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On the Bob Harris show on the 6th of February Joan Armatrading and Natalie Merchant are Bob's After Midnight acoustic session guests.

joan is a guest on the andrew marr show - 21 feb, 2010.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/a ... efault.stm

Saw Joan last night and she was amazing.I was slightly ambivalent about going to start with,but my husband and I really enjoyed ourselves, she rocked!
She only played the acoustic guitar once and that was for 'Love and Affection'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihBRRmsL ... re=related

That lady has some voice and when she sang ' The Weakness in Me' it was really moving.If you get a chance to go and see her then go for it you won't be disappointed!

I saw Joan in Liverpool a couple of weeks ago, and have to say I was a bit disappointed. I really like her voice and the quieter older material, but found there were a lot of newer songs which seemed to consist of the same 2 or 3 lines repeated over and over and over, albeit to a rocking rhythm. I found the overall sound to be far too loud and electric from her backing band. It must be a sign of age, but I was relieved to leave when the show ended to get away from the assault on my eardrums

Diane wrote:

sebmelmoth2003 wrote:mark knopfler is booking for 2010!

Thank you for that alert, Sebmelmoth! (You wrote it in August but I saw it last week) Got my tix:-)

Enjoyed Mark a great deal on Thursday at the CIA. He was on great form (despite a trapped nerve in his back forcing him to sit on a stool for the entire concert), as were his accompanying musicians, including a flautist recruited to accompany the numbers from his latest album, Get Lucky. As usual, he mumbled too many of his lines but his sublime guitar playing never faltered. Speedway at Nazareth and Telegraph Road were particulalry orgasmic.

(Speedway at Nazareth from a few years ago (half of it anyhow): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAZkycnUpSw - it's playing over and over in my head still. Turn it up!)

Piper to the End from Get Lucky was the closing number of the set:

'Piper To The End,' was written for Mark's uncle Freddie. He was a piper of the 1st Battalion, Tyneside Scottish, the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment, who carried his pipes into action and was killed with them at Ficheux, near Arras in May 1940, aged just 20.
"I didn't know him, of course, but I was close to my uncle Kingsley, my mum's brother. He first taught me to play the boogie-woogie piano, and Freddie was Kingsley's older brother. The pipes always made sense to me, and growing up in Glasgow as well as Newcastle, in my grandmother's home, there were Jimmy Shand records, so the sound of Celtic music always seems familiar to me."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bLUdfykrQM

Kind of fitting - a remembrance of one who didn't make it, alongside the current celebrations of the Dunkirk rescues.

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And all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme.

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joan met aled jones this morning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hz597

joan's private passions - bbc radio 3.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vd2vm