Of possible interest to Prefab Sprout fans? I just booked some tickets to see Martin McAloon at the jazz cafe in London on 20/12. The blurb suggests a night of celebration of the Steve McQueen album (40 years old now). I strongly suspect that there is no chance of a sighting of his brother Paddy, but I seem to remember the event carries a recommendation from the halibut who experienced it some months ago.
Tide Lines , Sunderland Old Fire Station this month
Amy Macdonald , Sheffield, November
CMAT rearranged to a Tuesday in November, which is fine but also the day after mbv and barely a week before King Princess. Not sure my ears, even with ear plugs, will make it through gigs on consecutive nights so some thinking to be done.
The Rifles, Omeara London
The Rifles, IofW
Jake Bugg, Coventry Cathedral
Oasis, Wembley
Richard Hawley, Kingston Rose Theatre
Radiohead, Denmark
Kraftwerk , Netherlands (TBC)
Suzanne Vega, Birmingham Symphony Hall
The Enemy, HMV Coventry
The Rifles, 100 Club
Just managed to score tix for Kraftwerk at the Royal Albert Hall in June 2026
Very nice. I saw them on the Man Machine & Computer World Tours.
Absolutely brilliant.
Courtney Marie Andrews at Norwich Arts Centre on Monday 27 October. Love all her albums, really looking forward to it.
Saw them a few months ago. Brilliant gig.
Wishbone Ash, tonight at The Brook, Southampton
And just booked my first concert for 2026. Karnataka, in April, also at The Brook
It’ll be January 2026 (pre Christmas date we could go is fully booked) but…
Turandot
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
The opera that held me spellbound/converted me when I saw a late-night performance on TV quite a few years ago (way before Nessun became a ‘thing’). Have seen a few Puccinis live since, but never this one.
Can’t wait!
Georgia Cecile December, Ronnie Scott’s
Foo Fighters June, Anfield
Gray Numan - just got some tickets for the Student’s Uni gig next week in local University! They were sold out or unavailable a few weeks ago.
Keeping an eye on The Corn Exchange, Cambridge hoping some get released there too in the next 10 days or so.
Orchestra Baobab - The Barbican London Sunday 30th November, managed to book up late last week when some returns must have come back in.
GoGo Penguin + Daudi Matsiko - Barbican London Wednesday 3rd December.
Bill Frisell Trio - Cadogan Hall Thursday 23rd April 26 NB this has been rescheduled from Friday 21 November if anyone else has not seen on the website which I had, but today at lunch time a very nice lady from Cadogan Hall rang up to let Mrs P and I know!
Richard
Thanks for the notification on the Frisell concert. Had ticket but wasn’t aware of the reschedule. Looks like he has perforated an eardrum.
Take a memory foam rowing pillow
Did you enjoy it?
I am going to the Wednesday night of this event to commemorate Derek Bailey’s Company (introduced by Stewart Lee):