Very sorry to hear that things are still pretty rotten health-wise, John - you're (still) in our thoughts & prayers.
On the good news side, that sounds promising about the KC book, which I'm...
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Very sorry to hear that things are still pretty rotten health-wise, John - you're (still) in our thoughts & prayers.
On the good news side, that sounds promising about the KC book, which I'm...
Thanks for the update, John - very sorry to see that things are still not going so well with your health. I'm praying for your recovery.
Agree, and agree. I remember going to see Magazine when they were promoting "Secondhand Daylight", and they opened with "Back To Nature". The memory of Devoto casually walking onstage, going up to...
There's a download of Radical Action II / Larks V (aka Level 5) from the last show available at
https://www.dgmlive.com/tour-dates/2548
Great to hear from you again, John & I hope your recovery continues apace. I'm looking forward to hearing the RF boxset, but reading about it in your review will be the next best thing - thanks as...
I guess success has many fathers, but I read elsewhere that it was (the then unknown) Thomas Dolby who created the sound of the opening motif after being left to his own (electronic) devices in the...
I assume everyone has noticed that DGM has started downloads of tracks from last year's Japanese tour?
https://www.dgmlive.com/news/indidscipline-new-download-from-tokyo-tour
Referring to it as...
Thanks for taking the time to update us on your health issues John - here's wishing you a steady (if not speedy) recovery, and a return to not feeling too awful to listen, read and write: all of...
Very sorry to hear about your sickness, John - here's wishing you a good recovery, and a return to what you do best (indeed, better than many other writers).
Thanks for that - yes, I wondered whether it had already been reported, but a search for Goodsall turned up blank. Trying it again, I now see that I wasn't searching properly (see...
Not sure if this has been mentioned in here already, but there was a Nov 11 announcement on Brand X's facebook page that John Goodsall has died:
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Thanks for that - best thing I've read in a long time :D
From my memory of being there at Wembley, it was indeed really good ;)
Not sure if this has already been shared, but here's a truncated show from earlier that year which contains the old medley:...
Well done Mark - good questions - and even better answers! - although they seemed to be somewhat lengthy (which I guess would limit the number of answers you could give). You appeared to be very...
Thanks for the helpful response - yup, the "Live at RosFest" 2018 CD/DVD is pretty easy to pick up from various sources. I share your frustration at making the wrong choice but, once again, in an...
Sorry to hear this news - one of my favourite bands. BTW, I've been after a copy of "Locked & Loaded" (their previous live album) for the longest time, but it's permanently out of stock on Burning...
So will your book include your (very good) review of Sid's (very good) book? Or would that be the serpent eating its own tail? :)
Seriously, well done (again) on this: I look forward to its...
Thanks for sight of that, John - sounds like it'll be a very good place to gather your careful, detailed work together: I'm looking forward to it already!
One query: does "book" mean a physical...
And another thing Manfred Mann & The Sweet had in common: a single called "Fox On The Run" :)
Steve Priest came from my hometown (or should that be the other way around?) - Hayes, Middlesex. I...
Some of these (from Cardiff to Birmingham) have already been made available on CD in the Audio Diary 2014-2018, discussed elsewhere in here.
Here's the link:...
I got this on Saturday, and have been playing it regularly. In spite of the gap of fifteen years since (what, sadly, with the death of Lyle Mays a couple of weeks ago, we must now recognize as) the...
I think his guitar work on "Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape" is simply sublime. As others have pointed out, the original version on "Axe Victim" is far more constrained than the live versions,...
Same here. I'd also recommend his work on Close To Home (Mars), which was - I think - originally intended to be a companion piece to As Falls Wichita and has a similar feel. There's a studio...
Very sad to read this news. Like many, I considered him coequal in the PMG and was sorry when that group went on hiatus after "The Way Up". That could now be viewed as the pinnacle of their work...
I got this for Christmas and read the whole thing in a couple of days whilst off sick. I thought it excellent: Smith is a very good writer in general - and an outstanding one in a field where the...
Bit late in the day John, but thank you for this, which I read from beginning to end during a lengthy train journey last week. As ever, your careful assessment of the strengths and weaknesses is...
Thanks for that - I was there last night as well, and agree about the 2/3 drummers comment. I never saw the eight-piece lineup (with a dedicated keyboard player), but that would clearly leave more...
Not sure if this has already been asked and answered, but does anyone know the differences between the UK and Japan releases of Live in Vienna? Obviously, the third disc contains different material...
Somewhat off-topic, and a completely different band, but I remember seeing Chris Leslie (mandolin / fiddle / singer / songwriter in English folk-rockers Fairport Convention) taking part in a morris...
This is only peripherally related, but I can't resist mentioning that I saw Martin Barre in the bar (hah!) last night, during the interval of Fairport Convention's concert at Exeter. I told him how...
I haven't read it (but recall picking up a copy in a Californian bookshop long ago, and thinking it a daunting piece of work). Bill Bruford's autobiography describes how Jon Anderson was introduced...
Many thanks for this, John - as penetrating and stimulating as ever. The comparison with the previous live releases was helpful for those of us who were wondering about going after this one as well...
Whoops - my apologies, I was mistaken. As I now recall, I saw The Jolt supporting The Motors at that venue, maybe in the previous year. I'm sure you're correct about DAF and Last Dance, although -...
Thanks for that reminder. I saw them at the Lyceum in 1980 (on, I think, May 1), when they were supported by Bauhaus and a band called The Jolt (a name which I think was intended to remind you of...
I don't think so. I have a recording of an orchestral version of HR, performed at the Albert Hall on Dec 9, 1974, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Bedford (who also did the...
Many thanks for that - welcome news indeed! I've been a fan since seeing them circa '78 on the Mr Gone tour, and on a number of occasions since then. There's a nice video advertising this set here,...
He's been severely taken to task for his apparent preconceptions by the commenters on his KC review on the Guardian page - and, perhaps more interestingly, by RF himself here.
Yes, it'd be good to hear more about Birmingham. In the mean time, here's more about Manchester - one of the best-written reviews of the tour so far, I think.
No chat from any band members in Cardiff either (or, to judge from the disapproving remarks of the Guardian reviewer, in London). They used a couple of snatches of pre-recorded dialogue between...
Thanks for that, Jezmond: a great review, and a great product - nicely put together and very reasonably priced. At Cardiff, I was struck by the difference between the number of people who were...
Apart, that is, from Suitable Grounds For The Blues, which does (otherwise I wouldn't have been able to identify it at all).
I don't know whether these new tunes will end up on a studio album,...
Many thanks for the clarification, and the behind-the-scenes insight into his feelings about being in the band, which certainly changes my view of the project.
I don't know if you're able to...
Thanks for the review, John - very nice, and a characteristically detailed description of what to expect when we get hold of this set. The point about sacrificing the spontaneity and interaction...
Hmm - well, MarKco seems to have been listening more closely than I, and I can't add much to his description apart from saying that Suitable Grounds For The Blues (the new one which wasn't included...
Perhaps they got Fracture mixed up with Level Five? I wouldn't go so far as to say all this stuff sounds the same but, in the absence of lyrics, it can sometimes be hard to distinguish one fierce,...
^ Many thanks for the pointer to those - pretty much spot-on, IMHO.
Many thanks for the gracious response, and very sorry to hear you're unwell: I hope things pick up before too long. I'd be interested in learning more about the prog rock book, and your...
Many thanks for the nice review, John - definitely a CD I'll be getting hold of. While I'm in here: thanks very much for all your elegantly crafted contributions to AAJ, particularly on the subjects...
David's talk started at 6:00, ahead of the show at 7:30. The details about how to get a place in his audience for Cardiff were put up at http://www.dgmlive.com/news.htm?entry=5244, but before that...
Well, if we're going to be strictly accurate - and why not? ;) - the tour box booklet only says that 21CSM and HHoK is from the Picture Disc; it's only on the dgm site (at...
During his Q&A at Cardiff last night (more specifically, giving the A to a Q asked by me), David Singleton said that the live album will comprise (or represent) a whole show from the 2014 tour - i.e....
Just back from the Cardiff gig: an exciting, stimulating, fascinating show. The setlist will doubtless appear elsewhere, but really the piece that had the most impact for me was the first one:...