Who did you see live last?

[Reggaebass]

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Edited August 15 by Reggaebass
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[otisblove]

Beck, Cage the Elephant and Spoon

[SteveXFR]

I just got back from Arctangent Festival. Three days of the slightly obscure end of metal and rock. Highlights were:

Green Lung - Brilliant performance of old fashioned heavy metal with a bit of humor. 

Battlesnake - Australian metal with more than a hint of Spinal Tap.

God Is An Astronaut - very atmospheric post rock.

Emma Ruth Rundle - Solo acoustic, dark and utterly brilliant. 

Dvne - prog metal, like Mastadon but better. Future headliner.

Karnivool - Prog metal, fantastic big production headline show

Kylesa - Recently reformed sludge metal legends. Utterly brilliant and relentless. 

Rolo Tomassi - My favourite performance, legendary mathcore band. Amazing 20th anniversary show.

So many others were also amazing. 

Edited August 17 by SteveXFR

[Crusoe]

Stiff Little Fingers last night at their annual homecoming gig. I missed Sham69 unfortunately.  PiL were also in support. They were OK, but I was never a big fan. Ali McMordie sounded monster, as always. Near the end, they brought on Rory Gallagher's bassist, Gerry McAvoy, for a cover of Gallagher's "The Devil Made Me Do It", which sounded great.

[TrevorR]

Had a surprisingly fun gig at Wembley Stadium last Friday watching K-pop sensations Blackpink. Not my preferred musical style (I was taking the teenager) but have to admit that it was a fantastic show. 
 

PS since it’s apparently obligatory to have preferences, my favourites are Lisa and Rosé

[Muzz]

Just chatting with my pal Napper and he mentioned he's working the Damnation Festival this year (Doom, Post-Metal, Black Metal, etc). Just had a look at the lineup, and not a single smile in any of the band photos, it's hilarious, they all look like the photographer's just told them the band van has been nicked. Fave band name for the weekend is Crippling Alcoholism...at least they're contemporary in their misery...I'm just waiting for an even more modern one called Switching Broadband Providers...

 

I was asking him about hiring a drum screen for some recording we're doing, because we're getting horrendous mic bleed, and he said 'Horrendous Mic Bleed? I think they're headlining the Friday night...'

[TrevorR]

Last Friday we went to see Nerina Pallot at The Exchange, Twickenham. For this solo tour she’s playing at smaller (250-500 seater) venues which are in towns less frequented by bands and artists. Given her set up was a piano and an acoustic and an electric guitar, the intimate venue worked well with a capacity 300 folks there. She’s such a good singer songwriter and we’ve been following her for the last 20-plus years. Can’t wait to see her again next year when she’s playing the Royal Albert Hall as a big 25th anniversary celebration gig.

[cetera]

Looking forward to seeing her in Woking at the weekend!

[kevin_lindsay]

Nerina Pallot is great.

I first met her in the early 200s when I had a room in Cable Street Studios in London.  Andy Chatterley has a studio in the complex, and one day when Chris McIntyre were in visiting Andy, he introduced us to his girlfriend,  Nerina.

A short while later I saw Neil Finn performing at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh, and to my surprise,  Nerina was the support act. She was really good, prompting me to buy her debut album when it came out shortly afterwards. 

Edited 11 hours ago by kevin_lindsay

[BassTool]

The Glasshouse Gateshead last night, Roachford supporting Level 42.

 

Roachford is a superb singer and keys player, with a bass, drummer and guitarist in his band, he gave a fantastic performance and really got the crowd going, we thought he was excellent 👍🏼 

 

This was the 40th anniversary of the World Machine Album, which we saw when it was originally toured at Newcastle City Hall back in the 80's.

 

I've seen Level 42 many times, and this incarnation of the band is IMO the best I've seen, with a trio of brass (tenor sax, trumpet and trombone) and the incredible drumming of Pete Ray Biggin they have reinvented themselves and give a polished and entertaining performance complete with brass section dancing, playing percussion and providing backing vocals.

 

I spent as much time watching the amazing PRB on the kit as I did Mark King, who at 67 still does what he does really well.

 

Previously known as The Sage, this is a fabulous venue for live music of many kinds, and the crowd last night had a fantastic night watching two accomplished bands.

[Owen]

Went to see M'eshell Ndegeocello last night in Ronnie Scott's. Sublime it was. 

[WalMan]

Saw Nik Kershaw on the first night of his Lyrics & Musings tour.

 

Great night and shows the songs well in a very stripped back largely acoustic show with some light looping and tracks flown in from a laptop (I think though it was also running the screen behind.

 

Tickets were a Christmas present including meet and greet. Unfortunately we didn’t get information on that and missed it, which was a shame but sounds like we weren’t the only ones. That said it may have been as well as I started feeling fluey Thursday, got worse Friday and “oh joy” did a test and have C19 🤧🤢😷