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Forthcoming gigs.


pride of the north said:
Anyone in the Peterlee area at the weekend might fancy a look at Life Just Bounces on Saturday. Part of the 75th anniversary celebrations, three local bands (including the excellent Vice Killer and the hotly-tipped Marginal Gains). Tickets on a pay-as-you-feel basis. Bit of a preview here, including clips of two of the bands and links to the festival:
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twas a cracking day!
 
Got a few lined up before Christmas

Undertones/Ruts DC
From The Jam
Skinny Lister
Paul Heaton
Travis

Then next year

Mary Wallopers
From The Jam
 
macks1966 said:
Yes I noticed that, there is another date a couple of days before Newcastle so will probably find out then. Support from Martin Macaloon should be good.
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Looks canny:

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Free tickets for Thomas Dolby still available for tonight at City Hall. Think it's £5 'admin fee' per order
 
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GTG said:
Looks canny:

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Free tickets for Thomas Dolby still available for tonight at City Hall. Think it's £5 'admin fee' per order
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Aye, I got a couple of cheapest last week for me and missus, also thinking of going to see Stipe (REM tribute) at the cluny tomorrow.
 
macks1966 said:
Thomas Dolby sorted
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Well that was an odd one. Never seen the City Hall so poorly attended. The seated stalls in front of the mixing desk looked quite well populated. Behind it, very sparse. The balcony was closed and therefore empty.

I enjoyed Martin McAloon but it left me realising how good the songs were and how much I'd love to see Prefab Sprout return, although the chances of that are minute. However in light of the Kane Gang, you never know. Some of the songs didn't work for me on solo guitar, see Faron Young, but that's to be expected. He still seems to be a decent chap.

I'm not really familiar with Thomas Dolby outside of his best known songs and a few hours of spotify over the last week or so. He is never going to be a visual spectacle with just himself on stage. I thought the efforts at projecting visuals onto a relatively small cinema type screem were amateurish. Some songs there was nothing. A missed trick in my opinion and it would have improved the experience. I felt it was politely well received until Hyperactive/She Blinded Me With Science which ended the main set and prompted some dancing. I enjoyed the enthusisam of a couple dancing in the left hand side of the stalls (looking towards the stage).

Not sure how he thinks £30 for his novel is a reasonable price point. The Prefab Sprout vinyl at £35 seemed overpriced too.
 
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan said:
Well that was an odd one. Never seen the City Hall so poorly attended. The seated stalls in front of the mixing desk looked quite well populated. Behind it, very sparse. The balcony was closed and therefore empty.

I enjoyed Martin McAloon but it left me realising how good the songs were and how much I'd love to see Prefab Sprout return, although the chances of that are minute. However in light of the Kane Gang, you never know. Some of the songs didn't work for me on solo guitar, see Faron Young, but that's to be expected. He still seems to be a decent chap.

I'm not really familiar with Thomas Dolby outside of his best known songs and a few hours of spotify over the last week or so. He is never going to be a visual spectacle with just himself on stage. I thought the efforts at projecting visuals onto a relatively small cinema type screem were amateurish. Some songs there was nothing. A missed trick in my opinion and it would have improved the experience. I felt it was politely well received until Hyperactive/She Blinded Me With Science which ended the main set and prompted some dancing. I enjoyed the enthusisam of a couple dancing in the left hand side of the stalls (looking towards the stage).

Not sure how he thinks £30 for his novel is a reasonable price point. The Prefab Sprout vinyl at £35 seemed overpriced too.
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I thought it was a canny gig, I looked at tickets a few weeks ago and there was only front stalls for sale and didn't fancy paying the £40 or whatever, then got them through sff last week, didn't sit in our allocated seats, just sat a bit further back, as I think alot of people did, made it easier for bar/toilet. Not bad for a £5 admin fee
 
macks1966 said:
I thought it was a canny gig, I looked at tickets a few weeks ago and there was only front stalls for sale and didn't fancy paying the £40 or whatever, then got them through sff last week, didn't sit in our allocated seats, just sat a bit further back, as I think alot of people did, made it easier for bar/toilet. Not bad for a £5 admin fee
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Same here. Checked out where we should have been sitting and there was an enormous fat bloke in an adjacent seat. Moved to the other side and a bit further back. As you say, OK for a fiver plus fee.
 
Went to see Thomas Dolby/Martin McAloon tonight at the Ritz in Manchester- to be fair I only booked the ticket to see Martin as I was a Prefab Sprout obsessive when I was a teenager so any excuse to see him live. It’s as close as I’ll get now as Paddy won’t be performing again by the sound of it.
Martin was grand. Thomas Dolby (what I saw, left after a few songs) was not great. Was like watching a .Windows95 screensaver.
Was proper busy like, and full of arseholes. Not sure I’ve missed much tbh. Got to be up early to drive over to the match tomorrow
 
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan said:
Well that was an odd one. Never seen the City Hall so poorly attended. The seated stalls in front of the mixing desk looked quite well populated. Behind it, very sparse. The balcony was closed and therefore empty.

I enjoyed Martin McAloon but it left me realising how good the songs were and how much I'd love to see Prefab Sprout return, although the chances of that are minute. However in light of the Kane Gang, you never know. Some of the songs didn't work for me on solo guitar, see Faron Young, but that's to be expected. He still seems to be a decent chap.

I'm not really familiar with Thomas Dolby outside of his best known songs and a few hours of spotify over the last week or so. He is never going to be a visual spectacle with just himself on stage. I thought the efforts at projecting visuals onto a relatively small cinema type screem were amateurish. Some songs there was nothing. A missed trick in my opinion and it would have improved the experience. I felt it was politely well received until Hyperactive/She Blinded Me With Science which ended the main set and prompted some dancing. I enjoyed the enthusisam of a couple dancing in the left hand side of the stalls (looking towards the stage).

Not sure how he thinks £30 for his novel is a reasonable price point. The Prefab Sprout vinyl at £35 seemed overpriced too.
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Martin McAloon is on a hiding to nothing: he's a good guitarist, but no way can one man make up for Paddy plus a band. I clapped for the nostalgia of it rather than anything else.

I thought Thomas Dolby was great. The set could have been better, but I was at least prepared for it. The fact he played Flat Earth was a massive bonus.

£7.95 for a pint was outrageous. Last Christmas, I paid £7.20, then £7.30 about 3 months ago and now £7.95. Absolutely taking the piss.
 
King Kareoke said:
I hope not but that's twice now. They would have been brilliant in the Boiler Shop
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They would. I was lucky enough to see them at The Cavern Club in Liverpool around 2018-ish - right up at the front of the stage too. Quite possibily one of the best gigs I`ve ever been too.
macks1966 said:
Got KK's Priest on Friday, then fontaines dc next week
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Me too - 1st gig in 5 months. Never had such a long gap in over 40 odd years. Really looking forward to it.
 
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