Oct 06

WELCOME

Welcome to FlyingVs.com.

Over 850 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

Here is me jamming with the legendary Dennis Greaves of Nine Below Zero. “Turn it down to deafening,” he said. So I did…

 

Watch both tracks in full here:

Checkin’ Up On My Baby

The Hunter

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.

Check out the Flying Vs Hall of Fame…

Oct 27

Dennis Greaves Blues Jam

Date: October 26 2025

Venue: The Pelton Arms

Price: Free

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Move On Up/Get Out Of My Life, Woman/Maneater/I’m Your Puppet/Feel Like Makin’ Love/You’ve Got To Change/Black Magic Woman/Going Down/Checkin’ Up On My Baby*/The Hunter*/Born Under A Bad Sign/Watch Yourself

*KD on guitar

Fire/Bad Lovers Blues*/Little Wing*/Tattoo’d Lady*/I Shall Be Released/What’s Going On/Just My Imagination/Red House/The Thrill Is Gone/Heatwave/Stand By Me/Not Fade Away/While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Don’t Bite The Hand/Gimme Some Kind Of Sign

*Jessie Garwood Band

Oct 20

PRAYING MANTIS

Date: October 19, 2025

Venue: The Cavern Raynes Park

Price: £18.00

Praying Mantis/Panic In The Streets/Highway/Turn The Tide/Borderline/Dream On/Lovers To The Grave/Keep It Alive/Standing Tall/Letting Go/Time Slipping Away/Captured City/Simple Man/Children Of The Earth

Gypsy’s Kiss

Take Me Down/Endless Pit/War Of The World/Yes Yes Yes/Electrify Me/A Soldier’s Tale/We’ve Come To Play/Never Say Never Again/My Own Holy Grail

Oct 18

ALLY VENABLE

Date: October 17, 2025

Venue: Garage

Price: £24.00

Instrumental/Brown Liquor/Unbreakable/Texas Louisiana /Broken And Blue/Stopper Back Papa/Fire/Feel That Sting/Tribute To SRV/Ain’t That A Bitch  

Oct 17

WISHBONE ASH

Date: October 16, 2025

Venue: Islington Assembly Hall

Price: £39.00

Real Guitars Have Wings/Living Proof/(In All Of My Dreams)/You Rescue Me/Outward Bound/The King Will Come/Warrior/Throw Down The Sword/F.U.B.B./The Way Of The World/Standing In The Rain/Jail Bait/Phoenix/Blowin’ Free/Peace

Oct 16

BRAVE RIVAL

Date: October 15, 2025

Venue: 100 Club

Price: £19.00

Five Years On/Let Me Rock ‘N’ Roll/Bad Choices/Poison /Seventeen/On The Next Round/Stars Upon My Scars/What’s Your Name Again?/Wild Child/Control/Try Again/Stand Up/Run And Hide/Heavy

Demi Marriner

Distorted Desires/Repeat Refrain/Think Of Me/Stop Pause Rewind/Sins/Need To Know/Good Guy Act

Oct 15

DEWOLFF

Date: October 14, 2025

Venue: 100 Club

Price: £23.00

Night Train/In Love/Natural Woman/RU My Savior?/Treasure City Moonchild/You Keep On Knocking/Snowbird/War Pigs/Freeway Flight/Rosita

Oct 10

JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

Date: Oct 9, 2025,

Venue: Cadogan Hall

Price: £49.50

Stop Messin’ Round/Hell Of A Good Time/Sweet Lil’ Lies/Two Time My Lovin’/Dyin’ To Know/Wicked Soul/Grayer Shade Of Blue/Look What I’ve Become/Summertime/Wanna Be My Lover/Wild Is The Wind /Black Magic/Watch ‘Em Burn/Change Of Heart

Oct 04

SKIDS

Date: October 3, 2025

Venue: 100 Club

Price: £28.00

Happy To Be With You/Out Of Town/One Decree/Circus Games/Hurry On Boys/A Woman In Winter/Goodbye Civilian/Masquerade/Arena/The Saints Are Coming/Into The Valley/TV Stars/Charles/Of One Skin

Sep 19

FM/BRAVE RIVAL

Date: September 18, 2025

Venue: Islington Academy

Price: £35.00

Synchronized/Turn This Car Around/Someday (You’ll Come Running)/Living On The Run

Left early. Sound was unbearable at over 100db.

Brave Rival

Bad Choices/Poison/Control/Wild child/Heavy/Fairytale

Sep 12

WISHBONE ASH

Date: September 11, 2025

Venue: 229

Price: £27.50

The King Will Come/Written In The Stars /Errors Of My Way/Persephone/Ballad Of The Beacon/Front Page News/Lady Jay/Phoenix/Sometime World/The Pilgrim/Rock ‘N Roll Widow/F.U.B.B./You See Red/Blowin’ Free/Doctor/Living Proof/Jail Bait

Ballad Of The Beacon video