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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2014 at 06:31
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Nice review Alan, and very detailed to boot - these days I can never remember set lists once the gig has finished let alone who did what and where and when (and howe). I saw my first pop group at the Cliffs back in 19 oh-blimey, Freddie and The Dreamers, I must have been five or six or so. [erm... give me a few hours and I may remember what I had for lunch today...]

I've too been to a few gigs in recent years where the audience resembled the slaphead contingent at a beer-belly convention. At the last Enid gig I attended at the Farnham Maltings only RJG was older than the audience, Dave Storey about the same age and the rest of the band considerably younger, and there too the queue for the Gents was indeed longer than that for the Ladies.
Thanks Dean, it's not hard to remember the set lists when they play 3 albums in order!
 
Definitely the longest queue for the gents I've seen at a gig, and we got to the bar just in time for the bell to go for the second half Cry
 
Still at least the atmosphere was friendly, unlike the Roger Waters Wall gig at Wembley where I felt like I wandered into the wrong end at a particularly unfriendly football match.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2014 at 09:49
Reminds me of Hackett at the RAH last year - frantically waiting for the interval so I could offload the 2 beers I'd had beforehand... no interval!

Luckily, he did a version of 'Ripples' just on acoustic, so I could bail out to the khasi (along with many others - a urinary stampede, if you will)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2014 at 08:34
Nice review Alan, and very detailed to boot - these days I can never remember set lists once the gig has finished let alone who did what and where and when (and howe). I saw my first pop group at the Cliffs back in 19 oh-blimey, Freddie and The Dreamers, I must have been five or six or so. [erm... give me a few hours and I may remember what I had for lunch today...]

I've too been to a few gigs in recent years where the audience resembled the slaphead contingent at a beer-belly convention. At the last Enid gig I attended at the Farnham Maltings only RJG was older than the audience, Dave Storey about the same age and the rest of the band considerably younger, and there too the queue for the Gents was indeed longer than that for the Ladies.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2014 at 06:42
Sad news indeed.
 
Just posted my review of last night's Yes gig if anyone's interested. Any Shed dweller would have felt right at home. As the guy sitting next to me commented, a lot of 50 year old bladders in evidence, so people were going in and out all night.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2014 at 10:27
One of our great actors - such a loss

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2014 at 07:54
Bob Hoskins...  'kin 'ell!



He will be greatly missed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2014 at 06:58
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I saw Anderson and Wakeman there, now that was a Shedite gig - the only gig I've been to where someone in the audience fell asleep




Saw that tour at Stevenage Leisure Centure an interesting evening, but entertaining nonetheless.

One of my friends witnessed a fight in the audience at that venue during a gig by an ELO tribute band The reason? A man dancing to Wild West Hero preventing another chap's wife behind him from seeing the stage...

...Altamont? Pah!

These ELO tribute band fans - they're just crazy!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2014 at 04:46
LOL


(they should have used an americanised attempt at Shaun Bhaun's Sheffield accent thou')
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2014 at 02:37
Aaaaanyway -

Any fans of Game Of Thrones here?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2014 at 02:19
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I saw Anderson and Wakeman there, now that was a Shedite gig - the only gig I've been to where someone in the audience fell asleep




Saw that tour at Stevenage Leisure Centure an interesting evening, but entertaining nonetheless.

One of my friends witnessed a fight in the audience at that venue during a gig by an ELO tribute band The reason? A man dancing to Wild West Hero preventing another chap's wife behind him from seeing the stage...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2014 at 16:29
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Tomorrow night is Yes at Southend!


A perfect Shedite gig - right up there with seeing Hawkwind at Eastbourne

Ha ha. If it was a long Hawkwind gig in Eastbourne, I suspect a large proportion of the audience would pass away during the gig.

I'll let you know what the new singer is like. Having seen Yes at Wembley and the Albert Hall, Cliffs Pavilion is a bit of a come-down. I saw Anderson and Wakeman there, now that was a Shedite gig - the only gig I've been to where someone in the audience fell asleep.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2014 at 11:54
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

No posts for a couple of weeks... 

Our beloved shed is looking a little worse for wear chaps 



No-one got any gems of aged wisdom?
See... this is what happens when they ban good old fashioned creosote. If we'd had liberally splashed a few gallons of that over the timbers when we moved in even those weeds wouldn't be there now. But alas as it stands one post-curry fart and the whole lot will come crashing down around our ears.

Damn those namby-pamby dogoody-goody wishy-washy tree-huggy-huggy lefty-wefty righty-tighty money-tighty-wighty ICI funded-wunded ('It does what it say on the tin in teeny-tiny small-print') political lobbyists. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2014 at 11:10
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Tomorrow night is Yes at Southend!


A perfect Shedite gig - right up there with seeing Hawkwind at Eastbourne

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2014 at 10:59
Can't think of any gems of wisdom at the moment, but I went to see The Counterfeit Stones last night and was somewhat surprised to find that I used to work with their drummer in the early 80s.

Tomorrow night is Yes at Southend!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2014 at 10:14
No posts for a couple of weeks...

Our beloved shed is looking a little worse for wear chaps



No-one got any gems of aged wisdom?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2014 at 12:39
Yeah, mistype a search for "milk pudding" just once and google never lets you forget...  Ouch
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 02 2014 at 12:24
Why do I keep getting ads for a mature dating site on PA?

Oh wait, I think I know.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2014 at 07:09
I think that video's spoiled me for ever going to a psy-trance club again - I had difficulty enough in the past keeping a straight face at some of the dancing*, but after this...





*Disclaimer - my dancing of course was beyond the pail & a sight to strike terror into children & those of a nervouse disposition reproach

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2014 at 05:12
LOL 

That works on mosh-pit videos too - find a suitable one on YouTube, mute the sound then synch-up Jim's vid on the audio - helearyarse.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2014 at 04:21
now that's talent
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