Sunday 12 April 2026.

Sunday 12 April 2026. THE ENTITLED SONS live at Shepherds Bush Empire. The Entitled Sons are rapidly carving out their place in the alternative rock scene. The group is made up of four brothers Billy, Charlie, Raffey, and Laurie are joined by Graham Swift on the bass. It is a family affair as the band are all the family of tv property presenter Sarah Beeny. Her husband on bass and their FOUR sons...amazing. Their set will feature tracks from their debut album , which was released November 2025. ----------------- Level 3 is closed tonight , but must be over 1000 folks here. Another show where it's around 75% excitable screaming females under the age of 25. Lots of adults here with their teenage children . I was speaking to a woman , and I asked her how come so many families here. She said the band have been touring secondary schools , and gained fans from that . She said they perform indie rock sets combined with Q&A sessions focusing on mental health, bullying, neurodiversity (ADHD/dyslexia), and social media impacts. Their mum TV presenter SARAH BEENY is in the Level VIP seats. AFTERDRIVE arrived on stage at 7.45pm and played for 40 mins. Their set went down well with the crowd.. Oddly the singer moves around the stage like The Damned Dave Vanian. THE ENTITLED SONS arrived on stage at 8.45pm and played for 75 mins. The four brothers in the band look very young. Frontman, Charlie, was great to watch and did a fantastic job of whipping the crowd up into a frenzy – most of whom knew the songs and sang them back to the band, which must have been an incredible feeling for the young lads, especially such a new band. Rafferty on guitar was pulling every rock guitar pose going – he was clearly ‘at one’ with his guitar and loved being in the limelight during his many solos. He seemed comfortable owning the stage when it was his turn, and for the entire show he was a bundle of energy. The singer jumped into stalls standing to bounce with the fans, and the guitarist played a solo on the bar . It was a decent enough set , although their appeal is more to McFly an Busted fans. Near the end of the show they said they would be a meet and greet in the stalls after . ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Saturday 11 April 2026. THE DAMNED live at Wembley Arena. Original punk legends The Damned play a special 50th Anniversary show with support acts THE LOVELESS featuring MARC ALMOND, PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT, The Courettes. The Damned most recent release was an album of covers. I have seen The Damned over 40 times since 1976. Including 10 times in their 1977 punk heyday. Hard to believe 10 years has flown past since i saw their great 40th anniversary show at The Royal Albert Hall....and another great show in 2019 at The Palladium. Also i was at both the Hammersmith Apollo shows in 2022, where all four original members reunited. Like The Sex Pistols, they currently have three original members. ------------- Needless to say really looking forward to this gig. Lots of pink rockin' chums are here. Footie legend and punk rock loving STUART PEARCE was here. We have a perfect view in guest list Block N6, looking at the stage on the right. JAMES McCARTNEY( son of Paul) is sitting in the row in front of us. The rear blocks are unsold , and have the black curtains up. It is stalls standing , so maybe 10,000 tickets sold out of the 12,500 capacity. I ended up missing the first band on , The Courettes. PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT arrived on stage at 6.55pm for their 40 mins set. Just 40 mins for them as they play for over two hours when they headline . Hooky as cool as ever , with his low slung bass. A superb set , that was all Joy Division gems and was dedicated to Ian Curtis . Full setlist played tonight.... Dead Souls Digital Isolation Disorder She's Lost Control Shadowplay Transmission Ceremony Love Will Tear Us Apart THE LOVELESS arrived on stage at 7.50pm and played for 40 mins. Six musicians on stage , including Marc Almond and Neal X. The set was pretty much split into three parts. First few songs were lesser known covers. Second few songs was their material. Third was well known covers. A really good set. Full setlist played tonight...... Wild in the Streets (Garland Jeffreys cover) Putty in Your Hands (The Yardbirds cover) You're Gonna Miss Me (The Spades cover) Hot Hard and Ready ( Smokey cover) Teenage Wildlife Dark Side Nothing At All Under My Wheels (Alice Cooper Love Missile F1-11 (Sigue Sigue Sputnik) Hell Raiser (Sweet cover) Tainted Love (Gloria Jones cover) Heat (Soft Cell cover) THE DAMNED arrived on stage at 9pm , and it was a two hour show , with a 10 mins intermission showing 1970s TV commercials. They have three big screens screens mixing live footage with pre-recorded images. They sounded great , and were very professional like, no fooling around. All their classic tracks played in the nice long set. We even had a punk gig with a drum solo. An excellent show. See my Facebook page for a couple of videos from the show. Full setlist played by The Damned tonight... FIRST SET Street of Dreams Wait for the Blackout The History of the World (Part 1) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stranger on the Town Under the Floor Again Eloise ( Barry Ryan cover) Wake the Dead I Just Can't Be Happy Today Life Goes On Is It a Dream Smash It Up (Part 1) Smash It Up (Part 2) SECOND SET Nasty Love Song Machine Gun Etiquette Fan Club Disco Man Neat Neat Neat Curtain Call Drum Solo New Rose ------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Thursday 09 April 2026...I went to two events tonight... 7pm to 9pm . WEEZIES - opening launch party - Eccleston Yards, Eccleston Place, London SW1. Weezie's has taken over the old Biscuiteers site in Eccleston Yards, just around the corner from Victoria Station. The people behind it, Will and Abbie Sandbach, run the Amie Wine Studio, which is right next door in the Belgravia development. They're describing Weezie's, which is named after Abbie's grandmother, as a pizza-focused restaurant and wine bar. On the menu will be a range of thin-crust pizzas in the London/New Haven-style, along with various small plates. Around 100 guests in the complex of cool eateries and stores in Eccleston Yards. Complimentary drinks and food included four different cocktails , prosecco , wines ,beers and different slices of their very nice pizza. then 9.30pm to 11pm. ENISH - opening launch party - 187b Wardour Street, Soho London W1. Authentic Nigerian restaurant and bar open add another location to their impressive UK roster. A small doorway leads us down to the basement area. Around 50 or 60 folks here . Another couple and us are the only white folks here. It is very lively as we arrived late , and loud Nigerian music is bring played over the pa. Several Nigerian artists including WizKid and Bad Bunny have headlined The 02 Arena and Wembley Arena They manage to find us a table for complimentary prosecco and a very nice Nigerian meal of Jollof Rice and Fried Chicken with Fried Plantains.

Posted 10th April 2026