Who did you see live last?

[Peloquin]

I went to see the always fun Dirt Box Disco the other night.  Supported by The Spontanes.

 

[Lozz196]

Not seen them for a while, great band 

[SuperSeagull]

Rick Astley with a big band in Brighton last night. 13 superb musicians - not sure who was on bass, don’t think it was Julian Cox who usually plays with him.  Whoever it was switched effortlessly between upright and electric. Astley has a great voice, a little wooden in his chat between numbers but a good show and the sound was excellent. 

[SteveXFR]

UK Subs with Chelsea and GBH last night in Frome.

All three bands were excellent. GBH still go hard for a bunch of old blokes. The mosh pit moves a bit slower when the average age in the pit is 50.

[12stringbassist]

The Dels in Manchester.

 

 

 

[Lozz196]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

UK Subs with Chelsea and GBH last night in Frome.

All three bands were excellent. GBH still go hard for a bunch of old blokes. The mosh pit moves a bit slower when the average age in the pit is 50.

That must have been a great night Steve, 3 excellent bands

[SteveXFR]

34 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

That must have been a great night Steve, 3 excellent bands

 

Yeah, really good. I've seen UK Subs before with Bad Religion so it was great to see a full headline set. 

It reminded what nice people punks are. Everyone was so friendly. Great to see teenagers and 70 year olds all having a great night together. 

[Jay2U]

The Lillingtons, in 2018. I had the honor to be invited on stage. 😜

 

[visog]

Macca at the Coop Arena, Manchester... Sorry not snapped with bass.

 

Not bad for 82! Just under a three-hour set and swapping between his Hofner, acoustic, ukulele and piano.

 

Played Beatles, Wings and solo hits. Killer band. Drummer a beast. Great show.

 

Dawning realisation that after listening to 50 years worth of prog rock, the Beatles got there first.

 

Only neg of the night is the venue's unfeasible admission and transport logistics with ~20k people descending on the tram station at 11pm.

 

Plan carefully if you intended to go to this venue.

 

[casapete]

I went to see Paul McCartney last night at the Co Op Live arena in Manchester. My son in law

is a massive Macca fan, and being in a wheelchair asked if I’d accompany him so I was happy

to go, despite large venues not being my favourite.

He had reserved disabled parking online, but on arrival it was evident that the spaces were already

taken up - there was the local derby of Man City vs Man Utd taking place at the Etihad next door,

so 53,000 punters there and a further 23,000 at the gig meant it was extremely busy. We eventually

found a space that had enough room thanks to the help of the car park staff, and got into the venue

quite early.

 
The gig was AMAZING! One of the best concerts I have ever seen. From the opener ‘Can’t buy me love’

it was over two and a half hours of non stop brilliance. The set consisted of material from throughout Paul’s career, and was chosen really well. Quite a few numbers featured very rocky arrangements, with both the guitarists ( Brian Ray and Rusty Anderson ) playing brilliantly. All of the band were truly superb,

augmented on some songs by a fantastic 3 piece brass section. Paul was on top form, his vocals really

good and his bass playing top notch - used his Hofner all night into Mesa amplification. Brian took over

on bass duties ( Fiesta red Precision and Epiphone Jack Casady) when Paul was playing guitar / piano

/ mandolin / ukulele.

 

Plenty of special effects and poignant video footage on some songs, I was absolutely spellbound throughout. First time seeing a Beatle for me, and an unforgettable evening.

 

 

 

 

Edited December 16 by casapete

[GrahamLeeds]

Saw Weetwood Mac last night, a tribute band to guess who.

They were a nice surprise, all about the music rather than trying to imitate someone else and the bassist had a really nice singing voice.

Well worth seeing.

[Hellzero]

Nik Kershaw yesterday evening for the last date of his "1984 Tour", a concert I wouldn't have even considered 40 years ago...

 

It was a pleasure to listen to and the filiation with Level 42, Ultravox and even Rush became obvious ... live.

 

Great evening and really great musicians.

 

Paul Geary was playing an old Steinberger L or XL and what looked like a fretless Sire P-Bass.

 

The spirit of Peter Collins was in the air and we all applaud to him in the "great recording studio over there" as Nik said.

[casapete]

More pics from McCartney last night, care of my daughter. 

 

[Lozz196]

There ain`t not no way I would be up on that podium

[MacDaddy]

4 hours ago, casapete said:

I went to see Paul McCartney last night at the Co Op Live arena in Manchester.

 

Small gig for Macca, he could have sold out the Etihad!

[casapete]

9 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

There ain`t not no way I would be up on that podium

It was amazing Lozz, he began playing ‘Blackbird’ and then the stage started rising. 
82 years old, no safety barriers so could have been problematic but ended up amazing.

People in the front few rows couldn’t see him though! 

[bass_dinger]

59 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

There ain`t not no way I would be up on that podium

Me neither.

 

In my case, due to a lack of talent rather than a fear of heights.

[markbunney]

Went to see Culture Club at the O2 last night. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I thought it was very good.

 

it was my wife’s choice to go (I had to go with her after all the times I’ve made her come and see Iron Maiden with me lol)

 

it was a good production and Boy George was in good voice. Mikey Craig was playing a nice 5 string Fender Jazz, the bass was very prominent in the mix and I enjoyed listening to that.

[Japhet]

Brother Strut at the Jazz Cafe. Fab as always with new singer, drummer, keys player and percussionist. Drummer (Dexter Hercules) was off the chart. 

[Lozz196]

8 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

Me neither.

 

In my case, due to a lack of talent rather than a fear of heights.

Both, in my case……

[Marky L]

Went to see The Damned on Friday 13th. They really were rather excellent. I'm thoroughly enjoying them having Rat back on the drums. Paul Gray's bass playing is ridiculously fluid and melodic and it was a superb tone from his Ric.

 

Have they slowed down a bit? Yeah, I guess so but with most of them knocking on the door of 70 it's reasonible.

 

 

 

Edited December 17 by Marky L

[Skybone]

Saw Slipknot on Sunday, good show, and surprised to see their bass player using 4 string basses, mainly a Status with SIMS LED's, a Flying V and something else I didn't recognise.

[mikegatward]

Elles Bailey was very good at Leeds Brudenell Club recently. 
 

Nice person to talk to as well as very talented 

[AlexDelores]

On 17/12/2024 at 17:52, Skybone said:

Saw Slipknot on Sunday, good show, and surprised to see their bass player using 4 string basses, mainly a Status with SIMS LED's, a Flying V and something else I didn't recognise.

Saw Slipknot in Birmingham last night. Very nice selection of basses from Vman. Must of been about 15k in instruments for him alone!