DATE: December 9 2010
VENUE: Borderline
PRICE: £14.00
Saturday/Baby Loves You/We’re all Alright/The Beast/Heaven Or Hell/Right By Your Side/Time To Let You Go/Come Together/Fly High Michelle/New Thing
Dec 01
WALLIS BIRD
DATE: 29th November 2010
VENUE: The Cargo, Shoreditch
PRICE: £8.50
Blossoms in the street/La la land/An idea about Mary/Meal of convenience/Berlin/Made of sugar/Measuring cities/The circle/Come back/Travelling bird/To by bones/In dictum
Support act: Erin Vice
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
Nov 18
PARAMORE
DATE: 15.11.10
VENUE: The O2 Arena
PRICE: £28.25
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)
Nov 07
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
DATE: November 6th 2010
PLACE: Shepherds Bush Empire
PRICE: £22.50
11:11/Hanuman/Ixtapa/Savitri/Tamacun/FOC/Satori/Atman/Gabriela solo/Rodrigo solo: Stairway to heaven/Take Five/Beat it/Something/One/Mr.Tang
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
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
Oct 26
TRAIN
DATE: October 25, 2010
VENUE: Shepherds Bush Empire
PRICE: £17.50
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
Pat Monahan crowd surfing
Oct 13
SHERYL CROW
DATE: October 13, 2010
VENUE: Hammersmith Apollo
PRICE: £32.50
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
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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:
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:
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…
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