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Neil Young has cancelled all 2026 dates. Luckily my Glasgow hotel booking is refundable - usually I take the cheapest non-refundable rates.
 
Strange night at Freddie Halkon at Newc uni tonight.
More my daughters thing than me but got a ticket last min to join her and a mate, and was on driving duty so maybe lack of alcohol made me grumpy - but what an strange/odd crowd and atmosphere. Maybe with it being a friday night the kids were more pissed??

Noticed during 'build up' music after support bands everyone was quite lively, then they played Fender track and clearly there was quite a few sunderland in there, seemed mainly young uns - started booing and then singing sunderland songs, without much resistance/retaliation tbf

This continued when Halkon came on, particularly in quiet bits when he changed guitars etc, but i think he didnt realise what they were singing, but he did seem to get pissed off a few times when trying to tell stories or background to songs. A few mags started singing songs at this point too - but it mostly stopped when he started playing.

Then the constant singing songs about Freddie, walking in a freddie wonderland, freddie on fire etc just got annoying

Maybe it was me just being sober but wasnt very enjoyable
 
kyle's left foot said:
Strange night at Freddie Halkon at Newc uni tonight.
More my daughters thing than me but got a ticket last min to join her and a mate, and was on driving duty so maybe lack of alcohol made me grumpy - but what an strange/odd crowd and atmosphere. Maybe with it being a friday night the kids were more pissed??

Noticed during 'build up' music after support bands everyone was quite lively, then they played Fender track and clearly there was quite a few sunderland in there, seemed mainly young uns - started booing and then singing sunderland songs, without much resistance/retaliation tbf

This continued when Halkon came on, particularly in quiet bits when he changed guitars etc, but i think he didnt realise what they were singing, but he did seem to get pissed off a few times when trying to tell stories or background to songs. A few mags started singing songs at this point too - but it mostly stopped when he started playing.

Then the constant singing songs about Freddie, walking in a freddie wonderland, freddie on fire etc just got annoying

Maybe it was me just being sober but wasnt very enjoyable
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That sounds rather grim. I’m going to see him in Manchester tonight and hoping for a better experience. Inevitably there will be some pissed/coked up young uns but will do my best to avoid them.
The security at the venue tonight is pathetic and I have seen a few incidents there on weekend nights with none of them to be seen.
 
Longy said:
Hope you’re doing ok mate.

Slow start for me.

Doors Alive - City Hall
Baz Warne (talking) - Pop Recs
Bar Stool Preachers - Independent
Destination Rolling Stones - Firestation
John Power (talking) - Durham Gala
Stanhope Weekender - Covers Festival with the bairns.

Out of all of them, it’s only Bar Stool Preachers that is a normal band show.
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A few comments about slow starts, but I Alabama 3, Ian Prowse & Ferocious Dog have all been announced since then, which I’ll be at. All Sunderland too, which is f***ing brilliant. It’s now not even a surprise when we get bands on. We’re a spot on the gig map. 10 years ago we picked up scraps & were grateful to get the odd gig where we could walk home after. Now we’re getting decent bands on regularly.
 
kyle's left foot said:
Strange night at Freddie Halkon at Newc uni tonight.
More my daughters thing than me but got a ticket last min to join her and a mate, and was on driving duty so maybe lack of alcohol made me grumpy - but what an strange/odd crowd and atmosphere. Maybe with it being a friday night the kids were more pissed??

Noticed during 'build up' music after support bands everyone was quite lively, then they played Fender track and clearly there was quite a few sunderland in there, seemed mainly young uns - started booing and then singing sunderland songs, without much resistance/retaliation tbf

This continued when Halkon came on, particularly in quiet bits when he changed guitars etc, but i think he didnt realise what they were singing, but he did seem to get pissed off a few times when trying to tell stories or background to songs. A few mags started singing songs at this point too - but it mostly stopped when he started playing.

Then the constant singing songs about Freddie, walking in a freddie wonderland, freddie on fire etc just got annoying

Maybe it was me just being sober but wasnt very enjoyable
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You've described something that is sadly becoming rather common these days. The mental picture I have is of a sea of mobile phones.
 
Kezia Gill at the academy Manchester
Carly Pearce same venue in May
Country to country festival in Glasgow in March
 
The Butcher said:
Baz Warne was class crack at Poprecs tonight, brilliant
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Just popped a message on the other thread, but I'll pop it here as well.

Was there last night. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Few songs, chat was class. Questions from the crowd at the end were good, lovely story from a lad from The Ropery. A little bit of a weird interaction at the very end with a former teacher. But overall really nice night.
Mantobar said:
What were the timings please?
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Doors at 7. Was on stage at 8. 2/3 songs, about 15/20 mins of chat, repeated about 3 times then open forum and questions from the crowd.
 
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