John Paul Jones, along with Seasick Steve made a surprise appearance at the Foo Fighters Sunday night show at the Milton Keynes Bowl. The Them Crooked Vultures band mates, along with Steve performed “Back In The Doghouse”, a track from Seasick’s new album ‘You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks.’
Here’s a first hand report from Michaela Firth:
After recovering from the mix of mud and sunshine at Glastonbury where we saw bands as varied as  U2 , Biffy Clyro, Coldplay,Morrisey, Two Door Cinema Club , Pendulum , Don Mclean  & Elbow , …

We said goodbye to Howard Mylett and celebrated his life on a lovely summer’s day in Brighton. I went down on the train with Mark Harrison and we met with Gary Foy and Graeme Hutchinson. The service was a very moving affair – there were memorable photos of Howard placed by the coffin. His niece Emma read a lovely tribute to Howard from his wife Anita. I represented the many Led Zeppelin fans worldwide who have been saddened by his passing in paying tribute to a man who’s …

Photo by John-Kenney
Robert Plant was honoured at the Montrael Jazz Festival on Friday. On receiving the Spirit award he  made reference to John Bonhamsaying – “I always remember what John Bonham told me when I was about 22,” Plant said. “He said `You’re not very good at what you do, but just go out and look good, because it will help us a lot.’”
Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy wrapped up the second leg of their US tour on Saturday night with a show at Atlantic City. This leg …

Howard Mylett’s funeral will take place at Woodvale Crematorium in Brighton at 1.30pm on Wednesday June 29th 2011.
Here are the details :
Wednesday June 29th 2011 – at 1.30PM
Woodvale Crematorium
Lewes Road entrance -North Chapel
Brighton
See link
http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1000843
Flowers and enquiries may be sent to  Baker & Sons, 60 Church Road, Portslade -Tel 01273 418464
TBL Floral Arrangement:
There will be a TBL floral arrangement in tribute to Howard – representing Led Zeppelin fans worldwide. If you would like to contribute a donation to the TBL floral arrangement this can be done as follows.
By  …

Rejuvenation in Cologne: Wednesday June 18th 1980 -Photo by Tom Locke.
The magnificent city of Cologne, a mixture of hustling German efficiency and enthusiastic tourism, looks dull and hazy as our train rolls into the station on a June, Wednesday morning. It’s in the vicinity of the square that surrounds the impressive Cologne cathedral that the reality of what Tom and I are actually doing here really hits home.  Along a side street adjoining the square are a row of blue and red bill posters, each proclaiming the same message: “Lippman, …

Photo Credit: ©Christie Goodwin
Black Country Communion, the Anglo/American rock supergroup comprising vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Trapeze), drummer Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater) and blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa ae now on tour  in support of their much anticipated second album. The album, simply called “2” is  released on June 13th.
The band have just released a video for the track Man In The Middle.
The BCC dates are as follows;
09 June- San Diego, California San Diego Civic Theatre United States
10 June- Anaheim, California City National Grove of Anaheim …

 
Led Zeppelin Feather In the Wind –Over Europe 1980 -Compiled by Dave Lewis
The already much acclaimed new book is the perfect read this summer:
Chronicling the final days of Led Zeppelin in greater detail than ever before – setting the scene with the build up to the tour, combining on the spot reports of the gigs from the time and retrospective views from those that were there both out front and backstage. Includes an in depth gig by gig analysis of the 14 shows, full bootleg, memorabilia and statistic appendix section and illustrated …

Jimmy Page made his first live UK appearance in three years last night when he joined 60’s folk rock legend Donovan at his Sunshine Superman performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Dave Lewis files this exclusive on the spot report for TBL.
In a move that mirrored the events of 21 years ago (see latest DL Diary entry), at very short notice yesterday afternoon I zipped in to London to attend Donovans’ Sunshine Superman performance at the Royal Albert Hall.
The first half of the show saw the 1960’s folk …

John Bonham would have been 63 on Tuesday May 31st – the above photo is one of my favourite of John – not least because I was lucky enough to take it. It captures him receiving one of seven awards presented by Michael Palin (on the right) to three quarters of Led Zeppelin on the afternoon of November 28th 1979 at the Waldorf Hotel in London.
Surprisingly and somewhat ironically, Bonzo lost out to Phil Collins as top drummer. John was somewhat irked by this. Jason told me a story recently …

Firstly an update on the state of play with the TBL Product frenzy distribution.
TBL 29 has been distributed over the past few days and subscriber UK copies should be arriving now – Overseas copies should also be well on the way. Initial orders for the Led Zeppelin Feather In The Wind – Over Europe 1980 are now on the way out – again UK orders should be arriving in the next few days with overseas orders following over the next two to three weeks. Orders for T-shirts will begin to …