Echo and the Bunnymen, York Grand Opera House, 29 Sep 11

It had been a few years since we'd last spent an evening with the Bunnymen, so a chance to hear the whole of the classic "ocean rain" was too tempting to resist...

Cast in 80s shadow, Ian pulled off a great set, with a warm up section of songs including bedbugs and ballyhoo, never stop and rescue.

After a short intermission (toilet break for an aging audience?), ocean rain was performed... epic!

A couple of encores followed the album recital, with nothing lasts forever, lips like sugar and the cutter completing a fantastic evening.

Lighting was pretty much behind Ian McCulloch for the whole show, so photography was vitually impossible!

Jon Fratelli, Newcastle O2 2, 27 Sep 11

Reflections II ...

10:15 Saturday Night...

Can't "do" the cure headlining Saturday nights Bestival... Cousin Rob is there, so look forward to the news of  the line-up and set played.

The Cure, Radio City Music Hall, New York, 21 Jun 2008

A taster video or two from an epic show. We were in the back row of the stalls. Video imagary is terrible, but a couple of  rarely performed songs on the 4Tour...

The hanging garden...

end of "a forest" and the final song of the 4Tour - epic version of "forever"...

More words, pictures from this show on another day.

Manic Street Preachers, Carlisle Sands Centre, 02 Nov 10

A few bits of mobile captured video from a magnificent show last winter...

Frank Turner, Newcastle O2, 06 Aug 11

Frank Turner managed to pull off a Newcastle show despite the late cancellation of the Ignition Festival at Gosforth Park this weekend - with an intimate show at the Academy. Free to those with a festival ticket, £10 for those without - all on a first come first served basis, no advance tickets were available.