Robert’s second show with The Band Of Joy in Little Rock was another triumph. The big set list suprise was the performance of  Over The Hills And Far Away, played prior to Gallows Pole making it a four song Zeppelin run in with Thank You and Rock & Roll following as encores to close the set. Buddy Miller also performed Trouble with Robert on harmonica. Full set list below may need comfirmation -if you were there- let us know.

Set List:
Down To The Sea, Angel Dance, Please Read The Letter, House …

Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy play their first date at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis today which has been declared ‘’Robert Plant Day’’ in the city.
Here’s a round up of a press conference Robert gave yesterday at the venue, plus a question and answer session conducted with with Lindsey Miller of The Arkansas Times.
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Set List:
Down To The Sea, Angel Dance, Please Read The Letter, House Of Cards, Misty Mountain Hop, Monkey, Oh What A Beautiful City/Wader In The Water/In My Time OF Dying Medley, Rich Woman. Gone Gone Gone, All The Kings Horses, Nobodys Fault But Mine, Satan Your Kingdom Must Go, Central Two O Nine, Houses Of The Holy, Tall Cool One, Harms Swift Way, Gallows Pole.
Encores: Thank You, Rock And Roll,  We Bid you Goodnight.
First reports filtering across the Atlantic from Roberts Memphis gig last night shows a varying set list covering …

Robert Plant commences his long awaited Band of Joy tour in Memphis next Tuesday. If you are attending any of the 12  shows over the next few weeks, we would welcome your review of the gig and experience, photos-  ticket stubs-adverts-posters scans /local press comments, You Tube links etc.  This is to formulate the ongoing Robert Plant Tour watch on the TBL site and the coverage in the next TBL magazine.  So why not get your views seen.  Reviews can be as short as a long as you feel is …

The TBL 2 GF and DL meet with another fully paid up member of the Black Country Communion – Marble Arch London July 5th 2010
Last Monday was a bit of a whirlwind day as aside from the evening’s Them Crooked Vultures gig, Gary and I had a lunchtime rendezvous with Glenn Hughes.
This was to conduct a follow up interview with Glenn regarding the Black Country Communion album. As he had been on the phone from LA back in February, Glenn was a fantastic interviewee.   Accommodating, friendly, lucid and incredibly positive, …

Set List: Mind Eraser/Dead End Friends/Scumbag Blues/Elephants/Highway 1/Gunman/Nobody Loves Me/Bandoliers/Interlude With Ludes/Caliulove/You Can’t Possibly Begin To Imagine/Daffodils/Reptiles/Warsaw/Encore New Fang
Them Crooked Vultures took what may, or may not be their last UK  bow last night at a triumphant finale at London’s Brixton 02 Academy.  As Josh Homme noted, it brought the band full circle as it was here last August that the Vultures first announced themselves at a low key support slot to the Arctic Monkeys.
There was nothing low key about this Brixton return – a benefit show for TCV friend, …

STOP PRESS: Robert Plant has announced  an Irish date to his UK tour – the show  at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre is set for November 1st. Tickets  go on sale Friday July 9th priced at €55 and €60 plus booking fee.
Robert Plant has announced his first UK tour in support of his upcoming album “Band Of Joy. He plays;
HMV Forum, London on Thursday 2nd September 2010
St David’s Hall, Cardiff on Tuesday 26th October 2010
Symphony Hall, Birmingham on Wednesday 27th October 2010
Palace Theatre, Manchester on Sunday 31st October 2010
You still have the chance …

Next Monday July 5th,Them Crooked Vultures play their final UK date of their tour – a benefit show which is in aid of TCV friend and Josh Homme  collaborator Brian O’Connor at the Brixton 02 Academy. The TBL pre gig meet will be at the The Bee Hive Pub in Brixton (see link). Just a 100 metres from the tube station, you can’t miss it.
We look forward to meeting up with all those that can make it (DL)

DL with a fully paid up member of the Black Country Communion –  London June 29th 2010
Let’s get this one out of the way.  England’s exit from the World Cup was indeed a bitter pill to swallow. I know we were poor overall, but I can’t help thinking if the goal that never was had been rightly allowed it might have all been a different story. It’s all history now though and we are left with the aftermath, the recriminations and inquests.  Can’t get too excited about the rest of …

Pic: Keith Hale/Sun Times
Robert Plant made a surprise appearance on Tuesday  June 29th in Chicago. He joined Los Lobos on stage at the Taste Of Chicago Festival held in Grant Park’s Petrillo Band Shell for a rousing version of the Roy Head classic “Treat Her Right” (The number Robert jammed with Jimmy Page on at his December 13th Hammersmith Odeon appearance back in 1983).  David Hidalgo of Los Lobos had mentioned earlier in the band’s set that they had finished shooting a video earlier in the day with Robert Plant …