But I've got to catch the train home, so none of this keeping me out 'til 3am malarkey, Dr Volume.

but I can't afford to pay for a on top of a ticket :-(

those who have tickets for this one are very lucky indeed. I was fortunate to catch them live at the Luminaire in Kilburn about four years ago (there are some clips on YT). It's really something special to hear that voice in a live situation. I wish I could be there.

EDIT: Forgot to add, I have a ticket for the Eliza Carthy et al Word In Your Ear gig this coming Monday. It's yours for nowt, so send me a note if you want it.

to meet up with fellow Leeds Poly student Mr. Gartside but that London is sooo far away. Fill your boots and swing your pants for all of us.

I had the great pleasure of seeing them outside the Tate Gallery on a warm barmy London evening a few years ago. It was a fab gig and I was blown away that the vocals lived up to the high standards of his records. I'm really looking forward to the gig.

there'd have been more interest if it wasn't yet another Word event in London and thus not easily attendable by the majority of readers!!

.....as long as my flight from Spain isn't delayed.

but I booked for Scritti's Bush Hall gig before I heard about the Word one...Doh !

Does anyone have a link to the original 12 inch Flesh and Blood with Ranking Ann (not the remix on youtube).

Thanks.

Tuneyards, Jonathan Richman and Scritti Pollitti all playing this month or soon. Dieing to see all of three of them live but don't live on mainland UK. Very jealous.

I will be there, but not sure exactly what time I'll be arriving as I have to wait for Mrs B to get back from her book group. Does anybody know what time bands usually start and finish playing at these things?

But, alas, Scritti Politti at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club on a hopefully balmy night in early August sounds better.

I saw Double Gee and the Traitorous Three at the Manchester Academy in autumn 2006. The Word "Girl" live and the joy of the latest album were the undoubted peaks. They were brilliant.

I went to the Trades Club as the last port of call on a pub crawl around Hebden in January 2010. Guinness at less than two quid a pint and a tremendous laissez-faire attitude meant I had to run for the last train back to Manchester. It was brilliant.

So all told, the two combined should be... brilliant.