Simple Minds & Del Amitri last night at the Hydro, Glasgow.
Saxon
Proper British metal
Great setlist, band sounded tight and Biff’s vocals were awesome. For a bunch of old dudes… wow!
I managed to catch these thrown from the stage
Kim Richey at the Blue Lamp, Aberdeen on Tuesday 21st May.
Madness in NYC
Edit: A quick phone snap outside the venue. MSG is just around the corner on the right at the first crossroads. The Empire State Building a few blocks down.
Night Verses in support were OK, but I think that 30 minutes of instrumental was enough and more would have bored me.
Both NV & Tool were LOUD.
Doris Brendel and Lee Dunham at the Larick Centre, Tayport in Fife this afternoon.
AC/DC last night at Wembley. The stage set was great, the setlist was great, the playing was great, the crowd was great and sang all the classics.
But…Brian’s voice was mixed way back in the sound, and at the end of many many songs he was holding his throat and plainly struggling. There was zero chat from him at any point, just 30 seconds or so of silence on a black stage between songs. Good job he’s got three days between gigs to recover. Angus was Angus, but he’s 69 and looked all of it, but it was a two hour show, so…
I guess you can’t sing the way he has for so many years and not have a voice that isn’t shot to pieces in later years. It’s hardly a conventional way of singing.
Piirpauke tonight in Ruka, Kuusamo, Maj Karma last week in Helsinki. Both fantastic, instrumental jazzy and Finnish hard rock.