the gathered thoughts of Richard Pinnell

I posted this list elsewhere recently, my favourite live sets of 2007. I was lucky / determined enough to see over 80 sets of live music this year, and here are the best of them. Obviously I'm relying mainly on memory here and of course you can't compare two shows several months apart, but I've ranked them vaguely by the impression they have left on me now at the end of the year. 1. John Tilbury playing Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus, Dublin, March. 2. Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura duo, Parthenay, July. 3. Angharad Davies solo. Parthenay, July 4. Lucio Capece, Julia Eckhardt, Christian Kesten, Radu Malfatti, Toshimaru Nakamura, Taku Sugimoto ...

Well I had intended writing at length about all of the concerts I caught towards the end ...

Insert: Standard blog post introduction about how I've been too tired/busy/lazy to post for over a month --- Yeah its been a hectic few weeks, blah blah... I have managed to make it out to quite a few concerts in the last few weeks though, and I'm going to try and catch up on them all in brief here over the next few days. A review of the LMC Festival is also nearly complete (its painful this isn't it?) and should see the light of day very soon. A couple of weeks back now I also wandered up the M1 to ...