AC/DC at Murrayfield Edinburgh 21st August 2025.

Yungblud Chicago Sept 12th.....can not wait!

Outlaw Festival (Dylan, Willie, S. Crowe)
B-52’s, DEvo, Lene Lovich
My Morning Jacket

All in Boston MA area.

Skorts, tonight (Aug. 14), in Charlottesville. A 2F/2M Brooklyn rock band that formed only in 2023 and has picked up a little buzz up there. I checked out a few live vids. Only $19 tonight, so okay, on the way there.
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Edit: I liked 'em... a good, new, heavy rock quartet doing originals in a dynamic show. I especially liked seeing them in a small venue with only 70 or 75 others. They're out there old-school humpin', played DC that Tuesday, drove back up to Brooklyn for a Wednesday gig, then turned straight back south and drove to Charlottesville for the small show Thursday. Props to Alli, Emma, Char & Max... keep it goin'!

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I'm down in Virginia
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Black Country, New Road, in Zurich
Little Simz, also in Zurich
The Buttertones, in Torino

it‘s incredibly how much good live music is around these days…just a shame it got so damn expensive

Count yourself lucky monkey man. In South Florida we don’t get the good smaller bands at all. No real market for them here.

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Count yourself lucky monkey man. In South Florida we don’t get the good smaller bands at all. No real market for them here.

Yes, I can imagine that. But tbh, no music venue in Switzerland that hosts smaller bands from the local newcomers to internationally touring indie bands would survive without money from the communal and state government. Sometimes you go listen to a fantastic band from Amsterdam or elsewhere and there's less people in the audience than working at the venue...

I don't know how it's handled in the States but I would imagine that there's way less public money involved.

Stereolab at miami bandshell in sept

The WHO - Sept 23 Vancouver BC

yes the "Song is over"

The Who at Fenway…….last saw them Dec. 11; 1982 in Worcester. 1982 was their first “farewell tour”. The Quiet One, Boris the Spider will miss you John

Mary, Queen of Scots [World Premiere for Edinburgh International Festival: “Renaissance meets punk in Scottish Ballet’s retelling of the story of one of Scotland’s most famous women.”]

[www.eif.co.uk]

Sebastian Maniscalco (comedian)…it should count since it is at Bethel/Woodstock NY, right?

AC/DC in Edinburgh (support: The Pretty Reckless)

PP Arnold in Edinburgh (no support)

Bryan Adams - album launch gig in Newcastle 31st August

Asomvel - Manchester 5th Sept

Massive Wagons - Live album recording gig Lancaster University 20th Sept

WASP - Manchester 27th Sept and Hammersmith 28th Sept.

sc uk

David Gray in Edinburgh (support: Talia Rae)
Chappell Roan in Ingliston (support: JADE)

Rolling Stones tribute Herning. Great singers and gutarplayers. 17. Sep.

The NoMen in Glasgow on Saturday. Their third gig in 22 years. They are too small to be a cult, always different but always the same, the greatest band you've never heard of.

Irish rockers ASH here in Limerick in December.

Saw Lowestofts finest, The Darkness, in Limerick and Killarney in June, amazing shows.

Went to The Lemonheads this past weekend- to say it was raw would be an understatement. Rambling between songs, he went for a smoke break at one point, and missed cues..etc. An experience, definitely.

Swans.

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Chappell Roan in Ingliston (support: JADE)

I was wrong about her possibly playing Glastonbury this year -- so that'll probably happen in 2027 now I guess. She may release her sophomore album about then, too. But I figured you'd see her a second time before I did, as I don't travel very far for concerts. I'm not going to any of her shows in Queens next month, waiting instead expecting a major N.Am. tour next year.

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Chappell Roan in Ingliston (support: JADE)

I was wrong about her possibly playing Glastonbury this year -- so that'll probably happen in 2027 now I guess. She may release her sophomore album about then, too. But I figured you'd see her a second time before I did, as I don't travel very far for concerts. I'm not going to any of her shows in Queens next month, waiting instead expecting a major N.Am. tour next year.

Yep. From O2 Academy Glasgow (cap. 2,500) last year to Royal Highland Centre, the vast showgrounds adjacent to Edinburgh Airport (South Arena — cap. 35,000). And two nights this time (I attended the first). The ticket price also rises from 21 quid to 65 (plus fees). Chappell was already a sensation the first time around but what a difference eleven months have made!

Some local reviews:

[www.scotsman.com]

[www.edinburghlive.co.uk]

[northernexposuremagazine.co.uk]

[www.thescottishsun.co.uk]

[adrenalinemag.co.uk]

McCartney in Atlanta. Attending with a friend I made through IORR.

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Chappell Roan in Ingliston (support: JADE)

I was wrong about her possibly playing Glastonbury this year -- so that'll probably happen in 2027 now I guess. She may release her sophomore album about then, too. But I figured you'd see her a second time before I did, as I don't travel very far for concerts. I'm not going to any of her shows in Queens next month, waiting instead expecting a major N.Am. tour next year.

Yep. From O2 Academy Glasgow (cap. 2,500) last year to Royal Highland Centre, the vast showgrounds adjacent to Edinburgh Airport (South Arena — cap. 35,000). And two nights this time (I attended the first). The ticket price also rises from 21 quid to 65 (plus fees). Chappell was already a sensation the first time around but what a difference eleven months have made!

Some local reviews:

[www.scotsman.com]

[www.edinburghlive.co.uk]

[northernexposuremagazine.co.uk]

[www.thescottishsun.co.uk]

[adrenalinemag.co.uk]

Thanks for the links. A 4, a 4 1/2, and a 5 star review, and from the articles Tuesday's show sounds like it was quite an event. Yeah, she's definitely the fastest riser from basicslly unknown to to megastar in a long time. And, even better, IMO it was all on merit. She's that good. Lesbians embraced her bigger faster and more passionately than anybody else ever, is my impression, and formed a very substantial if o/w little known base for her in 2023. But then after the album dropped in Sep 2023, masses of us straights slowly started finding her music, just for the number of brilliant and powerful songs on it. A lot of us love the album for itself, totally in the absence of any special bond to Chappell's sexual evolution, situation and complaints that her most ardent fans clearly identify with.

Both big Edinburgh shows, Tuesday and Wenesday, sold out quickly when announced last year. And yet for some reason the venue or promoter can't seem to give clear information on crowd size. The various stories are of the Edinburgh show crowds as 35,000 each, OR almost 60,000 Tuesday alone, OR 60,000 each of the two nights. Why promoters won't just say how many fuggin tickets they sold in sell-out crowds is beyond me. If you want to protect your performers when shows don't sell out, there's some reason to do that. But sell-out shows like this week, why the hell not? Since Tuesday was Chappell's biggest show as headliner to date (which our May 23, 2024 Richmond crowd was at a mere 6,530 at that time), why so much confusion? Just say how big the two sell-outs were.



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September 8. Clapton
September 16. Buzzcocks
September 21. Judas Priest/Alice Cooper/Corrosion of Conformity
November 6. McCartney (4500 capacity venue- Pinnacle)

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September 8. Clapton

Would be pleased to read your comment on the show on the Clapton thread.

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Thanks for the links. A 4, a 4 1/2, and a 5 star review, and from the articles Tuesday's show sounds like it was quite an event. Yeah, she's definitely the fastest riser from basicslly unknown to to megastar in a long time. And, even better, IMO it was all on merit. She's that good. Lesbians embraced her bigger faster and more passionately than anybody else ever, is my impression, and formed a very substantial if o/w little known base for her in 2023. But then after the album dropped in Sep 2023, masses of us straights slowly started finding her music, just for the number of brilliant and powerful songs on it. A lot of us love the album for itself, totally in the absence of any special bond to Chappell's sexual evolution, situation and complaints that her most ardent fans clearly identify with.

Both big Edinburgh shows, Tuesday and Wenesday, sold out quickly when announced last year. And yet for some reason the venue or promoter can't seem to give clear information on crowd size. The various stories are of the Edinburgh show crowds as 35,000 each, OR almost 60,000 Tuesday alone, OR 60,000 each of the two nights. Why promoters won't just say how many fuggin tickets they sold in sell-out crowds is beyond me. If you want to protect your performers when shows don't sell out, there's some reason to do that. But sell-out shows like this week, why the hell not? Since Tuesday was Chappell's biggest show as headliner to date (which our May 23, 2024 Richmond crowd was at a mere 6,530 at that time), why so much confusion? Just say how big the two sell-outs were.

The National (newspaper supporting Scottish independence) gives another 5 stars although the article is paywalled:

[www.thenational.scot]

And one more review:

[www.theskinny.co.uk]

As regards the crowd size of Chappell’s Edinburgh shows, the prevailing information is certainly confusing. Like you say, several vastly different numbers are mentioned in the press. I’d go along with 35,000 each day (i.e. 70,000 altogether). Royal Highland Centre is a multi complex of indoor and outdoor venues, and the biggest of them is the 35,000-capacity South Arena.

[www.royalhighlandcentre.co.uk]

Prior to her shows in Ingliston (in the vicinity of Edinburgh), Chappell coheadlined Reading/Leeds Festivals. The maximum daily capacities for these are generally quoted as 90,000 (Reading) and 75,000 (Leeds). As Chappell’s slot is said to be the biggest draw of the weekend for both, it is safe to say the crowds were bigger there than Ingliston, at least on day-by-day basis. However, as a standalone concert, not festival appearances, Ingliston may well be her biggest concert(s) up to this point.

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September 8. Clapton

Would be pleased to read your comment on the show on the Clapton thread.

I definitely will if I remember. I’m not very eloquent so don’t expect too much!

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September 8. Clapton

Would be pleased to read your comment on the show on the Clapton thread.

I definitely will if I remember. I’m not very eloquent so don’t expect too much!

Thanks (in advance).

Was hatching a vague idea of flying over to the East Coast to catch Eric live in Boston, New York and Uncasville together with Sleep Token (a band on my current bucket list) in Brooklyn. Turned out too ambitious and too expensive to make it happen.

None just caught Tom Cochrane awesome performance Friday night at Vancouver fair.