Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy have added two extra dates to their forthcoming North American tour and have also announced their first festival date in the US for 2011. The additional dates  are for New York’s Beacon Theatre on January 30th and a second show at the Sony Centre in Toronto on Janaury 23rd.
The festival date is at the 38th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, held in Telluride, Colorado over the weekend of June 16th– 19th. Tickets are now on sale. More summer dates are expected.
The full January/February US …

Bonham’s the auctioneers are staging their latest  Entertainment Memorabilia sale  in Knightsbridge on December 15th and have a variety of Led Zeppelin related items on offer.  The lead item is a rare  acetate of  Memory Lane- an original composition recorded by The Band Of Joy. This was one of  four songs recorded at IBC Studios in Portland Place in London in early 1968 .The session  included  covers of Billy Roberts’ ‘Hey Joe’, Buffalo Springfield’s ‘For What It’s Worth’ and two original compositions, ‘Adriatic Sea View’ and ‘Memory Lane’. These were …

Robert Plant continued his promotion of the Band Of Joy album with a phone interview to a Nashville Radio Station on Friday, to check listen to what he had to say follow this link to Music Business Radio
More Band of Joy: Have a look at this  nice little clip on You Tube of last month’s Paris gig. Watch the audience reaction about .38 seconds in.

Following on from  his surprise appearance at the Punkt Festival  in Norway on September 4th, John Paul Jones   was in  Vienna later that month as the …

The DL receding hairline clearly visible just under the mic stand. Later With Jools Holland November 16th 2010
Last Sunday morning I watched BBC1’s live coverage of the service of Remembrance from the Cenotaph in Whitehall. It was an incredibly moving experience to see all the veteran soldiers marching by – made even more so with thoughts of Janet’s Dad Ken who died in April and was so proud to have served his country in the second world war. With thoughts of Ken in mind and my own departed Mum and …

Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy took part in the final  show of the current series of BBC2’s Later With Jools Holland last night. They appeared alongside Arcade Fire, soul legend Mavis Staples, Nashville four piece Mona, Adele and Indian folk singer Raghu Dixit.
For the Later Live edition aired last night on BBC2, Robert and the band performed House Of Cards and Robert also conducted an interview with Jools Holland. During the segment a vintage clip of Robert performing Big Log on Top of The Pops was aired. ‘’Nice …

Robert Plant and the Band of Joy have announced a 15 date North American tour for January and February 2011. These are the first dates in the US since the 12 date tour in July and the one-off New York show in September.
The dates include a two night stint at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville.
The dates are as follows:
January: 18: Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Asheville, N.C.
January: 19: Peterson Events Centre (University of Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, Pa.
January: 21: Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Mich.
January: 22: Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Ont.
January: 25: …

Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy continue their European promotional tour with an appearance on Later With Jools Holland this week.
The show is aired live from 10pm on Tuesday night (November 16th) on BBC2 for half an hour. The complete show is then broadcast on Friday night (November 19th) from midnight and repeated on Saturday evening (November 20th) at 11.20pm. All are UK timings on BBC2.

Robert Plant & Band of Joy – Angel Dance – Live@CheTempoCheFa
RaiTre (Italian Tv) November 14th , 2010

DL with the Classic Rock’s Oustanding Contributor – Photo by Lisa Bardsley
Well it’s been an eventful three weeks.  Crikey ..where to start?
Apologies in advance for all the name dropping here which must look like I’m on some huge liggers ego trip but it’s just the way things have been these past few days.
Well firstly the Classic Rock Awards on Wednesday night. Going back to the Roundhouse was another memorable night out. Not surprising with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones both in the house . My good friend Jerry was …

Photo by Krys Jantzen
The Robert Plant series of programmes aired on BBC2 last night offered a feast of visual delights that spread into the early hours of the morning.
The newly commissioned documentary Robert Plant By Myself proved to be a compelling study of his life in music. Mark Radcliffe’s commentary was concise and to the point, leaving Robert to chronicle his remarkable journey through a series of perceptive interview segments told with his usual integrity and wit.

The documentary began with a scene setting focus on Robert’s early musical inspirations and …

Saturday  night (November 6th) over on BBC 2 is the place to be for any right-minded Robert Plant fan as the channel is turning over two and an half hours of viewing time for “An Evening With Robert Plant”.
Kicking off at 22:15 with a new documentary which aims  to shed light on Robert Plant’s solo ventures.
‘Robert Plant: By Myself’ is a unique insight into the singer’s life featuring some rare and very personal interviews.
The singer discusses his earliest days as a stamp-collecting grammar school kid in Stourbridge to the world …