MUSIC… live and recorded – my musings on soul, funk, jazz, reggae, blues, rock, punk, prog, ambient… everything I like really!
Pictured: Roy Harper with Nick Harper onstage 2025.
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Roy Harper: what should have been a great gig was marred by a weird audience
A gig that was pretty unpleasant, not because of the artist but because of the audience.
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John Otway, sans Wild Willy?! Just John at the Torquay gig; Willy had testicular accident…
21 Dec 77: an evening at the 400 Club in Torquay to enjoy John Otway, beer & friends. But where was Wild Willy Barrett?
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Dave Edmunds’ Rockpile headlining; so who were these men in black bin bags called Ultravox?
26 Feb 77: Dave Edmunds’ Rockpile headlining – and very good – but many were for an answer to the question: who are Ultravox?
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Jazz Is Dead 15: listening to this brought back memories of the band Redbone – remember them?
An excellent Jazz release that combines rich latin, jazz, jazz-funk and Afro-Cuban sounds; complex yet accessible; thoughtful yet danceable.
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Blues to Bliss: enjoying a rest from writing a lengthy blog post
Remembering New Orleans gave me a taste for funk – plus jazz, blues and an excellent beer. The thought of not being able to go back made me feel blue for a moment – but that’s all gone now!
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From Caravan to AC/DC in one day
12 May 76: listening to Caravan in the morning and down to the Marquee in the evening for a completely unknown band called AC/DC…
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There is nothing quite like seeing your favourite band live on stage; living in London – and within walking distance of venues like the Brixton Academy – made it easy. Looking back, 1992 seems to have been a particularly good year…
For some reason I seem to have saved quite a few concert tickets over the years, and sifting through them the year 1992 stands out as a particularly good vintage – for me at least.
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National Health @ LSE – prog rock, jazz fusion & the Canterbury Scene
I sometimes forget that jazz fusion was big in the 70’s, with Brand X (Phil Collin’s band) being my favourite at the time (and now!)
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Great Music new & old: Weather Station & Gentle Giant
Ignorance by Weather Station released February 2021 and Octopus by Gentle Giant released in December 1972. Two records for people who really like music.
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Steel Pulse, Graham Parker, The Damned… & the Crazy World of Arthur Brown – live in 1977
Second year at Uni and I was engrossed in Ents (entertainments), beer, music and gigs. No wonder I only scraped through exams!
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It was late; we were huddled in a student flat in London and had no idea we were about to witness The Birth of Punk
In a bedsit in Fitzrovia, London, it was almost midnight and a revolution in music was about to take place…
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Budapest Cafe Orchestra: a short story about getting to a gig (& church) on time…
The Budapest Cafe Orchestra live, not in a cafe in Hungary but in a church in Kingskerswell! A most enjoyable evening – and bit of a story about getting to the gig…
Colin Anderson 