Robert Plant Presents…….Sensational Space Shifters – Hunter Valley, AUSTRALIA – Newcastle Entertainment Centre
Setlist included:
Another Tribe, Tin Pan Valley, Heartbreaker, Four Sticks, Going To California, What Is And Should Never Be, Spoonful, Black Dog, Whole Lotta Love
Encores: Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Rock and Roll.
This round up by Bill McGlynn:
Just returned from my third Robert Plant & SSS concert, in Newcastle. It’s been three wonderful nights, to say the least! All three setlists have been the same and the orders have varied. In Newcastle, it started with a very powerful version of Friends.
The venues …

Robert Plant Presents…….Sensational Space Shifters – Byron Bay, AUSTRALIA – Bluesfest
Setlist:
Friends, Tin Pan Valley, Another Tribe, 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.
Review: Robert Plant, Byron Bay Bluesfest, by: Noel Mengel from the www.news.com.au
THERE is a special electric charge that goes through an audience when an artist can play a really big song, one that speaks across the generations.
In the case …

TBL Celebrates Houses Of The Holy at 40:
A lot of work went into collating and writing the Houses Of The Holy feature earlier in the year – I was as usual spinning a few other plates, so it’s most gratifying to receive the kind of feedback below that makes it all worthwhile…inspiring a return to the music with a fresh perspective is always my mission on everything that comes out of here…judging by these comments it’s job done with Houses…
This one from Paul Humbley:
This is the least played Zeppelin vinyl in …

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 …