Gigs 2025

[Thenop]

Never seen Metallica either!!

 

Seen them also countless times, they are a very enjoyable live act. It's always just very good, they used to be dangerous, those days are over of course.

Can I at least assume you've seen Rush..? 

[Nickslikk2112]

Never seen Metallica either!!

Crikey!

I've managed 7 Metallishows between 1985 and 2009. Whilst the last three times have been Arenas I won't go see them again as I don't do Arenas and I certainly don't do Stadiums.

Now if they'd come back to Sheffield City Hall...

[Matt2112]

Nothing against them but I've never seen Metallica, nor have ever been inclined to.

[David L]

Unexpectedly, I got a free ticket to see Holy Holy in Oxford tonight. I knew they were playing as a good friend I went to the BÖC gig with expressed interest in going.
For those who are unaware, they are a band put together to play Bowie tunes by producer Tony Visconti featuring Woody Woodmansey (Spiders from Mars) on drums and Glen Gregory (Heaven 17) on vocals. Visconti plays bass guitar and the band is an eight piece with two guitars, keyboards, a backing vocalist and Visconti's daughter on sax, acoustic guitar and backing vocals.
Another mate had two tickets that his wife obtained through a ticket club for £5 each! Chris was looking for some company after his wife decided not to go.
It was a great gig with all the classics. Gregory's vocals were on-point and the band were very tight

[Thenop]

Unexpectedly, I got a free ticket to see Holy Holy in Oxford tonight. I knew they were playing as a good friend I went to the BÖC gig with expressed interest in going.
For those who are unaware, they are a band put together to play Bowie tunes by producer Tony Visconti featuring Woody Woodmansey (Spiders from Mars) on drums and Glen Gregory (Heaven 17) on vocals. Visconti plays bass guitar and the band is an eight piece with two guitars, keyboards, a backing vocalist and Visconti's daughter on sax, acoustic guitar and backing vocals.
Another mate had two tickets that his wife obtained through a ticket club for £5 each! Chris was looking for some company after his wife decided not to go.
It was a great gig with all the classics. Gregory's vocals were on-point and the band were very tight

Interesting, do they play any of the Blackstar material?

[David L]

Unexpectedly, I got a free ticket to see Holy Holy in Oxford tonight. I knew they were playing as a good friend I went to the BÖC gig with expressed interest in going.
For those who are unaware, they are a band put together to play Bowie tunes by producer Tony Visconti featuring Woody Woodmansey (Spiders from Mars) on drums and Glen Gregory (Heaven 17) on vocals. Visconti plays bass guitar and the band is an eight piece with two guitars, keyboards, a backing vocalist and Visconti's daughter on sax, acoustic guitar and backing vocals.
Another mate had two tickets that his wife obtained through a ticket club for £5 each! Chris was looking for some company after his wife decided not to go.
It was a great gig with all the classics. Gregory's vocals were on-point and the band were very tight

Interesting, do they play any of the Blackstar material?

I didn't recognise a few of the songs but I think they were early ones from The Man Who Sold The World. I think the most recent song was Where Are We Now? from The Next Day. Most of the material was from TMWSTW, Hunky Dory and Ziggy but we also got Rebel Rebel, Heroes, Ashes to Ashes and Drive-In Saturday. Of course, Space Oddity was there. Alas, No Suffragette City and quite surprisingly nothing from one of his biggest records, Let's Dance.
I didn't realise that Holy Holy have been a band since 2015 (Gregory recounts the story of how they played a gig in Canada the night after Bowie died), I thought they had been formed recently. Certainly the best Bowie tribute act anyone is likely to see.
I can't believe it's nearly ten years since he passed away.

[captainkurtz]

Unexpectedly, I got a free ticket to see Holy Holy in Oxford tonight. I knew they were playing as a good friend I went to the BÖC gig with expressed interest in going.
For those who are unaware, they are a band put together to play Bowie tunes by producer Tony Visconti featuring Woody Woodmansey (Spiders from Mars) on drums and Glen Gregory (Heaven 17) on vocals. Visconti plays bass guitar and the band is an eight piece with two guitars, keyboards, a backing vocalist and Visconti's daughter on sax, acoustic guitar and backing vocals.
Another mate had two tickets that his wife obtained through a ticket club for £5 each! Chris was looking for some company after his wife decided not to go.
It was a great gig with all the classics. Gregory's vocals were on-point and the band were very tight

Interesting, do they play any of the Blackstar material?

No blackstar - just 1970-83

Went myself...enjoyed it, but only lasted 70mins ish...

[David L]

Unexpectedly, I got a free ticket to see Holy Holy in Oxford tonight. I knew they were playing as a good friend I went to the BÖC gig with expressed interest in going.
For those who are unaware, they are a band put together to play Bowie tunes by producer Tony Visconti featuring Woody Woodmansey (Spiders from Mars) on drums and Glen Gregory (Heaven 17) on vocals. Visconti plays bass guitar and the band is an eight piece with two guitars, keyboards, a backing vocalist and Visconti's daughter on sax, acoustic guitar and backing vocals.
Another mate had two tickets that his wife obtained through a ticket club for £5 each! Chris was looking for some company after his wife decided not to go.
It was a great gig with all the classics. Gregory's vocals were on-point and the band were very tight

Interesting, do they play any of the Blackstar material?

No blackstar - just 1970-83

Went myself...enjoyed it, but only lasted 70mins ish...

Oh, I'm sure we got at least 90mins, maybe more.

[captainkurtz]

Unexpectedly, I got a free ticket to see Holy Holy in Oxford tonight. I knew they were playing as a good friend I went to the BÖC gig with expressed interest in going.
For those who are unaware, they are a band put together to play Bowie tunes by producer Tony Visconti featuring Woody Woodmansey (Spiders from Mars) on drums and Glen Gregory (Heaven 17) on vocals. Visconti plays bass guitar and the band is an eight piece with two guitars, keyboards, a backing vocalist and Visconti's daughter on sax, acoustic guitar and backing vocals.
Another mate had two tickets that his wife obtained through a ticket club for £5 each! Chris was looking for some company after his wife decided not to go.
It was a great gig with all the classics. Gregory's vocals were on-point and the band were very tight

Interesting, do they play any of the Blackstar material?

No blackstar - just 1970-83

Went myself...enjoyed it, but only lasted 70mins ish...

Oh, I'm sure we got at least 90mins, maybe more.

No..I mean I left before the end...it was good...but I'd seen enough..

[David L]

Third gig of the week for me last night. Samantha Fish at the O2 Academy in Oxford.
Wow! Just..............Wow!
A mind-blowing performance from Sam. Yes, she plays a pretty mean guitar but....that voice! Oxford was the last of a handful of UK gigs before heading for Europe and a packed O2 audience rose to the occasion.
I'll be first in the queue for tickets when she returns.

[The Picnic Wasp]

Third gig of the week for me last night. Samantha Fish at the O2 Academy in Oxford.
Wow! Just..............Wow!
A mind-blowing performance from Sam. Yes, she plays a pretty mean guitar but....that voice! Oxford was the last of a handful of UK gigs before heading for Europe and a packed O2 audience rose to the occasion.
I'll be first in the queue for tickets when she returns.

Are we allowed to mention these days that she's also gorgeous? Difficult not to notice tbh.

[David L]

Third gig of the week for me last night. Samantha Fish at the O2 Academy in Oxford.
Wow! Just..............Wow!
A mind-blowing performance from Sam. Yes, she plays a pretty mean guitar but....that voice! Oxford was the last of a handful of UK gigs before heading for Europe and a packed O2 audience rose to the occasion.
I'll be first in the queue for tickets when she returns.

Are we allowed to mention these days that she's also gorgeous? Difficult not to notice tbh.

Yes, she's HOT!

[dom]

Went to see Iggy Pop at a 1 day festival in Kilmainham Hospital yesterday.

3 stages all within easy reach of each other and an intriguing line up.


Unfortunately I missed John Cooper Clarke but saw some of Meryl Streak, a very angry yet entertaining Dublin Punk

The Scratch, an energetic bunch, combining punk, Irish traditional, hard rock and humour. Will look out for these again

Slowdive, I knew of these as they are one of my daughter's favourites but hadn't heard much of them. Really enjoyable live actually. Loud guitars and ethereal vocals. Never thought I'd be a Shoegaze fan but these are great.

And then onto Iggy. Never been a huge fan but this man is phenomenon. 78 and bouncing around the stage with more energy than a man half his age. Fantastic backing group too.

Going with my son was a real spur of the moment thing but so glad I went.

The venue was great with a natural amphitheatre. Surprised more gigs aren't held there.

[David L]

Went to see Iggy Pop at a 1 day festival in Kilmainham Hospital yesterday.

3 stages all within easy reach of each other and an intriguing line up.


Unfortunately I missed John Cooper Clarke but saw some of Meryl Streak, a very angry yet entertaining Dublin Punk

The Scratch, an energetic bunch, combining punk, Irish traditional, hard rock and humour. Will look out for these again

Slowdive, I knew of these as they are one of my daughter's favourites but hadn't heard much of them. Really enjoyable live actually. Loud guitars and ethereal vocals. Never thought I'd be a Shoegaze fan but these are great.

And then onto Iggy. Never been a huge fan but this man is phenomenon. 78 and bouncing around the stage with more energy than a man half his age. Fantastic backing group too.

Going with my son was a real spur of the moment thing but so glad I went.

The venue was great with a natural amphitheatre. Surprised more gigs aren't held there.

So what is 'Shoegaze'?

[The Picnic Wasp]

Went to see Iggy Pop at a 1 day festival in Kilmainham Hospital yesterday.

3 stages all within easy reach of each other and an intriguing line up.


Unfortunately I missed John Cooper Clarke but saw some of Meryl Streak, a very angry yet entertaining Dublin Punk

The Scratch, an energetic bunch, combining punk, Irish traditional, hard rock and humour. Will look out for these again

Slowdive, I knew of these as they are one of my daughter's favourites but hadn't heard much of them. Really enjoyable live actually. Loud guitars and ethereal vocals. Never thought I'd be a Shoegaze fan but these are great.

And then onto Iggy. Never been a huge fan but this man is phenomenon. 78 and bouncing around the stage with more energy than a man half his age. Fantastic backing group too.

Going with my son was a real spur of the moment thing but so glad I went.

The venue was great with a natural amphitheatre. Surprised more gigs aren't held there.

So what is 'Shoegaze'?

I don't know either but I can kind of picture it. I remember asking a girl to dance at a metal gig. She was really pretty, wearing a massively long Afghan, but aware only of her shoes and not my existence. I assumed her weed was in those shoes.