This week I went out three nights in a row, and I am reluctantly forced to conclude that I'm not in my twenties any more.

Sunday was They Might Be Giants at the Roundhouse ("where rock dreams come true and trains come to turn around", as one of the Johns said). This was the 30th anniversary tour for the Flood album (Birdhouse In Your Soul; ( Read more... )

I don't think of myself as particularly into country music, but I love listening to Bob Harris Country on Radio 2 because Bob is so adorably enthusiastic, and so supportive of minority artists.

The show has been trailing Country To Country, the UK's 3-day country music festival in London, Glasgow and Belfast, for months, and, caught up in the ( Read more... )

Last night I attended my first online gig: The Divine Comedy live from the Barbican. I bought a ticket and logged in for the 8pm livestream (you could watch up to three days after the release, but I wanted to have an experience as close to the live concert as possible ( Read more... )

Greetings! I have spent a week in Normandy centred around the D-Day celebrations. The night before we set off, as an appetiser, we went to see Dire Straits tribute band Money for Nothing at the Churchill in Bromley, my highly generous and selfless birthday gift to Howard.

And it was fun. Goodness knows I love Mark Knopfler's current flavour of ( Read more... )

Not long after I stood in Hyde Park watching Paul Simon on his Homeward Bound farewell tour, another Sixties folk icon, Joan Baez, announced her own retirement from touring with the Fare Thee Well tour. I bought a ticket straight away, and saw her last night at the London Palladium ( Read more... )

There was only one visitor from the US I cared about last week ( Read more... )

The news broke this week that Paul Simon would be closing Hyde Park's BST festival in July, and that the gig would also close his touring career, more than 50 years on from the Tour of One Night Stands.

I've bought a ticket, obviously. I'm already sad at the thought of never seeing him again.


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I took the tail end of last week off in order to see Paul Simon at the BIC on Thursday evening, and it was totally worth it, of course ( Read more... )

Last night I went to see Dar Williams at the Borderline, which wasn’t the best timing immediately after the four-day extravaganza of ConFuzzled, but I regret nothing ( Read more... )

I was very excited to nab a ticket for the BBC's Mastertapes recording of Donovan talking about Sunshine Superman, taking place at Maida Vale yesterday evening. (BBC tickets are free, and dished out by lottery. They also distribute more tickets than there are seats, to ensure a full house ( Read more... )