Non NMA gigs you just got home from or are going to

[marius]

Tramhaus in Rotterdam yesterday. Brilliant band. Check them out when they are near you

[lupus225]

Tramhaus in Rotterdam yesterday. Brilliant band. Check them out when they are near you

Saw them in Hamburg in November 2024, great gig indeed.

[Master Ray]

Skunk Anansie in Leeds last Saturday.  The ONLY band that rival NMA as the very best live band I've ever seen (and God knows I've seen hundreds by this point in my life).  Just absolutely f-ing phenomenal.   

[Guillaume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO0ZaFEvh1A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flp4ZBlbA6w&ab_channel=escAPEintoLiveMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba3vLKmEJuM&ab_channel=escAPEintoLiveMusic

SAMANTHA FISH in Paris:

I saw the Samantha Fish band yesterday in Paris in the beautiful Trianon venue (1,000 seats capacity). A very, very good concert! Samantha Fish was incredibly generous, energetic, virtuoso (but without ostentatious/showy pretension). Her voice and guitar playing are amazing, and the rest of the band is also excellent (I had the opportunity to chat briefly with her excellent drummer, a super nice guy). The setlist was very good and the songs from PAPER DOLL (her fine new album) are excellent live. "Bulletproof" was also a very effective moment of the concert. A brilliant, inspired, sincere and down-to-earth artist (she spent a few minutes after the concert chatting and taking pictures with her fans who remained in the street after the concert), who fully deserves her flattering reputation. Really not to be missed live if you like Blues Rock music.

[Master Ray]

Hoping to do The Levellers on the 30th anniversary tour for Zeitgeist, The Slow readers Club in December, Paradise Lost in October.  Certainly doing NMA in Nottingham Rockers for the traditional Christmas gig but might also go to see them the following night in Bradford when they're supported by Terrorvision and Paradise Lost.

Might see Mark Chadwick and Echobelly in Stoke.

[Guillaume]

Last Saturday at the summer music festival at the cool Rock place La Brasserie Spore in Gravigny (France) I saw a promising english band from Cambridge, The Baby Seals...a tight energetic and fun band, I bought their first album which they kindly signed for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGoqrVOq69g&ab_channel=TheBabySeals

https://www.thebabyseals.co.uk/

[lupus225]

Tonight:
Skloss
Errorr
at MS Stubnitz, Hamburg

7.9.2025
New Candys
at MS Stubnitz, Hamburg

"The Stubnitz is a former refrigerated ship of the GDR deep-sea fishing fleet"

Excited, never been there before.

[Winterwulf]

Half Man Half Biscuit in Peak Cavern, Castleton last night  - quite literally underground music! Early on, HMHB main main Nigel Blackwell looked around the cavern and quipped "it'll be nice when it's finished", several tracks off the latest album got their live debut and they covered the Velvet Underground's "Waiting for the Man".

[Master Ray]

There was a 'jazz and blues' festival in that little town where I live these days (of which only about 30% of bands fitted that category but whatever) and it was one of the best nights out I've had this year.  Various acts playing all over the place and all free entry. Punk rockers Vomit (formed in 1977 and local boys) playing a tiny sweaty and packed social club and what a good band they were too, then some lovely girl doing her own acoustic stuff at a local pub, must look up her name, and then the Town Hall hosting a band called Skatrain, basically a 7-piece cover band playing stuff from that fantastic era to an absolutely packed crowd, everyone from kids to old fellas dancing like nutters to those great tunes.

(then off to Wetherspoons until 1AM...  )

Just goes to show you don't have to go to see some big name act and pay big money to have a brilliant night out... if you love live music and are open minded about what you want to see you can find talented acts anywhere.  It's certainly made me more open to catching unknown acts in my local region that aren't charging much.  You never know what you might find!   

[lostockboy]

It's been a while since I've been on the NMA site and since then I've been to a few gigs in that time. I suppose one band of note that I've seen is Bob Vylan who I'd seen 3 times before the Glastonbury storm kicked off and are a band I really got into and who have became more popular after every time of seeing them. I've got  their last two album releases which I've played to death and although they are very political and are quite vocal in what they believe in when I've seen them live they came across as lovely blokes who were really pleasant to the audience. My daughter ended up on stage the first time we saw them and then had her picture taken with them the last time we saw them. I imagine people will point out that they play live to pretty much a backing track apart from drums and vocals, but even so I enjoyed seeing them live so much and do recommend seeing them live if you can.

[Master Ray]

I am a very happy chappie today because I'm finally going to see The Cure.  A band I've loved since the 80s but, somehow, have never seen them live.  They're playing in Manchester, Wythenshawe Park next August with support from Slowdive and The Slow Readers Club, two bands I'm also somewhat fond of.   

[Master Ray]

Update on the bands I have tickets to...

Marillion, Manchester
Sisters Of Mercy, Nottingham
The Slow Readers Club, Manchester
The Levellers, Llandudno
Manic Street Preachers / Suede, Nottingham
New Model Army / The Chameleons

[Master Ray]

Also seeing 90's industrial metalists Fear Factory in Manchester next month.

[cthulhu]

I finally saved me a holiday, a ticket and a hotel for the amsterdam gig in december and i think i will also get me one for cologne the day before, but maybe not. The combination was always great, been so many times to the cologne december gigs, but they were hometown gigs for me. Will be my third time (or 4th?) traveling and staying in Amsterdam for the gig and the venue is really cool and this was always more fun. It's like the gig starts early in the morning when the travel starts and i just love being on a journey.

[Master Ray]

Damn, it's been a while since I saw the Levellers live but they were brilliant in Llandudno Arena on Friday.  Levelling The Land in full (again!) and then another hour or so of fan favourites, they might be getting on a bit but they still play like demons.  A hugely responsive crowd as well, huge singalongs and much dancing.  Surprised to see how many young folks were there who seemed to know every word and were well up for it!   

As for the support bands, The Meffs were excellent as well, a Brighton based female fronted punk-ish band, great riffs and a fine performance, they're well worth checking out. As for Ned's Atomic Dustbin... bless them, they were hugely fashionable in about 1990 and gave it a good energetic go but it only took two or three numbers to make me remember that there's a reason I didn't get into them all that much back then.   

Still, the Levs still got it, what a fine night it was.