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New Sun 26 Apr 26 09:23
Live Music. - Zero
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And Concerts of course. Now I love live music, been to many gigs, starting at a young age with the Dave Clark 5 at Southend Odeon in the 60's. Been to small gigs - like incognito at Ronnie Scotts*, Matt Bianco at the tiny 100 club, Squeeze at Guildford G Live, Shakatak at the Pizza Express Jazz club up to the big venues - All the Motown big names at Royal Albert hall, Hammersmith Odeon (now the Appollo of course) a few big names at the now gone Rainbow, ELO out of the blue tour at Wembley Arean in the 70s, Stones Voodoo Lounge tour at the old Wembley Stadium, etc etc. I have been lucky at the O2, The Eagles when they had all the major members still alive, Fleetwood Mac - Chrissie McVie rejoined the band, Spandau Ballet reunion with Tony Hadley (that was short lived) etc etc - too many to remember.... And now, the O2 gig last night - Now dont laugh. Rick Astley. Supported by Gabriel. Gabriel was good, you dont realise what a comprehensive hit catalogue she has. The main show? Well you knew it was going to be good, dark stage and then the Human League hit was played, and 20,000 people of a certain age sang at full volume ".... You'd better take it back or you will soon be sorry - Dont you want me Baby, dont you want me oh oh oh" And the show started, real high energy, great visuals, fantastic band, Astley confident enough to let the girl singers do a Rae song "Where is my Husband" with him on drums. His version of roy orbisons pretty woman was fab. I only went because the wife wanted to see him. Glad I did. Fab show. *Oh Yes Ronnie scotts. Been a few times, and in recent years always seem to bump into Charlie Mullins and his current blonde bimbo. |
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New Sun 26 Apr 26 12:22
Live Music. - smokie
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I've got many great concert/band memories Rod Stewart at the Sundown Edmonton - maybe 1973? Mungo Jerry in Harlow Town Park maybe '74 The Stones somewhere in London around the same time David Essex (SWMBO-to-be choice but it was good) Then the fallow years of rearing kids with inadequate time & money But then... Small Stones concert at the Brixton Academy in Voodoo Lounge tour year 97? Then sometime at Twickenham. Then at the 2nd week of Coachella Desert Trip deserttrip.com/ in 2016 (along with Bob Dylan - he'd literally just got the Noble prize that week, Paul McCartney, The Who, Roger Waters and Neil Young - all did 2hr + concerts over three days. Then the Stones at Southampton stadium in 2018 - had decided to not go as I'd not long seen them and ticket prices were high, but bagged some £30 Lucky Dip tickets, which turned out to be in the little area right in front of the stage then Lucky Dips in 2 weeks later in Cardiff where we couldn't have been further away! I am just a bit of a Stones fan in case you didn't guess! Did the Blues Trail from New Orleans up through Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee ending up in Chicago on my on in 2009, went to some iconic venues (and many small town street "juke joints" - and saw a few famous names (incl at the Chicago Blues Festival) - I partially repeated the trip after Desert Trip when I ended up in the music bars in Austin. Used to regularly end up in Key West which has loads of music bars after my Florida motor racing trips. Been going to a small blues weekend in Worcestershire every August for about 14 years now. I could go on, seen many more big bands and loads of small ones, very close up too - like where we go in Portugal there's two bars which host live bands out on the street each day of each weekend - you can see some very good musicians (mainly cover bands but they are fun. One guitarist in a band there this year - Jon Storey - has played with major bands). I will admit I am less keen on concerts where I can't see the musicians - i.e. karaoke singers :-) but any live music is good. Last edited by: smokie on Sun 26 Apr 26 at 12:23
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