Gigs-A-Gone-Gone

It has been a fairly busy year on the gig front, having clocked up a round 30. Barring any last minute plans I have no more lined up until January so am now able to share my annual Gigs of the Year list, whether you want it or not. With the usual caveat about the list being different if I were to do this again next week, in date order they were:

Sarabeth Tucek @ West Hampstead Arts Club
Mekons @ 100 Club
Tengger @ Cafe Oto
Zawose Queens @ Dalston Curve Garden
Yalla Miku @ Shacklewell Arms
Celebration of The Incredible String Band @ Queen Elizabeth Hall
Al Stewart @ London Palladium
Vieux Farka Toure @ Troxy
Wreckless Eric @ The Lexington
Blind Yeo @ Shacklewell Arms

Honourable mentions go to others that might easily have made the cut on a different day such as Kassi Valazza, Slow Motion Cowboys, Eleanor Dunsdon & Gregor Black etc etc. 

The most visited venue was the Shacklewell Arms in Dalston where they lay on regular free gigs - inevitably a mixed bag but the highs were very high indeed (see above). 

And finally, also worth noting is the above average level of enjoyable oddness throughout the year, including Tengger and Blind Yeo but also from the likes of Milkweed, ROIS and Rose Io and her alter ego Ecto the Rabbit. More oddness I say! 

That's enough self-indulgent drivel for today. Let's have some live action from some of these folks. The last one lacks the high production values of the others but it was taken at the gig I was at (although not by me).