What gig did you go to last night?

[mistyoptic]

Oops. Forgot to post. Went to see 10cc last week at the Forum in Bath.

Excellent show. Still got it after all these years. First saw them in ‘75 at Cardiff Student Union

 

[Profpointy]

Goldie lookin' chain last night in Bristol.
Newport's greatest hip hob band !

Whilst I guess they are a sort of a parody act they are incredibly slick and energetic showmen and it was brilliant fun. Their whole tour is (deservedly) sold out apparently


View: https://youtu.be/ICG0MuzEYzw?feature=shared

 

[MontyVeda]

Goldie lookin' chain last night in Bristol.
Newport's greatest hip hob band !

Whilst I guess they are a sort of a parody act they are incredibly slick and energetic showmen and it was brilliant fun. Their whole tour is (deservedly) sold out apparently


View: https://youtu.be/ICG0MuzEYzw?feature=shared

Blimey i was listening to GLC on Friday when catching up with an old friend... we were speculating as to what they're doing these days. I saw them in Preston back in the day and as you say, they're brilliant fun and don't take themselves at all seriously.

 

[MontyVeda]

Not heard of that venue before. I see the Blackwater Country are playing there next weekend, a band I keep be recommended but not got around to seeing.

I always presumed Thekla was one of Bristol's most famous venues... being a boat in the dock with a Banksy on its hull.

 

[Profpointy]

Blimey i was listening to GLC on Friday when catching up with an old friend... we were speculating as to what they're doing these days. I saw them in Preston back in the day and as you say, they're brilliant fun and don't take themselves at all seriously.

One of them talked about how buying t shirts helped support up and coming great bands like the support "as well as shoot bands like us"

That said, whilst they certainly don't take themselves at all seriously, they clearly take their performance and giving a good show very seriously indeed and had put in a lot of work and practice

 

[Cavalol]

UB40 supported by Soul II Soul (and another band) last night. It was worth the admission fee alone for 'Keep On Moving' and 'Back to Life' by Soul II Soul, and a good few by UB40, notably 'Kingston Town' 'Red Red Wine' and the utterly, utterly brilliant 'Food For Thought'.

I'm not sure it was Caron Wheeler singing with Soul ii Soul (there were two girls singing) but they were really good.
UB40's lead singer could have been a bit more sort of characterful or engaging, but notes wise he, Campbell and the two lads backing them (one was Campbell Junior) were superb.

This post might end up in 'Worst concerts you've been to' though, not due to the music, but down to the lack of security dealing with the group of pondlife causing trouble in the crowd. Pissed out of their heads, stunk of B.O, sweat and frankly urine, all over the shop, plonking themselves down in empty seats that weren't theirs and harassing people next to them. One poor fella and the lady with him got a dog's life from these sub-humans and it turned out later he was disabled and there with his mum in seats earmarked for them to make it easier. They were spoken to a number of times, but as soon as one or two were, the rest 'mysteriously' appeared and started crowding round the feeble amount of seat stewards.

 

[MontyVeda]

@Cavalol it's Soul II Soul, not Soul 'eleven' Soul

 

[Cavalol]

Edited, thanks.

 

[MontyVeda]

Last night i returned to A-wing of the former HM prison in Lancaster Castle to watch the Eccentronic Research Council perform their 1612 Underture album, featuring Maxine Peake reading the words. Not your usual gig, being more poetry and electronica, but it was unique and really quite awesome.

 

[Adam4868]

Last night i returned to A-wing of the former HM prison in Lancaster Castle to watch the Eccentronic Research Council perform their 1612 Underture album, featuring Maxine Peake reading the words. Not your usual gig, being more poetry and electronica, but it was unique and really quite awesome.

Really wanted to go to that but couldn't make it.
Such an apt venue as well 😁

 

[Cavalol]

'An intimate evening with Martin Fry' last night at Chester Storyhouse. My good lady wife got VIP tickets, so we had a 'meet and greet' with the man himself before the show. This was basically 30 seconds of his mate taking our photos (using our phones), a two track CD, a tote bag and a signed photo. Oh, and the opportunity to buy his book. For £40. (My missus got one).

The show itself was a compere asking him questions on stage, interspersed with two musicians (keyboard and guitar) playing as he sung some of his hits. It was actually really, really good and quite a sort of cosy and almost personal atmosphere.

 

[richardfm]

I went to see Mishra at Rudry Parish Hall
I got to to meet the band after with out having to pay for VIP tickets

View: https://youtu.be/6gAmhGDLsmM?si=Rnk2H8daduRltbQk

 

[Profpointy]

I always presumed Thekla was one of Bristol's most famous venues... being a boat in the dock with a Banksy on its hull.

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We've yet to go to a gig on the Thekla, but I think a couple of appealing things are coming up.

We are rather spoilt in Bristol as we have a quite sizeable concert hall Bristol Beacon (formerly Colston Hall) which does the bigger bands (but not fill a stadium bands) as well as regular symphonic scale classical gigs with top bands like Bournemouth SO (almost the house band) and various European orchestras on tour. Top quality acoustics, which are if anything even better after a major refurb, We also have a smaller venue, St Georges which hosts a lot of early music and smaller scale classical, as well as jazz and "world music". Again superb acoustics and the benefit of being 500 yards from our house. We also regularly go to The Fleece which usually has first class cover bands but also various major acts in their later years - the Ruts, Tom Robinson, and The Beat recently

 

[DaveReading]

We've yet to go to a gig on the Thekla, but I think a couple of appealing things are coming up.

We are rather spoilt in Bristol as we have a quite sizeable concert hall Bristol Beacon (formerly Colston Hall) which does the bigger bands (but not fill a stadium bands) as well as regular symphonic scale classical gigs with top bands like Bournemouth SO (almost the house band) and various European orchestras on tour. Top quality acoustics, which are if anything even better after a major refurb, We also have a smaller venue, St Georges which hosts a lot of early music and smaller scale classical, as well as jazz and "world music". Again superb acoustics and the benefit of being 500 yards from our house. We also regularly go to The Fleece which usually has first class cover bands but also various major acts in their later years - the Ruts, Tom Robinson, and The Beat recently

Many years ago I did some contracting in Bristol and usually contrived to stay over one night a week. Even in those days, it was a great place for live music - I went to several gigs at the Colston Hall and loads of smaller venues like the Hen & Chicken, Fleece & Firkin (saw David Gray there with a handful of people when he was virtually unknown), Fiddlers, the Bungalow. the Flyer.

Though like you, I never made it on board the Thekla.

 

[T4tomo]

I always presumed Thekla was one of Bristol's most famous venues... being a boat in the dock with a Banksy on its hull.

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