Robert Plant’s Band Of Joy European Tour kicks off tonight in Stockholm.  The tour continues  across Europe and the UK in the coming weeks and if you are  attending any of the shows we welcome your  reviews and photos  for use on the TBL site -send to  garyfoy@live.co.uk
The tour dates are as follows
14th October, Annext, Stockholm, Sweden
16th October, Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
18th October, Edinburgh, Usher Hall
20th October,  Gateshead: The Sage
21st October, Liverpool, The Olympia
23rd October,   AVO SESSION Basel, Festsaal, Basel, Switzerland
24th October, France/Paris– Palais De Sports
26th October, St David’s Hall, …

Robert Plant is interviewed by Mark Radcliffe on the Monday October 11th edition of the Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie show. It airs on BBC Radio Two from 8pm.

This  months issue of Record Collector has  an exclusive two page preview of  the  Genesis Jimmy Page photo memior by Dave Lewis

Tomorrow (October 9th) would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. The events of 30 years ago surrounding his comeback album Double Fantasy and his shocking death in December are intrinsically linked for me with the tragic events going inside the Zep camp this time back in 1980.
I can vividly remember Simon Bates airing the Starting Over single and there was a real optimism about his return to recording. I purchased the album in the Kings Road in November after a visit to the Swan Song offices. That optimism (as with …

Robert Plant’s Band Of Joy album made an excellent first week showing on the UK official album charts entering at  number 3 in the UK (the highest for a Plant album since Pictures At Eleven). In the United States it sold 49,000 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 5 on The Billboard 200 chart.  Black Country Communion’s album topped the UK’s Rock album chart in its first week  and also entered the national UK chart at 13.
Robert and The Band Of Joy have announced …

The new issue of the Tight But Loose magazine is out now.
UK subscribers should be receive their copies by the weekend and overseas  subscribers can expect to have their copies arriving over the next couple of weeks.
If you have yet to indulge now is the time – Issue 27 is a 40,000 word compendium of all the latest Zep related news and more.
Single issue cost including postage is £6.50 UK, £7.50 Europe, £8.50 USA.
Here’s some initial reaction from readers who received their copy yesterday:
‘’Loving the new edition of TBL, Dave …

I can remember exactly where I was when the news of Jimi Hendrix death came through 40 years ago tomorrow. I was listening to the Tommy Vance Friday What’s New programme as I did most Fridays back then eager to hear the latest single releases. Around 5pm the announcement was made on the BBC Radio One news and Tommy went on to provide a fitting tribute to the guitar legend noting the inconsistencies of his performances over the past year.
Across the water the next day Led Zeppelin were performing two …

The new Tight But Loose magazine is almost ready to go. We signed off the proofs yesterday and it should be all ready to ship out at the end of the month.
Many thanks to Mick Lowe, Gary Foy, Cliff Hilliard and Jez Firth for their help with this issue and all the contributors who have made it what it is.

With so much recent Zep related activity, this 27th issue of the magazine has grown in to quite an epic. Over the past three months, designer Mike Lowe and …

Robert Plant and the Band of Joy are to perform the second night of the BBC 2 Electric Proms, at the Roundhouse in Camden, London on October 29th. Robert Plant and Band of Joy will be joined by the London Oriana Choir, the choir that joined the singer a few months ago at the Abbey Road concert. The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 at 8pm and also shown as a part of ” A Night With Robert Plant”, a special evening dedicated to Robert’s career on …

Photo by Scott Heck
On Sunday night Robert and the Band Of Joy performed at the Bowery Ballroom in New York to a 500 strong audience in a special album preview show, similar to the one at the Mayfair 1 in London. The Band Of Joy played a full set list  which lined up as follows:
Monkey , House of Cards , Please Read the Letter , Misty Mountain Hop , Rich Woman , Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go , Medley (Twelve Gates To The City, Wade In The Water, In My Time …

Robert Plant’s Band Of Joy album is released in the UK today. It has already garnered some of the best reviews of Robert’s career. I previewed the album here back in August and having lived with it over the past few weeks,  I can only add  that repeated plays have further enhanced my appreciation of the scope and depth of Robert and the band’s performance.
As he noted in yesterday’s Sunday Times Culture magazine, ”It’s a place where I can actually sing, instead of just trying to compete. I like that …