Robert Plant Presents Sensational Space Shifters – HMV London Forum -Thursday July 12th 2012
Set List: Fixin’ To Die/Tin Pan Valley/44/Friends/Spoonful/Bron Yr Aur Stomp/Ohio/No Bad News/Standing in the Shadow of the Hill/Don’t let me Die in Florida/Black Dog/Somebody Knocking/I’m Your Witchdoctor/Who Do You Love –Whole Lotta Love –Steal away –Bury My Body. Encores: Another Tribe/Gallows Pole
Robert Plant returned to London for his first show since The Band Of Joy appearance in 2010. This time he was surrounded by a hybrid band of players that drew on the nucleus of the Strange Sensation, …

To celebrate the Robert Plant London Forum gig, it’s Robert Plant week on TBL – here’s the final daily archive postings which brings the story up to date from The Band Of Joy though to Sensational Space Shifters for which tonight is the night….
The TBL pre gig meet is at The Assembly House pub, 292-294 Kentish Town Road, Kentish Town, London. We look forward to seeing all that can make it along.
Here’s a round up of live reviews from The Band Of Joy through to the Sensational Space Shifters Gloucester debut -and …

To celebrate Thursday’s Robert Plant London Forum gig, it’s Robert Plant week on TBL with daily archive postings. Today we look back to the immediate Page & Plant era that took Robert Plant from the Priory Of Brion into Dreamland.
ROBERT PLANT – FROM THE PRIORY TO DREAMLAND
“Outside my window, strange things come every night and day, It’s strange, so very very strange…”
Robert Plant sang these opening lines from Donovan’s ‘Season Of The Witch’ directly in front of me as he moved centre stage in the tiny Boardwalk club in Sheffield …

To celebrate Robert Plant’s this week’s London Forum gig, over the next few days it’s Robert Plant week on TBL with daily archive postings. Today we look back to the 2003  Robert Plant compilation set Sixty Six To Timbuktu.
PLANT 66 TO TIMBUKTU RETRO PROVES THERE IS LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER ZEPPELIN…
Given his vast achievements within Led Zeppelin, it’s easy to forget that Robert Plant has enjoyed a solo career that has spanned twice the time he spent in the company of Page and co.
The release of Sixty Six To …

To celebrate Robert Plant’s forthcoming London Forum gig, over the next few days it’s Robert Plant week on TBL with daily archive postings. Today we look back to his first post Zep solo album Pictures At Eleven.
Pictures at Eleven – Still vivid at  30
Robert Plant’s first solo album was a personal  career watershed to rival Led Zep 1 
For the former singer in the biggest band in the world, the post Zeppelin career rebuilding process can be traced along the highways and the byways of the North of England in …

To celebrate Robert Plant’s forthcoming London Forum gig, over the next few days it’s Robert Plant week on TBL with daily archive postings. Today we look back to his first post Zep appearances in the Midlands based pick up band The Honeydrippers.
Honeydrippers ‘81 Revisited
Two months ago Led Zeppelin announced they could not continue as they were. For Robert Plant this decision signalled a period of self-evaluation that resulted in a complete change of musical status, from being the seminal rock demi-god to being, well, just the singer in a band. …

As mentioned previously, Robert Plant & the Band of Joy: Live from the Artists Den is released on July  10th on DVD and Blue Ray and features the complete Band Of Joy gig at the Nashville’s historic War Memorial Auditorium from February 2011. The performance – including Zeppelin numbers, solo material, traditional songs and new originals – was later broadcast in part on public television’s Live from the Artists Den series.
“Some years back I was propelled by chance, with little planning or expectation into an American way . . . with a …

From a Whisper to a Scream, the new complete guide to the music of Led Zeppelin published by Omnibus Press is now ready to roll. All pre order copies via the TBL website will be distributed over the next couple of weeks.
From their 1969 debut album through to the Mothership compilation, this is an album by album, track by track analysis of every official Led Zeppelin recording.
However familiar you may be with their albums, this guide to all aspects of their output is designed to take you back to the …

32 years ago tomorrow, Led Zeppelin performed at the Festhalle in Frankfurt on their final tour. This tour is extensively chronicled in the book Feather In The Wind Led Zeppelin Over Europe 1980. By way of a re-launch for the book and to mark the anniversary, this  TBL Archive Special presents the introduction chapter text to the book and an interview with Dave Lewis on the writing of the book.
Flashback to the Frankfurt Festhalle, Germany – on the evening of June 30th, 1980 around 8pm:
I am in the confines of the …

The Artist Den/Universal Music Group will be releasing the Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy  – Live At The Artist Den DVD and Blue Ray next month.
Here’s the info:
THE ARTISTS DEN AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP TO RELEASE LIVE ROBERT PLANT & THE BAND OF JOY DVD
GLOBALLY ON JULY 9 (INTL) & JULY 10 (US)
New York, NY (June 25, 2012) — Artists Den Entertainment and Universal Music Group will release Robert Plant & the Band of Joy: Live from the Artists Den on 5.1 BluRay and DVD in the US on …