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YEAH YEAH YEAHS At PARADISO In Amsterdam – 28 August 2023

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1 September 2023

NYC’s flamboyant pop-rock trio YEAH YEAH YEAHS fronted by the utterly arresting
Karen O (born Karen Lee Orzolek) released their splendid, critically praised 4th LP,
the first in 9 years, named Cool It Down, one year ago.

And as usual, artists take the road to promote new stuff. For YYYs the bigger part
of their tour was planned for this summer with several festivals and some indoors.

Last Monday they stopped in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) to perform in one of my
all-time favorite venues, the historic, very beautiful, and cosy (wherever you are, you
have the feel of an intimate club) Paradiso, which was originally a nineteenth-century church.

As expected, when the band came on, Karen O last of course, it was like the 1500 spectators saw a Goddess flanked by her knights coming down from heaven. A louder-than-war reception, and It wouldn’t get any more quiet from there on. K O, as usual, dressed in a spectacular multicolored outfit, is like a resistless magnet, vocally and visually. Everybody (sure, me too) was focused on her, while band members Nick Zinner (guitar), Brian Chase (drums) and their touring keyboardist also looked more at her than
at the crowd (they’re actually timid guys). It’s called charisma, as we know it.

The set (see list below) was a balanced mix of tracks from their 4 albums with striking stunner Zero and tearjerker Maps as standout moments. The sound was picobello, the ambiance was euphoric, only big smiles everywhere. But for me, in the end, it wasn’t a perfect concert. Why? They didn’t play two of my absolute YYY favs, also two of their best-known ones, which they did play at most of their previous shows.

Two solid gold singles/classics (to my ears): their smashing debut single Date With the Night (from 2003) and Despair (from 2013). Did it matter? Yes! It’s like having a fantastic dinner, and you know that you’re most-liked dessert will make the night complete. But the dessert doesn’t show up and nobody knows why it doesn’t. Bummer.

– DESPAIR –

– DATE WITH THE NIGHT –

SETLIST

1. Spitting Off the Edge of the World
2. Cheated Hearts
3. Black Tongue
4. Shame and Fortune
5. Burning
6. Zero
7. Fleez
8. Soft Shock
9. Blacktop
10. Mars
11. Gold Lion
12. Maps
13. Heads Will Roll

Encore:
14. Poor Song
15. Y Control
16. Tick

PS: I still love you, Karen O

 

(All photos by Turn Up the Volume)

Film Of NOEL GALLAGHER’s Massive Homecoming Concert Last Month Will Stream From 21 Sept On

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1 September 2023

Early June NOEL GALLAGHER dropped his 4th LP with his High Flying Bird. Council Skies
is a musical triumph proving once again that Noel G is a solid gold songsmith, specialised
in writing uncomplicated, but very effective anthems.

He played a massive – more than 25.000 fans – homecoming concert
on August‘s Bank Holiday at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park.

BBC said about the show: “Noel Gallagher has delivered a superb career-spanning set at an emotionally charged homecoming show in Manchester. His gig at Wythenshawe Park on Saturday, a relative stone’s throw from his childhood home, was always going to be an big moment for the city. Mixing Oasis and High Flying Birds’ finery, it was the set that proved just how powerful a songwriter he is. It also showed why, despite what a baying crowd would wish, he has no need to consider a reunion with his brother.

More than 25,000 gathered in the park, which was hosting a huge gig for the first time, and many had memories of Knebworth, of Barrowlands, of those two legendary nights at Maine Road in mind, which meant that as fiery and ferocious as the delivery of his post-Oasis songs were, it was those from the 90s that really got the crowd going. But if that much longed-for reunion never comes to pass, there might just be enough brilliance in Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds to make up for it.”

The full performance was filmed and it will stream from September 21 on via the
On Air website and apps in cinematic 4K UHD with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.

NOEL G: Instagram

YEAH YEAH YEAHS – NYC’s Flamboyant Trio Tomorrow At The Legendary PARADISO Club In AMSTERDAM

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28 August 2023


(Press photo)

NYC’s flamboyant pop-rock trio YEAH YEAH YEAHS fronted by the utterly
charismatic Karen O released their wondrous, critically praised 6th album,
the first in 9 years, named Cool It Down last September.

They’re touring in Europe at the moment.

Tomorrow they perform at the legendary Paradiso club in Amsterdam,
originally a nineteenth-century church. Every big name in rock played
there (before getting massively famous) over the past 55 years: Pink Floyd,
The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Cure, Blondie, Oasis,
Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey and countless more. And it’s still a place where
every up-and-coming artist wants to play at least once.

It’s one of my favorite concert venues ever.

And as a big YYYs fan I’ll be there, in the front,
at a gig that sold out the day the tickets went
on sale last March.

This is what to expect.

SETLIST

They played in France yesterday.
I made a Spotify playlist of their
set to prepare for tomorrow night.


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YYYs: Bio – Discography – Instagram

CHRISSIE HYNDE Joins GUNS N’ ROSES On Stage Playing Harmonica On ‘BAD OBSESSION’

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Last weekend, amidst their world tour, veteran macho rockers
GUNS N’ ROSES dropped a brand-new single Perhaps, hear/see
below. Nothing to get excited about, in my opinion.

A couple of days ago at their concert in Boston, surprising guest
CHRISSIE HYNDE joined the band on stage playing harmonica
on two songs, including Bad Obsession from their 1991
Use Your Illusion I album.

To be honest, I didn’t know that Chrissie played harmonica.

LISTEN/WATCH

PERHAPS

GUNS N’ ROSES: Instagram

JOHN DWYER Probably Is The Hardest Working Man In Showbizz – Tomorrow New OSEES Album , Today Live In Full

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17 August 2023


Album artwork

JOHN DWYER is probably the hardest-working man in showbizz, next
to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard as the hardest-working band in
showbizz.

Tomorrow the riff-manic and OSEES, one of his outfits,
unleash their umpteenth LP, titled Intercepted Message.

But, promo-wise, he decided – clever move- to play the 37-minute record live
in full at The Best Show With Tom Scharpling yesterday. The performance was
recorded at the Forever Dog studio in North Hollywood, California and it’s now
shared to see and hear.

The high-powered rock energy is off the charts.
And, importantly, the sound/footage is HQ.

OSEES: Instagram

Showman BAXTER DURY Entertains Belgium At Lokerse Feesten

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13 August 2023

Crooner-songsmith BAXTER DURYN (yes, the son of Ian) released his 7th LP,
titled I THOUGHT I WAS BETTER THAN YOU last month. Another vintage late-night
barfly Baxter one, and another one with songs about his relation with his late dad Ian.

Last Tuesday he played at Lokerse Feesten Belgium as part of his current tour.

I missed him performing live for several years, for several reasons but finally it happened, and it was sublime. I expected him to sit, nice and easy, at the piano all the way through the set, singing his stories. Nothing of that. He didn’t stand still for one second, cruising from left to right, putting his jacket on and off, using his scarf as a head-band, and doing some kung-fu moves.

Showman Baxter at work

I never thought of Dury as a showman, definitely not a great one. And the music, I hear you
ask? Fabulous. He mixed old and new ones with his monumental voice, more expressive than on record and was assisted by his longtime singer/keyboardist Madeline Hart. for lots of sensual French vocals. Glorious. And as live music goes, also here the decibels were turned up giving the whole show a five-star verdict.


Kung-fu moves


On-and-off jacket


Gorgeous singer/keyboardist Madeline Hart


BC podium


The night chancer

SETLIST

1. So Much Money
2. Leak at the Disco
3. I’m Not Your Dog
4. Pale White Nissan
5. Slumlord
6. Aylesbury Boy
7. Pleasure
8. Palm Trees
9. Miami
10. Cocaine Man
11. Celebrate Me
12. (Baxter) These Are My Friends

NEW ALBUM


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BAXTER DURY: Instagram – Facebook

All photos by Turn Up The Volume

15.000 Go WHOO-HOO With BLUR In BELGIUM

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11 August 2023

Britpop champs BLUR had another reunion tour in mind for a while,
but frontman Damon Albarn had one condition before doing it. “I want
to come back only after writing some new music.”

And that’s what exactly happened. Three weeks ago
album #9, named THE BALLAD OF DARREN came out.

NME said: “Their brilliance continues. The band’s joyous reunion only gets more emotional
with this tear-jerking, soaring epic. ‘The Ballad of Darren’ is so memorable and touching.”

TUTV said: “Lots of slow ones, lots of reflective musings, lots of romantic ballads (including Darren‘s one), lots of melancholia. They only rock out on the punked-up St. Charles Square.
To be honest, a surprisingly intimate record but it grows on you slowly but surely.”

And as promised, the 4 big friends started to tour earlier this year. Not day-to-day, but at
a selection of festivals and some special Blur events in their home country, like their two sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium in London last month (a total of 160.000 people).

Last Monday the four down-to-earth stars stopped in Belgium to entertain 15.000 (a sort
of club gig for them, I suppose) delirious fans, girls and boys, old and young, at Lokerse Festival. And we all had a smashing night. Screaming, jumping, applauding, drinking and going nuts for 90 minutes. Live music showed its magical powers again, making people HAPPY. The set included all their knockouts from the past, some lesser-known ones and
a couple of new songs.

One of the many orgastic moments came, of course,
with Song 2. The massive-all-together WOO-HOO chant
caused total euphoria. Glorious!!

It went like this.

I’m still buzzing today, 3 days later. WOO-HOO. Thank you BLUR.

SETLIST

1. St. Charles Square
2. There’s No Other Way
3. Popscene
4. Tracy Jacks
5. Beetlebum
6. Trimm Trabb
7. Villa Rosie
8. Coffee & TV
9. End of a Century
10. Country House
11. Parklife
12. To the End
13. Barbaric
14. Girls & Boys
15. Song 2
16. This Is a Low
17. Tender
18. The Narcissist
19. The Universal

NEW ALBUM


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(Live photos by Turn Up The Volume)

No Kisses For SIOUXSIE At LOKERSE FEESTEN In BELGIUM

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9 August 2023

Goth Queen of punk SIOUXSIE, born Susan Janet Ballion in London 66 years
ago, returned to the podium early this year, after 10 years for a series
of concerts/festivals.


Last Monday – Belgium

When watching fan-shot footage, of past concerts, it
was great to see her having fun, and happy to be back.

But (there’s always a but) last Monday at the Lokerse Feesten Festival
in Belgium she failed badly. Signing out of tune and out of rhythm almost
the whole performance through. The lukewarm reactions of the crowd said
it all.

She was dancing around all the time, but her flat vocals ruined a concert I was
looking forward to for months. It felt like seeing your fav football team losing big.
No kisses for Suzy (just kidding). Mind you, I’m still a fanatic fan, of course. This disappointment will not change that whatsoever.

Picture this

SIOUXSIE: Instagram

Tonight BLUR In Belgium – Here’s TURN UP THE VOLUME’s Desired Setlist

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8 August 2023

I can’ remember when the imperishable BLUR played Belgium.
Anyway they’re back tonight, playing at Lokerse Fest. I can’t
wait to go Woo-Hoo.

Suppose the band asked me to compile the
setlist it would be this stellar 15-track one.


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By the way guitarist Graham Coxon already was present last night, playing with his side project THE WAEVE featuring the wonderful voice Rose Elinor Dougall. More about their fantastic gig tomorrow.


Saxy


Sexy

Photos by Turn Up The Volume