chrisp65 Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 Pride Cymru in Cardiff next weekend. £8 for Snap!, Katrina (without the Waves), Hazell Dean and others not quite so mega. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Went to Day 1 of Bloodstock yesterday. it's a hard life sitting outside the beer tent watching the main stage - well it was when the growly shite was on. My step son's band played the jager stage at 3.45 and were the only ones all day to get an encore! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 16, 2015 Author Share Posted August 16, 2015 Pride Cymru in Cardiff next weekend. £8 for Snap!, Katrina (without the Waves), Hazell Dean and others not quite so mega. Was quite good, if you accept that the first few 'acts' on the stage are at the bottom of the bill for a reason. A couple of sort of modern choirs doing pop stuff were surprisingly good. I have decided 'Firework' is a good fail safe pop song. I left at one point to go to the football and they didn't want to let me back in without buying a new ticket. Had a bit of a debate on the gate and was told by a supervisor that I'd had to decided if I was in or out and couldn't change my mind and return. I said that was ironically narrow minded considering the event. She laughed, did a sort of furtive look to both sides, and let me back in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 16, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted August 16, 2015 Big Big Train at King's Place last night. Awe-****-ing-some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 21, 2015 Author Share Posted August 21, 2015 (edited) Alabama 3 doing three gigs in the area in November. Neath, Cardiff, Bristol. Get in. Edited August 21, 2015 by chrisp65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted August 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted August 21, 2015 Really looking forward to seeing British Sea Power in a couple of weeks. They are playing an (extremely) low key gig at one of my local venues, The Scary Canary in Stourbridge. It's by far the biggest gig the Canary has ever put on and i'm absolutely chuffed to bits for the owners. Not only are they great people but the venue itself has been a godsend on the local musical front for a while now. They have bands on every week (absolutely NO cover bands allowed) and cinema/poetry evenings on other nights. It's a nice little cultural haven and with Bathams behind the bar i'm in heaven. Can't wait to see it packed to the rafters 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 Are the brakes connected to bsp? I saw them supporting belle and Sebastian a fair few years back and they were excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Really looking forward to seeing British Sea Power in a couple of weeks. They are playing an (extremely) low key gig at one of my local venues, The Scary Canary in Stourbridge. It's by far the biggest gig the Canary has ever put on and i'm absolutely chuffed to bits for the owners. Not only are they great people but the venue itself has been a godsend on the local musical front for a while now. They have bands on every week (absolutely NO cover bands allowed) and cinema/poetry evenings on other nights. It's a nice little cultural haven and with Bathams behind the bar i'm in heaven. Can't wait to see it packed to the rafters British Sea Power love their random venues. I once saw them in a cave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongRiddims Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Really looking forward to seeing British Sea Power in a couple of weeks. They are playing an (extremely) low key gig at one of my local venues, The Scary Canary in Stourbridge. It's by far the biggest gig the Canary has ever put on and i'm absolutely chuffed to bits for the owners. Not only are they great people but the venue itself has been a godsend on the local musical front for a while now. They have bands on every week (absolutely NO cover bands allowed) and cinema/poetry evenings on other nights. It's a nice little cultural haven and with Bathams behind the bar i'm in heaven. Can't wait to see it packed to the rafters Scary Canary? Is that a real place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Looking forward to Def Leopard in December, starting with Thunder in march I've gone all 80's this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Just back from ArcTanGent festival, brilliant again this year. Highlights were Maybeshewill performing with an orchestra, Mutiny On The Bounty doing an Adebisi Shank cover, Dillinger Escape Plan (Greg Puciato is a nutcase, climbed about 20 feet up the scaffolding and jumped onto the crowd ) and the sticker I saw in a portaloo that said "I bum elves", making me think hogso might have been there too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 ArcTanGent log; supplemental - So the bass player of Scottish math-rock proponents Vasa got in touch and pointed me to a video that has emerged of me somewhat enjoying their set at ATG. General amusement aside, this has doubly worked out as they didn't have any merch to sell at the festival but are apparently now sending me down a free t-shirt. Dancing around like a prannet does, apparently, pay off. As an added bonus, there's a few shots of my wife's arse in the video. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 My New Orleans/Nashville/Memphis trip is weeks away and much to my wife's consternation we have tickets for a load of country music from the 70's to now. Old crow medicine show, trace Adkins, cam, Chris Young, little big town, oak ridge boys, diamond Rio, gatlin brothers, Joe diffie and a bit more. If I don't find a punk or rockabilly and to see this holiday may be our last. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 did reading festival at the weekend, utterly brilliant, had rained the week before so it was a bit muddy, rained a bit saturday night and pissed it down monday, its full of posh kids, more than their fair share of worldies, overpriced food, saw - Mumford & Sons - went boring in the middle, played the best songs too early Alt-J - i get the criticism that they arent as good live and on the big stage but they were still good Libertines - brilliant Lethal Bizzle - for shits and giggles, it went off, full of yoof Wombats - same DMAs - really underrated band just getting going Catfish and the bottlemen - brilliant Foals - played a 30 minute "secret" set and stole the weekend Districts - ok Everything Everything - utter garbage Royal blood - good Palma violets - rubbish Kendrick Lamar - everyone raved about him, nothing special IMO just another indication of how poor hip hop is right now Jamie T & Maccabees - dont know cos i was too pissed must have had my drink spiked... and completely randomly because we were walking past and my mate said "what the **** he got on his head?" a band called ghost who perfectly summed up the madness of the weekend im absolutely shattered now though, did try a couple of touch the barriers (from the middle to the front) mumford and sons i think i did it in about 30 seconds, wombats was hard work, lethal bizzle i got about half way and thought **** that (like i said it was going off) and the libertines i crowd surfed out of there before my ankles got broken thanks to all the pushing (you cant go backwards in a crowd obviously) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 My Cousin's husband went to Reading on Saturday, and ended up getting on stage with Metallica. Not my cup of tea, but he seemed to enjoy it. I used to be a regular at the Leeds leg, but I've not been for about 10 years. Coincidently the line up hasn't been much cop for about 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 2, 2015 Author Share Posted September 2, 2015 You'd have to go back to the 90's to see me in attendance at one them festivals things (I'd have done GreenMan this year but a family ticket was more expensive than a house). Last one I went to there were free giant spliffs everywhere. People had light them and then just left them for everyone to use. You could just go from one to the other breathing it all in. It was heaven. I got totally wasted. Next morning when I came round, it turned out they were big 24 hour outdoor candles to light the way back to the tents. Apparently I'd had to be stopped from pulling them out the ground and sucking on the muddy end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Designer1 Posted September 4, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted September 4, 2015 Today I have been mostly getting booked up for Ghost at the Institute in December and my annual trip to see the mighty Half Man Half Biscuit (at the Robin 2 again in December). Tonight I shall mostly be watching British Sea Power at a tiny and utterly superb venue in Stourbridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 (edited) This has got to end in Brum! Villa Park would be amazing! Edit: Oh and for the love of McGrath, please involve Bill Ward, even if it's just for the final gig. Edited September 4, 2015 by dAVe80 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PongRiddims Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Today I have been mostly getting booked up for Ghost at the Institute in December and my annual trip to see the mighty Half Man Half Biscuit (at the Robin 2 again in December).Tonight I shall mostly be watching British Sea Power at a tiny and utterly superb venue in Stourbridge. I hit the SC on Friday, what a strange venue! Have a beer in the Duke beforehand too you old Queen, they got some of that crafty shit you like, pint of Wizards Sleeve please barkeeper and a half of Unicorn Pecker for the lady. And they do pies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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