Peter Millington… Great and thanks Teresa Qunta for posting this for those of us that couldn’t get there.
Dave Oakley… brilliant a real privilege to have been there, best regards to my old mate Lol 🙂 all those tales of how good Factory were turned out to be true, your old rascal from Schnoz!!
photo credit: Dave Kemp
Tonight was my twenty-third Slade concert. After seeing them three times as a teenager in the early 80s the band abruptly stopped touring. But since guitarist Dave Hill and drummer Don Powell revived the band in the early 90s, sans Noddy Holder and Jim Lea, I’ve seen them most years since. Yes, I miss Holder’s unmistakeable voice. Yes, I miss Lea’s musical dexterity. And yes, I miss the combined songwriting talent of the two of them which produced all of the big hits but isn’t producing any new ones. But going to a modern-day Slade gig means I don’t miss out on hearing those wonderful songs being performed live still. And it means I don’t get to miss out on the sheer, unadulterated, wacky, crazily eccentric sense of fun you get from a Slade gig.
The set-list has hardly changed much in the last twenty years but it’s great to be punching our hands in the air to Gudbuy T’ Jane, throwing toilet rolls across the stage during Mama Weer All Crazee Now, applauding Dave Hill showing off his“superyob” guitar during Get Down and Get With It, swaying along to Everyday and My Oh My and jumping up and down with wild deranged abandon to Cum On Feel The Noize.
In the nicest, friendliest, most good-natured way the whole place was pretty much going crazee. Everyone, that is, apart from two gents on the front row who complained bitterly throughout the concert about people dancing about, jumping up and down and waving their arms in the air. I don’t think they quite got the whole Slade concert business. Never mind, they were gone before the band came back on for Merry Xmas Everybody. A month too early? No way! I don’t put together Slade’s winter tour schedules but mid-November is surely near enough to Christmas for the crowd to be singing along to the greatest Christmas song ever made.
For fifty years Dave and Don have been playing together now. Let’s toast them.
Setlist:
Gudbuy T’ Jane
Lock Up Your Daughters
Take Me Bak ‘Ome
Look Wot You Dun
Everyday
Coz I Luv You
Run Run Away
Far Far Away
My Baby Left Me
Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Get Down and Get With It
My Oh My
Cum On Feel The Noize
Merry Xmas Everybody
by Darren Johnson https://darrensmusicblog.com
source: Phil O’Brien
Robert Searle… She looks really impressed
Martin Richter… vinyl is the future!
Robert Searle… Love vinyl
Tim Moose Bruce… Like that valve amp.
Peter Fairless… Made on the Ponswood Industrial Estate?
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Jim Hobbs… Goodbye Planet Rock, hello again Hastings Rock. Time to get a ‘proper’ licence!
Click on the explore our history and other links.
Tony May… This looks like a really great website folks! Plenty of old photos, audio histories and the like.
Peter Fairless… Some interesting stuff, there, but also some surprising omissions and not the easiest to navigate.
supplied by Andy Knight
card supplied by Roger Carey telegram supplied by Andy Knight
Stuart Moir…”Now a very rich man !!”
Redstar Richter….”steve winterbottom?”
Andy Knight… Spoof telegram to Missing Persons when we were managed by Simon Fuller who practised on us I think and got it right with the Spice Girls!
Prince performing at Coachella 2008 Micahmedia at en.wikipedia
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Jim Hobbs… Shit, I can’t keep up with all these heroes dying!
Neil Cartwright… Yet another? It gets tempting to believe that there’s some cosmic force at work here.
Alan Esdaile… Shocking news, very talented performer and many great tracks. R.I.P. Prince.
Peter Fairless… Raspberry Beret, great track.
Alan Esdaile… Good track but my favourite is When Doves Cry.
Peter Fairless… So many to choose from, Alan.
Andy Qunta… Too many good artists!
Leigh Wieland-Boys… We have said goodbye to many great people this year, so sad
Patricia Landamore… Really sad , such a different age between, makes you think, just do it eh
Virginia Davis… I know I’m getting older but there appears to be so many already this year.
Caz Simpson… He evidently played Heroes as a tribute to Bowie. I can’t find it ‘all content removed’. Loved Prince.. RIP
Rolling Stone Magazine says… No offense to Petty, Lynne and Winwood, but the first few minutes of this performance feel like a slightly stale retread of the star-studded version at 2002’s Concert for George. Then Prince steps in with a soaring solo and changes everything. He shreds so hard that he nearly falls off the stage — and he still looks cool. Where was he for the Hendrix tribute back in ’92?!
Kevin Sherwood… Brilliant.
Paul Dove… LEGEND. R I P . Prince
Paul Bridgett… The talent of the man..ENJOY YOU WILL.
Phil Thornton… yup.
Dennis Wootton… Can never tire watching, in awe.
Jon McCallion… A great track.
Alan Pepper… Such a big loss – some artists seem destined to pass early in life so as to be remembered forever young and what a fantastic artist he was ! I remember Eric Clapton when asked how did it feel being the best guitarist in the world ? He said I don’t know you’d better ask Prince ! Respect . My favorite has to be Purple Rain . Hendrix + Little Richard + James Brown = PRINCE ?!?
Supplied by Wendy Weaver.
(1) Mike Brill (2) Mick Williams, (3) Dominic Press, (4) Nigel Ford, (5) Joffie Lovett, (6) Dawn Wildman, (7) Clive Garrard, (8) Andy Gunton (9) John Hinkley, (10) Simon Halsey, (11) Paul Williams, (12) Barry James, (13) Ralph Winser, (14) Nick Prince, (15) Alan Mills, (16) Nick Thomas, (17) Johnny Diamond, (18) Brian Simms, (19) Simon Veness, (20) Terry Kane, (21) Ian Harling, (22) Steve Dack, (23) Nick Thomas & Jon Robson, (24) Tony Lewis & Angie Loveless, (25) Kayleigh Apps, (26) (27) Group photos.
Martin Richter… a killing joke t-shirt – good call 🙂 i had the t-shirt & the poster 🙂
Barry M Dyke… Do I see Simon Davies there?
Alan Esdaile… Sorry Barry M Dyke, no luck so far in finding any photos of Simon Davies (Tony Kane). Very much missed. If anyone has any it would be nice to see.
Brian Dade… The chap in the pale t.shirt is Radio Caroline’s Mike Brill.
Joe Knight… all doing a great job
Les Antink… No Tony Christian in this set of pictures, but I know he did do a set for HR.
John Harding… And missing the ones who aren’t there this year.
photos supplied by Wendy Weaver. (8) The band playing at Venue M George Street are The Passion Killers from Bognor Regis, (9) disco outside The Robert De Mortain, (10) Martin
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Robert Searle… Johnny Diamond a voice of Hastings Rock
Clive Garrard… Martin who did several years on Sunday afternoons. He came from Surrey.