They don't make music like they used to

I put this on twitter and someone replied "isn't there a thread about music on yellow fever for this kind of thing?"

I can't win

Twitter is for campaigns to give the homeless moisturiser and hair conditioner.

It's facebook you want.

my facebook is too full of people I barely know telling me that they are in some god-foresaken rural shithole NZ backwater doing stuff that I am not interested in.  No way I can squeeze anything else into there.

New Afghan Whigs album is very good.

Afghan Whigs are a proper band for proper people.

James - Moving On

I thought he was just making a joke about Facebook.

maybe I just don't see it that way. If he was making a joke then I apologize.

I nominate Frankie for the YF Wind Up Merchant (to be elected at the AGM tonight).  I think he has held this position in an honorary capacity anyway.

Which gig would you like to know more about FT?

don't apologise, I am an exceeding smug cunt.

Fourteen, if I win the 18 million tomorrow night, I shall shout you a trip with me to the UK to catch up on some of these gigs and some football too, ok? Sorry, but it'd have to be business class though....return.

Frankie - The Hold Steady - Thought they got a bit bloated after Boys and Girls but still an excellent band.

This is what I put in the other thread about the hold steady gig - please let me know if you need more details about my tedious life

What were you wearing?

(pics?)

No pics. Was wearing very sweaty clothes by the end of the night (it was very hot in there and I spent the last few songs bopping about at the front)

OK....

What are you wearing now?

(pics?)

How was the Prince concert Frankie?

Frankie - I would quite like to read a review of Fishbone playing this Friday at The Underworld. Be a good boy and pop along there would you?

Also, Paul Weller at the 100 Club Oxford St. 2moro night. Review please. Ta.

Well he goes to gigs doesn't he? Or not?

PS New thread suggestion - your first gig. Who? Where? How good/bad?

Mine: Steampacket at Khandallah Town Hall. Onslow Coll band playing Mayall/Small Faces/Kinks/Spencer Davis covers. FANTASTIC!

Billy Joel / John  Farnham double concert Athletic Park around 1980ish.

sorry chaps, but too busy this week to attend anymore gigs (although I would have been keen for Weller at the 100 Club).

saw Prince last night, and it was pretty funking awesome. He dressed like an old Jewish women who lives in Miami, but him (and 3rd Eye Girl) where really good. On stage for about 2 hours, it was just a relentless chain of hits. Highlights for me were a more funky version of Lets go Crazy (opening song), Nothing compares 2 u, and When doves cry (released 30 years ago this month apparently - that made me feel old). Not so good was Purple Rain (final song and a bit over-blown), not doing Darling Nicki, and not doing the splits and then bouncing back to his feet again (although, to be fair he is either a 55 year old man, or a 83 year old women, and neither of them could be expected to do that on a regular basis). I am not the world's biggest Prince fan, but there was probably only 2 or 3 songs I didn't know.

Funniest part of the night was when he did Kiss, and tried to get everyone to sing alternate lines with him - half the crowd trying it in his amazing falsetto, with the rest trying to sing it normally - it just made the whole thing sound weird.

No more of these in case FT's head explodes.

Did he do any blues numbers? He can play them but has never released anything along that line.

No blues - it was the funk, the whole funk and nothing but the funk.

Funken Hell! Still a talented guitarist. Go see Joe Bonamassa when he is next over Frankie. If I had the dosh, I'd go to his Auckland concert. Shame he's not coming down here but then that would be showing some initiative from the Wellington event centers.

Looking forward to seeing The Beat at Bodega this Friday.

If you've never seen the film Dance Craze before you are really missing out. All the 2-Tone bands feature including The Specials, The Beat, Madness and The Selecter. The footage and performances are fantastic - the best concert film ever made in my opinion. Here's a link to the whole film on Youtube:

Also, here's a cool little documentary on 2-Tone by Channel 4:

What????

No idea this was happening and I'm working with no way to get time off, as there is no one to cover me. The wife knew apparently about "some stupid concert" - gutted.

It's "The English Beat" which is basically just Dave Wakeling but still going to be a cracking gig.

So, so many good songs.

+ 1. Seeing them Sat nite at The Studio, K Rd. Have beat will dance.

*puts on tin helmet*

*pokes head into thread and has a look round for Fortean Times*

I am going to see the Violent Femmes tonight.

*looks around nervously.....starts crying*

*runs away*

And what will you be wearing?

jeans, orange t-shirt, grey zip-up hoody, trainers.

Chav-casual I believe the look is called.

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