I actually prefer music myself 
I know he divides opinion.
Martin
Certainly did. I’ve seen Nik many times playing both solo and in his groups. This gig was a good mix of material from their current album as well as variations of previous tracks. Great to watch the interplay between the musicians up close. They used their own sound engineer and the quality was exceptional, even for Ronnie’s.
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I saw them at Brixton Academy about 30 years ago.
It was one of the more boring gigs I’ve ever seen.
Zero emotional connection for me that night.
Mine is made by hornet.
It has a kind of knicker elastic on one side that helps to stop it sliding around.
Got to laugh. Over on another thread posters are buying big retirement systems and pretending they can avoid the inevitable consequences of ageing and iver here…
CBSO Pierre Bleuse Conductor
- Ravel, Mother Goose: Complete Ballet
- Ravel, Rapsodie Espagnole
- Liszt, Piano Concerto No.1 Ryan Wang
- Bartók, The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Thursday afternoon in Symphony Hall.
Plus earlier free performance by Conservatoire students
- Ravel, Gaspard de la Nuit
- Ravel, Jeux d’eau
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We would have gone to that but we are away.
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Next February…bit of an impulse buy:
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
The very first opera I was impressed by as a teenager, superceded much later in life by the game changer that was Puccini’s Turandot.
I wonder what I’ll think?
Guess I should play it, after some 55-57 odd years!
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Malvern Theatre, July. Jools Holland. Always good fun.
Birmingham Symphony Hall, May. Christopher Cross + Chris Difford.
Always wanted to see CC. Missed him about a year ago when he toured with Toto.
Self Esteem in the Museum Gardens in York in July- lovely place, intrigued to see what type of show it is.
Jason Isbell and the 400 unit in Gateshead in June - The Glasshouse. A bit of a distance to travel but looks like a fascinating venue.
Couple of gigs booked, Andy fairweather low and the low riders in February, and Graham Gouldman in October, both at the Apex , Bury st Edmunds.
Robert Plant with Saving Grace at Manchester Apollo a week on Monday.
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Madi Diaz at the Deaf Institute in Manchester in February.
@suzywong , Think I may go to the Karnatarka gig at the Brook. I preferred when they had Anne -Marie and Rachelas well as Paul Davies in the band, but the music is good. It was great when both them and Mostly Autumn were at the Brook regularly. Will you go to see Wishbone Ash later in the year too?
Likewise, I do prefer the first incarnation of Karnataka (the combination of Rachel’s vocals & Jonathon’s keyboards was very special, and Paul is a cracking guitarist!). But I have all the “Mark 2” CDs - still good prog rock! Check out Ian Jones’s spin-off “Chasing the Monsoon” and their album “No Ordinary World”, I recommend the download “no breaks” version from their website, where they run all the tracks together to form a coherent whole (think DSotM!).
As for WA….. been there for the last three years…. “it’s autumn, therefore it must be time for some twin guitar rock”. I don’t see a listing as yet, but if The Brook is on the tour, and with the usual caveats about being an old buqqer (and that’s just me… never mind Andy Powell 
) I will be there!
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John R Miller at the Deaf Institute, Manchester in January
Ah, the owner of one of the silliest pieces of drugged up profundity I’d come across in years.
“Life’s just like playing Asteroids. You’re gonna get killed eventually. You’re just trying to stay on the screen.”
Well yes 
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Love the Deaf Institute though. One of my fave venues and run by lovely people.
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Sorry Mike I don’t get the reference to asteroids and John R Miller
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It’s a quote from him, whilst playing the game “Asteroids”. Would be polite to say he was a little stoned at the time but far too keen to speak to camera. Easily found on YouTube as a short. Always makes me laugh..
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