May 12

BRYAN ADAMS

Date: May 11 2022

Venue: Royal Albert Hall

Price: £70.00

Is Your Mama Gonna Miss Ya?/Hey Honey – I’m Packin’ You In!/Can’t Stop This Thing We Started/Thought I’d Died And Gone To Heaven/Not Guilty/Vanishing/House Arrest/Do I Have To Say The Words?/There Will Never Be Another Tonight/All I Want Is You/Depend On Me/If You Wanna Leave Me (Can I Come Too?)/Don’t Drop That Bomb On Me/(Everything I Do) I Do It For You/Kick Ass/Run To You/Shine A Light/Heaven/Touch The Hand/It’s Only Love/On The Road/You Belong To Me/Here I Am/When You’re Gone/Back To You/Rebel/Summer Of ’69/So Happy It Hurts/These Are The Moments That Make Up My Life

Apr 27

JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR

Date: April 26 2022,

Venue: Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Price: £46.50

Stop Messin’ Round/If That Ain’t A Reason/Keep On Lovin’ Me/If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody/Can’t You See What You’re Doing To Me/Two Time My Lovin’/Let Me Down Easy/Three Time Loser/Dyin’ To Know/Just Another Word/I’ve Been Loving You Too Long/Let It Burn/Time Has Come/Mud, Honey /Bad Love/Going Home

Apr 26

JOSHUA RADIN

Date: April 25 2022

Venue: Islington Assembly Hall

Price: £25.00

Folk stuff with a strange crowd and even stranger artists who kept banging on about the personal difficulties of lockdown instead of playing anything uplifting for the audience. Tracks may have included…

JOSHUA RADIN

No Envy, No Fear/Only You /New song (currently called You Said)*/Goodbye/Beautiful Day/Hey You/High And Low/I’d Rather Be With You/You Got Growin’ Up To Do

*Quite odd this, on three counts: 1. After releasing over 10 albums, the artist appears incapable of naming his own song. 2. Extraordinary arrogance to play an unfinished item to a crowd instead of playing stuff they know and have come to see. 3. He could have put the naming of the song to a vote and thus involved the crowd in an unforgettable moment when the song eventually gets recorded, if it ever does. Shabby.

RACHAEL YAMAGATA

The only two recognisable tracks were…

You Won’t Let Me/The Way It Seems to Go

The rest was doom-laden introspection played on a keyboard decked out with peculiar fencing and faux flowers.

Apr 23

PAUL YOUNG’S LOS PACAMINOS

Date: April 22 2022

Venue: Half Moon Putney

Price: £20.00

Highway Patrol/Little Sister/Manana/No Seas Tonta Mujer/A Little Bit Is Better Than Nada/Shadows On The Rise/Nothin’ You Can Do/Outside The Law/Raised On Margueritas/Saved/Jump Back Baby/Prairie Serenade/Come A Little Bit Closer/Bitter Blue/Smoke That Cigarette/Battered & Broozed/Belle/Girl From Tennessee/Our Favourite Things/Wooly Bully/La Bamba

Apr 21

STING

Date: April 20 2022

Venue: London Palladium

Price: £130.00

Russians/Message In A Bottle/If I Ever Lose My Faith In You/If You Love Somebody Set Them Free/Englishman In New York/Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic/If It’s Love/For Her Love/Loving You/Rushing Water/I Hung My Head/Fields Of Gold/Brand New Day/Shape Of My Heart/Wrapped Around Your Finger/Walking On The Moon/Get Up, Stand Up/So Lonely/No Woman No Cry/Desert Rose/King Of Pain/Every Breath You Take/Roxanne/It Don’t Mean A Thing/Driven To Tears/The Bridge

Apr 16

WISHBONE ASH

Date: April 15 2022

Venue: 100 Club

Price: £20.00

Time Was/Sometime World/The King Will Come/Leaf And Stream/Warrior/Throw Down The Sword/Blowin’ Free/So Many Things To Say/Ballad Of The Beacon/Everybody Needs A Friend/Sorrel/Sing Out The Song/No Easy Road/Rock ‘n Roll Widow/Doctor/You See Red/Jail Bait

Apr 09

FM/GRAND SLAM

Date: April 8, 2022

Venue: Islington Assembly Hall

Price: £25

Synchronized/Bad Luck/Life Is A Highway/Long Road Home/Waiting On Love/Crosstown Train/Crack Alley/Killed By Love/Frozen Heart/Dangerous/That Girl/Tough It Out/I Belong To The Night/Metropolis/Over You/Turn This Car Around/Story Of My Life/Blood And Gasoline/Other Side Of Midnight

GRAND SLAM

Gone Are The Days/19/Hit The Ground/Dedication/Crime Rate/Military Man/Crazy/Sisters Of Mercy

Apr 04

10 CC

Date: April 3 2022

Venue: London Palladium

Price: £49.70

The Second Sitting For The Last Supper/Art For Art’s Sake/Life Is A Minestrone/Good Morning Judge/The Dean And I/Old Wild Men/Clockwork Creep/Feel The Benefit/The Wall Street Shuffle/Standing Next To Me/The Things We Do For Love/Say The Word/Silly Love/Somewhere In Hollywood/Baron Samedi/I’m Mandy Fly Me/I’m Not In Love/Dreadlock Holiday/Donna/Rubber Bullets

Mar 29

BARENAKED LADIES/KT TUNSTALL

Date: March 28 2022

Venue: Royal Albert Hall

Price: £45.00

New Disaster/Odds Are/The Old Apartment/Royal Albert Hall Rap/Gonna Walk/Here Together/Good Life/It’s All Been Done/I Can Sing/Blame It On Me/The Township Of King/Live Well/Brian Wilson (+KT)/Big Back Yard/Lookin’ Up/Pinch Me/Happy Days/Hawaii 5-0/Big Bang Theory/One Week/If I Had $1000000/Chim Chim Cher-ee/Barenaked Rap/Whip It/Whole Lotta Love/Drawing/Light Up My Room/Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel

KT Tunstall

It Took Me So Long To Get Here, But Here I Am/Another Place To Fall/Other Side Of The World/Backlash & Vinegar/I Won’t Back Down/Stoppin’ The Love/Suddenly I See/Never Gonna Give You Up

Feb 25

KING KING

Date: February 24 2022

Venue: Camden Electric Ballroom

Price: £28.00

(She Don’t) Gimme No Lovin’/Fire In My Soul/One World/Waking Up/Rush Hour/A Long History Of Love/You Stopped The Rain/Everything Will Be Alright/Coming Home (Rest Your Eyes)/Whatever It Takes To Survive/I Will Not Fall/Let Love In/When My Winter Comes/Stranger To Love