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My Gig Reviews with Marks out of 5: Gigs Attended 2016 John Cooper Clarke (Sage) 2 Yes (City Hall) 4 Terrence Blanchard E-Collective (Sage) 5 Courtney Pine & Zoe Rahman (Sage) 2 The Classic Rock Show (Sage) 3 Daughter (O2) 3 Gigs Attended 2015 Tom Robinson (Sage) 3 Steve Hackett (Sage) 4 King Crimson (Usher Hall Edinburgh) 100 Clandestino (Cluny) 5 Chuck Prophet (Cluny) 5 Ozric Tentacles (O2) 5 Al Stewart (Sage) 3 Zoe Gilby / Alice Zawadski (Sage) 4 Clarke Tracey / Bobby Wellins - Under Milk Wood (Sage) 4 DJ Yoda - Breakfast of Champions (Phil) 5 (Sage) 10cc (Sage) 5 Australian Pink Floyd (City Hall) 4 Gigs Attended 2014 Brit Floyd (Sage) 5 The Smyths (O2) 3 The Doors Alive (O2) 3 Illegal Eagles (Tyne Opera House) 4 Counting Crows (O2) 3 Cud (Thinktank) 5 John Cooper Clarke (Sage) 4 Benjamin Booker (Thinktank) 3 Zoe Gilby (Jazz Cafe) 100 (not just for the gig) Booker T Jones & Bettey Lavette (Sage) 4 Chuck Prophet & Summertyne Strings (Sage) 3 Troyka & Pulcinella (Jazz Cafe) 4 Midlake (Whitley Bay Playhouse) 4 Methera and Mats Rehnman (Queens Hall Hexham) 4 Stuart McCallum & Mike Walker (Jazz Cafe) 5 The Magic Band (Cluny) 5 Charlotte Glasson Qunitet with Chris Spedding (Jazz Cafe) 3 Jerry Lee Lewis (Memphis Music Festival) 1 Buddy Guy (Memphis Music Festival) 4 Chick Corea (Memphis Music Festival) 5 New Orleans Jazz Quartet (Bourbon Street New Orleans) 3 New Orleans Zydeco Band (Bourbon Street New Orleans) 4 Leo 'Bud' Welch (Ground Zero Blues Club Clarksdale) 4 Brother John & The Buddy Guy's Legends House Band (Buddy Guy's Legends Chicago) 5 Django Bates & Milder P with Norbottens Big Band (Sage) 5 Toy (Cluny) 4 Gigs Attended 2013 Television (Sage) 5 Todd Rundgren (Sage) 5 Neil Young and Crazy Horse (Arena) 5 Gurtu / Sosa / Fresu (Sage) 5 Miles Smiles - Roney/Armstronge/Mouzon/DeFrancesco (Ronnie Scott's) 4 Gigs Attended 2012 The Dirty Three (Sage) 4 Zun Zun Egui (Sage) 4 Polar Bear (Sage) 4 Jack DeJohnette (Sage) 3 Zappa plays Zappa (Sage) 5 Kairos 4tet (Sage) 4 Public Image Limited (O2) 5 New Order (O2) 3 Chuck Prophet (Cluny) 5 The Legendary Shack Shakers (Cluny) 4 Tord Gustavsen (Sage) 3 Neil Cowley (Sage) 3 Gigs Attended 2011 Lyndon Anderson Band (Magnesia Bank) 4 Penguin Cafe (Sage) 3 Portico Quartet (Sage) 4 Cleveland Watkiss (Sage) 2 Toots & The Maytals (O2 Academy) 3 Partikel (Schmazz) 3 Magazine (O2 Academy) 5+ Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa(Sage) 5 Just East (Cluny) 3 Gigs Attended 2010 Paragon (Cluny) 4 Zoe Rahman (Gateshead Town Hall) 4 Randy Newman (Sage) 5 Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa (Sage) 4 Witters-Johnson (Cluny) 1 Adrian Belew Power Trio (Sage) 4 Gilad Atzmon Quartet (Cluny) 4 Kenny Wheeler Orchestra (Sage) 3 Icebreaker (Sage) 5 Gigs Attended 2009 Gareth Roberts (Cluny) 2 Compassionate Dictatorship (Cluny) 4 Joshua Redman Quartet (Sage) 3 Guy Barker Orchestra (Sage) 3 Haftor Medboe Group (Cluny) 5 David Byrne (Sage) 4 Blockheads with Gilad Atzmon (Sage) 5 Little Feat (Sage) 3 (for the v.bad sound) Mingus Dynasty (Bimhuis Amsterdam) 5 Robert Mitchell Trio (Cluny) 4 Partisans (Cluny) 4 Patrick Cunka (Cluny) 4 Vickie Fifield (Cluny) 2 Focus / Strawbs / Wishbone Ash (Tyne Theatre) 4 Dave Douglas (Bimhuis Amsterdam) 4 Bevan / Morris / Spence (Cluny) 2 Schmazz Factor (Cluny) 4 If Destroyed Still True (Cluny) 4 9 Below Zero (Cluny) 2 Daintees (Cluny) 4 Gigs Attended 2008 Gilad Atzmon (Sage) 5 Paragon (Cluny) 4 Tom Arthurs Trio (Cluny) 3 Curios (Cluny) 4 Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio (Sage) 3 Asaf Sirkis Inner Noise (Sage) 1 Gwilym Simcock Trio (Sage) 2 Empirical (Sage) 4 John Scofield Quartet(Sage) 3 Mark Williams Trio (Cluny) 3 NeWt (Cluny) 4 Chuck Prophet (Cluny) 4 Tim O'Brien (Cluny 2) 2 Terry Reid (Carling) 3 Junco Partners (Tyne Theatre) 3 Disassembler with Annie Whitehead (Cluny) 3 Blue Oyster Cult (Carling) 3 Nicholas Meier Quintet with Gilad Atzmon (Cluny) 5 Nearly Dan (Sage) 3 Fraud (Cluny) 3 Eddi Reader with The Northern Symphonia(Sage) 4 Brad Mehldau Trio (Sage) 3 John Etheridge Trio North(Corner House) 4 McKenzie (Cluny) 2 Nine Below Zero (Cluny) 4 Gigs Attended 2007 Bruise (Cluny) 3 Joan Armatrading (Sage) 4 John Etheridge (Cluny ) 4 Tim Garland (Durham) 4 Deidre Cartwright (Cluny) 2 Neil Cowley Trio (Cluny) 4 Tinarawen (Sage) 1 Brewed By Noon (Sage) 4 Billy Cobham & Asere (Sage) 3 King Singers / Felling MVC (Sage) 1 Mingus Big Band (Sage) 3 Led Bib (Cluny) 3 Gerry Richardson (Cluny) 3 Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra (Sage ) 3 Neil Yates Trio (Cluny) 3 Asaf Sirkis Trio (Cluny) 1 (just) Cascade and Andy Sheppard (Cluny) 3 Mike Gibbs Orchestra with Bill Frissel (Sage) 3 Junco Partners (Buddle) 3 Richard Thompson Band (Sage) 4 Paul Barrere & Fred Tackett (Little Theatre) 3 Blake Wilner Quartet(Cluny) 4 Mujician (Sage) 3 Extreme Measures (Cluny) 3 Tim Berne and Offshoot (Cluny) 2 Theo Travis Double Talk (Cluny) 4 Sensational Alex Harvey Band (without Alex)(Carling Academy) 2 Graeme Stephen Quintet (Cluny) 4 Daintees (Cluny) 2 |
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