Ride at Rough Trade East and PRYZM, 17th and 20th August 2019
All the gigs of my life: Gig 56 – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sunday, May 6, 2001, Brixton Academy
All the gigs of my life: Gig 55 – Manic Street Preachers, Saturday, March 31, 2001, Brixton Academy
Day two of 2001’s Manics Weekend is one I will never forget, but for all the wrong reasons.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 54 – Manic Street Preachers, Friday, March 30, 2001, Brixton Academy
My first Manics gig since the turn of the Millennium, on the eve of a turning point in my own life.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 53 – Kylie Minogue, Monday, March 19, 2001, Hammersmith Apollo
My last Kylie gig for 17 years. And sadly, it’s one I neglected to record fully in my diary.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 52 – Mansun, Thursday, February 1, 2001, Astoria
The end of an era, for me, although I didn’t know it at the time: My last ever Mansun gig.
All the gigs of my life: Gig 51 – Mansun, Saturday, November 4, 2000, Shepherd’s Bush Empire
My second-last Mansun gig was a pretty important one for me: I went into it not sure if I was going to stay in London or return to Australia, and I came out of it with my mind made up. Mansun may have once sung that “all my big decisions always ruin my life”, but in this case, it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
New video: May Bank Holiday gigs vlog – Marina and Take That!
Here’s a little vlog I made during my Bank Holiday of Gigs at the beginning of May!
All the gigs of my life: Gig 50 – Mansun, Saturday, August 19, 2000, Hylands Park, Chelmsford (V2000)
This was my third and last V festival and the beginning of the end of my Mansun gigging career, all during a time of Important Life Decisions.
