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

Nov 15

NINE BELOW ZERO

Date: November 14, 2024

Venue: Half Moon Putney

Price: £20.00

Mark Feltham’s list of harmonica keys…

I Can’t Help Myself/Can I Get A Witness/Pack Fair And Square/The Hoochie Coochie Coo/Down In The Dirt Again/Don’t Point Your Finger At The Guitar Man/Treat Her Right/Sunny/High Temperature/Mama Talk To Your Daughter/I Wanna Be A Wannabe/Helen/Riding On The L&N/I Can’t Quit You Baby/On The Road Again/(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction/Eleven + Eleven/Twenty Yards Behind/Homework

Dennis Greaves thumb pick close up…

Leon Tilbrook

One Time/Oh Well/Last Thing/High Expectations/Ain’t It Funny How Time Slips Away/Girlwatcher/So Quiet/Help

Nov 12

SQUEEZE

Date: November 11, 2024

Venue: Royal Albert Hall

Price: £85.00

Black Coffee In Bed/Footprints/Is That Love?/Up The Junction/One Beautiful Summer/Someone Else’s Heart/In Quintessence/Departure Lounge/Some Fantastic Place/If I Didn’t Love You/Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)/Another Nail In My Heart/Annie Get Your Gun/You Get The Feeling/Trixie’s Hell On Earth/Goodbye Girl/Cradle To The Grave/Slap & Tickle/Tempted/Cool For Cats/Labelled With Love/Hourglass/Take Me I’m Yours

Nov 10

HUE & CRY

Date: November 9, 2024

Venue: Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Price: £37.50

It Was A Very Good Year/I Refuse/My Salt Heart/Ordinary Angel/Fireball/Violently/She Makes A Sound/Rolling Home/Shipbuilding/Mother Glasgow/The Man With The Child In His Eyes/Little Man/Looking For Linda/Sweet Invisibility/Let Her Go/Tinsel Show (with Eleanor Kane)/Labour Of Love/Goodbye To Me

Nov 06

THE CULT

Date: November 5, 2024

Venue: Roundhouse

Price: £65.00

In The Clouds/Rise/Wild Flower/Star/The Witch/Mirror/Resurrection Joe/Edie (Ciao Baby)/Sweet Soul Sister/Lucifer/Fire Woman/Rain/Spiritwalker/Love Removal Machine/Brother Wolf, Sister Moon/She Sells Sanctuary

Oct 25

WISHBONE ASH

Date: October 24, 2024

Venue: Islington Assembly

Price: £35.00

Real Guitars Have Wings/We Stand As One/The King Will Come/Warrior/Throw Down The Sword/Deep Blues/Runaway/F.U.B.B./Standing In The Rain/Jail Bait/Living Proof/Blowin’ Free/Phoenix

Leon Tilbrook

Oh Well/High Expectations/For Once In My Life/So Quiet/Help

Oct 09

SCARLET REBELS

Date: October 8, 2024

Venue: The Garage

Price: £20.00

Secret Drug/How Much Is Enough/My House My Rules/I’m Alive/Take You Home/You Take My Breath Away/Streets Of Fire/Got My Mind Set On You/Save Me/It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)/Grace/Who Wants To Be In Love Anyway/These Days/Divide And Conquer/It Was Beautiful/Declining/Let Me In

Oct 07

SAMANTHA FISH

Date: October 6, 2024

Venue: Koko

Price: £32.50

Kick Out The Jams/Wild Heart/Better Be Lonely/Kill Or Be Kind/Watch It Die/Chills & Fever/Bulletproof/Miles To Go/Never Gonna Cry/Somebody’s Always Trying/Poor Black Mattie/Dream Girl/Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down/Black Wind Howlin’/I Put A Spell On You/Goin’ Down South

The Zac Schulze Gang

Laundromat/Woman/Walkin’ The Dog/She Does It Right/Hole In My Pocket/Dry Spell/Ballyshannon Blues/Messin’ With The Kid/Oh Well

Oct 04

WISHBONE ASH

Date: October 3, 2024

Venue: 100 Club

Price: £27.50

The King Will Come/Helpless/Lady Jay/F*U*B*B*/Persephone/Lorelei/Runaway/The Way Of The World (Parts 1 & 2)/Time Was/(In All My Dreams) You Rescue Me/Goodbye Baby, Hello Friend/Rock ‘n’ Roll Widow/Doctor/Blowin’ Free/Warrior/Throw Down The Sword/Blind Eye/Jail Bait

Sep 27

THE KARMA EFFECT/AUSTIN GOLD

Date: September 26, 2024

Venue: Camden Black Heart

Price: £16.00

Livin’ It Up/Doubt She’s Coming Back/All Night Long/Wrong Again/Slow And Easy/See You Again/Wild Honey/Be My Salvation/The River/Nine Times/Testify/Stand/Steal Your Heart/Promised Land

Austin Gold

Brand New Low/Hell Or High Water/Invincible/The Wire Defines/Another Kinda Bad/Home Ain’t Home/Mountain/Never End

Sep 23

SILVEROLLER

Date: September 22, 2024

Venue: The Grace

Price: £16.50

Other Side/Start Walkin’/Nobody’s Business/Ways Of Saying/The Weight/Trouble Follows Me/Come On, Come In/Higher Power/Turn To Gold/Black Crow/Hold

The Trouble

Strolling On/In The Garden Of My Mind/Something I Can’t Explain/Love Buzz

The Witch/Miracle Man (Cadillac)/Hold On/Magic Potion/Get On Up

Send Me A Postcard/Helter Skelter