Oct 06

WELCOME

Welcome to FlyingVs.com.

Over 750 gigs. 100+ venues. Over 1,500 bands. Rock on.

I have been going to gigs for over 50 years, and when sober enough I have kept all the tickets and set lists.

Search by band or venue and see if you were there.

The Sex Pistols for £1.75 anyone? Extraordinary stuff.

To celebrate what can happen when you go out to listen to live music, check out this YouTube clip. I went out to see Diesel Park West at the Half Moon in Putney, discovered the bassist was ill, and ended up filling in: LIKE PRINCES DO. You never know….

I was asked back for the encore:

WHEN THE HOODOO COMES

THE WAKING HOUR

Rock on, and let me know your experiences.

On the blues front, it was good to be featured in the same set list as Bonnie Raitt and Mose Allison

And here is my old band Fastback, showing how a Flying V should really be used.

Laurence Archer of Grand Slam, April 8, 2022, Islington Assembly Hall. And below at Camden Underworld September 21 2022. Check out the Flying Vs Hall of Fame

Apr 08

BAD TOUCH

Date: April 7 2024

Venue: Islington Academy

Price: £15.85

Bittersweet Satisfaction/Lift Your Head Up/Strut/Dressed To Kill/Slip Away/Good On Me/Taste This/I Get High/See It To Believe It/Spend My Days/Let Go/Hand In My Pocket/This Life/Baby Get It On/Nothing Wrong With That/99%

The Karma Effect

Wrong Again/Doubt She’s Coming Back/See You Again/Wild Honey/Livin’ It Up/Steal Your Heart/Testify

Electric Black

Put It Down On Me/World Ain’t So Heavy/Come On Over/Down For A Good Time/Taste Of Paradise/Hellfire Revival/Sick Of Myself

Apr 07

CLEARWATER CREEDENCE REVIVAL/THE COUNTY AFFAIR

Date: April 6 2024

Venue: Indigo2

Price: £30.00

Proud Mary/Green River/I Put A Spell On You/Lodi/Long As I Can See The Light/Almost Saturday Night/Who’ll Stop The Rain/Cotton Fields /Run Through The Jungle/Born On The Bayou/I Heard It Through The Grapevine/Bad Moon Rising/Down On The Corner/Up Around The Bend/Fortunate Son/Have You Ever Seen The Rain?/Susie-Q/Travelin’ Band

The County Affair

The County Affair/Irish Born American Made/Man In The Hat/Long Long Road/Harlem River Blues/Prodigal Son/Off The Grid/Weekend Cowboy

Had a long chat with Dennis Greaves from Nine Below Zero, and his wife Helen.

Apr 05

JOHN SMITH

Date: April 4 2024

Venue: Union Chapel

Price: £27.50

Candle/Dividing Line/The World Turns/Trick Of The Light/Sanctuary/She Is My Escape/Silver Mine/Horizons/Star-Crossed Lovers/Too Good To Be True/Great Lakes/Save My Life/Milestones/The Living Kind/Lily/Salty And Sweet/Far Too Good

Mar 24

DEWOLFF

Date: March 23 2024

Venue: Omeara

Price: £25.00

Night Train/Made It To 27/Treasure City Moonchild/Will O’ The Wisp/Tragedy Not Today/R U My Savior?/Tired Of Loving You/Walk In My Shadow (both bands)/Rosita

Silveroller

Black Crow/Turn To Gold/Ways Of Saying/Other Side/Come On, Come In/Hold

Mar 19

JOHN MAYER

Date: March 18, 2024

Venue: O2 Arena

Price: £120.00

Slow Dancing In A Burning Room/Shot In The Dark/I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You)/Queen Of California/Neon/Something Like Olivia/A Face To Call Home/Who Says/Last Train Home/Love Is A Verb/In Your Atmosphere/You’re Gonna Live Forever In Me/Changing/Stop This Train/The Age Of Worry/Your Body Is A Wonderland/In The Blood/Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967/Daughters/Belief/Edge Of Desire/Born And Raised/Free Fallin’

Feb 13

DIRTY HONEY

Date: February 12 2024

Venue: Camden Electric Ballroom

Price: £22.00

Can’t Find The Brakes/California Dreamin’/Heartbreaker/Get A Little High/Scars/Dirty Mind/Tied Up/Coming Home (Ballad Of The Shire)/Honky Tonk Women/Don’t Put Out The Fire/Let’s Go Crazy/Roam/The Wire/Another Last Time/When I’m Gone/Won’t Take Me Alive/Rolling 7s

Feb 01

LUKE MORLEY

Date: January 31, 2024

Venue: O2 Academy Islington

Price: £25.00

I Wanna See The Light/Damage/Killed By Cobain/This World/Erroll Flynn/Quiet Life/The First Day/I’m The One You Want/Nobody Cares/Lying To Myself/Watch The Sun Go Down/A Better Man/Go With The Flow/Lola

Hillbilly Vegas

Mason Jars And Moonlight/Steady At The Wheel/High Time For A Good Time/Something Crazy/Long Way Back/Down The Honky Tonk /Let It Ride/Shake It Like A Hillbilly

Jan 23

NINE BELOW ZERO

Date: January 20 2024

Venue: The Forge

Price: £33.00

Hide Away/Born Under A Bad Sign/Crosscut Saw/Watch Yourself/Going Down/I’m Ready/She Caught The Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)/Woman Across The River/Get Out Of My Life, Woman/Remington Ride/Just A Little Love/Now I’ve Got A Woman/Same Old Blues/Help The Poor/See See Baby/The Hunter/You Upset Me Baby/The Thrill Is Gone/Rock Me Baby/Sweet Home Chicago/Caldonia

Jan 06

THE VAPORS

Date: January 5 2024

Venue: 100 Club

Price: £14.00

Prisoners/Live At The Marquee/King L/Jimmie Jones/Wonderland/Daylight Titans/In Babylon/Crazy/Waiting For The Weekend/Cold War/Somehow/Together/Bunkers/Trains/Turning Japanese/Letter From Hiro/News At Ten/Here Comes The Judge

Dec 22

THE SWEET

Date: December 21 2023

Venue: Islington Assembly Hall

Price: £35.00

Action/New York Groove/Empire State Of Mind/Hell Raiser/Burn On The Flame/The Six Teens/Don’t Bring Me Water/Changes/Co-Co/Funny Funny/Poppa Joe/Everything/Circus/Set Me Free/Teenage Rampage/Wig Wam Bam/Little Willy/Love Is Like Oxygen/Fox On The Run/Blockbuster/The Ballroom Blitz

Sari Schorr & Jim Kirkpatrick

Freedom/Back To L.A./King Of Rock And Roll/Where Have You Been My Friend/Turn The Radio On/Damn The Reason/Beautiful/Valentina/Down Down