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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    I saw them in a big field last year, and the musicianship was so tight - I was surprised how good they all were. Looking forward to seeing them again.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,872
    kingstongraham said:

    Got a ticket for Madness in Kingston.

    So did I 👍
    Wife and son were trying as well but having missed out on the Pretenders I didn't want to take any chances. I was in a long meeting from 10:30 so gave a colleague my login details and bank card. Wife and son failed but my colleague came through. Taking the lad as Madness was the first gig he ever went to about 10 years back.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,599
    Just managed to get tickets for Pink in Cardiff, wanted to see he live for a long time.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited November 2023
    Pross said:

    Just managed to get tickets for Pink in Cardiff, wanted to see he live for a long time.

    There is absolutely something about men in their 50s and 60s who chuffing love Pink and I cannot work out why.
    _
  • MidlandsGrimpeur2
    MidlandsGrimpeur2 Posts: 2,135
    The Smile (Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood with a jazz drummer so you can rest assured most songs won’t be 4/4) have a new single, Wall of Eyes, out, in anticipation of a new album in 2024.


    Got tickets to see them in Brum next year. Handily I remembered to set my phone to remind me to book as they had sold out within an hour!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    MidlandsGrimpeur2 said:

    The Smile (Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood with a jazz drummer so you can rest assured most songs won’t be 4/4) have a new single, Wall of Eyes, out, in anticipation of a new album in 2024.


    Got tickets to see them in Brum next year. Handily I remembered to set my phone to remind me to book as they had sold out within an hour!
    I had tickets in my basket ready to go but my friends were too slow to get back to me so I lost them.

    Probably a blessing as id have had a 5 week old newborn
    _
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,599
    rick_chasey said:

    Pross said:

    Just managed to get tickets for Pink in Cardiff, wanted to see he live for a long time.

    There is absolutely something about men in their 50s and 60s who chuffing love Pink and I cannot work out why.
    I'm going with my wife and two daughters. My daughters in particular have always liked her but they don't seem to fit your stereotype sorry.
  • MidlandsGrimpeur2
    MidlandsGrimpeur2 Posts: 2,135
    Probably best Rick, not a good look to head off to a gig and leave your partner with a newborn!

    Congratulations by the way!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,872
    rick_chasey said:

    Pross said:

    Just managed to get tickets for Pink in Cardiff, wanted to see he live for a long time.

    There is absolutely something about men in their 50s and 60s who chuffing love Pink and I cannot work out why.
    Not particularly keen on her music, but I like her attitude. Giving banned books away at her Florida gigs and such like. Not quite up to Dolly Parton in that respect, but good going all the same.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited November 2023
    Pross said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Pross said:

    Just managed to get tickets for Pink in Cardiff, wanted to see he live for a long time.

    There is absolutely something about men in their 50s and 60s who chuffing love Pink and I cannot work out why.
    I'm going with my wife and two daughters. My daughters in particular have always liked her but they don't seem to fit your stereotype sorry.
    For sure, it won't be all men in that age bracket, but I know a number of men in that age bracket who do really like Pink, and it seems odd to me as the target audience is surely millennial women who were teenagers when Pink was big, and actual teenagers who have discovered her since.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,599
    rick_chasey said:

    Pross said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Pross said:

    Just managed to get tickets for Pink in Cardiff, wanted to see he live for a long time.

    There is absolutely something about men in their 50s and 60s who chuffing love Pink and I cannot work out why.
    I'm going with my wife and two daughters. My daughters in particular have always liked her but they don't seem to fit your stereotype sorry.
    For sure, it won't be all men in that age bracket, but I know a number of men in that age bracket who do really like Pink, and it seems odd to me as the target audience is surely millennial women who were teenagers when Pink was big, and actual teenagers who have discovered her since.
    I was in my 20s when she released her first 2 albums. Her music wasn't really fluffy pop stuff aimed at teenage girls. Her shows are supposed to be pretty spectacular too.
  • vincesummerskRoxcBTr
    vincesummerskRoxcBTr Posts: 1,209
    Got tickets for James Blunt, as OH wanted to go, hopefully his chat will be enough to get me through the gig 😴
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,721
    I would see him, I think he'd be a good "thing to have seen"
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  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498
    MidlandsGrimpeur2 said:

    The Smile (Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood with a jazz drummer so you can rest assured most songs won’t be 4/4) have a new single, Wall of Eyes, out, in anticipation of a new album in 2024.


    Got tickets to see them in Brum next year. Handily I remembered to set my phone to remind me to book as they had sold out within an hour!
    Missed out on their gigs in the UK so going to head to Brussels to see them.

    Bagged tickets for Bill Ryder Jones in Brum and will be getting on the presale for LCD Soundsystem.
  • MidlandsGrimpeur2
    MidlandsGrimpeur2 Posts: 2,135
    Brussels will be good SBA, I know you like your beer too so that should be a good trip all round.

    Bill Ryder Jones will be good, my friend's husband works for Domino records which he is signed to, so I got to listen to some of his early stuff ahead of time some years back.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,568
    Shane McGowan . . . I guess he'll be mostly remembered for Fairytale of New York but, although it's probably the "White Christmas" of my generation, he did so much better stuff than that
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  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498
    MidlandsGrimpeur2 said:

    Brussels will be good SBA, I know you like your beer too so that should be a good trip all round.

    Bill Ryder Jones will be good, my friend's husband works for Domino records which he is signed to, so I got to listen to some of his early stuff ahead of time some years back.

    Thanks mate. Yeah, looking forward to the trip. Always good to see bands abroad. Had some of the best nights seeing Spiritualized and Teenage Fanclib in Spain.
  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498
    laurentian said:

    Shane McGowan . . . I guess he'll be mostly remembered for Fairytale of New York but, although it's probably the "White Christmas" of my generation, he did so much better stuff than that

    Was the music of my youth. Just reminds me of weddings, christenings, Holy Communions and funerals.

    He was the sound and voice of the Irish diaspora.
  • vincesummerskRoxcBTr
    vincesummerskRoxcBTr Posts: 1,209
    The first 2 Pogues albums are great, still love listening to them.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,568
    vincesummerskRoxcBTr said:

    The first 2 Pogues albums are great, still love listening to them.

    Went to see them a few times - first time was when they were touring the second album. I was right at the front and didn't want to lose my position to get a beer . . . Between songs, I indicated (i.e. miming drinking from a bottle of beer) to Shane McGowan and he gave me a bottle of Budweiser
    Wilier Izoard XP
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    Ah man

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dSGu9803LA
  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498
    kingstongraham said:

    Ah man

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dSGu9803LA

    Love Christy Moore as well. Thanks for posting that.
  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498
    Got tickets for LCD Soundsystem and Young Fathers at Malahide Castle near Dublin.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    The Christmas season really highlights a theory of mine that pop music is going the way of classical music, with a canon of old classics that everyone listens to all the time and the new stuff is interesting because it’s novel but very very rarely meets the dizzy heights of the past.

    The absence of good modern or new Christmas pop songs is just so obvious.

    Everyone plays the same songs over and over, year after year.

    _
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,154
    skyblueamateur said:

    Got tickets for LCD Soundsystem and Young Fathers at Malahide Castle near Dublin.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xG4oFny2Pk

    If he doesn't get repeatedly slapped in the chops whilst performing this track, I'd ask for my money back.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,504
    focuszing723 said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Got tickets for LCD Soundsystem and Young Fathers at Malahide Castle near Dublin.


    If he doesn't get repeatedly slapped in the chops whilst performing this track, I'd ask for my money back.
    He deserves repeated slapping for each slap that doesn't match the beat. 😉
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,154
    pblakeney said:

    focuszing723 said:

    skyblueamateur said:

    Got tickets for LCD Soundsystem and Young Fathers at Malahide Castle near Dublin.


    If he doesn't get repeatedly slapped in the chops whilst performing this track, I'd ask for my money back.
    He deserves repeated slapping for each slap that doesn't match the beat. 😉
    Yeah, it's a disgrace.

    Great track though.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,504
    rick_chasey said:

    The Christmas season really highlights a theory of mine that pop music is going the way of classical music, with a canon of old classics that everyone listens to all the time and the new stuff is interesting because it’s novel but very very rarely meets the dizzy heights of the past.

    The absence of good modern or new Christmas pop songs is just so obvious.

    Everyone plays the same songs over and over, year after year.

    Just had a thought on this. Christmas is very much linked to memories as a child.
    Therefore the music that evokes the most is bound to be old. Maybe.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    The Christmas season really highlights a theory of mine that pop music is going the way of classical music, with a canon of old classics that everyone listens to all the time and the new stuff is interesting because it’s novel but very very rarely meets the dizzy heights of the past.

    The absence of good modern or new Christmas pop songs is just so obvious.

    Everyone plays the same songs over and over, year after year.

    Just had a thought on this. Christmas is very much linked to memories as a child.
    Therefore the music that evokes the most is bound to be old. Maybe.
    I'd buy it more if children weren't born every day. Christmas music was new once
    _
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,504
    rick_chasey said:

    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    The Christmas season really highlights a theory of mine that pop music is going the way of classical music, with a canon of old classics that everyone listens to all the time and the new stuff is interesting because it’s novel but very very rarely meets the dizzy heights of the past.

    The absence of good modern or new Christmas pop songs is just so obvious.

    Everyone plays the same songs over and over, year after year.

    Just had a thought on this. Christmas is very much linked to memories as a child.
    Therefore the music that evokes the most is bound to be old. Maybe.
    I'd buy it more if children weren't born every day. Christmas music was new once
    Yeah but when you were listening to music at Christmas as a child it was the music your parents were playing. Which was influenced by the music their parents were playing.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.

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