If you live outside London, decent rock gigs are like buses. Nothing for ages, and then a whole load turn up at once. So it’s looking like a truly progtastic late November/early November in Manchester.
I’d already got my ticket for Marillion, but now I’ve got myself tickets for The Mars Volta and Van der Graaf Generator. There’s also Mostly Autumn in Crewe in December. And coming up this week is the goth-metal of Paradise Lost.
I’m wondering about the Asia/Uriah Heep double bill, and also Porcupine Tree, both shows around the same time. But I’ve seen all three bands in the past year, and I’m not sure that I could cope with five gigs in two weeks! (And none of them on Friday or Saturday nights either!)
The Warley model railway exhibition at the NEC falls in the middle of that lot as well.
I’d probably say this anyway, but I’d recommend seeing Porcupine Tree again.
The set will still be dominated by ‘Deadwing’ material, but not necessarily the same songs as they played in Manchester in April.
Since they’re recording a live DVD in Chicago in a couple of weeks’ time, they’ve changed the setlist (for all remaining 2005 shows) to incorporate a couple of ‘classic’ songs – the ones some idiot always shouts for, only to be glared at for living in the past.
They’re also supported by some guy called Robert Fripp on the UK tour, which might be of interest to some….
I’ll be going to the Sigur Ros concert in Liverpool in November, but I’m not sure about Marillion the following week. Maybe.
“Radioactive Toy”, I presume. “I don’t do requests” was Steve Wilson’s riposte.
If I go to the Uriah Heep gig I’m going to shout for “Shepherd’s Pie” (The jingle from the OXO TV advert with the Ronnie Dio lookalike in it. Heep’s Bernie Shaw did the vocal for that)