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

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

Jan 26

NINE BELOW ZERO

Date: January 25, 2025

Venue: 229

Price: £34.00

Tore Down/Homework/Pack Fair And Square/Woolly Bully/I Can’t Quit You Baby/Got My Mojo Working/Can I Get A Witness?/Watch Yourself/Checkin’ Up On My Baby/Hootchie Cootchie Coo/Stormy Monday/Riding On The L&N/I Can’t Help Myself/High Temperature/Talk To Your Dog/Swing Job/Keep On Knocking/Route 66/Reelin’ And Rockin’

Jan 23

THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS

Date: January 22, 2025

Venue: 229

Price: £40.00

Ride With Me Baby/Don’t Make No Sense/Wait On Time/My Babe/Too Many Friends/Early Every Morning/Why Get Up/Scratch My Back/Won’t Give Up/Down At Antone’s/Payback Time

Met James Hunter…

Jan 22

KING KING

Date: January 21, 2025

Venue: 229

Price: £34.00

More Than I Can Take/Let Love In/Waking Up/Lose Control/A Long History Of Love/Cried Out For Love/Lay With Me/You Stopped The Rain/Rush Hour/I Will Not Fall/Stranger To Love

Jim Kirkpatrick

Ballad Of A Prodigal Son/No Such Thing As A Sure Thing/61 & 49/Hey Hey/Oh Well Parts I & II/I Fall Apart/Always On The Road/What Did I Drink Last Night?/She’s Not There

Jan 13

BAND OF FRIENDS

Date: January 12, 2024

Venue: 229

Price: £25.00

Double Vision/Messin’ With The Kid/Under The Gun/Lonely Mile/Stand Your Ground/Moonchild/When You Lose A Friend/Bought And Sold/Heaven’s Gate/Man Of The West/Overnight Bag/Cradle Rock/Tattoo’d Lady/A Million Miles Away/Bad Penny/Shadow Play/Bullfrog Blues

Jan 10

BLUES ‘N’ TROUBLE

Date: January 9, 2025

Venue: 229

Price: £22.00

Born In Chicago/Cherry Peaches/Why?/Dynamite/Travelling Light/What’s The Matter?/Sad Sad Song About Love/Driftin’ Blues/Sugar Coated Love/When The Lights Go Down/So Long Baby Goodbye/Long Gone Man/Nadine/Fine Fine Fine

The Milk Men

Make Mine A Double/The Operator/Hungover/The Score/Cheap Seats/Give A Little Love/Fabulous/Give Me A Reason/Oh Well/One Man Band/Having A Ball Tonight/Going Back Home/Pinball Wizard/She Don’t Like Rock ‘N’ Roll

Jan 07

JAMES HUNTER

Date: January 6, 2025

Venue: 229

Price: £31.00

James Hunter Six

(Baby) Hold On/Can’t Help Myself/Whatever It Takes/Till I Hear It From You/Brother Or Other/Something’s Calling/Baby Don’t Do It/Satchelfoot/Mm-Hmm/Missing In Action/How ‘Bout Now/Ain’t Going Up In One Of Those Things/Only A Fool/Okie Dokie Stomp/Let The Monkey Ride/Nick Of Time/Trouble Comes Calling/Never Been In Love Like This Before/Don’t Do Me No Favours/Two Years Of Torture/Talkin’ ‘Bout My Love/Carina/If You Don’t Believe Me Baby

Kirris Riviere & The Delta Du Bruit

Left Me In The Cold (Railroad Tracks)/The Delta Du Bruit/I Just Can’t Be Satisfied/Loose Cannon (Daisy Jane)/Down To The Border/No Fuss Bus/I Ain’t Got Time (Swamp ‘Til Morning)/Louisiana

Nov 29

ROBERT JON & THE WRECK

Date: November 28 2024

Venue: Islington Assembly Hall

Price: £33.00

Hold On/Rager/Boss Man/Red Moon Rising /Waiting For Your Man/Point Of View/Shine A Light On Me Brother/Don’t Let Me Go/Gold/Oh Miss Carolina/Ballad Of A Broken Hearted Man /Cold Night/Last Light On The Highway Pts. 1&2

These Wicked Rivers

Force Of Nature/Shine On/Black Gold/Testify/Don’t Pray For Me

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