#gigs in london

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1/ Flat Party, St George's Tavern, 8 July 2023

I was seeing Tommy Lefroy, a duo I had just recently listened to, perform at Tufnell Park, and their opening act was Flat Party. I immediately liked their sound, and I noticed they didn't have a photographer. Flat Party mentioned they had a gig that Saturday, and after they performed, I was heading to the loo when I bumped into their lead singer. In an incredible act of courage that I wouldn't have normally had, I pitched myself and offered to photograph them that Saturday. After all, during that time I was on sick leave due to an injury from my full-time job and was expecting to be laid off soon because I was ill too often. The lads were all very nice and I thoroughly enjoyed their music as well as photographing them.

[mitamicah]

Redraw of one of my favourite picture from Hamburg last month (10.08.24)

Reference under the line

[tuituipupu]

you wanna put your finger my 🍑 yes clip living in my head rent free still.

especially after last week.

credits go to: chachachatytto on ig 🎥

[mogoce-nocoj]

vse najboljše kitty, here's two images from the sys tour because currently I'm feeling like Bojan in the first pic 😸💜

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today - July 18th, 1970 - Queen Story!

Queen played at Imperial College, London, UK with Mike Grose on bass

- This is first public performance in London and first concert accredited with the name Queen -

During this show, the group announced to the small crowd (about fifty people) that the singer Tim Staffell had left the band and that their new frontman is Freddie Mercury

📸 Pic 2: In this note taken from Queen's first BBC session Freddie still using his birth name in 1973

- Mike Grose, Queen's first bassist dies in 2019

[vse-kar-vem]

kris schlager solo (ft. "take it away kris honey,"): literally the only part of the gig where my hands were stable

[lunge-magnet]

Fuck I love him

[pastelstarmie]

TOUR!!

AAAAAHHH We are actually starting our next tour on Monday, how did it get here so so fast???? I am so excited to meet so many cool people and travel across the UK again, and to new cities I've never been too!! Like Edinburgh, Newcastle and Bristol!!! Where we get to end it with a massive Folk Punk Festival! If you want to come you should definitely get tickets and as they are selling out for some venues, and it would be so amazing to see y'all there!! Working with different musicians and meeting the people who have supported us and made all of this possible is honestly the best part of touring, and y'all make it so special and such a memorable time! We are so honoured for all the reblogs and reposts on Tumblr and people sharing our stuff, it means the world every time we see it as we get closer to making full time music a reality, you are all the loveliest kindest people and we appreciate everything you've done for us to make this all happen! I really can't wait to hit the road (on a 6 hour coach ride at 1am) to get all of this started!! We'll hopefully see you there!! Massive massive love for all of you!

Tickets

[izpira-se-zlato]

I'm bringing a few prints of some of my favourite moments from this past year, so if you see me tomorrow (shocking blue hair and a blue jacket), come say hi!

[aeolianblues]

I got them! I’m going!

[rowanhoney]

CONTROL is about the feeling of loss of something you never had.

There's a soaring freedom that comes with letting go of CONTROL, and an abject hopelessness in realising you never had any.

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6/ Flat Party, St George’s Tavern, 8 July 2023

I was seeing Tommy Lefroy, a duo I had just recently listened to, perform at Tufnell Park, and their opening act was Flat Party. I immediately liked their sound, and I noticed they didn’t have a photographer. Flat Party mentioned they had a gig that Saturday, and after they performed, I was heading to the loo when I bumped into their lead singer. In an incredible act of courage that I wouldn’t have normally had, I pitched myself and offered to photograph them that Saturday. After all, during that time I was on sick leave due to an injury from my full-time job and was expecting to be laid off soon because I was ill too often. The lads were all very nice and I thoroughly enjoyed their music as well as photographing them.

[mitamicah]

Jere in @clovermoonspell's bolero because I am such a proud dad that needed all the pictures :'D

Heaven, 10.18.24

[tuituipupu]

Just reminding Käärijä fans I have X1 KÄÄRIJÄ GIG TICKET FOR THE LONDON GIG AT HEAVEN ON FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2024 FOR SALE - JUST £18 (down from £30 RRP).

PLEASE READ THE INFO BELOW BEFORE DM’ING ME 👇🏼👇🏼⬇️⬇️

[mogoce-nocoj]

so, I want you all to know that yesterday while we were talking to Jan, the Guštins (Miha, Chantal and Kris's little sister) were watching us from a distance until Miha had the great idea to walk by us and yell “Bojan!” to see if we'd react in any way. not at all surprised he and Bojan get along so well. pretty sure Chantal started laughing at him

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today - June 27th, 1970 - Queen Story!

The first Queen gig: Truro, City Hall, UK, with Mike Grose on bass

🔸What must it be like to brag that you were at rock gods Queen’s first ever performance? Well, quite a few people in Cornwall can, because on this very date – June 27 – in 1970 popular rockers-on-the-rise Smile played their first gig with a new line-up and a new name, Queen, at Truro City Hall, which later became the Hall For Cornwall.

Truro boy Roger Taylor told Cornwall Live: “That was actually arranged by my mother in aid of the Red Cross. We were paid £50, which was quite a lot of money back then. I’m not sure many people turned up though.”

Roger’s mum Win had placed two adverts in The West Briton newspaper on the run-up to the gig, still in the name of Smile. However, the band had already decided to play under the new name Queen – eyebrow-raising for the time.

She recalled Freddie explaining the new name at her Truro bungalow: "He just kept saying how regal it sounded.”

Sue Johnstone, a friend of the band from Truro, remembered: “We would hitch a lift back to Cornwall from the start of the M4, and on one of these occasions Freddie walked us to the bus stop and said ‘what do you think of the name Queen?’

"We thought it was hilarious because he was always so camp. And we just laughed and thought of the gay connotation immediately, but he tried to make it more acceptable by persuading us that it was ‘regal’.”

The first Queen gig: Truro City Hall, June 27, 1970

With Fred, still known as Bulsara, and bassist Mike Grose – a Truro regular at the Smile shows at PJ’s – on board, Queen was born.

The new band intended to concentrate on its own material. Mike recalled rehearsing tracks from the first album, as well as 'Father to Son' from 'Queen II' and 'Stone Cold Crazy' from 'Sheer Heart Attack' from day one.

In preparation for the first Queen concert, Freddie stayed at the Johnstone sisters’ house at Truro’s Rosedale.

Sue said: “He stayed in our attic room and Freddie would stand on his head with his legs crossed doing yoga against the wall. He had long hair and would use our heating tongs to curl his hair in the way he wanted. And my dad was completely taken aback and initially thought they were all a bit weird.”

However, Freddie and Sue’s father soon became the best of mates when Mr Mercury-to-be and his friends dug up the garden, filled it full of flowers and sorted out the lawn.

Sue Johnstone said of that debut concert and other early Queen shows: “Freddie would get up on the stage and strut his stuff like he’d been doing it all his life. He was well prepared. He didn’t just get up and sing, he got up and performed from day one. I loved Tim's voice, but he wasn't the same as Freddie as a performer"

By Lee Trewhela - June 27th, 2018

👉 Full Article 👇

https://www.cornwalllive.com/whats-on/music-nightlife/queen-played-first-concert-cornwall-1720494

Pic: Queen in 1970, on the left Mike Grose, Queen's first bassist (dies in 2019)

📸 Photographer © Doug Puddifoot