I love nothing, ooh and Goldheart Assembly

Hello,

Another bank holiday snuck up on me which I was totally unprepared for. Which was good as it forced me to relax for once. I even did stuff in the garden (mainly bash the crap oot me heavy bag and scare the neighbours).

Friday was excellent. A mate of mine is driving a motorised rickshaw from the top to the bottom of India for charity n that. To raise the profile (an excuse for a pissup I think) she organised a gig at the world famous Troubadour. Well.... I don't know if it's world famous but it is where Dylan had his first UK gig (I think).

Goldheart Assembly

There were some excellent acts there. One of which I've tried booking previously called Goldheart Assembly. If this band were about in the 70's, Eric Clapton would have played in the band at least twice shortly followed by Jimmy Page I think.

If you've ever watched The Last Waltz and enjoyed it then you should see this band. A lot. I was half expecting Neil Young to shuffle out with a 12 string at one point. Now don't get me wrong. This is no 'music was sooo much better 40 years ago' faux tribute act. There's a lot of contemporary influences in there. But overall the music, image and performance gave the warm anologue fuzzy feeling of bearded folk rock. It done in such a way that everyone in that room could be left nothing but a feeling of being impressed, and wondering if they had just witnessed one of 'those' gigs that you incessently irritate your mates years later about how you were there.

A bit like pretty much any Smashing Pumpkins UK gig.

Apart from that it was a quiet weekend as I'm economising and recovering from my first allergic reaction to anything in my life. Ugh. Minging. Wont go into too much detail.

Apologies to those who have been trying to get hold of me for over a week now. I will get there eventually. I have 400 emails to get through and vast amounts of Vox messages too. Plus video editing, gig organising, gig attendance, management meetings, artist meetings, 2 months laundry, online meetings, seminar attending, n stuff. Though I will catch up I promise.

Hope all is non-allergic with you.

IB