This summary from ABC Trustee Graeme Hutchinson…
Charity Auction Update from the Knebworth 30th Anniversary Lytton Arms Celebration Day
Through the raffle, charity auction and the sale of memorabilia, we were able to raise an impressive £1147.69 for ABC Trust at the Lytton Arms event. A BIG THANK YOU to all the fans in attendance who supported our cause. For more information about ABC Trust please visit our website www.abctrust.org.uk .

Them Crooked Vultures have posted a snippet of Scumbag Blues on their site – another of the new songs likely to feature on their debut album, which is due in late October.

Well Sam didn’t get to see Them Crooked Vultures as they performed on the Saturday at Reading. However, in a strange quirk of fate, long time TBL supporter Gary Wade’s son Josh did do as he attended The Leeds Festival on the Friday and rated TCV set as the highlight of the day. Co- incidentally both Sam and Josh were born within a day of each other at Bedford north wing hospital in 1990. Now they are off doing the festival thing just as their Dad’s did 30 years ago.
I …

Your memories / feedback requested
I am now commencing initial research for the next TBL Publishing project which will focus on Led Zeppelin’s final tour – the 14 shows that spanned Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany to form the Over Europe tour in the summer of 1980.
To that end I am requesting feedback and memories from those that were there. If you saw Led Zeppelin on that tour I would welcome your recollections of the gig (or gigs). In the style of the Knebworth book – how you got …

Following their appearances at Reading and Leeds, Them Crooked Vultures have announced tour dates in the UK and US.

Late August and the summer is nearly over. Seems a second ago it started. Always something of a wistful reflective time around these parts – the good lady Janet’s birthday is Monday (31st)then it’s mine the following Saturday (5ht). It’s back to school for Adam in a few days, and then in a couple of weeks it’s back to University for Sam. Usually September 1st would indicate the beginning of the retail Christmas period and it’s already feeling a bit weird being out of that particular loop for the first …

The new issue of the Tight But Loose magazine is due mid September. Issue 24 is another packed issue including an extensive overview of Led Zeppelin’s summer of ’69 US festival appearances by Mike Tremaglio, Collector focus on UK Zep vinyl collector Nick Anderson, an interview with It Might Get Loud director Davis Guggenheim, Knebworth ’79 overview, Solo Years scrapbook plus Them Crooked Vultures, Page, Plant latest news and more.
For ordering information click here.

Them Crooked Vultures, the new Dave Grohl/Josh Homme/John Paul Jones supergroup made their UK debut on Wednesday night in a support slot to The Arctic Monkeys at the 02 Academy Brixton. Along with guitarist Alain Johannes, they performed a set that included the tracks Elephant, Gunman, Mind Eraser (No Chaser),Daffodils and Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I.
The band was first seen in action on August 10th at the Metro in Chicago and followed that with appearances at Melkweg in Amsterdam,the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium and Lowlands Festival in the …

I have been to many shows at Brixton, but never has queue outside stretched further than last night. It went round the entire venue, good time to have some last pre-gig pints from the off licences we walked past. Inside there was still nothing 100 % confirming their appearance, but asking stewards if it is THEM, the odd chuckle was enough for me. The whole place was buzzing like I haven’t seen for a support act since Soundgarden and Fait No More supported GnR back in 1992.
At 19:45 sharp they …

Thirty years ago today, I unwrapped the first of six brown paper covers holding the contents of the new Led Zeppelin album and yes life after Knebworth back then was very good.

In a bizarre twist of fate the post office I am now frequenting on a regular basis to post out the Knebworth book is but a stones throw from my friend Dec’s old house, and another ex Wallbanger player the late Karl Bergin.
It was at Karl’s house thirty years ago on the afternoon of Monday August 20th that I …