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[Music] The Live Music thread



Hotchilidog

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Have you seen Electric Cowboy Club, they play the Green door quite a bit, now getting bigger though.
Brandon the leader singer is a lovely bloke and although at first believe or not a young Teddyboy he also loves Psychobilly and metal, interesting take on all the influences, not sure it is Psychobilly or Thrash etc.


I have not, but they are now on my radar!
 




Machiavelli

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After a summer of stadium shows and festivals I finally got back to basics. Doomsday Fest at the Green Door was another triumph for the South Coast Extreme Metal promoters, delivering a quality day of metal despite a couple of cancellations. The utterly cosmic post-black metal of Inferno (cz) was just mesmerising and headliners Hellripper delivered a blistering old school thrash-speed metal masterclass featuring favourites such as Goat Vomit Nightmare and Necroslut. A perfect way to celebrate the point at Arsenal.

Last night I went to see Tuk Smith and the Restless Hearts at the Albert in front of disappointingly small audience, most of whom had actually travelled some distance to see the gig, only about 3 or 4 Brightonians there. That said the band just got up on stage and played as if the room was full (luckily the rest of their tour has pretty much done that) and just rocked the cobwebs out of my weekend. Like a supercharged Cheaptrick, classic American melodic rock full of hooks and the odd nod to the likes of the Stones, Thin Lizzy. It was an utterly brilliant night, the room was far from full, but everyone who was there just said f*ck it, let's rock anyway. I loved it. If Tuk ever does come back I'll be telling everyone I know to get down there.


A super-charged Cheap Trick does it for me. Saw Cheap Trick at ATP in 2002, which was the best festival line-up I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing, see:

 


Hotchilidog

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And just to round off the musical genres this week, just booked Willow Hill a country duo from Nashville at the Folklore Room for Wednesday night.
 




thedonkeycentrehalf

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Jul 7, 2003
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Last night I went to see Tuk Smith and the Restless Hearts at the Albert in front of disappointingly small audience, most of whom had actually travelled some distance to see the gig, only about 3 or 4 Brightonians there. That said the band just got up on stage and played as if the room was full (luckily the rest of their tour has pretty much done that) and just rocked the cobwebs out of my weekend. Like a supercharged Cheaptrick, classic American melodic rock full of hooks and the odd nod to the likes of the Stones, Thin Lizzy. It was an utterly brilliant night, the room was far from full, but everyone who was there just said f*ck it, let's rock anyway. I loved it. If Tuk ever does come back I'll be telling everyone I know to get down there.


I enjoyed his previous band Biters and was gutted that I couldn't make the Albert night and looking forward to the Album coming out
 








Herr Tubthumper

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A super-charged Cheap Trick does it for me. Saw Cheap Trick at ATP in 2002, which was the best festival line-up I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing, see:

Cheap Trick are brilliant and Surrender is one of my favorite songs, a perfect pop rock melody and lyrically dark at times. Seen them a couple of times myself in the late 80s and early 90s.

Oh, and one of the best live albums ever.
 
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Ali_rrr

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Went to see Yannis and the Yaw last night in Paradiso in Amsterdam. For those who don't know, it's the lead singer of Foals, Yannis Philippakis, solo project. Think classic Foals mixed in with Afrobeats as the songs were worked on with the late Tony Allen who was known as a one of the founders of Afrobeat. There is an EP of 5 songs currently out which I highly recommend listening to.


The repertoire is quite small and it was noticeable as songs tended to be elongated and some ended into a glorified jam session. I got my ticket for 17€ on Ticketswap but the original ticket price was 36€ and I would've been a bit miffed paying full price for it.


Regardless, if you like Foals/Afrobeats it's well worth going to see them, albeit if you can get a cheaper ticket.
 


CHAPPERS

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Jul 5, 2003
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Turns out I've got a fair bit coming up (for me).

Jamie XX dj set at Concorde
Ezra Collective at Chalk
Orlando Weeks at St George's Church
Bill Ryder Jones at Barbican
Kamasi Washington at Chalk


Gonna do the Saturday of Mutations and probably the Thursday night CASISDEAD and Novelist show.

Tom Vek is playing the concorde on the day between BRJ and Kamasi Washington but it's looking unlikely I can do that. Three on the bounce is pushing it
 
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Hotchilidog

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Current bookings for me
Ride @ Chalk
The LoveGods @ Prince Albert
Tribe of Ghosts @ Hope & Ruin
Abduction @ Dust
UADA at @ Chalk (edit got my dates mixed up, Abduction Wednesday/UADA Thursday!)

New Model Army @ Chalk will be a gig week decision
 
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Herr Tubthumper

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Saw Crack Cloud on Monday, who have now slimmed down from a 9-piece, to a 6; they were magnificant. Their gig was down sized from the 500 capacity Lido to the 200 capacity Berghain Kantine and also merged with a headlinine gig at the venue by a US post-punk outfit called Omni. It was billed as joint headliners but Omni were the first of the headliners (after a local support) and were a little flat...as were the crowd. Crack Cloud were totally different, totally energentic on stage and had the crowd bouncing. I felt sorry for Omni.

Bought their new long player on vinyl and a t-shirt to.
 


Herr Tubthumper

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Here's my list

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Herr Tubthumper

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A spreadsheet. What a loser!

Here's mine...

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:)

The final column, which I didnt show is the location of the tickets e.g. phone wallet, in one of about 5 ticketing agent's accounts, email ,physical etc. It's complicated these days.
 








Herr Tubthumper

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That's the only one I don't have tickets for yet. I'm curious too.... but, my God, it's a long way from home.
Back in the day, sitting outside a 24 hour petrol station, with a Ginsters and a lucozade, until the first train would have been okay. Maybe not at our age.
 


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