When I first started this little exercise we were a month into lockdown on the 24th April. Like most of you I expected this to last a month or two and some form on normality would have prevailed and I would be back to live music by the autumn. It quickly became apparent that this was not going to be the case and I soon wrote off the whole year pinning my hopes on a quick resumption in 2021.
Well after his latest bout of brinkmanship with the virus Boris has blinked too late yet again and we’re back in full lockdown. The reality now is clear and sadly it will be a full twelve months and probably a lot more between my last gig and the next one. I will be surprised if I am seeing any live music again before June.
We go again and hopefully this brings back memories for my gig going chums who have joined me on this great musical journey down the years.
Just the one today for my look back trip down memory lane.
2003, Neko Case, Dingwalls, London
This still remains the only time that the three amigos have seen Neko Case live. She has been producing top quality music for twenty years and so I have no idea why we haven’t seen her more often. I can give or take her alto ego in the band The New Pornographers but solo I love her.
This was quite early on in her career just two albums in but what great albums they are. I don’t recall anything specific about the concert itself outside of the quality and purity of her voice backed by a couple of troubadours by her side.
That’s it for today’s trip down memory lane. With hopes dashed of any form of normality soon I am trying to cling on that by June we could be back in business but my hopes have been dashed so many times in the last twelve months that I wouldn’t bet on it.
Don forget, support your small local venues and smaller artists in these difficult times, stay safe and keep on rockin y’all.