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« Reply #2420 on: August 17, 2025, 09:40:25 AM » |
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Lovely gig by Lindisfarne at the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh. Good mixture of the hits and early album tracks (Scarecrow Ong, Passing Ghosts, Ciity Song), with a few rare Alan Hull Songs (Squire). Fun that Train in D Major has now become Train in E Major because of the passing of the years.
All in all, great fun as usual. It always seems like catching up with old friends and you leave feeling better than when you went in. (Excellent new bass player, didn’t catch his name.)
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« Reply #2421 on: August 18, 2025, 04:16:35 PM » |
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Lovely gig by Lindisfarne at the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh. Good mixture of the hits and early album tracks (Scarecrow Ong, Passing Ghosts, Ciity Song), with a few rare Alan Hull Songs (Squire). Fun that Train in D Major has now become Train in E Major because of the passing of the years.
All in all, great fun as usual. It always seems like catching up with old friends and you leave feeling better than when you went in. (Excellent new bass player, didn’t catch his name.)
Hadn't realised that Ian Thomson had left the band. He'd been with them since the mid-Nineties. Good to know the new fellow seems to be settling in, though. |
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« Reply #2422 on: August 18, 2025, 04:32:03 PM » |
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He hasn’t made it on to the website or Wikipedia yet. Think he was called Neil. Particularly good on a wonderful performance of Dingly Dell.
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« Reply #2423 on: August 19, 2025, 10:01:51 AM » |
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He hasn’t made it on to the website or Wikipedia yet. Think he was called Neil. Particularly good on a wonderful performance of Dingly Dell.
Sounds promising. I'm off to see the band in November. |
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« Reply #2424 on: August 19, 2025, 11:40:23 AM » |
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The new bass player was at NFFF. He played avery active part in the otherwise solo rendition of Winters Song.
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« Reply #2425 on: August 19, 2025, 12:41:28 PM » |
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Purbeck Folk Festival gave us several great gigs. One was the two-man bundle of joyous mayhem that is Ribble.
Then UFQ played much the same setlist as at Croppers but in the more intimate setting of a large barn, which was great.
Additionally The Zawose Queens were a fantastically lively and happy act. They are from Bagamoyo, Tanzania, comprising relatives Pendo and Leah Zawose. Their music incorporates traditional Wagogo styles and electronic production. Well worth a listen.
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« Reply #2426 on: August 19, 2025, 10:37:43 PM » |
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Just back from Beautiful Days festival.
Quite sublime going back-to-back from Spell Songs to Sex Pistols to Mercury Rev I must say.
Great sets from Penguin Cafe, Julie Fowlis, Elephant Sessions, and Frank Turner. Absolutely blinding set from Justin Adams and Mohamed Errebbaa!
Very hot! Fortunately the site has plenty of spots of shade, and places like the Tiny Tea Tent, the Copse Bar and the Bimble Inn in which to seek respite.
Twenty years since we first went to this festival... Time flies!
Cheers
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« Reply #2427 on: August 22, 2025, 10:31:17 AM » |
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Just back from Beautiful Days festival.
Quite sublime going back-to-back from Spell Songs to Sex Pistols to Mercury Rev I must say.
Great sets from Penguin Cafe, Julie Fowlis, Elephant Sessions, and Frank Turner. Absolutely blinding set from Justin Adams and Mohamed Errebbaa!
Very hot! Fortunately the site has plenty of spots of shade, and places like the Tiny Tea Tent, the Copse Bar and the Bimble Inn in which to seek respite.
Twenty years since we first went to this festival... Time flies!
Cheers
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« Reply #2428 on: August 27, 2025, 04:46:44 PM » |
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Krankenhaus was a joy as always. And wholly dry. Perfect weather for me, actually - dry and not too hot. Tip top.
Best sets I saw (lasted from 9am to c.8-9pm every day so missed Throwing Muses, some of the Sea Power sets, Moonlandingz and Arab Strap) were ex-Easter Island Head (literally jaw droppingly good), Dean Wareham and Sea Power doing a Galaxie 500 set (gulp) - when Dean and Britta did a separate set she sang I'll Keep it With Mine (very much, I thought, in the style of FC), Richard Dawson (one of the best live performers around imho), Sister John (new to me), Stewart Lee (a brief 25 minute rip roarer), an absolutely hilarious conversation with Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris by Shaun Keaveny, likewise, John Robb interviewing Will Sergeant and Paul Simpson was comedy genius, and on the Sunday evening, The Modern Ovens (Jonathan Richman covers band with various Sea Power members etc.), and caught a bit of the Sexual Objects (Fire Engines, Josef K, Orange Juice etc.) before I headed back very contentedly.
Lots of great morning talks too. And walks around Muncaster Castle. And Ravenglass. And, and, and. Only 1500 people. It's just exactly perfect. Sadly, I think they're taking a year off next year.
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« Reply #2429 on: Today at 11:06:39 AM » |
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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.
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Sparkling on the sea
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« Reply #2430 on: Today at 08:01:20 PM » |
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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.
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