By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Saturday 26 August 2023 (press pass)
It’s all about you. A while ago, rumours suggested that the special guest slot was going to be none other than 00s pop/rock boy band sensation McFly.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Friday 25 August 2023 (press pass)
Disco isn’t dead. The first year for a full Friday, kicking off for us with a drumming workshop from DrumNation Tribe at the People’s Lounge.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: **** (press pass)
WHEN?: Friday 25 August 2023
A fortnight ago Cian Ducrot’s debut album topped the charts in both the UK and his native Ireland and this afternoon he opens his set on the Castle Stage with the title track from it, the appropriately titled Victory.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
SETLIST: It’s Not Like This In France; Take 5; Home For The Weekend; Shopping; Deere John; Me And Your Mates; Flowers; A Right Royal Show; Big In The Suburbs
WHEN?: Thursday 24 August 2023, tour continues until 22 September 2023
We’ve not fallen quite so much in love with and head over heels for a band as we have with Welly since Pulp in the early 90s.
By Neil Durham
WHEN? Friday 28 July, tour runs until Saturday 29 July 2023
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
SETLIST: I Spy; Disco 2000; Mis-Shapes; Something Changed; Pink Glove; Weeds; Weeds II; F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E; Sorted For Es And Whizz; This Is Hardcore; Do You Remember The First Time?; Babies; Sunrise; Like A Friend; Underwear; Common People; After You; Razzamatzz; Glory Days; Hymn Of The North
The most moving moment during this 535th gig by Pulp was when lead singer Jarvis Cocker dedicated Something Changed to bassist Steve Mackey who died on 2 March 2023 aged 56 and revealed that his wife Katie and son Marley are with us in the audience.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Friday 14 July 2023
SETLIST: The Sound Of The Crowd; Mirror Man; Heart Like A Wheel; The Things That Dreams Are Made Of; Open Your Heart; Seconds; The Lebanon; One Man In My Heart; Human; Behind The Mask; Love Action; Tell Me When; Fascination; Don’t You Want Me; Being Boiled; Together In Electric Dreams
Let’s just say that I went to church on Friday. The church of The Human League.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Sunday 9 July, tour runs until 1 March 2024
SETLIST: Hotel (Suite 23); Love Invention; Believer; Digging Deeper; So Hard So Hot; Number 1; Impossible; Anymore; Ride A White Horse; SloFlo; The Beat Divine; Gatto Gelato; NeverStop; In Electric Blue; Rocket; Strict Machine; Fever (This Is The Real Thing)
It was very much the weekend to see music outdoors in London with friends seeing Blur at Wembley Stadium and Bruce Springsteen in Hyde Park but we were more than happy with our choice.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
WHEN?: Friday 30 June 2023, tour runs until 2 September 2023
Having “discovered’ Welly on day one of Victorious Festival last year, making our whole weekend (along with the comedy), we have seen this Brighton-based (originally from Southampton) band three times now.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
TRACKLIST: Too Much Music; Do The Television; Voices; I Used To Be In Love; Really Big Deal; Last Man Dancing; 8 Ball; Devil Came Down The Dancefloor; Mess Of Me; Doses; Radio Eyes; Diamonds Don’t Burn
SETLIST: Too Much Music; Really Big Deal; Any Which Way; Meltdown; Do The Television; Voices; Comfortably Numb; I Used To Be In Love; Creep City; Laura; Take Your Mama; Last Man Dancing; I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’; Devil Came Down The Dancefloor; 8 Ball; Destiny; Invisible Light; Filthy/Gorgeous
We’ve recently read Shears’ memoir Boys Keep Swinging and it’s a fascinating insight into the mindset of the former Scissor Sisters’ frontman who has struggled for inspiration.
By Carron Stacey, A Humdrum Mum
This is the seventh time we’ve seen them, I think (but that’s nothing compared to the 100 plus times I saw on a fan page today).
