Gigs for 2022
Comments
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Join Date:Posts: 70504
The final roadtrip of the year - a Glam weekend, with a ferry over to Pembroke Dock then a drive to Frome in Somerset to the Cheese and Grain - a venue that had hosted Paul McCartney earlier this year and the Foo Fighters in 2017. Not bad for a hall with a capacity of 500 - it benefits though from being close to Glastonbury and attracts acts for a warm up before headlining there
On Friday though we started with a guy from Bradford - Tony Wright, who has appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and presented Top of the Pops -this was an acoustic gig though with the tour entitled the Tony Wright Acoustic Tour. I am sure he what he was he was doing when he had the T-shirts made up highlighting the first letter from each word in that title
Then onto the main act - a band form the 70s, although only one member survives (quite literally as the other 3 are deceased) - that being Santa himself, Andy Scott, lead guitarist with Sweet (originally the Sweetshop, then The Sweet, but now with the "The" dropped). So yes a proper Ballroom Blitz and a few Blockbusters
Then a drive back along the M4 (with some icy roads on the way to the Motorway) to Cardiff for an act I had seen just over 12 months earlier. Well actually 2 bands as the Support was Sons of the Seventies which had supported the same headliner last year. They basically covered heavy and Glam stuff from the seventies, concluding their set with Sweet's "Blockbuster"
Then the main act - again only one survivor from their heyday, but all the others are still alive and funnily enough the original lead singer had in recent times been talking of a possible one off reunion for Glastonbury doing the "Legends" slot. Yes it's Christmas which means it must be Slade, with Dave Hill at 76 years and 257 days still going strong
Then a drive back to Pembroke Dock for the 02:45 sailing back to Rosslare this morning
So that's me done for 2022
Summary for the year
37 gigs involving 29 venues across 16 towns and cities
18 ferries, 6 flights and 12,000km driven
Hopefully 2023 will be bigger and better...
Post edited by Beasty on5 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
