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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 18, 2009 18:28:22 GMT
Place to post details, comments and memories of smallish venues where you've heard bands/musicians play. Places that have been recommended too!! Oran Mor - Glasgow www.oran-mor.co.uk/page/About_ran_Mr_145.htmlNewish all round venue - food/beer/music. Live acts some fairly big /traditional music/ smaller lunchtime shows -stunning interior and worth a visit, a wee bit on the trendy side tho - no problem for us !! Dublin (Coolraven will better with this one) www.musiclee.ie/This site covers the traditional music scene in Dublin and where to go. The Cobblestones is all that you would imagine of an old established drinking and listening and drinking pub Saw the band Slide in here and B Connolly has been known to pop in for a session (music) loads and loads of others. Wooden floors, dark shady corners and miles to the Ladies - on a weekend night! Weeds - Chicago www.chibarproject.com/Reviews/Weed%27s/Weed%27s.htmAn institution in Chicago since the 60's for soul / blues music and still going.
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 18, 2009 18:41:59 GMT
The Half Moon, Putney, south-west London. At one time I seemed to be there a couple of times a week. Fairport have played there many times and a complete list of artists may be on their site at www.halfmoon.co.uk/
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Post by admin on Aug 19, 2009 20:37:18 GMT
Hmmm.... For a Tull kind of band it's Shepherds Bush Empire for me. A lovely old theatre with great atmosphere & sound. Not so great for a stand up gig though as the stage is very low. Cambridge Corn Exchange is my favourite new place to go. If anyone I want to see is playing there I'll now go there over a London show. And for noisy hairy rock n roll stuff...Brixton Academy. A brilliant seedy flea pit!
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Post by coolraven on Aug 20, 2009 13:42:24 GMT
I presume that must be the old cinema, Brixton Academy. Saw ' Zulu' there in 1968 which my then girlfriend kept referring to as 'Uzu'. I lived on Abbeyville Road, worked in Ferndale Road Post Office as a counter clerk. Fantastic time to be young and good -looking !!
(I remember, fresh from Ireland, my first walk along Acre Lane and noticing lots of girls getting lifts from motorists. My, I thought, are'nt British motorists very courteous and obliging !)
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Post by maddogfagin on Aug 20, 2009 17:41:11 GMT
The Fairfield Halls in Croydon. Saville Theatre, London
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 20, 2009 17:56:18 GMT
Lovely poster. I wish the more established venues would have a "history" link on the sites to see who played there.
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Post by nonrabbit on Aug 20, 2009 18:00:46 GMT
I presume that must be the old cinema, Brixton Academy. Saw ' Zulu' there in 1968 which my then girlfriend kept referring to as 'Uzu'. I lived on Abbeyville Road, worked in Ferndale Road Post Office as a counter clerk. Fantastic time to be young and good -looking !! (I remember, fresh from Ireland, my first walk along Acre Lane and noticing lots of girls getting lifts from motorists. My, I thought, are'nt British motorists very courteous and obliging !) ;D ;D I remember ( fresh from Scotland) seeing two men going down the street holding hands for the first time early 70's. Didn't see that too much in Glasgow then ;D
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Post by broadsword on Aug 20, 2009 23:06:37 GMT
Folks, if ever you're in Oxford on a Monday, check this place out - The Bullingdon Arms. They have a regular blues night on a Monday - that band I keep banging on about - The Hamsters, play there late September, it's all on www.famousmondayblues.co.uk/However, it can be a $h1t of a place to park.
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Post by broadsword on Oct 24, 2009 21:26:30 GMT
Went to a smashing place called the Beaverwood Club in Chislehurst last Thursday and saw my favourite band. (no prizes for guessing who that was). £12 for 2 hours plus of top notch rock music - The Hamsters played their Hendrix/ZZ Top set. The venue's real easy to get to - just off the A20, heaps of parking with good beer. They've got Buddy Whittington on soon - ex John Mayalls Bluesbreakers and they have regular blues/rock acts on several nights a week.
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Post by chea on Nov 9, 2009 12:46:29 GMT
All these places really makes my dreaming.....
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 9, 2009 17:49:03 GMT
All these places really makes my dreaming..... Would love to hear/see some of the Italian venues
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Post by chea on Nov 11, 2009 9:54:17 GMT
All these places really makes my dreaming..... Would love to hear/see some of the Italian venues I' m afraid,i haven' got any picture to show,here but i can tell you some impressions.Last year J.T show at Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan.A venue at their height:modern architecture building about three years old really wonderful.Another good choice for the Christmas Concert in Bologna the following December,but in Sport Palace.This year one of the best place i've ever been with J.T(!)in my whole life.In Spring ,Concert at Udine Castle.It is an huge Middle Age Manor which lies at the top of one hill in full Town's center!!I was REALLY shocked because i arrived early afternoon and,parking my motor bike suddenly started Ian's sound ceck flute from high!!.....i was unable to move for several minutes :oJ.T music in Udine's town center coming from the sky!!!The show was particularly amazing.The stage in front of the Castle in a broad green grass area,nightime city lights under us,all that surrounded by Jethro Tull Music .Before the show we met Doane Perry in the little restaurant,also.How many emotions for a poor 53 years old fan like me!! :DThe show in Riolo this Summer was exactly the worse place i've ever been with Tull.The village is beautyful,the concert's venue,awful.A big dusty field without grass.bottles and plastic glasses nearly everywhere.It was the last concert for them before I.A acoustic Tour and i've found them in very good shape.I love Buxton Theatre.It was the first time for me,there.I found place like thet suitable for J.T music,very classical contest....
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Post by nonrabbit on Nov 11, 2009 10:28:11 GMT
Would love to hear/see some of the Italian venues I' m afraid,i haven' got any picture to show,here but i can tell you some impressions.Last year J.T show at Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan.A venue at their height:modern architecture building about three years old really wonderful.Another good choice for the Christmas Concert in Bologna the following December,but in Sport Palace.This year one of the best place i've ever been with J.T(!)in my whole life.In Spring ,Concert at Udine Castle.It is an huge Middle Age Manor which lies at the top of one hill in full Town's center!!I was REALLY shocked because i arrived early afternoon and,parking my motor bike suddenly started Ian's sound ceck flute from high!!.....i was unable to move for several minutes :oJ.T music in Udine's town center coming from the sky!!!The show was particularly amazing.The stage in front of the Castle in a broad green grass area,nightime city lights under us,all that surrounded by Jethro Tull Music .Before the show we met Doane Perry in the little restaurant,also.How many emotions for a poor 53 years old fan like me!! :DThe show in Riolo this Summer was exactly the worse place i've ever been with Tull.The village is beautyful,the concert's venue,awful.A big dusty field without grass.bottles and plastic glasses nearly everywhere.It was the last concert for them before I.A acoustic Tour and i've found them in very good shape.I love Buxton Theatre.It was the first time for me,there.I found place like thet suitable for J.T music,very classical contest.... i34.images obliterated by tinypic/2mop0tf.jpg[/IMG] Hope I've got the right pic. It looks quite majestic and very classy. I think personally apart from the technical side of things - acoustics etc - the venue - for the fan, plays a significant part of the whole Tull Live package. The setting is important for the drama and theatrical part of the whole gig. For me the part of getting to the concert the anticipation and sitting looking around the venue is like the starters to the main course. Mind you I'd still go and see them if they were playing in a draughty concrete bus station however this 52 yr old Tull fan likes a bit of glamour and comfort I can just see you Chea sitting on your motorbike mesmerised with the sound of Tull on high. Music from the Gods !!
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 12, 2009 0:17:10 GMT
I remember spending much time and emotion, in the mid to late seventies...wishing unrealistically that Tull would be able to play some of the clasier bay Area venues instead of the accurately named 'Cow Palace' and equally cavernous Oakland Coliseum...and over the years, I have got my wishes, one at a time, as the Tull audience shrank and their reputation as riot-starters disappeared...I have now seen Tull/Ian in brilliant, music-friendly places like: The Luther Burbank theater in Sta Rosa, where Richard Thompson often played to quiet, adoring audiences, The Warfield theater in SF, where big names like the Dead, Dylan and Petty ventured multi-night gigs in place of stadiums, The Paramount in Oakland, An old winery in Saratoga with high tech sounds and beautiful nights...the only local venue where Tull/Ian have failed to fulfil my ancient wish list is San Francisco's legendary Fillmore.....I think he may have been 'dosed' there in 1970......
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Post by chea on Nov 16, 2009 11:17:26 GMT
I' m afraid,i haven' got any picture to show,here but i can tell you some impressions.Last year J.T show at Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan.A venue at their height:modern architecture building about three years old really wonderful.Another good choice for the Christmas Concert in Bologna the following December,but in Sport Palace.This year one of the best place i've ever been with J.T(!)in my whole life.In Spring ,Concert at Udine Castle.It is an huge Middle Age Manor which lies at the top of one hill in full Town's center!!I was REALLY shocked because i arrived early afternoon and,parking my motor bike suddenly started Ian's sound ceck flute from high!!.....i was unable to move for several minutes :oJ.T music in Udine's town center coming from the sky!!!The show was particularly amazing.The stage in front of the Castle in a broad green grass area,nightime city lights under us,all that surrounded by Jethro Tull Music .Before the show we met Doane Perry in the little restaurant,also.How many emotions for a poor 53 years old fan like me!! :DThe show in Riolo this Summer was exactly the worse place i've ever been with Tull.The village is beautyful,the concert's venue,awful.A big dusty field without grass.bottles and plastic glasses nearly everywhere.It was the last concert for them before I.A acoustic Tour and i've found them in very good shape.I love Buxton Theatre.It was the first time for me,there.I found place like thet suitable for J.T music,very classical contest.... i34.images obliterated by tinypic/2mop0tf.jpg [/IMG] Hope I've got the right pic. It looks quite majestic and very classy. I think personally apart from the technical side of things - acoustics etc - the venue - for the fan, plays a significant part of the whole Tull Live package. The setting is important for the drama and theatrical part of the whole gig. For me the part of getting to the concert the anticipation and sitting looking around the venue is like the starters to the main course. Mind you I'd still go and see them if they were playing in a draughty concrete bus station however this 52 yr old Tull fan likes a bit of glamour and comfort I can just see you Chea sitting on your motorbike mesmerised with the sound of Tull on high. Music from the Gods !! [/quote] Hi Nonrabbit.Wery well done!This picture shows Udine's concert venue.I have to pay a drink when we'll meet! ;)To a particular kind of music like the J.T one is,it is more enjoyable to be in the audience in a place like this,i agree with you.Surely i felt mesmerised by Tull sound from high,but schoked,too,after four hours bike driving and 35 degrees....It has been a sort of Ian's welcome !Thanks for finding the picture.
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Post by broadsword on Nov 16, 2009 12:52:51 GMT
Here's a plug for the Hammersmith Odeon/Apollo. This is a wonderful venue in west London, all art deco inside, excellent viewing/acoustics. Me and the missus saw Deep Purple there yesterday and apart from a superb show anyway, it was so nice to be in a venue of good taste. Don't even think of driving there, catch the underground - the station is opposite the venue in a shopping mall, walking time - maybe 2 to 3 minutes.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 16, 2009 15:49:08 GMT
Here's a plug for the Hammersmith Odeon/Apollo. This is a wonderful venue in west London, all art deco inside, excellent viewing/acoustics. Me and the missus saw Deep Purple there yesterday and apart from a superb show anyway, it was so nice to be in a venue of good taste. Excellent venue. Shame that Tull can't sell enough seats there these days.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 17, 2010 9:58:45 GMT
Now I've seen Tull and a host of other bands in, to be honest, some imposing (and not so imposing) venues but for a grand building The Portsmouth Guildhall must be one of the best. The entrance for rock concerts by the way is the little groundfloor door to the left of the steps!
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 18, 2010 19:24:59 GMT
Marquee Roundhouse, Camden Swan & Sugarloaf, south Croydon The Gun Tavern, Croydon Wallington Public Halls The Red Lion, Sutton
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 15, 2010 12:37:18 GMT
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 24, 2010 13:19:41 GMT
Here's a plug for the Hammersmith Odeon/Apollo. This is a wonderful venue in west London, all art deco inside, excellent viewing/acoustics. Me and the missus saw Deep Purple there yesterday and apart from a superb show anyway, it was so nice to be in a venue of good taste. Don't even think of driving there, catch the underground - the station is opposite the venue in a shopping mall, walking time - maybe 2 to 3 minutes. I remember travelling down to The Hamersmith Odeon (as it was then) to see Tull on the "Underwraps" tour, and I agree it's a great venue, we were 4 rows from the back but still had a good view. Usher Hall in Edinburgh is another amazing music venue, I was there to see Tull on the "Warchild" tour, this time we were in Row Z, up in the gods, tes we couldn't be further away from the stage.
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Post by bunkerfan on Apr 24, 2010 13:24:55 GMT
Here's an outside view of Usher Hall.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 10, 2011 13:45:22 GMT
I'm off to a Mummers function next week where they herald in the Spring burning the straw man on the ancient hill also have traditional music and hot cross buns ( the symbol of the cross being the four seasons and not the common christian explanation) - haven't joined the Mummers ----yet however I will be reading out a poem based on Jack-In-the Green. The venue is a school building about 130 hundred years old complete with old wooden boards and original childrens clothes pegs on the wall. It's in a beautiful and eery spot overlooking Lough Erne and is the base for the Fermanagh Mummers or Aughakillymaude the name of the area which is translated as the wooden field of the wild dog www.fermanagh.info/aughakillymaudei51.images obliterated by tinypic/5qltx.jpg[/IMG] i51.images obliterated by tinypic/2zs2ya8.jpg[/IMG] Loreena's video shows the Mummers and what rascality they get up too I'll take pics when I'm there and some of them I'll even post ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 15, 2011 10:16:44 GMT
Personally Ms Nonrabbit I'm all for the traditional game (art?) of Dwile Flonking/Dwyle Flunking. The rules and description of the game are Resurrected in the late 1960’s Dwile Flonking (or Dwyle Flunking) is an outdoor pub game of dubious origin but startling originality. Centred around the villages of Bungay and Beccles in Suffolk this is a bizarre game made even more unusual by its incredible array of yokel terminology. The game requires two teams formed of twelve players each. One team forms a circle (called the Girter). A member of the opposing team takes his turn to stand in the middle of the Girter and be the Flonker. The Flonker carries a 2-3 foot long stick (or Driveller) on the end of which is a beer sodden sponge (or dwile). As the Girter members dance around him the Flonker must flonk his dwile using his Driveller to try and hit a member of the Girter. He has two attempts and scores as follows:
Hit on the head (a Wanton) 3 points Hit on the body (a Marther) 2 points Hit on the leg (a Ripple) 1 point
Miss totally (a Swadger) 0 points, plus the poor Flonker must now, as a forfeit, quickly drink a pint of ale. A process which for some reason has no rustic alternative name in the yokel-lexicon.
Each member of the team has a go at being the Flonker then the two teams change places. The highest combined team score wins although often games finish with no-one knowing or even caring about the score. Like many village games, Dwile Flunking's origins are cloudy to say the least but a game very similar in appearance appears in the 16th century painting “Children’s Games” by Breughel.strange-games.blogspot.com/2007/09/dwile-flonking-dwyle-flunking.htmlPieter Brueghel, Children’s Games (1560) Mind you, I used to perform in mumming plays around Croydon and suburbs in my early days raising money for charity - never could get on with, or understand, morris dancing though. It was also a splendid excuse to drink copious amounts of Youngs beer and say it was all in aid of worthy causes.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 15, 2011 15:48:47 GMT
Yes indeedy in fact the Morris dancers come over here and perform with the Mummers and vice versa.
I can't wait it's all so very pagan and it makes you feel very at one with the elements especially when we stand in a circle and chant , hopefully there will be a full moon this year. Lastly, we burn the straw effigy or Bob as he's generally known prior to the offering and afterwards in the rebirth he's renamed Broabach - which is Irish for Bob.
The sacrifice bit was banned in 2001 due to revised health and safety regs - bummer.
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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 15, 2011 18:44:39 GMT
Oh they've not banned human sacrifice have they?
Sh1t, that's b2ggered up this weekend's festivities here in Kernow.
Bloody pagens, what have they ever done for us eh?
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Post by nonrabbit on Jan 18, 2012 10:57:39 GMT
The Slaughtered Lamb Live music venue Clerkenwell London i41.images obliterated by tinypic/152f6t0.jpg[/IMG] www.theslaughteredlambpub.com/"The Slaughtered Lamb is home to a standard gastro-bar affair on the top floor, but descend into it’s bowels and you’ll uncover an intimate haven that looks like a cross between your Gran’s living room and a dodgy strip club. Picture animal print rugs with whisky stains and frilly lampshades dotted around. It may seem bizarre but these disparate decorating styles mesh quite nicely and provide the perfect atmosphere for the odd mix of pretty girls with guitars and gruff, foul-mouthed troubadours that are booked to entertain the crowd...." Alice Aylett Roberts Spoonfed Good selection of bands/musicians old/new appearing.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jan 19, 2012 11:18:17 GMT
Here's a few pictures of The ABC/Globe Theatre where I saw Tull for the first time. Memories, Memories. Taken in 1957 The interior when it was a bingo hall. It's still standing, but only just.
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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 28, 2012 20:42:19 GMT
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