Some highlights of Merthyr Rising Festival 🎵 this weekend - Attila the Stockbroker and Bedface

The Neville Staple Band and Cast

The immortal Gong at The Globe, Cardiff, Thursday 23rd May 2019 🎵

Informative and interesting article on The Quietus - 🔖 The Strange World Of…Gong - including a selection of videos. And I’m going to see Gong at the The Globe, Cardiff on Thursday 😀 🎵

Went to see Suede at The Great Hall, Cardiff University Students’ Union last night 🎵. They were amazingly good, an absolutely electric gig from start to finish. I saw Suede twice in the 1990s with exactly the same lineup of Brett Anderson, Richard Oakes, Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert and Neil Codling. Last night’s performance was as good as, if not better than, those earlier days.

Great support from BC Camplight (aka Brian Christinzio).

The Suede setlist was

• As One
  
• My Insatiable One
  
• Outsiders
  
• We Are the Pigs
  
• So Young
  
• Metal Mickey
  
• New Generation
  
• Tides
  
• She’s Not Dead
  
• Stay Together (Brett with Richard acoustic)
  
• The Drowners
  
• It Starts and Ends With You
  
• Indian Strings
  
• Trash
  
• Animal Nitrate
  
• Another No One (Brett solo acoustic)
  
• Beyond the Outskirts
  
• The Invisibles
  
• Flytipping
  
• Beautiful Ones (encore)
  
• Life Is Golden (encore)
  

Chloe Foy at Tiny Rebel, Cardiff tonight - superb, now looking forward to seeing her at the Green Man Festival this year. 🎵

Bryony Sier at Tiny Rebel, Cardiff 🎵 🎸

Spiritualized at Paradiso, Amsterdam. 🎵

Awaiting Spirtualized at Paradiso, Amsterdam. 🎵

Another Sky at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff last night. Strong backlights, mists and shadows. Great music, really pleased that I got tickets as soon as I saw their set on Jools Holland’s Later last year. @anotherskymusic 🎵

🔖 Welsh National Opera’s Un Ballo in Maschera - terrific gory fun with pirates, witchcraft and murder. Just seen this and definitely agree with the review.

Un ballo in maschera - interval.

Pre-opera glass of wine. At Wales Millennium Centre for Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera.

Another Sky 🎵 🔖 Heavens above

🔖 King Crimson Cardiff Show by Tony Levin

King Crimson at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wednesday 31st October 2018. 🎵

🔖 David Byrne: ‘My agent says I’m having a Leonard Cohen moment’

David Byrne at Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Saturday 27th October 2018. Brilliant show with excellent support from Benjamin Clementine. 🎵

Echo and the Bunnymen at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff, Monday 15th October 2018 🎵

Went to see the incredible Norwegian band Major Parkinson at Exchange in Bristol last night. One of the best live performances I’ve seen in a long time! 🎵

K. T. Tunstall 🎵

Edit after the event, when I wasn’t watching the bands:

K. T. Tunstall was supporting

The Pretenders and

Simple Minds

Checked in at Cyfarthfa Castle. Simple Minds, Pretenders & K. T. Tunstall 🎵

Fantastic! The Selecter at Caerphilly Castle 🎵

He was high-brow, low-brow, every-brow! 🔖 the genius of Leonard Bernstein 🎵

The Breeders at the O2 Academy Bristol, Tuesday 10th July 🎵

Pip Blom 🎵