Dec 01

LAURA MARLING

DATE: 24th November 2010

VENUE: Conway Hall, Holborn

PRICE: £20.00

Laura played a few new songs, but unfortunately she did not introduce their names so I have had to guess (this has been scientifically deduced by the most commonly repeated lyric, of course)

Devil’s spoke/Rambling man/Hope in the air/As long as we both shall live/What he wrote/Tap at my window/Alas, I cannot swim/The needle and the damage done (Neil Young cover)/Night after night/Alpha shallows/Ghosts/Medley of new songs/I speak because I can

Support act: The Pins

Nov 23

MYSTERY JETS

DATE: 11th November 2010

VENUE: The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm

PRICE: £14

Alice Springs/Half In Love with Elizabeth/Serotonin/Lady Gray/Young Love/Melt/Hand me down/After dark/Hideaway/Flash a hungry smile/The girl is gone/Two doors down/Dreaming of another world/Behind the bunhouse/Show me the light/Veiled in grey/Flakes

MYSTERY JETS

Nov 18

PARAMORE

DATE: 15.11.10

VENUE: The O2 Arena

PRICE: £28.25

Paramore

Ignorance/Feeling sorry/That’s what you get/For a pessimist, I’m pretty optimistic/Emergency/Playing God/Decode/Let this go/When it rains/Where the lines overlap/Misguided ghosts/Crushcrushcrush/Looking up/The only exception/Brick by boring brick/Misery business (guest appearance by B.o.B)

Support band: B.o.B. (It was his birthday, too)

PARAMORE

PARAMORE

Nov 07

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA

DATE: November 6th 2010

PLACE: Shepherds Bush Empire

PRICE: £22.50

Rodrigo Y Gabriela

11:11/Hanuman/Ixtapa/Savitri/Tamacun/FOC/Satori/Atman/Gabriela solo/Rodrigo solo: Stairway to heaven/Take Five/Beat it/Something/One/Mr.Tang

Gabriela

Oct 27

MOSE ALLISON

DATE: October 26 2010

VENUE: Dean St. Jazz Club

PRICE: £20

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde/One of these days/Look what you made me do/Everybody’s cryin’ mercy/Cruise Control/Numbers on paper/You can’t push people around/Stranger in my own home town/Kidding on the square/Nothing’s gonna do me right/Certified senior citizen/Ever since I stole the blues

Mose Allison

Some people/I’m so easy going/City home/Going to the city/Tell me something that I don’t know/Your molecular structure/Meet me at no special place/What’s your movie/Ever since the world ended/You call it jogging/Gettin’ there/My brain/That’s the stuff you gotta watch/You are my sunshine/Fishing in my pond/You can count on me to play my part

Roy Babbington

Oct 26

TRAIN

DATE: October 25, 2010

VENUE: Shepherds Bush Empire

PRICE: £17.50

Train

Parachute/Get To Me/Meet Virginia/She’s On Fire/I got you/If it’s love/When I look to the sky/Calling all angels/Save Me San Francisco/Words/Marry Me/Hey Soul Sister/Drops of Jupiter/Shake Up Christmas/Something More/Free/Mississippi/Save the Day/This ain’t goodbye

Train live

Pat Monahan crowd surfing

Pat Monahan

Oct 13

SHERYL CROW

DATE: October 13, 2010

VENUE: Hammersmith Apollo

PRICE: £32.50

Sheryl Crow

Our love is fading/A Change/Eye to eye/100 Miles from memphis/Can’t cry any more/Strong enough/Summer day/My favourite mistake/Redemption day/Long road home/Sign your name/Miss you/Everyday is a winding road/Sideways/Roses and moonlight/If it makes you happy/Soak up the sun/Peaceful feeling/All I wanna do/I want you back/I shall believe

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

Oct 06

STRAY

DATE: October 6, 2010

PLACE: Borderline

PRICE: £12.50

Stray

Move a Mountain/Dirt finger/1600 Pennsylvania Avenue/Free at last/Harry Farr/Skin/Double Six/Ghostwriter/24/7/Time machine/Jericho/After the storm/Houdini/Percy the Pimp/I believe it/Buying Time/All in your mind/Hallelujah/Rock n Roll

Former singers Steve Gadd and Pete Dyer each did a turn. A Hamer Flying V was raffled. My ticket was number 99. The winner was no.98 – a housewife from Basingstoke with no interest in the prize and clearly no guitar player. Tragedy!

Del Bromham

Sep 15

BARENAKED LADIES

DATE: Sep 15 2010

PLACE: HMV Hammersmith Apollo

PRICE: £28.00

Barenaked

Who needs sleep/The old apartment/Falling for the first time/Who stole my bike?/Four seconds/Every subway car/another heartbreak/Ordinary/Sound of your voice/It’s all been done/Too little too late/Eraser/You run away/Big bang/One week/Pinch Me/If I had a million dollars/Magic/New York/Goodnight/California Girls/Alcohol/Watching the Northern lights/Tonight is the night I fell asleep at the wheel