It was 52 years ago…
Next Tuesday marks the 52nd anniversary of one of the most famous Led Zeppelin performances -their bill topping appearance at the 1970 Bath Festival.
Too mark that event here’s the details of that performance as chronicled in the Evenings With Led Zeppelin book
June 28, 1970 – Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music ‘70 – Bath & West Showground – Shepton Mallet, England
Setlist:
Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Dazed And Confused, Bring It On Home, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Organ Solo/ Thank You, That’s The Way (introduced as ‘The …
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It was 52 years ago…
Next Tuesday marks the 52nd anniversary of one of the most famous Led Zeppelin performances -their bill topping appearance at the 1970 Bath Festival.
Too mark that event here’s the details of that performance as chronicled in the Evenings With Led Zeppelin book
June 28, 1970 – Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music ‘70 – Bath & West Showground – Shepton Mallet, England
Setlist:
Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Dazed And Confused, Bring It On Home, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Organ Solo/ Thank You, That’s The Way (introduced as ‘The …
Deborah Bonham Band New Album News and Touring
“There’s Wimborne every minute, and the Devon’s in New Orleans”
hope you’re enjoying the new album and can get to see us on tour soon. Some great Sold Out shows, reviews, radio plays and interviews.
Looking forward to tonight’s (15 June) show at the beautiful Tivoli Theatre in Wimborne followed by Friday 17 June at the Wharf in Tavistock Devon (YES played a warm up show there last night celebrating 50 years since Close to the Edge)
Seeya x
The New BONHAM-BULLICK Album Out Now
Deborah Bonham and …
Scarlett Sabet and Jimmy Page – Hay Festival June 1 2022…
On the spot report by Byron Lewis:
It was a great surprise to lean that Jimmy and Scarlet were to attend the Hay Festival, but what food for thought they both provided to about 100 of us that made the pilgrimage to this beautiful part of Wales.
Jimmy, Scarlett and interviewee Dylan Jones had to approach the stage from the rear of the somewhat small marquee, Jimmy in open neck shirt and dark jacket clutching what appeared to be an orange gift …
Gary Holroyd RIP…
I am so very sad to hear the passing of Gary Holroyd – a massive Led Zeppelin fan for many years –he saw them live on a few occasions, a long time TBL subscriber, known to many in the Zep fan community, including many reading this – and always such great company.
Gary was an early subscriber of the Tight But Loose magazine and we always kept in touch. We connected at various gigs over the years – one that stands out is a memorable pre gig TBL meet …
Celebration Days Led Zeppelin UK Convention – 30 years gone:
30 years ago this week, on Saturday May 23 and Sunday May 24 1992, Andy Adams and myself co presented Celebration Days – the first ever UK Led Zeppelin Convention.
I had been thinking about such an event since the publication a year earlier of my book Led Zeppelin A Celebration.
As had Andy Adams – a massive UK Zep Collector who had helped me considerably with the book’s research. In 1990 on one of my visits to Andy in Canvey Island we talked about …
TBL ARCHIVE SPECIAL:
It’s that time of year again…
TBL Celebrates the 47th anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Earls Court:
Turning the clock back 47 years..
Friday May 23, 1975
Ticket Price £1.00
Setlist: Rock And Roll/Sick Again/Over The Hills And Far Away/In My Time Of Dying/The Song Remains The Same/The Rain Song/Kashmir/No Quarter/Tangerine/Going To California/That’s The Way/Bron-Y-Aur Stomp/Trampled Underfoot/Moby Dick/Dazed And Confused (inc. San Francisco)/Stairway To Heaven/Whole Lotta Love – The Crunge – Black Dog.
So imagine waking up on a Friday morning with the prospect of over nine hours of live Led Zeppelin in store …
It’s that time of year again…
TBL Celebrates the 47th Anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Earls Court:
With the 47h anniversary of the first two Led Zeppelin appearances at Earls Court upon us – to get you right in the zone here is a feature that first ran in TBL issue 15. It focuses on some of the key performances on the US tour of early 1975 that provided something of an indicator to the five glorious nights that would follow in May 1975…
PRELUDE TO EARLS COURT:
Led Zeppelin’s tenth American tour kicked …
Five Glorious Nights – Led Zeppelin at Earls Court May 1975 – revised & expanded edition due for publication in October 2022:
I’ve been keeping this project under wraps as Rufus Stone publisher Mark Smith and I have working towards this announcement for some months.
We are both very excited with the prospect of making the Five Glorious Nights –Led Zeppelin at Earls Court book available again –and the opportunity to make a good thing even better.
The additional 32 pages will be taken up with yet more iconic previously unseen images from …
BONHAM-BULLICK News April 2022
Here’s an update this week from Pete Bullick via his Facebook page
Hi everyone, Pete here, we’re so sorry to have to reschedule the first 2 dates of our tour. I fell ill Saturday at rehearsals, tested positive for Covid on Sunday and feel whacked and Deborah tested positive this morning and is currently out cold. The rest of the band dodged that bullet. Tivoli Theatre Wimborne is now 15 June and The Wharf Tavistock 18 June. We’ve also had to postpone all this week’s radio and press …
Robert Plant – Digging Deep Podcast – new series…
Digging Deep returns April 18th for Season 5. Robert Plant will delve into his back catalogue weekly with Matt Everitt, to tell stories of inspiration, collaboration and intervention. Brand new episodes to be released every Monday. This series starts off with “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp”; RP discusses the adventure of finding creativity and writing Led Zeppelin III. Listen back to previous episodes on all podcast platforms.
Listen to the new series episode one below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMYEBaFllc
Robert Plant on BBC Radio 6 Music:
Robert Plant will be hosting on …