45worlds: Live Music

3. POPCHRIST

After this concert the Beach Boys had a 3 day break. Carl Wilson spent some of this time in London with The Flames, the South African band he was hoping to persuade to go to the USA to record with him. (See more at this Flames gig on 10th June)

Added photo of Radio Luxembourg DJ Paul Burnett congratulating Dennis Wilson after the Beach Boys performance. Six days later Radio Luxembourg broadcast the Grateful Dead from the same venue, for 3 hours. (The Beach Boys show was a mere two hours). The Villa Louvigny venue held only 300 people.

Added some scans from my programme. Setlist: Heroes and Villains, Long Promised Road, Wild Honey, Darlin', Here She Comes, California Girls, Do It Again, Cotton Fields, Sloop John B, God Only Knows, Good Vibrations, Student Demonstration Time, You Need A Mess Of Help To...

Added some scans from my programme

Added some scans from my programme- including the Page 3 girl (!)

CANCELLED show

More on this event can be found here at the excellent UK Rock Festivals website.

Did The Smiths Reform? 2016?

Review: Photos from the gig here: Uriah Heep at the Lyceum and here: Uriah Heep at the Lyceum

The Nuclear Fire Tour goes to the Bikini. Funny ! Ironically, it should not bring luck to the venue, and more generally to the city of Toulouse, devastated seven months later, not by a nuclear fire but by the explosion of the chemical factory AZF, which killed 31 people and...

Review: A fun day out. Great to see Ten Benson play for the first time in years delivering a bit of a greatest (should have been) hits set with original drummer Karl back in the fold too. Almost as good was the Rock 'N' Roll Dog Show featuring rounds like 'Waggiest Tail'