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It seems only a couple of weeks ago that The Damned announced the only chance to see a live performance of the forthcoming covers album...in Manchester... Today, they have announced that there are to be two more 'only chances to see'...in Paris...and Cologne, of all ****ing places...and they aren’t even warm up for the UK gig. The UK gig serves as warm up for them... I will write a strongly worded letter to The Flashman Society and demand that someone receives a damned good thrashing. This wouldn't have happened on Joe De Lorenzo's watch.
The gig's on a Thursday...in Manchester...in January... ...where next? Antartica? It's not Manchester's fault that I know it too well. Mrs B and daughter no.1 both spent 3 years at Uni there. I'd rather go somewhere I rarely go/have never been (not Liverpool!). We're going up by train, staying in a Premier Inn right near the train station and heading back early the next day. There's no sights to see or things to do that we haven't already done... Now Paris and Cologne...we've been to before, but on an inter-rail budget, so a little boat trip down the rivers and some cathedral viewing will be very nice. Yes, we're going...and if they play Japan again, we're going there, too. **** it!! Life's too short.
..and good on 'yer - I agree life is way too short! So after a long period of nothing I enter the 3 gigs in a week period swiftly followed by two in early December. Funnelling my "inner Manc" this week started with a banger of a gig last night by The Chameleons at the Rescue Rooms and then we have Inspiral Carpets on Friday at Rock City before moving onto Saturday night with a bit of Howard Jones at De Montfort hall. May need a nice quiet day on Sunday, nothing happening then is it...?
Howard Jones without Nick Beggs will be strange... Unless he is joining the HJ tour late after returning from the Steven Wilson trip to India and Australia.
