Them Crooked Vultures continue to impress audiences down under on their tour of New Zealand and Australia. Check out the Tour Watch section for exclusive tour reports from fellow TBL’lers alongside various press reports. The tour continues this week covering;
January 25, Brisbane, Riverstage
January 26 and 27, Sydney, Hordern Pavilion
January 29, Wellington, TSB Bank Arena
January 30, Auckland, Vector Arena
The Vultures have also announced a series of performances on the East Coast of the USA and appearance on the famous NBC “Saturday Night Live” show on February 6th.The shows so far announced with more …

Them Crooked Vultures Festival Hall
By Michael Rae

Set List
No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
Dead End Friends
Scumbag Blues
Elephants
Highway One
New Fang
Gunman
Bandoliers
Mind Eraser, No Chaser
Caligulove
Interlude With Ludes
Spinning In Daffodils
Reptiles
Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up

In John Thomson’s post on Friday’s Melbourne show, he said his 16 year-old  son commented “that was truly good as.”   I think my (much younger) boys’ take on the common Australian expression could be applied to last night’s (Saturday) show – “That show was better than as!”
Walking on stage to wild applause, …

Led Zeppelin (on film) at the Granada Bedford January 1977. No prizes for guessing where this poster was llikely to end up!
 
33 years ago today I was about to commence a seven night stint in the company of Led Zeppelin….or to be more specific their film The Song Remains The Same.
The newly released celluloid masterpiece was on general release and doing the rounds nationally and cue fanfare…had rolled into my home town of Bedford.
Yes Led Zeppelin alive on film in the quaint market town of Bedford for seven nights only and …

SECRET WEAPON WORKS A TREAT!
 

Set List
No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
Dead End Friends
Scumbag Blues
Elephants
Highway One
New Fang
Gunman
Bandoliers
Mind Eraser, No Chaser
Caligulove
Interlude With Ludes
Spinning In Daffodils
Reptiles
Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up
 
Last night was truly a great show from Them Crooked Vultures.  It was a hot 36 degree day from Melbourne with the venue being the old Festival Hall.– A venue I had not been to before but famous for The Beatles playing there. Being so old, there was no air conditioning and the drinks queues …

Them Crooked Vultures review
This review by Ashlee Crabbe is taken from WA Today.com
 
This week it was Perth’s job to welcome super-group of the noughties Them Crooked Vultures to Australia.
The frantic crowd was cheering as soon as the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme stepped foot on stage.
When frontman Homme took the microphone and shouted “are you ready to have a good time?”, the crowd were quick to answer.
Opening the night at Challenge Stadium were local boys The …

UK tribute band Letz Zep are back on the road with a series of UK gigs under the banner ‘’Led Zeppelin 30 Years Gone’’. Gigs confirmed so far:
Letz Zep
Friday 22 January 2010
Grays Civic Hall
Blackshots Lane
Grays, RM16 2LB
Box Office 01375 383961
Doors 7.00pm
Onstage 7.30pm
Tickets £17.50
 
Letz Zep
Thursday 11 February 2010
Bridlington Music Nights
24, Prince Street
Bridlington East Yorkshire YO15 2NP
Box Office 01262 677834
Doors 7.00pm
Onstage 8.30pm
Tickets £free
 
Letz Zep
Friday 12 February 2010
Playhouse
Marine Avenue Whitley Bay
Tyne and Wear NE26 1LZ
Box Office 0844 277 2771
Doors 7.00pm
Onstage 7.30pm
Tickets £15.00
 
Letz Zep
Saturday 13 February 2010
Corn Exchange
Broad Street,
Stamford,
Lincolnshire,
PE9 1PX
Box Office 01780 766455
Doors …

UK tribute band Boot Led Zeppelin will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the famous Zep Earls Court shows with a showcase gig on Saturday March 27th. The venue is the Shepherds Bush Empire in London. Boot Led Zeppelin will be recreating the magic of Zep in ’75 with a special Earls Court set list and TBL will be in attendance on the night – more details to follow. This is shaping up to be a great way of marking the 35th Earls Court anniversary. Ticket details and info via …

On March 2nd , Rounder Records will be releasing Rounder Records’ 40th Anniversary Concert, an album of the concert that celebrated the label’s 40 years in the music industry. Recorded in October 2009 at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, the concert will also be presented as a PBS television special that will begin airing on the network in March, 2010 and released on DVD in May.
The event is a superb exhibition of Rounder’s diverse roster, and features Grammy winning Rounder artists Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Mary Chapin …

DL back at Earls Court 30 years to the day -May 18th 2005. For non badgeholders only.
After last week’s flurry of Zep related activity it’s been down to work with a ton of planning to do for this year’s TBL schedule.  Not that the news input has slowed too much with Jimmy’s appearance at the Show of Peace press conference bringing official word that he will be one of the main attractions  at the event on April 17th – and the presenting of his United Nations  Pathways To Peace award. 
 
It’s …

 
 
Here’s the latest TBL back issue extract from the TBL archives. These archive pieces highlight the depth of detail to found in the TBL magazine.
Subscribe now for future issues and you will never miss out.    
In keeping with this week’s 1975 theme, this TBL archive extract from issue 15 published in 2001, focuses on a series of dynamic performances as Led Zeppelin barnstormed there way across the US in early 1975. A band at the very top of their game…and a prelude to what the UK would revel in at …