A masterpiece! I will never forget the massive pink lights beaming out to fill Newcastle City Hall in 1980 with Chester and Phil silhouetted in front of them. One of my concert highlights.
Posts by Sanctuary Man
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Always loved Trespass. I originally bought it packaged with Nursery Cryme a very long time ago!!
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Sorry but I just can't vote on this one - I love both of these albums, not their best obviously, but still Genesis for me. I'll stay on the fence.
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Just finished reading Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis. Yes it is SF with a time travel theme but is is also a wonderful insight into the lives of ordinary people during WW2. How they managed to pick themselves up every day and carried on with their lives. As a charcter driving and ambulance to V1 bomb sites I was very aware that my dad had been in London though that period, in fact he was working in the Admiralty bunker near St James Park on the Sunday morning when a V1 fell across the park on the Guard's Chapel and killed 121 people. By the end of the book you realise that all these ordinary people where truly extraordinary.
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Nas singing better then ever on Wednesday in Nottingham. He really owned the Lamb material.
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Everyone at the top of their game - Phil's drumming is to die for.
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Setting off to Nottingham tomorrow to see Steve Hackett. Really enjoying his new album The Circus and the Nightwhale, and, if I could only take one album to a desert island it would be The Lamb - I should be in for a good evening.
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A truly beautiful song. And the instrumental section is just sublime. I'm not sure that Tony every really appreciated the magic that Steve and he created together on so many tracks.
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Always enjoyed the Stagnation solo - loved when Tony started sneeking it into the IKWIL live instrumental.
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Also saw The Musical Box in Birmingham. The band were on top form. The whole show was a visual and audio treat in 2024 - in 1973 it must have been truly mind-blowing!
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Did someone really say they enjoyed going to Hull?
Yes and strangely enough I'll be back there next week leading a walking tour of the city - there are indeed interesting places to see in Hull!
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Really enjoyed their gig in Hull.
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I think there is some Phil in there as well.
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Totally gutted. Had tickets for Symphony Hall. Let's just hope that Andrew comes through OK.
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Fantastic at York - an unbelievable experience. The visuals and lighting for 1975 shows why Genesis were a great live band. Masterful performances by all of The Musical Box - will certainly join them for SEBTP next year.
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A beautiful atmospheric song with great work by Tony, but what lifts to a 15 for me are the vocals. Phil's voice is so full of emotion and yearning - probably my very favourite track on Duke.
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I's been a long, long time. I think I bought tickets for the York show back in 2019. We are finally getting ready to head to York for the show this week!
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I was looking forward to see John Cale at Birmingham Town Hall tonight but just had notice that the concert has been cancelled - a victim of covid! Sitting here in Lincoln wondering whether to still get the coach and use our overnight room. Oh well!
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OK, I'll try to come up with a female voices list. I'm doing this at lunch break at work, so I'll probably overlook some artists in my collection.
- Tori Amos - Ribbons Undone
- The B-52s - Deadbeat Club
- Jonatha Brooke - Crumbs
- Buckingham Nicks - Crying In the Night
- Kate Bush - The Morning Fog
- The [Dixie] Chicks - White Trash Wedding
- Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck
- Crash Vegas - On and On (Lodestar)
- Dalbello - Gonna Get Close to You
- Ani DiFranco - Imperfectly
- Echobelly - Dark Therapy
- Emm Gryner - Stereochrome
- Aretha Franklin - Mary Don't You Weep
- Indigo Girls - Galileo
- Aimee Mann - Could've Been Anyone
- Martha and the Vandellas - Dancing In the Street
- Kate and Anna McGarrigle - NaCl
- Maria McKee - Breathe
- Sarah McLachlan - Mercy
- Milla - The Gentleman Who Fell
- Joni Mitchell - Conversation
- The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
- Sinead O'Connor - Troy
- Dolly Parton - The Grass Is Blue
- The Roches - Ing
- Jane Siberry - The Walking (and Constantly)
- Richard and Linda Thompson - Dimming of the Day
- Weeping Tile - Dogs and Thunder
- Gillian Welch - Tear My Stillhouse Down
- Amy Winehouse - Rehab
- Suzanne Vega - Book of Dreams
And I have already run out of numbers! So many others that should be mentioned.
Great to see a call out for Gillian Welch - I am not a country fan but she is just amazing.
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Klaus Schulze died 26 April aged 74. Timewind is one of my favourite albums from the German electronic music gendre.
