Nadine Shah live at the Harley Hotel & Bar, Glossop Road Sheffield…supported by David Roch and Canal Boat.
A small venue with average lighting , but great beer (and so it seems food) And the three acts were excellent. Particularly liked Cloud Boat, who each used Roland 404SX samplers to deliver some amazing sounds to blend with their interesting guitar playing.
Good review of Nadine Shah here.
She offered me a glass of red wine…very kind
Set list
Spent nine hours watching seven prog / post / rock bands all for just £6, including two of my favourites I Like Trains and Pineapple Thief.
Here’s the flier for the gig with bands and timings
Tramlines flier
maybeshewill
Enochian Theory
iliketrains
The Enid
Pineapple Thief
Anethema (Acoustic)
Amplifier
For the first time ever I was almost brought to tears with the euphoric sound of one of the tracks by I Like Trains. The multi layer guitar build ups and haunting voice just took me to an emotional edge.
On the opposite end of the emotional scale probably the funniest moment in my gig life was when one of the venue staff cam on to the side of a stage in between songs with a large bucket and asked if the drummer if any one wanted ice – kinda took the edge off the band trying to be cool and all rock n roll
A top event thanks to Northern Music and Tramlines. And the City Hall for providing such a great air conditioned venue. And of course the bands who . Top day and now I’m all rocked out.
Spent an evening in the City Hall Ballroom watching the following four bands:
Alessi’s Ark
Without Feathers
Melanie Pain
Lanterns on the Lake
Olafur Arnalds live at Leicester Cathedral, booked on internet and popped down – quite a rush to get there for 8pm and he didn’t come on until 9.20pm. Atmospheric and lovely gig but annoying women in front with big hair kept obstructing my view. I moved to the left of her head she moved to the left, I moved to the right she moved to the right. GRRRR!
Managed to get a few photos although the light was pretty dire.
Craig Feetham wrote an article for Sheffield’s My Kind of Town magazine and illustrated it with a photo of our band, Glass Music from about 1979, which he mentioned in the piece.
Taken this evening at a gig in Lincoln’s new venue “Tokyo”
Benjamin Francis Leftwich is a great acoustic guitarist, with a wonderfully smooth and mellow voice. Very enjoyable. He was supported by Daughter
Olympus EP2 with the 40-150mm zoom.
