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London gigs 2020

Wed 18 Mar - Sambroso All Stars play Manu Chao's Clandestino – Jazz Café - £17

Sat 28 Mar 2020 -Chris Farlowe; Climax Blues Band; Southbound - Under the Bridge, Fulham - £35. Both good but a bit pricey for me (I’ll probably wait to see if any cheap tickets become available).

Sat 28 Mar 2020 - The Subways, Art Brut – Forum, Kentish Town - £30. A great energetic 3-piece but a bit pricey.

Sat 28 March - Chris Farlowe; Climax Blues Band; and Southbound - Under the Bridge, Fulham

Sat 4 Apr - Seasick Steve - Roundhouse

Sat 4 Apr - The London Blues Revue: Ian Siegal; Arnaud Fradin; The Greg Miller Band - Hoxton Underbelly, Hoxton Square - £13

Thu 23 Apr - The Dutty Moonshine Big Band; Dutty Moonshine; Funke and the Two Tone Baby - The Garage

Thu 7 May - Reverend Horton Heat;The Delta Bombers - The Garage - £35. Pricey

Sat 9 May 2020 - Wilko Johnson; John Otway - Islington Assembly Hall - £39. A bit pricey

Fri 22 May - Bob Log III - The Garage. Going

Wed 17 Jun - Oumou Sangaré – Queen Elizabeth Hall - £25-£33

Sat 19 Sep - Sleeper; The Bluetones -O2 Forum Kentish Town.

Directed/Edited by Stephen Patrick Allen (https://www.instagram.com/stephenpatrickallen) Text by Daire O'Suilleabhain "IN MY ROOM" IS THE FINAL SINGLE TO BE ...

Saw the excellent very loud Dublin indie band Thumper at the Old Blue Last and have some residual tinnitus despite my ear plugs.

My Travels, No 6.

BBC Radio 4 was sort of not quite catching up recently about the old debate about whether Munch's The Scream was about hearing it or doing it. The reality was that he probably stayed in the same hotel as I did and painted a picture of a person in its lobby hearing (as I did) the musak crooning of a cover of 'Like a Rolling Stone'.

Sun 4th August, The Spice of Life, central London: https://www.facebook.com/events/2297083720611854/

My Travels, No 5

I think my hotel room is the one they usually give to sound engineers...

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Bands to shun

Breaking the artists’ boycott of the apartheid state of Israel:

Have played*:

Paul McCartney (08); Dionne Warwick (15); Jethro Tull (Feb 16); Gang of Four (Apr 16); Elton John (May 16); Deep Purple (May 16); Simply Red (Jun 16); Mercury Rev (Jul 16); Carlos Santana (Jul 16); Morrissey (Aug 16); RADIOHEAD - FFS?! (Jul 17) and with the support of Michael Stipe. Man, they both really have lost it. Some fucking people. Britney Spears (Jul 17); Bryan Adams (Oct 17); Boy George (Nov 17); Nick Cave tbc (Nov).

Rumours/don’t know and/or disinformation:

Bruce Springsteen (probably didn’t); Beyonce (Aug/Oct 16) ; The Chemical Brothers (Nov 16) ; Ringo Starr (Jun 18; with Colin Hay from Men at Work, Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, Santana’s keyboard player Gregg Rolie, and Warren Ham from Kansas)

And let’s not forget the ones who broke the cultural boycott of Apartheid South Africa*:

Paul Simon (86), Queen (84), Elton John (83), Rod Stewart (83), Status Quo, Shirley Bassey (81), Leo Sayer, Shakin’ Stevens, Kim Wilde, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Beach Boys, Linda Ronstadt, Cher, Millie Jackson, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Johnny Matthis, Neil Sedaka, Black Sabbath, Boney M, Dionne Warwick (again), Tina Turner .

* As far as I can tell, there may be some disinformation out there.

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...and Bon Jovi (Oct 15 and Jul 19); Lionel Richie (announced for Mar 20); Celine Dion (announced for Aug 20).

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