Robert Plant Presents Sensational Space Shifters – Civic Hall Wolverhampton – Monday September 2nd, 2013
Set List:
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You/Satan Your Kingdome Must Come Down/Tin Pan Valley/ /Spoonful/Black Dog/Another Tribe/Going to California/The Enchanter/ Four Sticks/Friends/ Fixin to Die/ What is And What Should Never Be/ Whole Lotta Love (including Who Do You Love). Encores – Big Log, Rock And Roll. 
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Another consummate performance by Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters in Wolverhampton  – easily on a par with the Bristol show –same set list, humorous Plant banter throughout and …

Robert Plant Presents Sensational Space Shifters – Colston Hall  Bristol  Thursday August 29th, 2013.
Set List:
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You/Satan Your Kingdome Must Come Down/Tin Pan Valley/ /Spoonful/Black Dog/Another Tribe/Going to California/The Enchanter/ Four Sticks/Friends/ Fixin to Die/ What is And What Should Never Be/ Whole Lotta Love (including Who Do You Love). Encores – Big Log, Rock And Roll. Above pic by DL for TBL
What a night…
Great crowd – very enthusiastic and a cross section of ages.
From the start, Robert was totally compelling – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You …

Robert Plant Presents The Sensational Space Shifters roll back to the UK this week for three long awaited appearances.  Tomorrow night they are in Bristol at the Colston Hall, on Saturday it’s to Stradbally Co Laois in Ireland for the Electric Picnic festival. Finally it’s back on familiar territory for a date on Monday at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall.
These are the first dates in the UK since last July’s Womad appearance and before that, the Gloucester SSS debut and HMV Forum show. It’s been too long…
Since those tentative first steps, …

John Paul Jones at Polar Music Prize: 
John Paul jones is one of the guest speakers at this year’s Polar Music Prize Talks staged in in Stockholm on August 26th –
This via the Polar Music Prize site…
Meet the Polar Music Prize Laureates 2013, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Bianca Jagger, Martin Ingvar, Margot Wallström, artists and entrepreneurs at Polar Music Talks in Stockholm, Monday, August 26
Polar Music Talks takes advantage of the unique competences gathered in Stockholm in conjunction with the Polar Music Prize ceremony. The event builds bridges between …

Robert Plant is 65 today…
From his initial forays into the Midlands scene in the mid 60’s, through to his vital contribution to Led Zeppelin and on to an always compelling solo career, Robert Plant has occupied a unique position at the forefront of popular musical culture for over five decades…
That unmistakeable voice and that charismatic presence, together with a relentless thirst for musical invention have placed Robert Plant in a category of his own.
In the past 12 months, working within the dynamic Sensational Space Shifters line up, he has yet again lit up …

 
Led Zeppelin To Be Honoured In Denmark
This via the official Led Zeppelin site:
September 7, 2013, marks the 45 year anniversary since Led Zeppelin played their very first concert. Now the British rock stars are getting a special plaque right where it all began; in a primary school in Gladsaxe.
In Denmark, Led Zeppelin made themselves into rock history September 7,1968. There was, as we know, many interesting things around the world that year. That there was an English rockband that played on a Saturday night in Gladsaxe Teen Club in the …

It was 34 years ago today…
On the 34th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s August 11th gig  at Knebworth….
Comments, recollections and memories from the second week out in that field…taken from the forthcoming book Led Zeppelin Then As It Was – At Knebworth 1979 written and compiled by Dave Lewis:
“It was an April morning when they told us we should go…”
In late April 1979 the air crackled with an electric expectation; whispers grew to a muted roar and, as the supercharged clouds of rumour gathered, finally the news broke.  Full page ads …

 
John Bonham Memorial Statue Fund Plan:
This via the Redditch Standard
A Fund has been set-up to install a permanent memorial in the town to one of  Britain’s greatest musicians and arguably Redditch’s most famous resident.
The John Bonham Memorial Fund will aim to collect as much money as possible  to have a statue or sculpture erected in honour of the Led Zeppelin drummer who  was born, educated and grew up in Redditch.
It is hoped space will be found within the town centre for the statue, with  the bandstand area previously mooted.
The fund …

It was 34 years ago today…
On the 34th anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Knebworth….
Comments, recollections and memories from out in that field…taken from the forthcoming book Led Zeppelin Then As It Was – At Knebworth 1979 written and compiled by Dave Lewis:
 We followed BP Fallon to the Led Zeppelin enclosure.
‘’Where do you want to do a line up shot’’
‘’Er, wherever you like’’ I replied
Beep went into the trailer and out came Jimmy, Robert, Jonesy and Bonzo,
much to Chalkie’s and my surprise.  We thought it was too dark to shoot.
‘’No problem, …

The 34th anniversary of Led Zeppelin at Knebworth is upon us this weekend and once again our thoughts will drift back to that golden summer of 1979 when Led Zeppelin performed two unforgettable concerts in the ground of the famous stately home.
The subject matter of that period have been well prevalent here in the last few months as the writing, collation and design of the revised Led Zeppelin Then As It Was – at Knebworth 1979 revamped edition has taken shape.
This weekend’s anniversary is a timely moment to inform you where …