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The Kinks – Dave & Ray Davies back on stage together. Islington 18th Dec 2015.

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Thanks to Mick Bolton for this.

Mick Bolton… saw a bit of rock and roll history being made at Islington Assembly Hall last night. I was there with Dave M Quaife, brother of Pete Quaife the bass player who founded The Kinks with Ray and Dave Davies. We had just been talking about how unlikely it was that the Davies brothers would ever get together again, given their stormy relationship. After finishing the show with a powerful performance of I’m Not Like Anybody Else, Dave stunned everyone in the hall by bringing on Ray to sing You Really Got Me. How appropriate that they should reunite to perform their first hit just a couple of miles from where it all started in Muswell Hill over 50 years ago.

Here’s a review of the gig by Darren Paul Johnson.

http://darrensmusicblog.com/2015/12/19/dave-davies-and-ray-at-islington-assembly-hall-181215/

Alan Esdaile… Now wouldn’t this be the right act to reopen the pier.

Martin Richter… lovely – thanks – Ray had said that the *door was open* more than once 🙂

Ray Davies – Americana – De La Warr Pavilion 2nd March 2014

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Ray Davies will be performing a limited amount of intimate venues next year for his new show entitled “Americana:Songs, Stories and Home Movies’. The show will feature Ray with his guitarist, Bill Shanley, as an acoustic duo performing songs featured in his new book, Americana, as well as some classic Kinks tracks. He will also be reading passages from his book, telling stories and showing film footage shot on his 2001 US tour directly after 9-11. This will be the first time Ray has toured the UK as an acoustic duo since his Storyteller shows over ten years ago. Some of the songs will never have been heard live before. His book Americana follows from the Kinks first tour of the US in 1964 up to his time spent in New Orleans 40 years later.