Oct 06

WELCOME

Welcome to FlyingVs.com.

Over 800 gigs. 100+ venues. Over 1,500 bands. Rock on.

I have been going to gigs for over 50 years, and when sober enough I have kept all the tickets and set lists.

Search by band or venue and see if you were there. Send in a comment.

The Sex Pistols for £1.75 anyone? Iron Maiden for £3.00? Extraordinary stuff.

To celebrate what can happen when you go out to listen to live music, check out this YouTube clip. I went out to see Diesel Park West at the Half Moon in Putney, discovered the bassist was ill, and ended up filling in: LIKE PRINCES DO. You never know….

I was asked back for the encore:

WHEN THE HOODOO COMES

THE WAKING HOUR

Rock on, and let me know your experiences.

On the blues front, it was good to be featured in the same set list as Bonnie Raitt and Mose Allison

And here is my old band Fastback, showing how a Flying V should really be used.

Laurence Archer of Grand Slam, April 8, 2022, Islington Assembly Hall. And below at Camden Underworld September 21 2022. Check out the Flying Vs Hall of Fame

Mar 25

THE SEX PISTOLS

Date: March 24, 2025

Venue: Royal Albert Hall

Price: £85.00

Holidays In The Sun/Seventeen/New York/Pretty Vacant/Bodies/Silly Thing/Liar/God Save The Queen/Satellite/No Feelings/No Fun/Problems/EMI/My Way/Anarchy In The U.K.

The Molotovs

Johnny Don’t Be Scared/More More More/Get A Life/Wasted On Youth/Newsflash/Suffragette City/No Time To Talk/Come On Now/Today’s Gonna Be Our Day

Mar 20

KIM WILDE

Date: March 19, 2025

Venue: Indigo2

Price: £65.00

Hey Mister Heartache/You Came/Never Trust A Stranger/Trail Of Destruction/Midnight Train/Love’s A No/You’ll Be The One Who’ll Lose/Four Letter Word/Stone/Hourglass Human/Lighthouse/Rocket To The Moon/Cambodia/Water On Glass/View From A Bridge/Chequered Love/Love Is Love/You Keep Me Hangin’ On/Scorpio/Kids In America

Cutting Crew

Any Colour/One For The Mockingbird/I’ve Been In Love Before/The One I Love/Play With Fire/Berlin In Winter/(I Just) Died in Your Arms/Lido Shuffle

Mar 19

THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

Date: March 18, 2025

Venue: Kentish Town Forum

Price: £30.00

Chinese Lanterns/Only Friend/Take It Back/Built-In Forgetter/Caught In The Middle/Pride/Get Yourself Free/Be Lucky/Another Spiral/Oh Lorraine/Ain’t No Telling/Magnify/Smouldering/Battle Lines/A Deeper Cut/Have You Ever Seen The Rain?/Midnight Black/Serenity

Mar 13

RONNIE ROMERO

Date: March 12, 2025

Venue: Camden Underworld

Price: £30.00

Stand Up And Shout/Castaway On The Moon/I’ve Been Losing You/Chased By Shadows/Stargazer/Crossroad/Not Just A Nightmare/Kill The King/Rainbow In The Dark/The Battle Rages On/Vengeance/Child In Time/Burn

Absolva

Code Red/Fire In The Sky/The Thrill Of The Chase/Side By Side/Stand Your Ground/Find My Identity/Refuse To Die/From Beyond The Light

Mar 02

STRAY

Date: March 1, 2025

Venue: Cart & Horses

Price: £20.00

Time Machine/After The Storm/Jericho/Son Of The Father/I Am/Black Sun/Percy The Pimp/Better Day/1600 Pennsylvania Avenue/Living The Dream/Houdini/I Believe It/Buying Time/All In Your Mind/The Bear/One Night In Texas

Feb 28

GLEN MATLOCK

Date: February 27, 2025

Venue: 100 Club

Price: £25.00

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Setlist. Largely ignored…

Won’t Put The Brakes On Me/Hot Water/Burning Sounds/In A Different World/Rock Chick/Whose Side Are You On?/Hook In You/Blank Generation/Electricity/Ghosts Of Princes In Towers/Tried To Tell You/Magic Carpet Ride/Consequences Coming/I’ll Go Crazy/Born Running/Pretty Vacant/Everybody Must Get Stoned/All Or Nothing

Kathy Valentine

Heart Of The City/We Don’t Get Along/Can The Can/The Place We Wanna Be/In My Closet/Hourglass/Apology/Vacation /The Whole World Lost Its Head/Love You More

Feb 26

GRAINNE DUFFY/STEVIE NIMMO

Date: February 25, 2025

Venue: 100 Club

Price: £20.00

Each And Every Time/Voodoo Blues/Dirt Woman Blues/Blue Skies/Good Love Had To Die/Tick Tock/What’s It Gonna Be?/Voodoo Woman/No Matter What I Do/Well Well Well/I’d Rather Go Blind/Test Of Time/I Shall Be Released/Happy

Stevie Nimmo

Stop Breakin’ Down/The Storm/Coming Home To You/Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City/Tell Ol’ Bill/Good Day For The Blues/I’d Rather Go Blind/Life By The Drop

Support: Big River

Feb 23

CUTTING CREW

Date: February 22, 2025

Venue: Half Moon Putney

Price: £25.00

Good As New/Any Colour/Till the Money Run$ Out/I’ve Been In Love Before/Keep The Car Running/The One I Love/Play With Fire/Cloud Cover/2040 Lullaby/One For The Mockingbird/Sahara/The Scattering/Difficult Times/Girl Crush/Oh! Darling/Berlin In Winter/(I Just) Died in Your Arms/Follow You Follow Me/Can We Go Now?

Feb 01

H. E. A. T.

Date: January 31, 2025

Venue: Islington Assembly Hall

Price: £28.00

Disaster/Emergency/Dangerous Ground/Hollywood

Too loud. Left after a few tracks…

Art Nation

Brutal & Beautiful/Thunderball/Echo/Set Me Free/Halo/Need You To Understand

Chez Kane

Too Late For Love/All Of It/I Just Want You/Nationwide/Ball N’ Chain/Love Gone Wild/Get It On/Rocket On The Radio/Powerzone

Jan 31

MUD MORGANFIELD

Date: January 30, 2025

Venue: 229

Price: £31.00

Blow Wind Blow/48 Days/Sugar Sweet/She’s Nineteen Years Old/Caldonia/I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man/Trouble No More/Leave Me Alone/Strange Woman/Young Fashioned Ways/I’m Ready/Baby Please Don’t Go/40 Days/Got My Mojo Working

Kyla Brox

When We’re Alone/Devil’s Bridge/Bluesman’s Child/Honestly Blues/Choose Me/Running Off The Hill/You Will Live Forever/Heavy Blues/Still Not Blues Enough For You