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My greatest musical wish...
Posted by Mousey on 22 May 2011 - 10:33am.
...is that Andy and Colin work out their differences, put in a call to Dave Gregory, and make a one-off album together as XTC. And then do a couple of low key anonymous gigs that are announced (maybe in some kind of subtle Massive code) on the Word blog.
How good would that be?
Andy, or Colin, if you are reading this, you would make a lot of old chaps, especially yourselves, very happy if this were to happen. I'd cop the airfare from Australia.
Anyway - that's mine.
What's yours?
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Bingo Hand Job reunion...
With Bill Berry on bongos. Small venue. Three hour set. I choose the songs.
Rockpile reunion, supported
by The Fabulous Thunderbirds, with Jimmie and Kim back together.
There was a tour, years back, where the T-Birds opened for Rockpile. I wasn't quite mature enough to realise what was going on just down the road, when they played here, so I'd like to rectify that error, if they all don't mind playing a double-bill again, in Edinburgh.
I'll say it was years back
My sister saw them on that tour in her first or second year at Uni. She turned 50 this year.
Ah, the benefits of being that little bit older!
I saw them in Glasgow on that tour, Kim in a turban. Fantastic.
I also saw Jimmie in Hammersmith last year, which was really good, too.
If you get your wish, I'll come through to Edinburgh for that one!
well, that's two of us
in the audience - they're BOUND to go for it!
Very envious of you having seen that tour...
Count Me In!
I was at the Edinburgh Tiffanys gig. 1980 if my somewhat hazy memory is correct.I do remember it being a grand night.
The same as you
Mousey, though the gig will never happen. But why not a DVD of them playing in the fabled shed?
And an APE records mini-festival (Pugwash, Milk and Honey Band, Peter Blegvad etc and maybe a Dukes cover gig) would be a dream come true...
Me too!
But alas, this is likely as Noel Gallagher duetting with Damon Albarn on a cover of Give Peace A Chance.
The fabled shed would not fit more than three people, let alone a camera man and recordist.
We still have the great records.
"Once you have ruled out the impossible," says Holmes...
..."the improbable is that The Mahavishnu Orchestra Mark 1 will reform before someone dies..."
They're all still around, most still active in music but, alas, most with the egos that blew them apart still intact.
But never say never. I'll be there if it happens!
Never say never...
A few years ago, I'd have said a Mott The Hoople reunion and we all know what happened there...
Mick Taylor and
..his old bosses.
Oh and get Bill in too.
The Sisters
with a bass player
How many can we have?
- Stones 1972/73 official live album
- Martin Stephenson song gets exposure in major advert/film soundtrack
- Jethro Tull early/mid-70s live release
- Acoustic Fall album (starting point: Paintwork from This Nation's Saving Grace)
- Black Sabbath outtakes from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath through Mob Rules
- Robert Plant to get over himself and tour with JPJ and JP
- Official release of Zep O2 show
- Ronnie Lane - 70s live show plus proper rerelease campaign
would do for starters
Martin Stewphenson getting
any recognition at all would be a great starter.
Tom Russell and Gretchen Peters touring together as was rumoured would make my year especially if they played anywhere near Brum
Saw Martin Stephenson play
in Dublin recently. It was a fun gig but he didn't play Boat To Bolivia and appears to have completely transmogrified into George Formby.
hey Occam!
Been a long time since I saw a post from you! Nice one.
The Smiths
They would be magnificent despite the years.
The Thin White Duke
Reforms his classic band from the second half of the 70s: Dennis Davis, George Murray and Carlos Alomar as the rhythm section from heaven; I suppose we'd have to have Earl Slick on lead, although I'm not a huge fan.
First two Stones' LPs on CD.......
......please.
Small thing to hope for.
Paddy McAloon
to compile a "Fuzzy Warbles"-style series covering all that unreleased music he has gathering dust in his studio - "Zorro The Fox", "The Atomic Hymnbook", The Earth Song Cycle, the Michael Jackson album...
The fab four
Don Powell, Jimmy Lea, Dave Hill, & Sir Noddy Holder.
They would be magnificent in the Glastonbury sunday teatime slot.
I saw Slade in '81 at Donnington
it was raining and a miserable time was being had by all when Slade were announced. The crowd unanimously thought "just when you thought it couldn't get any worse......." Ten minutes later everyone was won over and a good time was being had by a large percentage of those in attendance. Wish I had seen them again when Noddy was still with them.
Robert Wyatt
at the RFH.
That White Stripes reunion is long overdue
Me thinks.
I have two.
1) Matthew Sweet to announce a couple of UK gigs. This will hopefully happen at some point. If not, sod it. I'll travel to the US to see him play. The cutoff point when I reach this decision has yet to be determined.
2) The original lineup of Blue Öyster Cult (Eric Bloom, Don Roeser, Joe and Albert Bouchard, Allen Lanier) to bury a few minor hatchets and get together to play a final tour, or even just a one-off, to top up the pension pots before they all decide to call it a day.
Terry Riley
to perform both "A Rainbow In Curved Air" and "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band" at the RFH or some such UK venue.
Steely Dan to realize...
that they have about 8 albums worth of unreleased, top quality material dating from 1972-1980 that they had inexplicably forgotten about. The albums Gretchen's Folly, Bird and Mr Chow and Hollywood Reporters are absolute classics; some say the best records they've ever released.
Strewth.
They'd shift a few units if they released them. Universal praise from critics, lots of fans who'd snap up the lot. I'm surprised that the cash-strapped record companies haven't been leaning on them a bit.
I just made that all up...
I know for a fact that they have hardly any finished recordings that they'd deign to release. My post was more a case of "in my dreams".
Wow
I never know that. I'm not a bootleg type of guy but this sounds interesting. Google (or metal leg) here I come.
Four words...
Second Coming Deluxe Edition!
Christ...
it was too bloody long in the first place! ;-)
Richard & Linda Thompson
get back together.
Sandy returns from the grave.
Mellow Candle tour.
Long overdue CD release of Op Knocks and New Faces winners.
Two Canadian Sarahs
Sarah McLachlan to tour over here supported by Sarah Slean.
Sarah Slean was supposed to be over early last year, but didn't make it. Sarah McLachalan hasn't been over here for more than 10 years and the last time it was to bring the Lilith Fair over rather than her own tour.
The banning of Autotune
and the immediate imprisonment of any group or producer wishing to use this hideous invention
After that: if Messers Weller, Foxton & Buckler can please make their way to the stage, I'm sure many people will be happy
Neil Young: Archives Pt2
Neil Young: Archives Pt2 before the end of the year.
Neil Young & Crazyhorse play the magnificent Roundhouse.
Ride reform...with new album and tour.
The Cure-Disintegration live show.
Release of "The Cure In Orange" on DVD.
Talk Talk reform and live shows.
Cough!
I know a man with In Orange on DVD
Ozric Tentacles
headlining Glastonbury.
Morrissey and Marr acoustic
At the Albert Hall. Both wearing charcoal Comme des Garcons suits. Morrissey prancelessly singing the songs without any demagoguery, like a proper grown up singer. Marr (preferably smoking) picking notes and flurries of such exquisite craft and loveliness to accompany...all amplified through a crystal clear sound system that reminds you that a voice and a guitar is sometimes all it takes to reduce grown men to tears.
23 songs, no banter, no hugs. Make it an artistic statement.