Gig Plans - 2018

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Google [bot]

6,682 posts

180 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Roger Waters tomorrow.

I assume the Us & Them tour has done the UK already, can anyone give me a heads-up on how much old stuff vs new stuff he does?

generationx

6,645 posts

104 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Steel Panther on Sunday! Woo!

music

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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David Byrne just added another night in London, so I got a ticket!

Really looking forward to it, hope it's not a case of 'never meet your heroes!' smile

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BRISTOL86

1,097 posts

104 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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It dawned on me the other day that since getting into the guitar I’ve been to almost no gigs, so have made it my new year thing to get out and see more music.

Got tickets for Aynsley Lister in Winchester in a couple of weeks and then The Fratellis - who I meant to go and see ten years ago and never did! - in March.

Ruskie

3,982 posts

199 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Frank Turner tickets booked :-)

Mr_Yogi

3,278 posts

254 months

Friday 2nd February 2018
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Ruskie said:
Frank Turner tickets booked :-)
Frank Turner is great, watched him supporting Blink 182 last year.

Got tickets for Edd Sheran in Cardiff and U2 at the O2 biggrin

Ken Sington

3,958 posts

237 months

Saturday 3rd February 2018
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Tried for U2 tickets for the extra night at the O2. Would Sir like a ticket for seats right up at the very top for over £200 each? No ta.

dsmith1990

1,247 posts

145 months

Thursday 8th February 2018
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Brian Fallon twice in a couple of weeks time. Playing a warm up show in Kingston followed by Koko on the Friday. Couldn't believe my luck when the former was announced last month as it's down the road

Foo Fighters - June
Gaslight Anthem - July
Iron Maiden - August

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

92 months

Friday 9th February 2018
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Just bought a ticket for Volbeat in Glasgow, June 6th biggrin

Contract Killer

4,381 posts

182 months

Friday 9th February 2018
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FN2TypeR said:
Just bought a ticket for Volbeat in Glasgow, June 6th biggrin
Looking foreward to them at Download on the 8th June smile

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Tuesday 13th February 2018
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I went to a signing (I didn't bother to wait for that) and live performance by Joan Wasser (Joan as Policewoman) at Rough Trade East last night.

She performed about 2/3rds of her new album live (with just a keyboard and guitar) and, frankly, blew me away.

I'm new to her, having discovered her material via a video for the recent "Warning Bell" (I'd heard of her before, but was kind of put off by her association with Anthony and the Johnsons, who I'd not liked much), but she was excellent in front of the tiny audience.

It was great value too, as you got in for the cost of the album or CD which you bought!

The queue for the signing was long, long, long and I had a way to go (I'm not really bothered about signed CDs to be honest) to get home, but she was excellent, great voice, even if she does look rather like Noel Fielding in a couple of the photos I took! (Unrepresentatively, I would add!) biggrin

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tankplanker

2,479 posts

278 months

Tuesday 13th February 2018
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Last Gig:
Despised Icon's supported by Malevolence, Archspire, and Vulvodynia.

Went because I really really wanted to See Archspire and didn't mind seeing Despised Icon. I knew nothing about Vulvodynia, now I know they are from South Africa and death/deathcore, watch this and you'll know as much as I do about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei2uvoF0o4U. Wouldn't go out of my way to watch them again.

Archspire were everything I hoped for, great set even if it was only ~30 minutes.

Malevolence, knew nothing about them before I went but they seem like a metalcore hybrid between Pantera and Hatebread. Overabundance of that Pantera fast section, slow section with heavy bass and Anselmo trade mark vocal, then another fast section. A lot of fun live and the crowd went predictably nuts as you'd expect for anybody who can successfully combine Pantera and Hatebread. Will be making the effort to see them at Download even if I don't think I will be listening to their albums much in the intervening period.

Despised Icon, big chunk of songs from Beast, which I wanted. Nothing new to convert people that never liked them but as with Malevolence they are great fun live if you can let go.

Mama Roux, never been before despite it being just round the corner from the Institute. Decent sound system. They have a small upstairs area if you want to avoid the chaos downstairs. Oh and they allowed stage diving, can't remember the last time I saw proper stage diving at a larger venue in Brum.

Next gig:
Front Bottoms for my daughter @ Rock City Notts on Saturday, not looking forward to this one at all
Paradise Lost @ Rescue Rooms Notts on Sunday, really looking forward to this one as I really enjoyed the last album

5pen

1,874 posts

205 months

Tuesday 13th February 2018
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marcosgt said:
I went to a signing (I didn't bother to wait for that) and live performance by Joan Wasser (Joan as Policewoman) at Rough Trade East last night.

She performed about 2/3rds of her new album live (with just a keyboard and guitar) and, frankly, blew me away.

I'm new to her, having discovered her material via a video for the recent "Warning Bell" (I'd heard of her before, but was kind of put off by her association with Anthony and the Johnsons, who I'd not liked much), but she was excellent in front of the tiny audience.

It was great value too, as you got in for the cost of the album or CD which you bought!

The queue for the signing was long, long, long and I had a way to go (I'm not really bothered about signed CDs to be honest) to get home, but she was excellent, great voice, even if she does look rather like Noel Fielding in a couple of the photos I took! (Unrepresentatively, I would add!) biggrin

M
Agreed, the album launch gigs at Rough Trade are excellent. I've been to a few over the last couple of years (Teenage Fanclub, British Sea Power and The Go! Team plus a few less well known acts) and they've all been great. I've never hung around for the signing either. Usually a 40 minute gig including a mostly songs from the new album plus a couple of old favourites in a tiny venue makes for a great do.

If I'd known about Joan As PW I might have gone to that too.

V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Tuesday 13th February 2018
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Just booked tickets for the Green Man festival.

Hopefully the weather will be more kind than last year!

marcosgt

11,011 posts

175 months

Tuesday 13th February 2018
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5pen said:
Agreed, the album launch gigs at Rough Trade are excellent.
Good to hear they're generally good - I'll keep an eye out for more I might be interested in.

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FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

92 months

Tuesday 13th February 2018
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Alestorm in Aberdeen tonight, I'm gonna get ruined biggrin

droopsnoot

11,810 posts

241 months

Wednesday 14th February 2018
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Just bought a ticket for The Stranglers at Manchester Apollo, March 31st.

Animal

5,246 posts

267 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Looks like Smashing Pumpkins are touring in the US this year; hopefully they'll come over here at some point!

epom

11,398 posts

160 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Animal said:
Looks like Smashing Pumpkins are touring in the US this year; hopefully they'll come over here at some point!
Great news, no D'arcy.... but still. They have the tunes !! Can't wait.

tankplanker

2,479 posts

278 months

Friday 16th February 2018
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Not surprised, she seems a tad miffed at Billy. https://pitchfork.com/news/darcy-wretzky-fires-bac...

Picked up tickets for Garbage for September @ Rock City. Always love watching Shirley perform.