FFS readers!! I have literally just got home after driving to Manchester for a gig that was cancelled half an hour before I got there*, a round trip of 90 miles. No fault of the band, venue or staff – apparently a huge burst water main meant that no clean water was available in the whole area.
Mrs 1537 and I were attempting to see Yannis & The Yaw at the New Century Hall. Yannis & The Yaw are a side project by Yannis Philippakis of the Foals, what makes them rather great is that they are an Afrobeat group and the late, great Tony Allen appears on their excellent debut EP Lagos Paris London. They really tick all my boxes and I was looking forwards to dancing with sweaty abandon tonight.
In 40+ years of gig going this is only my third ever cancelled gig, which looked at objectively is not too bad a strike rate. Yannis & The Yaw join an exclusive trio of the Rolling Stones (Wembley) and Korn (Bristol) as my only other cancellations.
Dear readers, who has cancelled on you over the years? entertain me please, show me I’m not alone.
1257 Down (still).
PS: was also really looking forward to going to the reopened New Century Hall for the first time too, a classic small old venue that had seen the likes of Hendrix back in the day.
*that I only discovered this after paying £12 for parking was the fucking gilding on the MF-ing lily.
