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Nov 2018
7:15am, 29 Nov 2018
8,800 posts
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Joopsy
A place to talk about upcoming gigs or reviews on ones recently attended. I'm also keen to hear about support bands as that is where I have unearthed some of my absolutely favourite bands.
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Nov 2018
7:17am, 29 Nov 2018
8,801 posts
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Joopsy
My wife and 12 year old daughter are off to Camden tonight to see Calpurnia. The lead singer is Finn Wolfhard who is the 15 year old star of Stranger Things and is currently the greatest thing alive to my daughter.
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Nov 2018
7:19am, 29 Nov 2018
8,802 posts
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Joopsy
Upcoming gigs for me in December:
7th - October Drift at Sheffield Leadmill
11th - Slow Reader Club at KX Scala
28th - Frankie & the heartstrings at Sunderland independent.
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Nov 2018
8:14am, 29 Nov 2018
1,969 posts
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Fitz
My tastes are a bit more mainstream than yours, Joopsy. I don't go to much new music these days but recent highlights include:
David Byrne at Hammy Odeon. Quite possibly the best live show I have ever seen. Extraordinary. There are not many acts I would suffer HammyO for but that was brilliant.
Peter Hook & The Light, Electric Ballroom Camden. Hooky is making a decent living touring sets of entire Joy Division / New Order albums. This time it was Technique (in my top 3 NO albums) and Republic (one of their weaker efforts, IMHO) plus a warm-up set of JD material. No support, on stage at 6:45pm, hardest working man in show business?!
Chemical Brothers, Ally Pally. I was blown away the first time I saw CBs at Glasto, then again a year or two later at the Roundhouse - loudest gig I've ever been to, ears have never been the same since. Ally Pally gig (great venue let down by poor access - long queues for doors, for coats, for bars...) was not quite in the same league but still very good for what is essentially two blokes standing behind some computers!
New Order, also Ally Pally. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen NO. This was one of their best, they shook up the set with some lesser-played material, the crowd was very appreciative and up for it, the band looked like they were enjoying it as much as us!
On the cards so far for next year:
Four Tet at Ally Pally
Chemical Brothers at All Points East, Victoria Park
No Glasto ticket 
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Nov 2018
8:25am, 29 Nov 2018
2,032 posts
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Goofee
I go to very few these days but have just booked to see The Dreadnoughts at New Cross Inn next May.
I first saw them in 2011 when they played a local place and went because it was £6 a ticket for three bands. As it happened they were on the next table to us in a pub beforehand but didn't realise at the time. They put on a fantastic show and as a result I try to see them every time they're over from Canada, which is not that often as they're a bit part-time but I haven't been disappointed yet!
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Nov 2018
12:09pm, 29 Nov 2018
36,991 posts
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McGoohan
I tend to seek out bands that I know I like. This year, I've seen John Bramwell (of former I Am Kloot 'fame'), Gang of Youths, Paul Draper (of Mansun 'fame'), Arcade Fire, Voidz (with J Casablancas of Strokes fame), Decemberists and Interpol.
Hmmm, there are a few relaunches there of a formerly bigger star in a new band. Plus some bands I've liked for a decade or more. The only genuinely new(ish) one there was Gang of Youths.
I'm not often a big fan of support bands as the sound quality is usually so shit TBH.
The only one on the horizon is Death Cab For Cutie next Feb.
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Nov 2018
12:28pm, 29 Nov 2018
20,192 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Giggsy!
Last Entente Chorale, which was Mendelssohn, Boulanger and Vaughan WIlliams, Elgar.
also
Recent Poetry Reading for WWI remembrance Owen, Marks, Sassoon, Jepson
Next up Messiah OH singing.
I wouldn't mind some guitars soon.
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Nov 2018
12:30pm, 29 Nov 2018
36,994 posts
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McGoohan
Bloody hell, you're cultured Wrigglers.
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Nov 2018
12:53pm, 29 Nov 2018
2,035 posts
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Goofee
And at the other end of the culture scale... the only one I've been to this year was NOFX at Brixton. I'm always surprised that for such an under-the-radar sort of band they continue to attract younger punters, the age bands run right through from teenagers to elderly punks of around my age (big beards accompanying mohicans seemed to be in this year)
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Nov 2018
1:20pm, 29 Nov 2018
20,193 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Before that was Killing Joke in Manchester
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