Bernie Marsden - Friday 24th January - Under The Bridge

Brief review: The normal excellence from Bernie with lots of classic Whitesnake material, some Peter Green & Gary Moore stories / covers and a guest appearance from Joe Bonamassa. An outstanding evening.

Setlist

Linin' Track

Don't You Lie to Me

Walking in the Shadow of the Blues

Walking by Myself

Need Your Love So Bad

I'll Play the Blues for You

Fool for Your Loving 

Oh Well

Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City

A Place in My Heart

Here I Go Again

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Cross Road Blues

From The Jam - Thursday 30th May - Under The Bridge

One Liner: Bruce Foxton and friends with an excellent acoustic evening of Jam hits and rarities. Always surprised at how many I recognise.

Setlist
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Bernie Marsden - Friday 1st March - Under The Bridge

One Liner: Bernie was in good humour and told some interesting anecdotes about Whitesnake, Peter Green and Gary Moore. Loved the Peter Green comment of "Who would want a guitar signed by you?". Excellent set and performance too in one of my favourite venues.

Setlist
Till the Day I Die (Acoustic)
The Time Is Right for Love (Acoustic)
Ain't Gonna Cry No More (Acoustic)
Linin' Track 
Born Under a Bad Sign 
Trouble 
Walking in the Shadow of the Blues 
A Place in My Heart
Kinda Wish She Would
Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City 
Fool for Your Loving 
Oh Well 
Here I Go Again (including Is This Love)
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Walking by Myself 
Come On 

Kenney Jones & The Jones Gang - Friday 26th August - Under The Bridge

Back to Stamford Bridge for a rare outing from the former Small Faces / Who drummer. With the fantastic Robert Hart on vocals, this was an enjoyable romp through some classic rock of the 60's and 70's. It was good - but far too short. Surely it would not have been much to ask to sneak in another 4 or 5 Small Faces and Who Tracks.

Dave "Bucket" Colwell joined in for the 2nd Bad Company song and the "Free" encore. Last saw him with Jim Cregan at Sutton United - perhaps he only plays football grounds these days!

Interestingly, besides the time I saw Andy "Thunderclap" Newman, I have not seen less interaction between the named act an the audience - Kenney did not utter a word in our direction. can only assume he is shy.

So, good, but was hoping for more.

Setlist
Can't Get Enough
The Time of Your Life
Maggie May
Substitute
Feel Like Making Love
All Or Nothing
Tin Soldier
Mr Brown
Angel
Itcthycoo Park
Stay With Me
Won't Get Fooled Again
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All Right Now

From The Jam - Thursday 21st April - Under the Bridge

Dragged a mate who is a big fan of the Jam to see this and glad to say he loved it. I really like this venue under Stamford Bridge and the rescheduled show was a good 'un. Pretty much all of the Jam hits were played plus a few select album tracks. The Who's "So Sad About Us" was predictably a favourite for me.

Anyone got a setlist please?

From The Jam - Friday 16th January - Under The Bridge, Chelsea FC

My first show of 2015 and it's at a new venue. Under The Bridge is part of Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground - under one corner of the massive East Stand.

I'd heard that it is used more often as a nightclub than a music venue, but I was really surprised and impressed by what a nice venue it is.

After a quick game of darts in a nearby pub (the Fox & Pheasant) where the 2 guys on the board very kindly let us challenge them (and we sneaked a 2-1 win), we got in pretty early as we were keen to catch the support in the form of Simon Townshend. Simon was on good form, mixing in new material with a couple of oldies, although surprisingly not "The Way It Is". Unfortunately his set was pretty short - we'll certainly look out for any solo shows later this year.

So confession time - I was never really a massive fan of The Jam and wouldn't profess to know much of their material. What I did know was that the 3 piece here included original Jam member Bruce Foxton; the show was an acoustic one; and after that I was taking a bit of a leap into the unknown.

An hour and a half later, that had all changed. Turns out I know (or at least recognised) many more Jams songs than I thought I knew and I had a great time.

Guitarist / Vocalist / Stuart Pearce look-a-like, Russell Hastings, did a great job. He wisely didn't try to replace Paul Weller in a note for note style, but stamped his own personality across the songs. The audience seemed to have a great time, singing along enthusiastically. I had wondered if it may get a bit boisterous, but with a primarily middle-aged audience and with looking security the type you wouldn't mess with, there was no hassle at all - even with our vantage point (the standard front and left). To make the evening even better, we got a Who song - So Sad About Us.

I shall return - both for the band and the venue.

Setlist
Saturday's Kids 
When You're Young 
David Watts 
To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time) 
Thick as Thieves 
Man in the Corner Shop 
It's Too Bad 
Smithers-Jones 
Strange Town 
Burning Sky 
So Sad About Us 
Little Boy Soldiers 
That's Entertainment 
The Butterfly Collector 
Slow Down 
Start! 
Town Called Malice 
Going Underground 
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The Eton Rifles 
Heatwave 
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight