dee Palmer puts on concert at Knighton home | Hereford Times https://share.google/NL5qPl9CBWpjg5n4a

My weekend involved a couple of tribute gigs. First of all This Is Floyd at our local community centre. They played here 18 months ago (under their previous name - The Darkside of Pink Floyd) and returned with a slightly different lineup, but the same great music, light show and projections.  We got almost all of DSOTM, quite a few tracks taken from Pulse and most of Wish You Were Here, and were excellent.

On Saturday evening I went to Tavistock Wharf to see Marquee Square Heroes (Fish-era Marillion tribute).  I wasn't quite so taken with these - the guitarist and bass player were both excellent, but I didn't feel I could hear the keyboards so well (may be the fault of the venue sound?), and the vocalist didn't quite channel Fish as well as I would have liked (though as the gig went on it seemed to me that he was probably battling through not feeling well, and videos from other shows seem to show him in better voice, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt).  They gave us the whole of Misplaced Childhood, most of Script, and a few tracks from the other two albums, and even finished the main show with Grendel.  Probably worth a second visit if they come back again.

I play bass with the band 'Bannockburn' and among other gigs, we do a lot of pre-match shows for the Tartan Army in Edinburgh and Glasgow. This Monday we're at Stramash on Cowgate in Edinburgh before and after a screening of the Scotland 'v' Bellarus match.

Our regular drummer can't make it and I'm going to have to put up with a dep, but it's only going to be Iain Bayne ex-RunRig!!!!!!  I'm not a football fan, but on this occasion, I'm somewhat looking forward to it !!

Typo- now fixed.