Archie Shepp & Amina Claudine Myers - Live in Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg
Just returning from one of the Enjoy Jazz Festival concerts currently happening in my area. The old man and the younger lady burnt the house down ! Let's put the cover of forgiving and forgetting over the sound of the P.A. but fortunately you were able to hear both the piano and the saxes through the amplifiers, and that was a pleasure to do ! Shepp (whom I saw before, when he was much younger) still has so much energy that flows directly into his horn (and voice !!!), that it's breath taking. May he still live long and produce music, music, music !

Best regards, freundliche Grüße

Stefan

Think Floyd very good, not an exact copy but captured the spirit really well. I doubt that DG played Comfortably Numb any better.

Howard

The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra playing the 4th Brandenburg Concerto, Bach's Third Orchestral Suite and some Bach vocal pieces.

The local orchestra is getting better by the year. They have been moving to becoming a full time orchestra over the last few years and are employing quite a few Eastern European musicians now.

Deane

My last three shows

Andrea Bocelli at the Sydney Superdome - he comes in for some criticism but this was a very beautiful event

The Who at the Sydney Entertainment Centre - great powerful show with Townsend and Daltrey in good form

Dave Douglas with Chris Potter and Uri Caine at the Village Vanguard New York - the place rinks of jazz history and what a great atmosphere


Next Up - The Eagles

Cheers
Adrian

Last was Willard Grant at Manchester Academy.

Lead singer huge man with a beard the size of a rhododendron and a good line in dry wit. Looked like ZZ top in NHS spectacles.
Enjoyed it.

Bruce

Peter Hammill - Queen Elizabeth Hall

A solo concert, just Hammill on piano or guitar and vocals. He's an old favourite of mine and he played a selection from his entire career. In spite of his recent health problems (he had a heart attack last year) he was in fine voice. He played to a packed house who listened and applauded in the right places.

When he announced the last song of the set I couldn't believe how quickly the time had passed; a quick check of the watch revealed that he had been on stage for nearly an hour and three quarters.


Julian Cope - Reading Arts Centre, Aldershot West End Centre

So good we went to see him twice! Just JC and a guitar with various effects pedals and lots of stories. His patter would have done a stand-up comedian proud. Left the gigs with a broad grin on my face.

A Woman's Heart 2 tour in Belfast - mostly excellent but no Mary Black and Delores Keane's voice had gone that night.

Does this year's Proms in the Park in Belfast count as a concert as such?

Brad

Hearing is believing

Cowboy Junkies supported by Vic Chesnutt in Manchester. Went mostly for Vic but enjoyed the lot.

Mike

Richard Thompson - 1,000 Years of Popular Music Tour

Very entertaining!

Oliver von Dohnányi conducting the Orchestra of Opera North: Shostakovich Festive Overture, Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 (Evgenia Rubinova), Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherezade. Excellent!

During the mid to late 90's, I used to go to gigs almost weekly, and one week even did Brixton Academy 3 times in 10 days. But that was what I mainly went to - US grunge bands that have now mostly died out. I would love to go to more gigs, but there is little that I want to see lately. My last was Chick Corea at the Barbican, but I'm not counting regular local Blues Bar gigs that can be good, and Oldie has got me tickets for a couple of blues gigs coming up in November, which I am looking forward to.
I watch out weekly to check for the next Pearl Jam tour, and I'm kicking myself for not going to a Janes Addiction gig when I chose to go to another gig on the same night that ended up being cancelled

Last concert was The Sixteen performing Dixit Dominus at the Oxford Handel Festival. Bloody marvelous it was too!

Prior to that the last live performance was Korn at Hammersmith Apollo. Variety is the spice of life!



Matt

Wishbone Ash at Bolton Albert Hall. Love those twin lead guitars!

Jackson Browne - Brighton Dome

One genius, a dozen acoustic guitars and a piano - two hours of sheer joy. Catch him on the tour.

Sonic Youth, in a classic concert hall (Geneva).

Sonic Youth are not always my cup of tea on record. They are definitely an acquired taste.

The show was ASTOUNDING. A smorgasborg of luscious - if very warped and deranged - sounds. The kind of thing you may sometimes find difficult to bear in your living room (at least I do), or for a very limited time only, took on a whole new meaning live. They had me riveted for two hours as they just added layer upon layer of waves of fuzzed out guitar. Aural sculpture was what it struck me as, and it was mesmerizing.

Concert before that : Lou Reed, an outdoor venue, excellent sound too, a much better show than expected (had seen 8 years ago, and he just seemed so bored he almost put us to sleep).

Edouard S.

Hazard County Girls (New Orleans Fri. Nite)


"Louder than a monster truck show" (that's the band's motto)

James Yorkston and The Atheletes at The Zodiac in Oxford. Fantastic.

Picked up the first album after a recommendation on this forum. Haven't found the 2nd album as enjoyable yet.

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Picked up the first album after a recommendation on this forum. Haven't found the 2nd album as enjoyable yet.

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...glad it is not just me then. I was really looking forward to it too.

Bruce

David Helfgott solo at the Natal Playhouse in Durban. Playing Rach; Chopin; Lizt etc. Excellent

b

Last one I went to was a Make Trade Fair concert in Hammersmith Apollo a couple of months back... The Thrills, Jamelia, Minnie Driver (yes the actress), all performed, Ricky Gervais was there doing a 10 minute sketch... The secret headliners though were R.E.M. They were fantastic... Opening with "Losing my Religion", halfway through played "Man on the Moon" during the second verse of which Chris Martin from Coldplay came on and sang a verse... Then finished with "Bad Day"... Excellent night that was...
Next up are Lostprophets in november, Faithless and The Manic Street Preachers in december, Green Day in february, and then R.E.M. at Hyde Park next july...

Reminding me of a couple of years ago when I saw Coldplay, JJ72, Underworld, Oasis and The Manics in the space of 2 months...

Those were the days...

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