Robert Plant has announced a one-off show in New York on Sunday 12th September at the Bowery Ballroom, Delancey St., New York. Ticket go on sale noon today (Saturday) from www.ticketmaster
Following on from the successful show at The Forum in Kentish Town the next morning Robert appeared on the BBC 1 Morning News show, waxing lyrical about the Band Of Joy project and doing his best to ignore the Zepp to reform question. Check out the clip here from the www.bbc.co.uk website.

Photos: Gary Foy/TBL
Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy
’OH TO BE IN ENGLAND’’ – ROBERT PLANT BRINGS JOY TO THE FORUM  
Set List:
Down To The Sea, Monkey, House of Cards,  Please Read the Letter, Misty Mountain Hop, Rich Woman, Twelve Gates To The City/Wade In The Water, Trouble Don’t Go, All The Kings Horses, Satisfied Mind, Move On Up In Glory, Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down, Central Two O’ Nine, Houses Of The Holy, Tall Cool One, Over The Hills And Far Away,  Gallows Pole, Encore: Harm’s Swift Way,  Rock and …

Above photo -Copyright Dan Cuny – re-produced with thanks
In recent weeks some excellent private cine-film of Led Zeppelin has surfaced on Youtube  via the  Led Zeppelin.com site.  The clips incude  rare film of Zep on stage in Japan and  a great piece from Landover 1977  A very close up Song Remains The Same from Greensboro 1977 has also recently surfaced. Here they are…
Japan 1971

Landover 1977

Greensboro 1977

Also check out this blog featuring some great photos from Led Zeppelin at  Kezar Stadium in 1973 with some excellent background material. Brit Rock by …

All photos Gary Foy/TBL
Robert Plant And The Band Of Joy
One Mayfair , London September 1st 2010
ROBERT PLANT & THE BAND OF JOY IN LONDON: “WELCOME TO THE CHURCH’’
Set List: Monkey, House Of Cards, Cindy I’’ll Mary You Someday, Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down, Central Two – O- Nine, Harms’ Swift Way, Angel Dance, I Bid You Goodnight.
Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy introduced themselves to a UK audience for the first time with an all inclusive eight song set list drawn mainly from their forthcoming album. This secret gig …

The above photo was taken by Tom Locke outside the Mannheim hotel Led Zeppelin were staying at during their two night stint at the Mannheim Eisstadion on July 2nd and 3rd 1980.  To the far left is John Paul Jones and you can see Robert in the centre. The man to the right of  JPJ is Michael Kirschner then the tour co-ordinator for WEA Records in Germany. It was his job to make sure everything went smoothly on the road and he acted as interpreter for the band and in …

Photo Copyright Jimmy Page Collection via Genesis Publications
Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page
(Genesis Publications – to be published September 27th)

It commences with a photo of the young Jimmy Page as a choir boy with the caption ‘’It might get loud’’ and ends some 500 pages and 50 years later with a recent shot of the elder wistful guitarist with the caption ‘’It might get louder…’’
In between there’s what can only be described as a simply stunning pictorial autobiography or as Jimmy modestly puts it ‘’A visual documentary to reflect my …

The long awaited Jimmy Page pictorial memoir will be published by Genesis Publications on September 27th.
The large format book is over 500 pages and reproduces more than 650 photographs and illustrations, making it the biggest limited edition that Genesis has produced to date. Pre orders are still being taken for the 2,500 limited edition copies – all of which will be personally signed by Jimmy.
The book spans Jimmy’s entire career including pre and post Zeppelin.  Many of the photos have been personally captioned with relevant comments – a superb shot …

On August 22nd Robert was one of the guests along with amongst others Steve Winwood, Brian May, Richard Thompson and Joe Brown on the special Bob Harris show to celebrate his 40th anniversary of Bob’s Radio one debut back in 1970.
Bob aired a pre recorded interview recorded a few days ago with Robert. Robert talked lucidly about his career and association with Bob including comments on Alexis Korner, Peter Grant and some perceptive and moving observations about the 02  – the moment Kashmir was aired after his reflections on the …

Listening to the forthcoming Robert Plant album Band Of Joy I was reminded of an interview quote he made a couple of years back ’’ The past can take care of itself – I go on undaunted’’
Indeed he does – and this latest twist in the story is proof again of his ability to immerse himself in a rich eclectic collection of material that makes for a very fulfilling listening experience.
Band Of Joy finds Robert Plant in the company of some seasoned Nashville based band mates – guitarist and co-producer …

Photo by Frank Melfi
The newly launched Robert Plant official Facebook Page has announced a free competition where all fans who ‘Like’ Robert are exclusively and automatically entered into a competition to win tickets to see a secret performance by Robert Plant and the Band Of Joy.
The lucky winners – chosen at random – will have the chance to attend the intimate show at a secret central London location on Wednesday September 1st 2010
Visit www.facebook.com/robertplant to enter