Them Crooked Vultures appearance on the Zane Lowe Radio 1 show live from the Maida Vale Studios on Wednesday night included live performances of New Fang, Dead End Friends, Mind Eraser, No Chaser and the hugely popular Spinning In Daffodils. The set was interspersed with interviews with Zane sitting at John Paul’s keyboards. John remembered the sessions with Led Zeppelin at the same studios, commenting with typical dry wit that  “There’s still no where to park”. After touring the album for nearly eight months now the band  looked to be having great fun in the studio. The whole sessions was filmed and can be seen on the BBC iplayer for a limited period.

The Vultures have announced more dates for the spring and summer, after which Dave Grohl looks likely to head into the studio with the Foo Fighters and Josh Homme will return for late summer touring dates with Queens Of The New Stone Age. There’s no update as yet on any second album plans by the Vultures. The remaining dates are as follows;

April 14 – Club Nokia, Los Angeles, CA,
April 16 – Coachella Music Festival, Indio, CA,
April 17 – The Joint, Las Vegas, NV,
April 19 – The Fillmore, Denver, CO,
May 13 – Scotia Place, Ottawa, ON,  
May 15 – Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON,
May 16 – Coliseum at Caesars, Winsdor, ON,  
May 17 – The Egyptian Room, Indianapolis, IN  
May 18 – Aragon, Chicago, IL,  
June 04 – Rock Im Park, Nurnberg, Germany,
June 06 – Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, Germany,
June 07 – Den Atelier,  Luxembourg,
June 10 – Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, Holland,
June 11 – Download Festival, Donington Park, UK,
June 30 – Hove Festival,  Arendal, Norway,
July 01 – Peace & Love,  Borlange, Sweden
July 01-04 – Rock Werchter, Werchter, Beligum,
July 02 – Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark ,
July 30-08/01 – Fuji Rock Festival,  Niigata Prefecture, Japan.

www.ledzeppelinnews.com also report that Them Crooked Vultures will be releasing a 10 inch picture disc vinyl single featuring  Mind Eraser,No Chaser’ and Highway One plus an  audio interview via select independent record stores to support ”Record Store Day”on April 17.

John Paul Jones can also be heard contributing to the new Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3  album titled Propeller Time, which is just out via Sartorial Records.

On March 17th Joe Bonamassa played a show at the Riverside in California with his band promoting his new Black Rock album. For  the encores he introduced some friends, Glenn Hughes, Derek Sherinian and Jason Bonham and for the first time the new band line of  the tentatively titled Black Country (the name may undergo a change) performed  on stage together. The much anticipated  line up performed One Last Soul, which  is set to appear on the new album, a driving track, showcasing the band’s potential as being next year’s must see act, and a cover of the Deep Purple classic Mistreated again highlighting Glenn’s incredible vocal range.

And finally, if Blogs are your thing, check out  Straycat-blues.blogspot  , a blog run by Michelle who features a Led Zeppelin-a-Day section, and offers perceptive opinions on a variety of artists. (GF)