Ah just reread the post and think hes doing the European dates, UK was Norman from Texas Is The Reason
Yes, this triggered a very awkward introduction to the band including âon bass, Stuart Richardson fromâŠthe Welsh Valleysâ 
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Kim Deal @ The Barbican HallâŠ
Seen her previously twice with The Breeders and thrice with The Pixies, but this was the first time solo. I mean, I say solo but also with an entire orchestra which I was not expecting. Wow, what an absolute bona fide legend. If there was any suggestion that she might have ever been in Frank Blackâs shadow, that is surely long gone now. Last nightâs set was all of last yearâs album plus a great selection of Breedersâ tracks:
She looked like she was having a lot of fun, with shout outs to the crowd throughout. Everyone on stage looked like they were also having fun and the audience, genteel sit down or not, were loving it. Sheâs back again later this year for a proper tour and I would recommend her to absolutely everyone. An absolute blast 
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Was a lovely evening, finishing at the civilised time of 9:30pm, I may add.
got a ticket for the Dublin show
That was very appreciated, with both us and our babysitterâŠ
Youâre in for a treat
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Aespa at Wembley Arena
My third K-Pop gig. Iâm practically a veteran of the scene now. This was an important one for my daughter, though. It was her first big night out after about 10 months, during which she hasnât been able to do much at all. As such, it felt like a proper celebration. Life affirming and utterly joyous. Supernova is an absolute fucking banger.
Wembley Arena is still shit though.
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Jack White at The Troxy
Saturday night of his two London shows. Excellent set list and just blasted through tune after tune with hardly a pause.
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Able Noise at Where Else?, Margate
Pretty much the opposite of the Jack White gig. Only 20 people at this gig on Sunday night but Able Noise were superb. Well, what I saw of it as I was caught out by an early stage time (8pm-ish) and missed the first 20 mins.
Drums and vocals with baritone guitar, with occasional balalaika (at least I assume that is what it was). Experimental post-rock, reminded me a bit of The Necks as well.
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My 16 year old and I were due to see Gracie Abrams tonight but they cancelled it at 10pm last night because of illness. To say sheâs disappointed is an understatement. We bought the tickets over 8 months ago and sheâs been getting more and more excited ever since. It would have been her first big arena gig. Sheâs spent weeks planning what to wear (including buying a cardigan from Vinted that fits the obligatory Abrams colour scheme), sheâs been monitoring setlist.fm for weeks looking for any changes and updating her Spotify playlist.
Hopefully the gig will still go ahead at a later date and one that we can make, but man, life as a teenager sucks sometimes. Sheâs still upset that we couldnât get Swift tickets, and now this. Itâs like Santa leaving a note on Christmas Eve to say he cant make it and so Christmas is cancelled this year.
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Oh man, sorry to hear that. I can imagine how gutting that must be for her. Hopefully you can make the rearranged date.
Saw him last night in Birmingham. Just outrageously good. And loud. My ears have still not recovered.
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looks like a bouzouki
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Leicesterval: Leicester Indiepop Weekender, Firebug
The twelfth of these early March get-togethers, now extended into a full weekend of DIY pop greatness that more people really should be aware of for its joyous friendly atmosphere, carefully created line-up and ALRIGHT, ITâS MINE, I PROMOTE IT, CANâT I JUST JAG MYSELF ONCE IN THIS PLACE. Itâs become a weekend because the Saturday alldayer was selling out ridiculously quickly. As if to prove a point, tickets sold out in October and people came from America and Germany. Itâs like Indietracks, but at the start of spring above a city centre bar rather than mid-summer in a museum grounds. Still East Midlands, though.
None of these photos are mine because Iâm shit at photographing moving things and collected these together for Instagram instead, all used with permission. SoâŠ
Pink Opaqueâs second ever gig. Pete Green you might know from literal decades of jangle/tweepop service. Danielle Cope you might know from the Al Frescans team in the current series of Only Connect. They play scrappy but enthusiastic and fun electropop including a semi-chiptune cover of Overload.
Project Overload are from Coventry, are far, far too young and play soaring janglepop with hidden depths. More people should absolutely know about them.
Liverpoolâs own Superchunk, Good Grief have been around for a decade and only just got round to releasing an album three years ago. Covered Academy Fight Song too.
The Loves have got back together again. Simon had a story about the previous time they played the city, in 2002, and en route drenching his arm in piss.
Stepping in for a not physically well White Town - not entirely on nominature grounds - Cowtown and their abrasive noise is always a tonic.
Dancer, down from Glasgow. So, so good. âModern Life Without Buildingsâ is an overused descriptor but Gemma Fleet has a real stage presence. Unlike the previous time I saw them, the guitarist got his keyboard/guitar add-on gizmo working.
âWHEREâD YOU MEET YOURSELF, SHIRLEY?â Spearmint! Finally landed my white whale as Saturday headliner and they repaid with an hourâs greatest hits set.
And then for day two we moved into the actual bar with a stage set up in the corner so we could potentially fit twice as many people in, and indeed got about 30% as many people in as upstairs. ACHB is the current form of Nottingham stalwart Alex Hale, who played the Alldayer twice in previous incarnations and used to design the posters too so I felt obliged to have him launch the expansion.
Dayflower have been around for years in the local scene, West Coast vibes with undertows of dreampop and increasingly country.
Sassyhiya are on Amelia Fletcherâs label, are profoundly queerpop, and have mastered that harmonic jangle punch-the-air quality. Their most singalong songs are about their love for Kristen Stewart and the front pairâs catâs eating habits.
Fightmilk may be the best live band in the world. Name a dog. (Also, they covered Charmpitâs Bridges Go Burn in tribute to the kinds of DIY bands who fall by the wayside as the live music network contracts, apparently coincidentally to the fact that the first time they played Leicester was an Alldayer on the same bill as the aforementioned sassy American duo. They called me âdollfaceâ from the stage. They were fun. Hope theyâre alright. Anyway, Fightmilk are fantastic and you should give them all your money and worldly goods.)
cheerbleederz! Sunday headliners, sort of making up for my booking ME REX a couple of years ago with an agent who forgot cheerbleederz were playing in Spain that same weekend so only Myles was available. (He played half the set solo then got [the band known as] adults to back him on the other half, which they put together specifically for the event) Anyway, they were full-on great, a storming finish (apart from an indiepop disco to close) New EP in June. Donât tell them I told you that.
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knew it wouldnât be long until I Saw The TV Glow would start influencing the musical landscape
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Counting FOUR Mustang basses there. Excellent stuff.
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Several days late but:
Being Dead M.O.T.H. Club
I donât get to many gigs, but I chose well for this one. Surf-rock banger after surf-rock banger.
I had promised my 10 year old daughter, who is also a fan, an autograph, and I fulfilled the request I must say!
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Also, note Palestinian flag on drum kit
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