It was great to be back in the vacinity of those May daze of 1975 this week when a visit to the London Trade Book Fair took me back to Earls Court. Coming out of the tube and seeing that grand old building come into view is like catching up on some much missed distant relation. It will be a shame of this monument to so many historic occasions is allowed to disappear under the bulldozer in the name of so called progress.
I was at the fair with my good …

Photo by Christina Mendenhall
Set list included
Black Dog
Down To The Sea
Angel Dance
Please Read The Letter
Houses Of The Holy
Black Country Woman
House of Cards
Monkey
Ocean of Tears
Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go
A Satisfied Mind
Ramble On
Encore
Gallows Pole
 
Balky sound system doesn’t  deter incredible show by Robert Plant, Band of Joy
Review by Jonathan Tully
Robert Plant and his Band of Joy were about a third of the way through  “Please Read The Letter” – a song which Plant and Alison Krauss had turned into  a gorgeous, plaintive song of longing on their album Raising Sand – when a  horrific noise …

The new issue of the Tight But Loose magazine is OUT NOW.
Here’s a review from the Underground Uprising Zep site
Tight But Loose Issue 29
The issue of every new release of Tight But Loose from the highly elequent pen of Dave Lewis is always an event to be savoured. And this latest release is no exception. In fact I am of the opinion that this is one of the very best ever issues of this venerable organ, as they say in Private Eye! There are so many extremely interesting articles crammed …

Set list included
Black Dog
Down to the Sea
Angel Dance
Black Country Woman
House Of Cards
Monkey
Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go
Silver Rider
Satisfied Mind
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Twelve Gates To The City / Wade in the Water / In My Time Of Dying
Ocean Of Tears
Please Read The Letter
Houses Of The Holy
Ramble On
Encores
Tangerine
Harm’s Swifft Way
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
Plant delivers rootsy Americana
The long golden ringlets, the rock-star poses and the microphone-stand strut are still the same. But the songs don’t remain the same when Robert Plant sings them.
The voice of Led Zeppelin brought his solo tour …

With new band, Robert Plant brings joy to Milwaukee
Walk into the Riverside Theatre midway through Monday night’s show without any preconceptions, and you might have thought you were seeing a completely different band. As the bear-like singer-songwriter Darrell Scott took lead vocals, Grammy-winning singer Patti Griffin contributed mesmerizing backing vocals as guitarist Buddy Miller pounded away on his axe.
The music was so enjoyable, it might have taken a minute for your eyes to settle on the leonine man at the back of the stage, and realized you were in the …

Robert Plant & The Band of Joy set Saturday at the Auditorium Theatre
1. Black Dog
2. Down to the Sea
3. Angel Dance
4. Black Country Woman
5. House of Cards
6. Monkey
7. Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go (Buddy Miller vocal)
8. Silver Rider
9. A Satisfied Mind (Darrell Scott vocal)
10. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
11. Twelve Gates to the City/Wade in the Water/In My Time of Dying
12. Patty Griffin song
13. Please Read the Letter
14. Houses of the Holy
15. Ramble On
Encore:
16. Tangerine
17. Harm’s Swift Way
18. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Whether singing blues, folk or Led Zeppelin, …

John Paul Jones will be performing at the forthcoming Cheltenham Jazz Festival as  part of Spin Marvel, an electronic jazz group. The band  includes  Loose Tubes drummer Martin France, celebrated trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer and Terje Evensen on live elctronics. JPJ completes the line up on bass guitar. The group’s appearance is on Saturday  April 30th at 5:15pm in the main arena.
See link at www.cheltenhamfestivals.com

Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy commence their US tour tonight in Louisville – if you are attending any of the forthcoming  shows – …

Robert Plant and Band of Joy rock the Louisville Palace
There are moments during a Robert Plant and Band of Joy show where you sink into the music and actually forget for a while that the Robert Plant is on stage. Band of Joy is so much its own thing, and so impressive, that even Plant’s epochal history recedes.
But then they start to play “Ramble On,” and there’s no fighting “Ramble On.”
Among the many highlights at Friday’s sold-out Band of Joy show at the Louisville Palace, there can be no downplaying …

Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy will perform at this year’s Montreal International Jazz Festival at the end of June. They are scheduled to play the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts on June 24.  Other Dates already confirmed this year are as follows:
April 8 – Louisville, KY – The Palace
April 9: – Chicago, IL – The Auditorium Theatre
April 11 – Milwaukee, WI – The Riverside Ballroom
April 12 – Minneapolis – The State Theatre
April 14 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live Arena
April 14-16  -Wanee Music Festival, Live Oak, …

Progress on the book I have been compiling titled  Feather In The Wind- Led Zeppelin  Over Europe 1980 is ongoing and we are now commencing the design stage with a view to publication in late May/June.
Here’s what the book is all about:
In the summer of 1980, Led Zeppelin undertook what would be their final tour –a low key 14 date trek across  Germany, Belgium, Holland, Austria and Switzerland.
With a radically streamlined stage presentation and set list, the aim was to get back to being a working band after all the …