What are you listening to?

[namron]

Something like this Norm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UikPQOa ... FBBD71EBE9

Been listening to him for the last half hour.

That's it BT awesome talent. Didn't make it globally but who cares it's their loss. Saw him live numerous times and some great gigs... some not so good when He was the worse for wear. There was one gig however at Queens Mandela hall about 15 years ago that was sublime. He forsook the acoustic and just went wild on the Gibson SG ...Wow
I now know you have exquisite taste in music and yes I do look like norm from cheers albeit slightly slimmer with less hair on the crown area. No grass grows on a busy thoroughfare as my oul lad used to say. He looked like Yul Brynners big brother.

[Samstew]

Thinking Of A Place by The War On Drugs, nice


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[BaggyTrousers]

Something like this Norm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UikPQOa ... FBBD71EBE9

Been listening to him for the last half hour.

That's it BT awesome talent. Didn't make it globally but who cares it's their loss. Saw him live numerous times and some great gigs... some not so good when He was the worse for wear. There was one gig however at Queens Mandela hall about 15 years ago that was sublime. He forsook the acoustic and just went wild on the Gibson SG ...Wow
I now know you have exquisite taste in music and yes I do look like norm from cheers albeit slightly slimmer with less hair on the crown area. No grass grows on a busy thoroughfare as my oul lad used to say. He looked like Yul Brynners big brother.

A short back & shine is my preferred cut Norm. Seriously hooked on JM having not listened for a while, listened to Solid Air album yesterday in a quiet hour, fantastic.

Saw him at QUB a couple of times in the eighties, couldn't believe what he could do with a guitar, there was nobody remotely similar. Great big softie who reflected his joys and pain through his very personal lyrics. Just loved his music to the end playing in a wheelchair after an amputation.

Not the same thing of course, but I bought a sort of tribute album that came out a few years after he died, with about 30+ people playing JM songs, called "Johnie Boy Would Love This". Some very good ones amongst the generality of thinking "nice, but you're not John Martyn".

[CIMANFOREVER]

Cris Cornell RIP:

https://youtu.be/AwpvBTb_mm0

https://youtu.be/-kTtdS1JpZo

One of the best singers and frontmen of his or any generation

[mid ulster maestro]

Spotted these guys, Post Modern Juke Box, on youtube. If you like jazz or swing covers of the latest stuff then this is worth a visit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk

[moyletra]

Spotted these guys, Post Modern Juke Box, on youtube. If you like jazz or swing covers of the latest stuff then this is worth a visit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk

Played Queens SU last year. An excellent gig.

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[big mervyn]

Captain Beefheart.

Got wan o them Amazon Echos - great for revisiting stuff like that.

[big mervyn]

Belfast guitar festival last night. Wonderful eclectic mix of acoustic and electric headlined by the awesome Pat McManus. He's gigging at the Woodstock festival in a couple of weeks and again in the Empire in September. Well worth checking him out - as good or better as ever.

Down to Blanchflower playing field this afternoon for 9 hours of hard rock and blues. Always a feast or a famine in this country

[justinr73]

Sipping some rye whiskey in memory of Glen Campbell.

Never saw him live and don't know if he liked rye or not but it seems appropriate.

Not many of these fellas left now.

Willie is 84 - who else is there?

Saw Kenny Rogers before Chrimbo as he bid farewell.

[BaggyTrousers]

Funny I should come along not long afterwards Justin, also having supped full & well. Sitting in Spain with the lovely Mrs T, we had a crackin' BBQ & a wee swally and thought "music night". Listening to a tribute album to the great John Martyn one of if not my greatest favourite.

I love John Smith's version of JM's "walk on the water" and then listened to Lisa Hannigan's version of "Couldn't love you more" which sounds obvious but means more to me & Mrs T than I am willing to go into here.

Started listening to some of Lisa Hannigan's songs and she is amazingly talented. Anyone who can write these lyrics has my undying respect:

When the time comes,
And rights have been read,
I think of you often
But for once I meant what I said.
Here I stay, I lay me down,
I'm dug from the rubble, and cut from the kill.
Here I stay, I lay me down,
In a house by the Hill.
I'm dug from the rubble, and cut from the kill.
I'm dug from the rubble, and cut from the kill.
I'm dug from the rubble, and cut from the kill.

Maybe you need to listen to the song to understand them. Quality.

For something lighter from Lisa, the video is a bit of craic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYdPtcx-4mo

For lovers of a bloody great sing/songwriter, John Smith is in the Black Box on 18th September, I'm going.

[HairyJ]

Funny I should come along not long afterwards Justin, also having supped full & well. Sitting in Spain with the lovely Mrs T, we had a crackin' BBQ & a wee swally and thought "music night". Listening to a tribute album to the great John Martyn one of if not my greatest favourite.

I love John Smith's version of JM's "walk on the water" and then listened to Lisa Hannigan's version of "Couldn't love you more" which sounds obvious but means more to me & Mrs T than I am willing to go into here.

Started listening to some of Lisa Hannigan's songs and she is amazingly talented. Anyone who can write these lyrics has my undying respect:

When the time comes,
And rights have been read,
I think of you often
But for once I meant what I said.
Here I stay, I lay me down,
I'm dug from the rubble, and cut from the kill.
Here I stay, I lay me down,
In a house by the Hill.
I'm dug from the rubble, and cut from the kill.
I'm dug from the rubble, and cut from the kill.
I'm dug from the rubble, and cut from the kill.

Maybe you need to listen to the song to understand them. Quality.

For something lighter from Lisa, the video is a bit of craic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYdPtcx-4mo

For lovers of a bloody great sing/songwriter, John Smith is in the Black Box on 18th September, I'm going.

Lisa is playing the Heaney Centre in Bellaghy next month. Got tickets, can't wait.

Great wee venue, saw Glen Hansard there last year and Lisa O'Neill a few months ago.

[BaggyTrousers]

Sounds good Hairy, I know she has done a few qunes with Hansard, more with Damian Rice.

[HairyJ]

Sounds good Hairy, I know she has done a few qunes with Hansard, more with Damian Rice.

You are correct, Mr. Trousers.

Foy Vance in Custom House Square tomorrow - in the immortal words of Borat: "I VERY EXCITE"

[big mervyn]

Stranglers (minus Hugh Cornwell) and SLF at CHSQ last night. Both excellent.

Surprised at how many Engerlish people had come over to hear SLF play in Belfast.

[Cockatrice]

anyone ever listen to Tina Turner signing Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin? worth a listen although nothing comes close to Plant on his day..