Now, this is a bit more like it. All of Side 1, except 'These Hands', played indoors, with the lights down. A thing of great joy! Thanks boys! Addendum: No need to panic, I've found 'These Hands' including Dave wearing a red nose, which shows how easy it is to look like a Muppet.....Who knew?
Now this is a joy! Someone focussing on Paul, playing his blue Rickenbacker on Curtain call. A real treat, what a great bass player he is and it is so great to have him back in the band. Enjoy...
In advance of next week's gig, Nick Lowe on writing 'The Beast in Me' for Jonny Cash. This is worth watching...
I was wandering through stuff on Youtube when I came across this and it's hard to express how impressed I was and am. The participants weren't born for getting on for 15-20 years after the band split after just one album...and somewhere in New York there they are, these youngsters, loving it...and you can see just how much they do love it. Brilliant. They may be widely forgotten but they were a stunningly new and different band and inspiring and it's a joy to see it still reaching people. Enjoy...
So impressed was I by this performance, that I did some extra homework - don't tell Mrs B! This was a one-off performance to mark Poly's passing. The drummer, Nick Viglione went on to drum for The Violent Femmes, which is no surprise given how ****ing good he is. The vocalist, Holly Brewer fronts H.U.M.A.N.W.I.N.E. and the unnamed bassist plays a Rickenbacker, which says she's got great taste. Anyway, anorak off - let's ****ing go!! I'd have ****ing loved to be there for this. What a great tribute...as Punk as ****. "Some people say little girls should be seen and not heard...."
Fantastic young band shame they spilt last year - they did some fabulous covers and some excellent originals - the first album was superb, saw them a couple of times they were great live amazing energy and no little skill.
Today is the day of my annual pilgrimage - Paul Weller is in Kent and I will be seeing the great man doing his thing tonight - The set list is likely to include these beauties Have a great day I am sure I will
Enjoy, I'm sure that you will! I hope the weather cheers up - I'm not one for outdoor gigs. Can I ask what a ticket cost and who's supporting? For reasons that I don't really understand, the cost of tickets for gigs has become a subject of interest. I've seen a few outdoor gigs but for varying reasons, most have been a bit unsatisfactory in some way. Actually, the worst featured Paul Weller in Brockwell Park. The Damned played first and half the crowd missed them as the march was still going on. That upset people. It was raining early on and the ground was pretty wet. I was well pissed by midday, as was my wont at that time, from staying up all night drinking and topping up with 4 pints of an 11% cider called Sherston Scorcher.. It was a very early Style Council gig (the first?) and the skinheads there for Madness decided to chuck everything that they could get their hands on at Weller (although some Damned fans may have joined in), including a lot of mud. Weller admitted defeat and took the band off early, I followed him shortly after as the day had definitely taken a turn for the worse and I'd no desire to watch Madness at that point. The first clip shows Weller trying to get out of the way of stuff. Not everything in the past was better...
Thanks for reminding me that I needed to find the tickets (i bought them before Christmas!) They cost £48.50 support are a band called Stone Foundation - Weller, Talbot and White all appeared on their last album that was recorded at Black Barn - its a bit bland for my taste (white soul), but I am told that they are very good live. And the sun is just appearing now and the forecast appears to be right that its getting brighter so should be ok. Its strange I am not a huge fan of outdoor gigs but the missus prefers them - I recall in 2002 we saw Weller twice in quick succession once at Folkestone at the small and sweaty Leas Cliff Hall, and about 6 weeks later at Hyde Park, virtually the same set I loved the Folkestone gig, and Mrs C preferred Hyde Park, they both great gigs with what I consider to be the best of Wellers solo line ups - Steve White, Steve Cradock and Damon Minchella, 3 very talented musicians in their own right.
We have a ticket drawer to prevent me from losing the blighters! £48.50 is a very decent price for an artist like Weller. I'd not be put off by that. My kids were interested in Green Day, SLF and The Damned a couple of year ago but it was a smidge under £100 a ticket, for the 4 of us that's just too much. Our youngest is still 15, so one of us has to go to gigs with her, which is a bit of a **** for her and our finances, although we'll do it happily. We've just bought tickets for a gig on her 16th birthday, Cavetown at The Electric Ballroom. Just hr and her mates. Takes me back, although it was postal orders and SAE's in those days and pretending to be 18! Tickets straight in the drawer.
