concert schedule

[aljaM]

Went to see Flogging Molly yesterday in Ljubljana, Slovenia!!
they ripped the place apart!!! GREAT!!

Now waiting to see the Pogues in Munich and Zagreb!! yeah!!

[territa]

I've got my ticket for July 8, 2011 -- Steve Earle at GRUENE HALL !!!

If you were thinking of planning a trip to drought-stricken south central Texas this summer, this is your excuse to party!!! Let me know who's coming.

Can't stress enough how awesome this is that he's playing at this venue. He plays Austin, Texas Thursday, July 7, then comes to Gruene Hall for Friday night's show.

I just found out that Steve Earle is touring with the DUKES again this summer...and playing a lovely theater 45 minutes away from me. Yay! I've been dying to see Steve play electric again since I saw him with the Dukes in 2000 or so.

http://steveearle.com/tour.html

My own olde-timey/lefty/folky outfit the Heggs has back-to-back gigs this weekend, Friday at a bar within crawling distance and Saturday at an Arts Festival up the road a bit. Yay, and yay again!

He's coming to my town too, also in a lovely venue. We've already got tickets and will see him in about ... well exactly a month. Also will get to see James McMurtry for the first time this summer.

Unfortunately I will miss a bevy of good shows this summer, but I guess I'll be happy with what I get.

Think i posted somewhere else on here... it's now the "Dukes & Duchesses", hold on, i'll link it.... wait, can't figure that out. Oh well, i said ...

Just got us 2 tix for Steve Earle, June 26 here in Vancouver.

It's billed as "Steve Earle & the Dukes & Duchesses ft. Allison Moorer", which is a bit wordy, and also an indication that the lineup has changed since he last toured with The Dukes, several years ago. (Original Blackheart & Del Lord) Eric Amble is out, but the band now features former Son Volt guitarist Chris Masterson, with his wife Eleanor Whitmore on fiddle. Earle's wife Moorer on keys, also i'm guessing guitar & vocals.

No word on whether the rhythm section has changed. Kelly Looney has played bass for years, but Earle goes through drummers the way some people go through socks, but the last one was Will Rigby.

I love Steve Earle, but have always thought he could do better on the rhythm sections. He had Brady Blade on loan from Emmylou Harris' band for one tour, and he was smoking - esp. as it was with the Mark Stuart & David Steele on guitars, what a line up that was. I'm excited for the electric band with fiddle, though.

[DzM]

You tease.

[Sportin' Life]

Steve and the Dukes and Duchesses were great last night. I had only seen him a few three years ago, when he was mostly a solo act, but brought in the DJ for most of the last set, so it was a completely different show. I really liked all the experimental stuff he was doing with that, so I don't know if this show was better, but it is definitely well worth attending both.

The Dukes and Duchesses are a talented bunch. Everyone except the drummer played at least two instruments, and got a chance to sing their own song. By my count the guitarist played guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, mandola (I think), and a bass guitar. I don't remember if I saw him with a banjo ever. He also sang what was easily the best non-Steve Earle song of the night, and did a fine young Elvis Costello impression. There was a violin, all manner of guitars, mandolins (electric and accoustic), mandola, steel guitar, drums, bass, banjo, upright piano, accordion, and probably more that I don't remember. The guy running the new instruments out worked hard. Fortunately for him, they just left the piano out there. The setlist seemed balanced with old and new songs throughout.

There wasn't as much of Steve really experimenting, but the great country band made up for that in my mind. I suspect most of the Steve Earle fans like his more traditional sound so they were well pleased, and the band really did that justice. It was definitely nice to hear some of the older songs performed the way they were meant to be played. "Meet Me in the Alleyway" was a highlight for me, as well as "Galway Girl", which I always like. I think the rest of the crowd would have just liked to hear "Copperhead Road" twenty times. Pogues fans will also probably really enjoy "Gulf of Mexico".

Great show. Those of you with later dates on the tour are in for a treat.

[firehazard]

John Cooper Clarke at the weekend.

Not on the sharpest form ever, never sure how much of the apparent onstage chaos is stage persona and how much of it is just the way JCC is. But always enjoyable, and very funny. We developed a theory during the gig that he has some pact with his male fans which makes them donate their hair to him...

Support was Luke Wright, very sharp young performance poet. Well worth catching.

They're both off to Glasto for next weekend.

[Esther]

Got my flight booked for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco Sept. 30-Oct. 2!! Am excited to go with my good friend who used to live there, has been to all 10 prior festivals and loves good live music as much as I do.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Saw Sade last night. Absolutely spellbinding. The band was tight, the understated sets were perfect and the singing was flawless.

[Low D]

We saw Steve Earle & the Dukes & Ducheses last night. Missed the first song, 'cause the show started at the time printed on the ticket?!

The Dukes and Duchesses are a talented bunch. Everyone except the drummer played at least two instruments, and got a chance to sing their own song. By my count the guitarist played guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, mandola (I think), and a bass guitar.

And a lap steel, just to round it off.

I don't remember if I saw him with a banjo ever. He also sang what was easily the best non-Steve Earle song of the night, and did a fine young Elvis Costello impression. There was a violin, all manner of guitars, mandolins (electric and accoustic), mandola, steel guitar, drums, bass, banjo, upright piano, accordion, and probably more that I don't remember.

Think what you're calling a mandola was actually a mandocello, or some sort of octave mandolin. Plus there was a baritone guitar (kinda like a giant uke). I think that's all tho.

The guy running the new instruments out worked hard. Fortunately for him, they just left the piano out there. The setlist seemed balanced with old and new songs throughout.

There wasn't as much of Steve really experimenting, but the great country band made up for that in my mind. I suspect most of the Steve Earle fans like his more traditional sound so they were well pleased, and the band really did that justice. It was definitely nice to hear some of the older songs performed the way they were meant to be played. "Meet Me in the Alleyway" was a highlight for me, as well as "Galway Girl", which I always like. I think the rest of the crowd would have just liked to hear "Copperhead Road" twenty times. Pogues fans will also probably really enjoy "Gulf of Mexico".

Great show. Those of you with later dates on the tour are in for a treat.

I'd have to say this may be my favourite Dukes line up yet. Chris Masterson was really able to handle the different guitar styles: from Richard Bennett's big-string sound on the old classics like 'Guitar Town" to David Steele's rocking out on the likes of "Tannytown". And he put his own mark on a few as well, most notably "Ben McCullugh", with a sweet call & response solo between himself & wife Eleanor Whitmore (fiddle).

The new stuff was better live than on the album, which i frankly found boring. Long-time drummer Will Rigby actually seemed to thrive on the slower, jamier stuff, playing with more flourish and shuffle than i've seen from him before. Even loner-serving bassist Kelly Loony strapped on a fretless a couple times for the new numbers. Didn't do anything much with it, tho, just hung around looking like he had bad gas or something like he always does, and played minimal. But then he picked up Alison's guitar and sang "Kindness of Strangers" and surprised me with his sweet voice.

The highlight of the show might have been when Allison strapped on a sparkly gold Gretsch solidbody and sang the pants off of "Long Time Coming". Not much of a fan of her stuff (pretty, but boring) and was thrilled to hear her finally sing all-out, and what a voice!

[Sportin' Life]

Mandocello? Learn something new ....

He played Ben McCulloch for you guys? Sweet, I'm glad that's still in the repertoire.

[Big Vern]

Went to my 14th Glasto last weekend,just about the worst one i have ever attended.I enjoyed seeing Bellowhead and The Fishermans Friends and some of the lesser known acts scattered round the site,i decided to split when Beyonce appeared,thanks but no thanks, but that was one big corporate act too many for me.

[Low D]

Mandocello? Learn something new ....

Mandolin - mandola - mandocello - mandobass
as to
Violin - viola - cello - bass

But to further confuse things, there are now "octave mandolins", which are the size of a mandola or mandocello, but strung in the same key as a mandolin. Then there's citterns, like what Terry Woods plays, but i'm not sure what their deal is (except theat they sound great when played by Terry!)

He played Ben McCulloch for you guys? Sweet, I'm glad that's still in the repertoire.

I was happy too, 'cause it's one of my favourites. The arrangement with the new band (incl. Steve's easier version of Norman Blake's intro, "Northern Winds") was super sweet.

[Cdn Steve]

RUSH - Vancouver, June 30, 2011

"Time Machine Tour", including their 1981 album 'Moving Pictures' performed in its entirety.

nice to see these Canadian icons on the road again. Been a fan for over 30 years - and they never disappoint.

Youtube Clip from Cleveland Ohio show with Alex on octave mandolin at 2:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnrCWSpup-g

[O'Blivion]

http://youtu.be/i6uTGMn0R-U

My 80s punk band which refuses to grow up, FRICTION, yesterday at our hometown festival Riverfest. It was 99 degrees at least, but we turned in a 75 minute set of original music which made us, and the audience, feel 21 again. Note the Pogues t-shirt on yours truly.

[KathleenwithaK]

http://youtu.be/i6uTGMn0R-U

My 80s punk band which refuses to grow up, FRICTION, yesterday at our hometown festival Riverfest. It was 99 degrees at least, but we turned in a 75 minute set of original music which made us, and the audience, feel 21 again. Note the Pogues t-shirt on yours truly.

Very cool O'Blivion! Don't recall seeing any clips of you "electrified" before

[Low D]

Went on July 1 and caught a free show by Newfoundland band The Irish Descendants, flown clear from their island off Canada's east coast to Vancouver on the west coast, just to play a 50 minute set on Canada day.

A little more muscle-y in sound than they used to be, and nowadays featuring my oldest childhood friend, on fiddle and everything else the others don't play. Con O'Brien has a voice like a cross between Stan Rogers and that guy from Crash Test Dummies - it's a powerful and amazing instrument. The set was sprinkled with Newfie classics like "I'se the B'y" and "Cape Saint Mary's", and perennial Canadian folk crowd pleaser "Barrett's Privateers".

I thought i was going to see a tame Newfoundland exposition act. Instead saw a great live band that i'd have to compare with the late Stan Rogers' band in terms of power, virtuosity, and performance.