Race Across Europe 2025
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Top 10 Gigs and Albums of 2025
So many to choose from in both categories The Gigs Of The Year 2025 was another busy year for gigs, though I didn’t manage to close off #Chapter2 of our #AtoZMusicalTour with the letters U and X still awaiting to be ticked off. The #RaceAcrossEurope tour which was our #Interrail holiday was even better than 2024 with some great locations and bands, topped off with Nick Cave in the Pompeii…
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With Clox Pitcher – The Düsseldorf Rock’n’Roll Headquarters, Dusseldorf, 24 July 2025 The end of our own #RaceAcrossEurope odyssey took us to The Pitcher Bar in the back streets of Dusseldorf. More accurately, we were heading to ‘Pitcher – The Düsseldorf Rock’n’Roll Headquarters’. The exterior artistic work provides a clue as to what might be…
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Gregory Porter
Kurpark, Wiesbaden, 22 July 2025 In seeking a definition for ‘eclectic,’ I found the following – ‘deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.’ A few words which more than adequately describes the musical acts we had seen over the previous couple of weeks across Europe. From indoor arenas to inside…
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Ezra Collective
with Kokoroko The KKL, Lucerne, 21 July 2025 A few weeks prior to seeing Nick Cave in Naples, southern Italy, and Gregory Porter in Wiesbaden, middle Germany, we were looking for a stopover to break up the journey between both and decided upon Lucerne in Switzerland. No point travelling all that way and not to…
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Nick Cave
Pompeii, 19 July 2025 The Amphitheatre of Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatres. It is located in the ancient city of Pompeii, near Naples, and was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, that also buried the city of Pompeii and the neighbouring town of Herculaneum. It was also the stage setting for Nick Cave and…
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Nile Rodgers and Chic
With Son Mieux, Cattolica, 18 July There is something very distinctive about songs that Nile Rodgers has an input into. They always involve beats that force the body to move in time to the rhythm coming from whatever source is playing the music. Radios, stereos, headphones, or a sunny evening in Cattolica on the Adriatic…
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Queens Of The Stone Age
With The Kills and The Amazons Bassano Del Grappa, 16 July A number of lucky factors had brought us to Bassano Del Grappa to see Queens Of The Stone Age, namely the venue was enroute between Munich and Catollica, with a minor detour on our #RaceAcrossEurope The were a band we hadn’t seen live before…
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Patti Smith
Munich, 13 July Under the big tent in Munich, part of the Tollwood Summer Festival, the audience who came to witness Patti Smith were, mainly, of a certain age / maturity. People who had been following the godmother of musical protest for a generation or more, a lot more. On stage for the best bit…
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The Kills
Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb, 12 July With Ki Klop in support The straight-line distance between Glasgow and Zagreb is a little over 1,100 miles and, as part of our own #RaceAcrossEurope tour, we were in the city to see The Kills deliver an electrifying set that had the locals swaying, cheering and idolising two people who…
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Yamato The Drummers of Japan
Opera House, Graz, 10 July Pictures taken from Yamato The Drummers of Japan website. ‘Serendipity – the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.’ If there is one word to describe why we found ourselves in Graz to see Yamato, The Drummers of Japan, then serendipity would be as…
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Amyl And The Sniffers
With The Bigoter X-Tra Zurich, 8 July Next up on this year’s Interrail European Tour took us to Zurich to watch the bundle of energy that is Amy Taylor front her band Amyl And The Sniffers. As if they have recently materialised from the Australian Outback, they are on the lips of everyone with a…
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Nine Inch Nails
With Boys Noize Accor Arena, Paris, 7July A different city. A different country. A different headline act. The same expectation and excitement. The first gig on our personal #RaceAcrossEurope tour, saw us take in the magnificent Accor Arena in Paris to see Nine Inch Nails with support, and some added musical accompaniment when required by…
