Where are you going tonight?

[BWFC_Insane]

Case of "gone" rather than going.

Saw Dylan at the MEN last night. Top stuff.

Missed Knopfler though, as I was late! Oops!

i aint going, I aint going, I'm gone.............well will be to Bournemouth, so i s'pose i am going

Enjoy! He certainly revisited 60s Dylan, loud, very loud and very brash!

Don't expect to be able to recognise anything until he's at least a minute through the song though, as usual he changes the rhythm and tune completely. Only now he's started barking the lyrics out, and rolling 6 words into one! A number of the less enthusiastic fans walked out well before the end! Still brilliant though, but not for the casual fan!

I am so jealous... By the time I'd computed no tickets left... Would have been my 6th dylan... since 1966...

Yeah, played some good stuff,

Leopard skin pill box hat
Highway 61 (not sure I've ever heard him do that live)
Hard rains
Tangled up in blue
Simple twist of fate
Ballad of a thin man
Like a rolling stone
All along the watchtower


To name but a few......

[William the White]

Yeah, played some good stuff,

Leopard skin pill box hat
Highway 61 (not sure I've ever heard him do that live)
Hard rains
Tangled up in blue
Simple twist of fate
Ballad of a thin man
Like a rolling stone
All along the watchtower


To name but a few......

Jeeeeez... like all our yesterdays... Only Watchtower not in the Dylan canon, imho... And amazed at his age he can remember all the words of 'Hard Rain' - or, indeed - any of em... Of that list... all greats... 'Tangled Up in Blue' just about fronts it...

[BWFC_Insane]

Yeah, played some good stuff,

Leopard skin pill box hat
Highway 61 (not sure I've ever heard him do that live)
Hard rains
Tangled up in blue
Simple twist of fate
Ballad of a thin man
Like a rolling stone
All along the watchtower


To name but a few......

Jeeeeez... like all our yesterdays... Only Watchtower not in the Dylan canon, imho... And amazed at his age he can remember all the words of 'Hard Rain' - or, indeed - any of em... Of that list... all greats... 'Tangled Up in Blue' just about fronts it...

You wouldn't have recognised it!!!!!

[General Mannerheim]

i know all the words to tangled up in blue!

[William the White]

i know all the words to tangled up in blue!

Me too, I'm just amazed Dylan does...

but, is there a special reason why you know them, General?

[Prufrock]

All Along the Watchtower doesn't count.

[Gary the Enfield]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Bob Dylan is a great songwriter, but he can't sing for sh*t.

This goes for Neil Young too.

Whiny, nasal shite.

[BWFC_Insane]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Bob Dylan is a great songwriter, but he can't sing for sh*t.

This goes for Neil Young too.

Whiny, nasal shite.

His vocal delivery was always part of the charm. Bit of a "love it or hate it" element to it I guess.

Now he fair barks his lyrics out, as I guess he doesn't have that whiny nasal voice in him as much as his vocal chords are probably fckued given the number of tours he's done over the years!

I can't really listen to other folk covering Dylan songs, don't think they sound the same or "right" without his own particular take on them!

[clapton is god]

The Octagon - press night of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Margot Leicester and George Irving who were magnificent together in All my Sons. Looking forward to this.

Just to say... Margot Leicester goes beyond 'acting' in this role... She is so truthful, line to line, moment to moment, absolutely there... even in the final act of this brilliant, funny, cruel, cruel play...

George Irving tonight started a little quiet, but by the second act was totally there... wonderful vulnerable, hurt, angry, vengeful performance...

This is an outstanding production in the two major roles, and with huge integrity in the two 'minor' ones...

I'm still shaking a bit... wonderful, powerful, lyrical play...

My turn tonight.

[William the White]

The Octagon - press night of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Margot Leicester and George Irving who were magnificent together in All my Sons. Looking forward to this.

Just to say... Margot Leicester goes beyond 'acting' in this role... She is so truthful, line to line, moment to moment, absolutely there... even in the final act of this brilliant, funny, cruel, cruel play...

George Irving tonight started a little quiet, but by the second act was totally there... wonderful vulnerable, hurt, angry, vengeful performance...

This is an outstanding production in the two major roles, and with huge integrity in the two 'minor' ones...

I'm still shaking a bit... wonderful, powerful, lyrical play...

My turn tonight.

I'm jealous...

[General Mannerheim]

i know all the words to tangled up in blue!

Me too, I'm just amazed Dylan does...

but, is there a special reason why you know them, General?

nah, just because its friggin ace!

[clapton is god]

The Octagon - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

My turn tonight.

Spine-tinglingly good! You hadn't over-hyped it, as I feared, and the performances of both Margot Leicester and George Irving were truly excellent. I genuinely had the shakes watching this at times. Kieran Hill and Tammy Joelle supported ably but what else can you say about the two leads? Marvellous!

I've just ordered the film version to see how Burton and Taylor match up. Street Car was the last time I did that and I found that I preferred the stage version by a long long way.

Edit to add: House only about 2/3rds full but the cast did get a standing ovation at the end.

[William the White]

The Octagon - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

My turn tonight.

Spine-tinglingly good! You hadn't over-hyped it, as I feared, and the performances of both Margot Leicester and George Irving were truly excellent. I genuinely had the shakes watching this at times. Kieran Hill and Tammy Joelle supported ably but what else can you say about the two leads? Marvellous!

I've just ordered the film version to see how Burton and Taylor match up. Street Car was the last time I did that and I found that I preferred the stage version by a long long way.

Edit to add: House only about 2/3rds full but the cast did get a standing ovation at the end.

Really glad you enjoyed. I'm thinking of going again. I heard the houses have been disappointing. Such a shame. But those who got there sure saw something very special.

[thebish]

Really glad you enjoyed. I'm thinking of going again. I heard the houses have been disappointing. Such a shame. But those who got there sure saw something very special.

presumably they are the ones who ARE afraid?

[William the White]

Poetry/Prose reading tonight, at the Octagon, one of the Uni/theatre joint ventures that form part of the 'creative partnership' - now in its 4th year...

Fine night - very - with Anne Caldwell offering some quirky, witty, deeply felt and clever poems from her latest collection Talking to the Dead. And Emma Jane Unsworth reading from her new novel Hungry, the Stars and Everything - again, witty and profound, and lyrical.

Anne Caldwell teaches writing poetry at Bolton Uni - a privilege to have her as a colleague... the sequence of eight short poems imagining life in the 'underwater house ' that has fallen from a crumbling cliff into the sea is a brill piece of sustained poetic imagination. Loved it.

[William the White]

Great day. three points gift-wrapped to us. Shostakovich at Bridgewater Hall, symphony no 11, magnificent. And back in time for MoTD.

[Prufrock]

Chuck Ragan presents the Revival Tour on Saturday. If you get chance, go. Go. Really, go. Up there as possibly the best gig I've ever seen. Three of my musical heroes, in Chuck Ragan, Dan Andriano and Brian Fallon was enough to persuade me. They were all excellent, though probably upstaged by the awesome Dave Hause of whom I'd never heard, but will now be finding lots of stuff from his band, 'The Loved Ones'. The best bit about it though wasn't who they were, but the way it was done. I expected them to play individual sets, with maybe the odd duet, but instead it was three hours of non stop music with people wandering on and off. It kind of followed a Dave Hause, Chuck, Dan, Brian pattern, but a few other people wandered on, they sometimes played with 2,3 or 4 of them. At one point Brain Fallon literally scooped a girl he knew out of the front row to sing American Slang with him. They played all sorts of things, their own songs, covers of the others', covers of other musicians and a couple of American folky songs. Personal highlight was Brian singing Great Expectations, and throwing in a verse of the Alkaline Trio song 'Warbrain' which features a tribute to Hot Water Music .

The music was ace. Brian Fallon can actually sing (though not as well as Dave Hause) but even more than that, the atmosphere of the night was just brilliant. So, so good.

[thebish]

went to lead last of a group bereavement support session with quite an intense group.... large glass of wine beckons...

[thebish]

went out last night on a lads' booze and shoot stroll over Tower Bridge and down the south bank.. take a few photos - stop for a pint - take a few photos - stop for a pint... etc...

anyway - a bit grotty by day - stunning by night!! (if you look closely you can see motion blur - the bridge is opening - first time I have seen it do that... they tugged a battleship up river and parked it next to HMS Belfast...)


dolphin with girl statue, Tower Bridge by revnev, on Flickr

[clapton is god]

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