OT - Music. Gigs. Sounds bought.

[Andy_Faber]

#351 the missing word is Grace, the Tymes?

Indeed, the first UK number 1 of ?75. Unfathomably, a flop in the USA

[Andy_Faber]

Currently hammering out the song from the album from the band that invented a musical genre - Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. RIP Ozzy and thank you for being our leader, you bloody loon

[MadAmster]

Currently hammering out the song from the album from the band that invented a musical genre - Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath. RIP Ozzy and thank you for being our leader, you bloody loon

Heard last night that he had stopped taking his meds the day before the Villa Park concert and didn't start taking them again. No idea if that's true.

[MadAmster]

Last Saturday we went to the Ziggo Dome to watch Simply Red. Very well worth the effort. Musically very tight. I have a thing for the saxophone and the saxophonist was one of the best I've seen/heard, on a par with the likes of Hans Dulfer and his daughter Candy.

Mick Hucknall's voice was spot on.

All in all, a brilliant night.

The Dulfers? Both brilliant in their own right. There's a smal Jazz cafe on the Korte Leidsedwaarsstraat in Amsterdam. Free entry and live Jazz 7 nights a week. Popped in one night, getting on 40 years ago, and caught the last 10 minutes or so of an act. Next act due up in 15 minutes. To my great surprise and ditto delight, Hans and Candy were the next two on and they gave us half an hour of virtuoso sax playing.

[ramAnag]

Last Saturday we went to the Ziggo Dome to watch Simply Red. Very well worth the effort. Musically very tight. I have a thing for the saxophone and the saxophonist was one of the best I've seen/heard, on a par with the likes of Hans Dulfer and his daughter Candy.

Mick Hucknall's voice was spot on.

All in all, a brilliant night.

The Dulfers? Both brilliant in their own right. There's a smal Jazz cafe on the Korte Leidsedwaarsstraat in Amsterdam. Free entry and live Jazz 7 nights a week. Popped in one night, getting on 40 years ago, and caught the last 10 minutes or so of an act. Next act due up in 15 minutes. To my great surprise and ditto delight, Hans and Candy were the next two on and they gave us half an hour of virtuoso sax playing.

Ha, coincidence. Saturday night my better half and I were running the bar for the performance of a Dutch Gypsy Jazz violinist. Guy called Tim Kliphuis and his Trio, including a guitarist called Nigel Clark who must be one of the best I’ve ever heard. Think Stephane Grappelli meets Django Reinhardt. Complete genius and given all the crap in the world at the moment…most uplifting.

[MadAmster]

Twould seem we both had a good Saturday night out.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Ha, coincidence. Saturday night my better half and I were running the bar for the performance of a Dutch Gypsy Jazz violinist. Guy called Tim Kliphuis and his Trio, including a guitarist called Nigel Clark who must be one of the best I’ve ever heard. Think Stephane Grappelli meets Django Reinhardt. Complete genius and given all the crap in the world at the moment…most uplifting.

And somebody central to trying to clean up a lot of the crap in the world vai climate change. Vary green of you

[Andy_Faber]

Great night of nostalgia last night at what many around me called The Valliant. Opening act Roachford (what a voice Andrew still has) warmed the crowd up nicely for a band I last saw when they almost ruled the musical world, Level 42. And they might now be playing theatres rather than stadiums but wow they still have 'it'. My plus1 for the evening described them as 'tight as ****' and they had to be, churning out 100mph funk like no other band on earth and hit after hit after hit. I've not seen a theatre show full of grey hairs so animated for many years

[MadAmster]

AF, L42 played in Paradiso on October 28th. 1500 capacity. All prepared for zero hour to click that click and book those tickets. As you can imagine, they could have sold Paradiso out 10 times over and more. I didn't get tickets. If they come this way again I'll have another go.

[Andy_Faber]

AF, L42 played in Paradiso on October 28th. 1500 capacity. All prepared for zero hour to click that click and book those tickets. As you can imagine, they could have sold Paradiso out 10 times over and more. I didn't get tickets. If they come this way again I'll have another go.

Vey sorry to hear that MA, knowing your tastes you?d have had a ball

[MadAmster]

Vey sorry to hear that MA, knowing your tastes you?d have had a ball

Gives me something to look forward to... provided they come this way again.

[MadAmster]

Just bought tickets for Joe Jackson, December 1st 2026.

A puzzle I've always had with JJ is that we were both born in Burton in 1954 yet I couldn't recall him at all which is weird as Burtonians tended to know most folk regardless of which part of town you were from or which school one attended. Recently discovered that he moved at an early age to Portsmouth which explains why I never knew him. I still have friends/acquaintances from Winshill, Stapenhill, Horninglow etc from my early life who I see occasionally on visits back.

[Geoff Parkstone]

If it jogs memory better his real first name was David and so wouldn't have been known as Joe back then?

[MadAmster]

If it jogs memory better his real first name was David and so wouldn't have been known as Joe back then?

David Ian Jackson to be exact. Born in '54, family moved to Pompey in '55 when he was 1 year old. That's probably the reason I don't recall him

[Andy_Faber]

Third ?gig? in my recent trilogy was ABBA Voyage at the Olympic Park and it was a strange night. I have a feeling there is an element of ?the emperors new clothes? about this, reviews seem almost unanimously gushing but it is VERY unengaging, the sound quality not great, aviators unimpressive and often replaced by video or a live band (did the avatars need a rest?) and it was awkward (not just us, most around us) to enthusiastically applaud what?s basically a posh video. And no soul to it?