Best Teesside
concerts – Runners up - Dark Dark Dark – Georgian Theatre Stockton and Withered Hand – Westgarth Middlesbrough but
best by a country
mile was Simone Felice at The Studio
Hartlepool on 28 June. Inexplicably there
were only about 50 people there but make no mistake Simone Felice is a
superstar of Americana so tough luck buster if you missed it. The sound quality isn’t brilliant but here’s my video of the
encore.
Best concert outside
of Teesside – Tempted to make out I’m all young and hip and say Parquet
Courts at EOTR 2013 or go for coolest man on earth Steve
Earle at The Sage or even Caitlin
Rose but (fellow) old guys Television
at The Sage were breathtaking. Just the
best songs.
Can’t do best single but I can do best album and I loved the country girls. Kacey
Musgraves and Holly
Williams (Hank’s grand-daughter) albums were great but Caitlin Rose’s The
Stand-In gets my vote.
Rescued from back
catalogue – Obviously Television’s Marquee Moon went close but after seeing
David Byrne at EOTR I revisited Talking Heads and I’ve been reacquainting
myself with 77
to Naked
since. Obviously they’re not The Velvet
Underground but again so many great songs.
Also loved The
Kinks at the BBC . Not technically
back catalogue because it was only released 2013 but they’re old songs, you
know what I mean.
Best local event
– Hail to local promoters – Steve and Dave formerly of Rock Garden re-visited,
Andy and Phil TKASG and Leon of Grass Routes but my 2013 fave was the monthly
event at The MIMA. Not sure whether it
will continue into 2014 but it was a breath of fresh air in 2013.
If you like
Americana, country and alternative folk you must try - Daytrotter
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