Gigs

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DrMags Nov 2024 9:16pm, 12 Nov 2024 312 posts	0 DrMags Glad you enjoyed it @Joopsy used to be my favourite venue for gigs when I lived in the Netherlands, but I’ve not been back since pandemic (and moving country) - glad to hear it’s still worth a “wowsers”
Joopsy Nov 2024 7:24am, 13 Nov 2024 12,974 posts	0 Joopsy Definitely one of the best I have been to.
Groundhog Nov 2024 11:56am, 13 Nov 2024 6,628 posts	0 Groundhog I'm off up to Leicester to visit my daughter and go to Sound house to see Bug Club. I'm sure we've seen them before at the Boileroom in Guildford.
Joopsy Nov 2024 4:57pm, 13 Nov 2024 12,975 posts	0 Joopsy Big Clubs are great and Sound house is decent. I saw Royal Blood there just before they took off.
Joopsy Nov 2024 10:25pm, 13 Nov 2024 12,976 posts	0 Joopsy Bug Club! Not bloody Big Clubs 😂
flanker Nov 2024 11:59pm, 13 Nov 2024 21,338 posts	0 flanker The Howl & The Hum tonight at Gorilla. First performance back after a 3+ year gap, a decimation and rebuild of the band, and I suspect overcoming some other problems. Still one of my all time favourite live bands.
Joopsy Nov 2024 3:08pm, 14 Nov 2024 12,977 posts	0 Joopsy My kids are all at Pup and Jimmy Eat World tonight at Victoria Warehouse. We are seeing Frank Turner and Skinny Lister at Trix in Antwerp. Bumped into Frank at the hotel breakfast this morning!
McGoohan Nov 2024 3:28pm, 14 Nov 2024 54,712 posts	0 McGoohan My eldest isn't going to be able to see Jimmy Eat World and Pup tomorrow now - he's stuck at work and won't be able to get there in time so it looks like I'm going instead!
Joopsy Nov 2024 3:50pm, 14 Nov 2024 12,978 posts	0 Joopsy There's worse things that could happen McG. If it had been Saturday I would have been there but we aren't back in KX until Saturday evening.
Joe1970 Nov 2024 4:11pm, 14 Nov 2024 219 posts	0 Joe1970 A handful of gigs to report, been a busy few days Firstly, lets get the ancient Australians out of the way. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the O2 Arena last Friday was excellent - I'm a fairly casual fan, but his most recent album rewards a few listens, and he played enough of the hits in among the new stuff to keep me engaged. At their best, they can build and build a song into a joyous and chaotic climax, misery has never sounded for cathartic. Apart from maybe on The Cure's new album, but you get the point. And then I saw The Australian Pink Floyd in Bristol on Monday (my son is inexplicably into some 70s rock stuff, that's my excuse anyway). They clearly have more money than the average tribute band, and there were lazers and films and a giant inflatable pink kangaroo rather than a pig. A lot of Pink Floyd songs seem to me to be an excuse to get to a guitar solo, but all the solos were very well done. I can't believe I've listened to either The Wall or Dark Side... this century, but apparently I still know all the words from my own teenage rock era. Then onto newer bands! Tuesday was English Teacher at Shepherds Bush Empire - I very much like their Mercury Prize-winning album, 'This Could Be Texas', and they played pretty much all of that, plus a couple of old EP tracks and one new one. Spiky post-punk guitars and occasional piano-led ballads, lyrics sometimes sung and sometimes spoken. Very good indeed. Last night was Sprints at Kentish Town Forum - saw them in April just after the debut album came out and they were great then, and it was excellent to see them smash it at a venue twice the size! It's just so exciting to see a band grow and evolve, again they played most of the album, couple of older things plus a recent non-album single and an unreleased track. Still an album of the year contender for me, highly recommended if you like punky indie-pop. Very happy to have a few days off work this week to recover