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…

Nov 20

BYWATER CALL

Date: November 19, 2025

Venue: Garage

Price: £25.00

Talking Backwards/As If/No One Else/Arizona/Colours/Left Behind/How Long/Way To Go/Ain’t No Friend Of Mine/Clutter/Sweet Maria/Holler/Kashmir/Everybody Knows

Dan Patlansky

Nov 17

ASIA/FOGHAT

Date: November 16, 2025

Venue: Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Price: £65.00

Go/Only Time Will Tell/Silent Nation/Remembrance Day/Don’t Call Me/Who Will Stop The Rain?/Military Man/The Longest Night/Arena/Sole Survivor/Free/Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers/Wildest Dreams/Heat Of The Moment

Foghat

Road Fever/Drivin’ Wheel/My Babe/Slipped, Tripped And Fell In Love/She’s A Little Bit Of Everything/It Hurts Me Too/Stone Blue/Home In My Hand/Fool For The City/I Just Want to Make Love to You/Slow Ride

Nov 14

THE BLUETONES

Date: November 13, 2025

Venue: EartH Hall, Stoke Newington

Price: £32.00

Bluetonic/A New Athens/Solomon Bites The Worm/Drive Thru/Keep The Home Fires Burning/The Aristocrats /Carnt Be Trusted/Madeline/Cut Some Rug/Cheap Hotel /Marblehead Johnson/In The Cut/Slight Return/The Last Song But One/Never Going Nowhere/London Weekend Television/My Way/If..

The Supernaturals

The Day Before Yesterday’s Man/Smile

Nov 06

MIKE TRAMP’S WHITE LION

Date: November 5, 2025

Venue: Camden Underworld

Price: £28.00

Out With The Boys/All The Fallen Men/Hungry/Living On The Edge/El Salvador/Little Fighter/Broken Heart/Lights & Thunder/Tell Me/Wait/When The Children Cry/Lady Of The Valley/Radar Love

Nov 01

THE STRANGLERS

Date: October 31, 2025

Venue: Roundhouse

Price ; £50.00

Goodbye Toulouse/Straighten Out/Was It You?/Skin Deep/15 Steps/Five Minutes/Tramp/Instead Of This/Strange Little Girl/Golden Brown/Thrown Away/Pin Up/Peaches/Mercury Rising/White Stallion/Dead Ringer/Breathe/Something Better Change/Duchess/Hanging Around/Always The Sun/Mean To Me/No More Heroes

Buzzcocks

Orgasm Addict/Manchester Rain/Ever Fallen In Love/(With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)/Harmony In My Head

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