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[nicola]

THE WHO


When I saw the WHO tour I remembered their most famous albums Tommy and Quadrophenia two very good albums and I listened to them again but while Tommy is showing his age ... I was amazed for Quadrophenia it seems that time has not passed, too bad it's not on AM anyway for anyone who wants to listen to it I'll put the link
it must be said that unfortunately The Who have not been able to re-release albums of this level over time but continue to be successful in live performances thanks to their previous production






Quadrophenia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3mF...Ejjz-w&index=1



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30 Jul 2025 Roger Daltrey: Halifax, England The Piece Hall

8 Aug 2025 Roger Daltrey: Margate, England Dreamland

[TheFish]

Originally Posted by nicola

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THE WHO


When I saw the WHO tour I remembered their most famous albums Tommy and Quadrophenia two very good albums and I listened to them again but while Tommy is showing his age ... I was amazed for Quadrophenia it seems that time has not passed, too bad it's not on AM anyway for anyone who wants to listen to it I'll put the link
it must be said that unfortunately The Who have not been able to re-release albums of this level over time but continue to be successful in live performances thanks to their previous production


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Quadrophenia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3mF...Ejjz-w&index=1



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When I went back to college I worked as a security/usher in an Arena and The Who played 2 nights in witch Quadrophenia was played in it's entirety. (1996?) Gary Glitter was the old rocker and Billy Idol was the bellboy. Great show(s).

[nicola]

THE WATCH
















New shows announced in Italy!
Siamo lieti di annunciare l’aggiunta di 3 nuove date all’interno del nostro tour italiano e svizzero di ‘The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary tour’.
Ci vediamo presto!

CALENDARIO AGGIORNATO:

17.10.25 Seriate (BG), Teatro Gavazzeni
18.10.25 Verona, Teatro Nuovo
21.10.25 Zürich, Volkshaus
22.10.25 Genova, Teatro Gustavo Modena
23.10.25 Firenze, Teatro Cartiere Carrara
25.10.25 Nichelino (TO), Teatro Superga
26.10.25 Parma, Auditorium Paganini
27.10.25 Roma, Teatro Ambra Jovinelli
28.10.25 Milano, Teatro Carcano
29.10.25 Bologna, Teatro Dehon

Biglietti per le date italiane disponibili ora su TicketOne e Vivaticket, biglietti per la data di Zurigo disponibili ora su TicketCorner.

https://www.thewatchmusic.net/tour-dates/



NEW TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT AND UK SHOWS!
We’re beyond excited to unveil our brand-new show ‘Tales from 1970-1976’, coming to stages across Europe and the UK starting November 2025!

The Watch plays Genesis invites you to an intense musical journey through the golden era of Genesis, featuring music from the legendary albums Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, A Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering. ‘Tales from 1970–1976’ is the ultimate voyage into the mythic world of Genesis: a faithful, powerful, and emotional celebration of one of the greatest musical legacies of all time!

Tickets for the UK tour are on sale now! European dates will be announced soon.
https://www.thewatchmusic.net/tour-dates/

04.03.26 Uckfield, Trading Boundaries
05.03.26 Uckfield, Trading Boundaries
06.03.26 Uckfield, Trading Boundaries
07.03.26 Uckfield, Trading Boundaries
08.03.26 Southampton, The 1865
10.03.26 Milton Keynes, The Stables
11.03.26 York, The Crescent
12.03.26 Leeds, Brunedell Social Club
13.03.26 Galashiels, MacArts
14.03.26 Derby, The Flowerpot
15.03.26 Cardiff, Acapela
17.03.26 Settle, Victoria Hall
18.03.26 Aberdeen, Lemon tree
19.03.26 Kinross, Backstage
20.03.26 Kinross, Backstage
21.03.26 Glasgow, Slay
22.03.26 Manchester, Band On The Wall
25.03.26 Alnwick, Playhouse
26.03.26 Kendal, Brewery Arts
27.03.26 Shrewsbury, Albert’s Shed
28.03.26 Llandrindod Wells, Pavilion*
29.03.26 London, 229

*subject to change (venue)

#thewatchplaysgenesis

Related
Tickets are selling fast for the UK leg of the tour!
UK AND NEW TOUR ANNOUNCED!
UK TOUR UPDATE!

[nicola]

John Hackett Band




Mon 25Aug – Wokingham Festival

Sat 6th September – Nene Valley Rock Festival, Grimsthorpe Castle Lincolnshire

Thu 25 Sept – Knutsford Little Theatre + Ms Amy Birks
Tickets here (Early Bird on sale now!)

Fri 26th Sept – Arts Centre, Colchester + Heather Findlay
Tickets here

Sat 27th Sept – Queens Park Arts, Aylesbury
Tickets here

Fri 17th Oct – Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells + Book of Genesis
Tickets here

Sat 18th Oct – The Brunswick, Hove + Howard Sinclair
Tickets here

Sun 19th Oct – The 1865, Southampton + EBB
Tickets here

Fri 14th Nov – Capstone Theatre, Liverpool + EBB
Tickets here

Sat 15th Nov – Northcourt, Abingdon + Olja Dikajee

Fri 28th Nov – The Forum, Darlington

Sat 29th Nov – DanFest 2025, Leicester











ROBERT PLANT












Jul 17, 2025
Theatre Antique
Vienne, France

Jul 19, 2025
Château de l'Empéri
Salon-de-Provence, France
Saving Grace with Robert Plant & Suzi Dian

Jul 21, 2025
Jazz in Marciac
Marciac, France
Saving Grace with Robert Plant & Suzi Dian

Jul 23, 2025
Festival de Carcassonne - Theatre Jean Deschamps
Carcassonne, France
Saving Grace with Robert Plant & Suzi Dian

Jul 28, 2025
Palau de les Arts
Valencia, Spain
Saving Grace with Robert Plant & Suzi Dian

Jul 30, 2025
Teatro Liceo - Milleni Concert Series
Barcelona, Spain
Saving Grace with Robert Plant & Suzi Dian


Jul 30, 2025
Teatro Liceo - Milleni Concert Series
Barcelona, Spain
Saving Grace with Robert Plant & Suzi Dian









3 hours 37 minutes and 7 seconds with Robert Plant and the rest of Zeppelin

Live at Earls Court (May 24th, 1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIu3peq4c7M


0:00 Intro
1:44 Rock and Roll
5:53 Sick Again
12:43 Over the Hills and Far Away
20:58 In My Time of Dying (audience recording used and video deep fried due to use on the Led Zeppelin DVD)
33:38 The Song Remains the Same
39:07 The Rain Song
48:36 Kashmir
59:25 No Quarter
1:22:22 Tangerine
1:27:42 Going to California (full video not available - audience recording used and stills from very performance from Led Zeppelin DVD)
1:33:58 That's the Way (video starts at 1:34:20)
1:42:33 Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
1:50:25 Trampled Under Foot
2:00:38 Moby Dick
2:30:16 Dazed and Confused
3:03:57 Stairway to Heaven
3:23:03 Whole Lotta Love
3:29:13 Black Dog


HAVE A GOOD VISION

[nicola]

DREAM THEATER


New track for DREAM THEATER

the album PARASOMNIA will be released in February and to while away the wait the New Great Track "NIGHT TERROR" with the return of Mike Portnoy
I didn't understand why they would start a long world tour that will end in spring 2025 and release the new album only in February.....mystery....but surely for them it will be the right choice and so I just have to wait a few months....

Night Terror-DREAM THEATER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IPT60hvGw4



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Jul 15, 2025
Parkbühne
Leipzig, Germany

Jul 17, 2025
Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi
Turin, Italy

Jul 18, 2025
Guitare en Scene
Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France

Jul 20, 2025
Ancient Theatre
Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Jul 21, 2025
Ancient Theatre
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Sold Out

Jul 23, 2025
Release Athens
Athens

Jul 25, 2025
Artmania Festival
Sibiu, Romania

Jul 27, 2025
Küçükçiftlik Park
Istanbul, Turkey

Jul 29, 2025
Positiv Festival
Orange, France


Sep 19, 2025
Louder Than Life
Louisville, KY

Oct 3, 2025
Aftershock Festival
Sacramento, CA

Oct 4, 2025
Frontwave Arena
Oceanside, CA

Oct 5, 2025
Long Beach Terrace Theatre
Long Beach, CA

Oct 7, 2025
Mesa Arts Center
Mesa, AZ

Oct 8, 2025
Abraham Chavez Theatre
El Paso, TX

Oct 11, 2025
Tulsa Theater
Tulsa, OK

Oct 13, 2025
The Midland Theatre
Kansas City, MO

Oct 14, 2025
The Factory
Chesterfield, MO

Oct 17, 2025
The Venue at Horseshoe Hammond
Hammond, IN

Oct 18, 2025
Palace Theatre
Columbus, OH

Oct 20, 2025
Landmark Theatre
Syracuse, NY

Oct 22, 2025
Veterans Memorial Auditorium
Providence, RI

Oct 23, 2025
Proctors Theatre
Schenectady, NY

Oct 25, 2025
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Uniondale, NY










here the last great track "The Count of Tuscany Lyrics" with Mike Portnoy before the separation
in the background a splendid landscape of the Tuscan hills of Val d'Orcia with capital Montalcino and its famous Brunello

The Count of Tuscany Lyrics-DREAM THEATER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRr2nWzf0kA



GOOD LISTENING

[nicola]

Pink Floyd Concert in Venice (July 15, 1989)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddcIHRar42A




00:00:00 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Part I
00:02:56 - Learning to Fly
00:08:30 - Yet Another Movie
00:14:47 - Round and Around
00:15:21 - Sorrow
00:25:00 - The Dogs of War
00:32:59 - On the Turning Away
00:40:29 - Time
00:46:09 - The Great Gig in the Sky
00:51:08 - Wish You Were Here
00:55:42 - Money
01:04:25 - Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
01:09:42 - Comfortably Numb
01:18:53 - Run Like Hell



HAVE A GOOD VISION

[nicola]

IQ












Aug 16th 2025
A New Day Festival
Faversham, UK

Aug 23rd 2025
Prog Dreams Boerderij
Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

Sep 13th 2025
Y Theatre
Leicester, UK

Sep 26th 2025
Casino de Paris
Paris, France

Sep 27th 2025
Casino de Paris
Paris, France

Oct 3rd 2025
Club Wiatrak
Zabrze, Poland

Oct 4th 2025
Club Wiatrak
Zabrze, Poland

Dec 13th 2025
De Boerderij
Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

Dec 20th 2025
Islington Assembly Hall
London, UK

Feb 13th 2026
The Met
Bury, UK
Sold Out

Feb 14th 2026
The Met
Bury, UK

Feb 20th 2026
Colos-Saal
Aschaffenburg, Germany

Feb 21st 2026
Colos-Saal
Aschaffenburg, Germany















Anyone who wants to listen to their recent live album I highly recommend The IQ Weekender 2024 - Box Set, a 4 CD collection
in the fourth CD they included a track "Last Remains" which we will find in their new album which has a provisional title "MALAGONIA" naturally the song confirms the excellent music of IQ.... in the company where I worked in the logo it was written " Salire Semper" could be adopted by this great Prog group that improves its music from album to album.... the only flaw is the fact that 5 years pass between one album and the next...

They finally released on you tube "Last Remains" a first track from the next album that will be released with great probability in February 2025 it is a live recording from February 2024, the album version will surely be a modified version and with a surely different and better recording, this is a preview of the music that we will find in MALAGONIA .....


New track for IQ

Last Remains-IQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCSJHow-x4





IQ concert after the release of the album RESISTANCE
........waiting for the next Tour 2025 starting in February
and the release of the new album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVyO1ld5xU




GOOD VISION and LISTENING

[nicola]

AMPLIFIER



ABOUT

AMPLIFIER

From Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website


Formed in 1999 in Manchester, UK

AMPLIFIER is a Manchester based space rock band. This three-piece makes extraordinary music which is quite similar to the, also Manchester based, band OCEANSIZE. The band consists of Sel Balamir who plays guitar and is also the band's lead-vocalist. Than there's Matt Brobin, who is the band's drummer. Last, but not least, there's Neil Mahony who is the bassist. As you can see there's no keyboardist on board, so all the weird sounds and effects are played on the guitar, hence the name "AMPLIFIER".

For their 2004's selftitled debut album the band worked together with Steve Lyon to produce the album (he also worked with bands like THE CURE and DEPECHE MODE) and Chris Seldon for mixing it (also known for producing OCEANSIZE's "Effloresce" album and mixing music by THE FOO FIGHTERS).

Their music is highly original. They combine deep personal lyrics with walls of noise, combined with stunning melodies.

This band has been hailed a lot in the media. Kerrang! Magazine said this was ".the British rock-scene altering record" when talking about their selftitled debutalbum. Metal Hammer said they were ".the future of rock." and even Q magazine said that ".at present British rock doesn't get much better than this."

AMPLIFIER: This is highly original space rock. They mix a lot of different genres (I can hear Krautrock (a bit like Neu!) and Pink Floyd influences in their music) and combine them perfectly



the lineup is currently reduced to just two elements -
Sel Balamir / vocals, guitar, bass
- Matt Brobin / drums
no keyboards are used and all sounds are generated by Sel Balamir's guitar, making them into effects-generating motions
Amplifier is a band I've been following since
their 2004 album of the same name
their sound is very particular and is much appreciated by me..
I like to share with you one of their live shows in Berlin in 2013 and 4 of their Sessions albums that they included in a box set, but which can be listened to for a limited number of listens on Bandcamp



https://amplifier.bandcamp.com/album...in-berlin-2013






https://amplifier.bandcamp.com/album...-november-2022






https://amplifier.bandcamp.com/album/tof-sessions-vol2







https://amplifier.bandcamp.com/album...-sessions-vol3








https://amplifier.bandcamp.com/album/tof-sessions-vol4





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in addition to the audio version on bandcamp,
Amplifier have released the live video version of
the session in which you can see all the great
work of Sel Balamir's guitar
for now only those of volume 1 and 2
if they release the other two I will insert them


video session volume 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWfFPaNfbdI





video session volume 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyDItnIK_Ro





Amplifier Jam Session - Jam N - 13/09/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEV85Bt-sS0





HAVE A GOOD VISION








Amplifier - London - The Black Heart
Sat, Oct 04

Amplifier - Brighton The Pipeline - £15
Sat, Oct 18

Amplifier - Manchester - Academy 3
Sat, Nov 01