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£359 at Burning Shed inc. p&p

https://burningshed.com/artists/bowie_artists/david-bowie_i-cant-give-everything-away_vinyl-boxset

at this rate I'll have it for less than £300 before the weekend

Pre order just went live at £399 most places.

Amazon £393, DB web store £375 before £18.20 postage 

59 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

Popped up on my FB feed this morning. I’ll be front and centre for this.

One of the very few artists that I’ll blind buy for.

I'm in for the Love Missile F1-11 cover

Bowie Box Set collectors and mortgage advisors everywhere will be thrilled to hear that Bowie Box 6 "I Can't Give Everything Away" has been announced.

It's Heathen to Blackstar plus assorted bits and bobs, 13x CD or 18x vinyl (price tba). The bit you probably won't have is a full Live At Montreux 2002 which features the usual set from the time plus almost all of Low as an encore (Weeping Wall inexplicably skipped)

https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2025/7/8/david-bowie-6-i-cant-give-everything-away-2002-2016-press-release

12 hours ago, colleya said:

Raye is bossing it. Band are excellent.

Love that white F Bass

I remember seeing them at the Garage in the mid 2000s. At one point I was surprised to see Jeff Beck squeeze past in the audience 

Still on fire, and Doug Wimbish is a monster

Setlist is Cult of Personality, Pride, Love Rears Its Ugly Head, Time's Up, Solace of You

Just had an announcement for this pop up via the usual channels: 

https://wegottickets.com/event/666789

Resolution 88 at the Courtyard Theatre and Studios on November 20th (probably a London Jazz Fest thing) - confirmed on their bandcamp https://resolution88.bandcamp.com/

Never heard of the Courtyard before, turns out it's about two minutes walk from my office! 

Yeah, they're great aren't they. I've seen them once before and had a chat with the bassist, who I recall as a super nice chap. 

Turns out, having consulted the history books, that gig was a support slot for Medeski Martin & Wood at Under the Bridge in April 2014! Where does time go. Must check them out again.

Bit dusty in here all of a sudden.

I'm sure the BC massive can help fulfil this requirement I've just seen on the socials 

"FEMALE DOUBLE BASSISTS:

looking for 7 female double Bassist. Paid gig. 7th August 2025 as part of London Open Call at Whitechapel Gallery.

Rehearsal 5th Aug 
Performance 7th Aug

This is a minimalist and durational performance art piece where the double Bassists are required to play 1 note continuously for 40/50min.

Please get in touch xxx

https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/london-open-live-mahsa-salali-the-call/"

I'd 100% be up for that if I fit the spec better

Also, not sure if it's pizz or arco

(nb link contains slight nudity) 

9 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

Are you sure? £7 in 1976 is £47.02 today!

Yeah but only because Camel and Van der Graaf are there as well 

I'd definitely have paid £7 to see Brand X and 801 on the same weekend (and it was one of the only three gigs 801 did)

weather was appalling though, so I'd have to be beamed in by time machine bubble then magicked away again

What a great turnaround from Janek and IMA.

btw everyone should go see this on Saturday night https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/baba-yagas-hut-kenji-hyakkei/ - just round the corner from the Vortex.

And this is on at the Vortex Sunday evening https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/events/2024-06-01/

and a free jam session downstairs at the Vortex same evening https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/vortex-jam-session-4-2025-03-30-2025-04-13-2025-04-20-2025-04-27-2025-05-18/2025-06-01/

(I might cancel my holiday for all this now...)

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

I have no horse in this race, but maybe this thread could be used to arrange a meet up of any BCers in the same boat as @kevin_lindsay with travel and accommodation already booked?

 

When life gives you lemons, and all that?

Great idea. Likewise no skin in the game here, I've always been booked on holiday for June 1st. 

A central London bass bash would be great - take in Bass Gallery, see how many basschatters can fit in the Wunjo basement, pub crawl around all the Bass Brewery pubs etc 

Official announcement at https://www.bassday.eu/

From Yolanda Charles' facebook 

"Bass Day Europe, set for the 1st of June, has just been postponed" 

https://www.facebook.com/share/16FF3NGyHH/

3 hours ago, cetera said:

Yep, I'm hoping to make it along...

Looking forward to your review! 

Short notice I know, and I can't make it - but Invisible Airwaves are gigging tomorrow, Saturday April 5th at the Cavern in Raynes Park in south west London, a minute or two walk from Raynes Park station. 

On 30/03/2025 at 11:22, attackbass said:

Just bring back the US Bass Player Magazine from the mid 90s please.

On the offchance you've not seen it, online only Bass Magazine is (maybe was) written by folk from the US BP staff, and is usually produced to the same high quality 

https://bassmagazine.com/issues/

12 hours ago, Norris said:

Sungazer at the Islington Assembly Rooms

 

If you've never heard of them before (and I was one of those people) then check them out. They are awesome, playing proggy jazz-fusion. The bass playing was sublime. So glad my son got those tickets

What was properly jaw-dropping was £8.35 for a pint of 3.8% Metro session IPA

(despite a false start soundwise, they sorted it out pretty quickly and yeah it sounded pretty good. Much better than last time at Heaven, not as good as the Jazz Cafe)

Have a look at Whitelands. They supported Slowdive on the recent reunion tour and are headlining Gazefest sometime this year.

I've been lucky enough to play at Yolanda's jam night at the Spice of Life. Her current band were the house band for the jam, so that's how scary it was. 

Also hugely recommended is the No Treble podcast/interview she did, https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2020/03/05/groove-episode-63-yolanda-charles/

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13 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

When he started, there were lots of weeds to get rid of, first.

 

In the main, foxglove.