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Forthcoming gigs.


Longy said:
The Frankie & the Heartstring lads have been building up to this for about 10 years now? Tourist information centre to this. They’ve now got a proper venue that’s on the circuit
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Aye, Michael (and Dave) in particular have done a cracking job. At a time when independent venues are dying, it's great to see a community project like this thriving
 
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Got 2 e-tickets for Richard Dawson at Whitley Bay Playhouse tonight but cannot make it anymore. Support starts at 8pm, RD 9pm. Can email them across if anyone wants to use them.
 
The Music Man said:
Got 2 e-tickets for Richard Dawson at Whitley Bay Playhouse tonight but cannot make it anymore. Support starts at 8pm, RD 9pm. Can email them across if anyone wants to use them.
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Hope somebody got to use them! Fantastic show, tremendous band. Not many people can start the set with a 40 minute number and get away with it.

Lovely Nev Clay supported.
Well, we WERE supposed to be going to this tomorrow but I think I'll give it a miss! Such a shame, it was a really well organised event last year.

Hope they get their act together for the other festivals there like Stone Valley later in the year.

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GTG said:
Hope somebody got to use them! Fantastic show, tremendous band. Not many people can start the set with a 40 minute number and get away with it.

Lovely Nev Clay supported.
Well, we WERE supposed to be going to this tomorrow but I think I'll give it a miss! Such a shame, it was a really well organised event last year.

Hope they get their act together for the other festivals there like Stone Valley later in the year.

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You’d think it should be actually Stone Valley organising the festival, 10th year, so they know what they’re doing. We’ll assume better weather too. Stone Valley could do with more toilets on the campsites & more showers like.
 
GTG said:
Hope somebody got to use them! Fantastic show, tremendous band. Not many people can start the set with a 40 minute number and get away with it.

Lovely Nev Clay supported.
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Disappointed to miss it, but unavoidable. It was very late notice when I offered the tickets on here, so unsurprising that they did go unused.
Ha ha, I did wonder whether he'd play The Hermit. I'd been looking forward to it. Hopefully I can catch him again somewhere in the near future.
 
I went to that Steve Mason gig at Pop recs on Friday and I must be the only one bored to tears by it. Got convinced to go by our lass and her mates, granted I don't know any of his solo stuff and only recognised a couple of songs. I'm guessing you had to know his stuff to see how good it was, but I've been to loads of gigs where I don't know the band and come away thinking they were awesome. just thought the musicianship was very poor, too much use of backing tracks and boring songs.

The support act were 10x better. An actual proper band
 
Next one for me, Dreadzone in York on Friday.

tunstallhill said:
I went to that Steve Mason gig at Pop recs on Friday and I must be the only one bored to tears by it. Got convinced to go by our lass and her mates, granted I don't know any of his solo stuff and only recognised a couple of songs. I'm guessing you had to know his stuff to see how good it was, but I've been to loads of gigs where I don't know the band and come away thinking they were awesome. just thought the musicianship was very poor, too much use of backing tracks and boring songs.

The support act were 10x better. An actual proper band
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I created a Spotify playlist before, so was familiar with the songs, but didn’t know them well. I thought it was great, but the point I would agree with was the use of backing tracks was a slight cop out.
 
My next three gigs are all in Preston! Album launch gigs for The Lottery Winners and The Lathums which are both at Blitz along with Vistas at The Ferret.
 
Longy said:
Next one for me, Dreadzone in York on Friday.


I created a Spotify playlist before, so was familiar with the songs, but didn’t know them well. I thought it was great, but the point I would agree with was the use of backing tracks was a slight cop out.
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It just reminded me of that humiliating Ian Brown gig at city hall last year, just him and mic and a backing track , dancing round the stage like a f***ing idiot

Obviously this one wasn't anywhere near as bad as that, the drummer was canny and the backing vocals girls were right into, I just don't think the keyboard player was actually doing anything, mason kept randomly bashing the bongos and he barely used his guitars. Was just weird. But there was plenty people right into it and everyone I know that was there agreed it was amazing. So what do i know
 
Parkmaverick said:
Ferocious Dog and The Levellers later on today at Northern Kin - Sweet last night and Phil Campbell and the Bastard sons were both excellent yesterday - Jethro Tull were turgid drivel.
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Are you there today? Try and catch some of Diesel Park West, one of my late-80s/early-90s favourites. My main regret about missing today.
 
tunstallhill said:
Not sure if you'd call it a gig, more of a lecture, but got tickets for this at Hope Street Exchange in Sunderland

The Science of Psychedelics with Neuroscientist Maria Balaet
Part of the Seed Talks collection
Join us for an in-depth examination of traditional & modern psychedelics, including their benefits for mental health. Followed by Q+A.

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Really enjoyed this tonight. First time in that building, must have been 200 people at the talk. Really interesting. Hope they do more stuff like that there, TedTalk type events. Really good place
 
Longy said:
You’d think it should be actually Stone Valley organising the festival, 10th year, so they know what they’re doing. We’ll assume better weather too. Stone Valley could do with more toilets on the campsites & more showers like.
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The same promoters do Stone Valley, Northern Kin and Kubix. The weather was terrible but those behind the scenes worked their arses off to make this festival go ahead. I loved it. Yes, it was muddy but the diversity of music and the overall atmosphere was top class.
GTG said:
Are you there today? Try and catch some of Diesel Park West, one of my late-80s/early-90s favourites. My main regret about missing today.
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They were OK -didn`t know any of their stuff but enjoyed them, same with Turin Brakes - thought they were pretty classy.
 
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Topbanana1 said:
James with orchestra next Tuesday Newcastle city hall , looking forward to it
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Did you enjoy it? I thought it was superb...quite ambitious but they pulled it off brilliantly I thought. I can understand why it was seated and some would disagree but it would have been even better as a standing gig IMO. It would have had the mesmerising moments like tonight that just absorbed you but with better opportunities to get into it for those that wanted to...
 
mickb2112 said:
The same promoters do Stone Valley, Northern Kin and Kubix. The weather was terrible but those behind the scenes worked their arses off to make this festival go ahead. I loved it. Yes, it was muddy but the diversity of music and the overall atmosphere was top class.
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Knew Stone Valley & Kubix were the same people but didn’t realise Northern Kin too.
 
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