Concert Reviews

November 13th 2016 Supported by: Rusty Egan, Eric Stein, Le Cliché, Duke St Workshop At the young age of 11 I bought my first ever single “ Kraftwerk – The Robots” in 1978 and remained hooked ever since. After seeing Kraftwerk live twice, interviewing Karl Bartos some 10 years ago and a no-show by Wolfgang Fluer at the 2015 Kraftwerk Conference in Birmingham, I jumped at the chance to see one of my musical heroes. The evening started off with Lancashire based act ‘Duke St. Workshop’, who were really good and quite melodic and seeing an electronic Simmons drumkit on stage was a bonus. The duos performance would have benefited  from some decent lighting but was nonetheless quite enjoyable.  Only 15 minutes later one man project ‘Le Cliché’ was on and their videoscreen-based show was highly energetic and interesting and I was wondering if Le Cliché really acquired all rights to the many ads that were featured during the performance.  That thought ma

04.11.2016 The Asylum, Birmingham Sometimes the stars align and magic happens. After failing to secure one of only 300 tickets for a very special event, I had given up on attending a special Erasure celebration with ‘Fans only’, with the band in attendance, a meet & greet in person, a q&a with my heroes, an acoustic set that included a brand-new track from the new Erasure album that’s due to be released in May 2017. Just mere hours before the event I had logged on to one of the many Erasure related facebook pages and saw a fan posting that he had arrived in Birmingham and was let down by a fellow Erasure fan and that he still had a spare ticket that he would sell for face value. I couldn’t believe my luck as I met him the next morning, bought the ticket and was now one of only 300 very happy and privileged fans. This was an amazing day with the best people anyone could ever hope to meet. Kind, open hearted, amazing fellow fans who were just as excited to be