Pic by Simon Cross
Robert Plant Presents…….Sensational Space Shifters – Sydney, AUSTRALIA – Entertainment Centre
Setlist:
Tin Pan Valley, Another Tribe, Friends, Spoonful, Black Dog, Going to California, The Enchanter, What Is And What Should Never Be, Heartbreaker, Four Sticks, Funny in My Mind (I Believe I’m Fixin’ to Die), Whole Lotta Love
Encores: Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Rock and Roll.
This report from Bill McGlynn:
Just returned from the Plant and Space Shifters show in Sydney. As a life-long fan, I was more than impressed! Highlights were ‘What is & What Should Never Be  and Going To …

Led Zeppelin Houses Of The Holy  TBL 40th Anniverary Special:
40 years ago today Led Zeppelin released their long awaited fifth album, Houses Of The Holy.
We have been counting down to this milestone anniversary and the TBL website and Facebook page will be celebrating the album’s release over the next few days.
I myself have been getting intensely re acquainted with the Houses Of The Holy album since January, as over the past three months I’ve been collating a major feature  for the new issue of Record Collector – that issue is now …

Robert Plant Presents…….Sensational Space Shifters – Adelaide, AUSTRALIA – Entertainment Centre
Setlist:
Heartbreaker, Tin Pan Valley, Ramble On, Another Tribe, Spoonful, Black Dog, Going to California, The Enchanter, Four Sticks, Friends, Funny in My Mind (I Believe I’m Fixin’ to Die), Whole Lotta Love
Encore: Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Rock and Roll.
This review from Murray Bramwell at the www.thebarefootreview.com.au
On stage this week at the Entertainment Centre, Robert Plant is relaxed and roguishly affable. He once looked like a Botticellian angel or a pre-Raphaelite prince. Now, with his long, crimped straw-coloured hair and Vandyke beard, he …

I know I’ve run this before, but the posting on Jimmy’s site today – and the fact it’s 15 years ago today that they performed the Shepherds Bush Empire gig, prompted me to dig out the Mad Month of March text from TBL 13 that chronicles this intensive period that saw them stage the showpiece Shepherds Bush gig plus appearances of Top of The Pops and TFI Friday.
1998 really was a fantastic year for Page and Plant activity – for some of  us in the TBL crew perhaps the last carefree period before we got …

Robert Plant presents Sensational Spaceshifters – West Coast Blues and Roots Festival – Fremantle: Western Australia, Perth –
This report by Mick Judd for TBL
Just got home. It was a great day with some great acts preceding Robert and the Strange Sensation, such as Chris Issak, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Status Quo. Robert and band came on about 7.30 pm and brought the house down with mostly Dreamland and Might Re-arranger materials. He looked quite fit and the band were well geared up for the gig. At one stage he made …

Robert Plant Presents…….Sensational Space Shifters – Perth, AUSTRALIA – West Coast Blues & Roots Festival
Setlist:
Heartbreaker, Tin Pan Valley, Another Tribe, Friends, Spoonful, Black Dog, Going To California, The Enchanter, Four Sticks, Fixin’ To Die (I Believe I’m Fixin’ to Die), Ramble On, Bron Y Aur Stomp, Whole Lotta Love
Encore: Rock n’ Roll
This report by Mick Judd for TBL
Just got home. It was a great day with some great acts preceding Robert and the Strange Sensation, such as Chris Issak, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Status Quo. Robert and band came on …

JIMMY PAGE AND JOHN PAUL JONES ACCEPT ECHO INTERNATIONAL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN BERLIN: 
Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were in attendance to accept Led Zeppelin’s International Lifetime Achievement Award at the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin last night.
Here is a link to watch the acceptance of the award: It’s wonderful to see Jimmy and JPJ together to receive yet another much deserved accolade…
http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/echo-2013/lebenswerk-international-led-zeppelin?documentId=13822376
Many thanks to Wolfgang Siedel
Photo Luca Teuchmann/Getty
Here’s a brief interview clip with Jimmy and summary of last night’s ECHO awards which saw Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in …

Robert Plant Presents…….Sensational Space Shifters – Fort Canning Park, SINGAPORE – Timbre Rock & Roots Festival

Setlist:
Heartbreaker, Tin Pan Valley, Friends, Spoonful, Black Dog, Going to California, The Enchanter, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Ramble On, Funny in My Mind (I Believe I’m Fixin’ to Die), Whole Lotta Love•
Encore. Rock and Roll.
Most groovy: Robert Plant
Taken from www.asiaone.com
He’s best known as the fiery frontman of legendary rock band Led Zeppelin, but with his new outfit, the Sensational Shape Shifters, last Thursday, Plant seemed more tie-dye-lovin’ hippie than boisterous rock star.
Those expecting to hear the …

Here’s a new interview with Robert Plant via Digital Today Singapore conducted by Kevin Mathews ahead of his Sensational Spaceshifters date at the Timbre Rock & Roots music festival on Thursday.
Yes, he’s now officially in town. The voice behind Led Zeppelin will be performing, quite aptly, at Timbre Rock & Roots music festival. We were worried he’d strain his voice prior to his set on Thursday night, but Plant didn’t seem to mind, judging from our long and quite candid chat. Read on.
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YOU’VE HAD OVER FORTY YEARS OF MAKING MUSIC, WHAT …

As Robert prepares for his first appearances down under since 1996 – here’s a round up of pre – tour media coverage, interviews and quotes: 
Robert Plant has an unquenchable thirst for music that moves him.
From his golden-haired, rock-god days as frontman for Led Zeppelin to his latest British urban, West African-inspired incarnation, The Sensational Shape Shifters.
“Try combining West African rhythms with Led Zeppelin-fired blues,” he explains ahead of his two April shows in New Zealand.
It will be Plant’s third visit to New Zealand. Speaking from his home in Machynlleth, Wales, …