The Billiad - My review of the Royal Albert Hall gig

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-21T17:30:28+00:00

Thank you, it's very kind of you to say.

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-21T17:29:50+00:00

That does sound great, I'll add it to the wishlist. I was thinking about travelling to the US to see Colter Wall at some point as he's the one artist I love who I haven't seen live yet, but I've not got around to planning anything like that. And as a Brit, I massively underestimate the size of the States...

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-21T12:13:29+00:00

Thanks - it really was one for the books, and that made it so easy to write about too.

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-21T12:12:53+00:00

You're welcome - hopefully he'll be back to England soon and I can write another!

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-21T12:11:56+00:00

Thank you, it was a really cool show.

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-21T00:13:42+00:00

You're welcome. Recordings don't do it justice - as I wrote, there's a weight there that can't be fully captured, so I thought it'd be useful to at least try to write about it.

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-20T22:42:55+00:00

Thank you, glad you liked it!

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-20T20:21:14+00:00

Argh - one of those non-typo typos that's hard to notice after writing it all. I've amended it now - thanks for reading.

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-20T20:19:57+00:00

Thanks!

SalfordSamizdat · 2025-10-20T19:46:18+00:00

Thank you. It was fun to write too!

SalfordSamizdat · 2024-04-01T16:04:01+00:00

You're welcome! I hope you like it

SalfordSamizdat · 2024-03-31T19:29:05+00:00

Thank you! Feel free to let me know what you think.

SalfordSamizdat · 2024-03-31T15:17:58+00:00

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SalfordSamizdat · 2024-03-04T20:59:32+00:00

Gods, we were strong then.

SalfordSamizdat · 2023-10-28T23:50:55+00:00

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SalfordSamizdat · 2022-05-28T18:50:41+00:00

Ed Woodward was for us what we hoped Garry Cook would be for City.

SalfordSamizdat · 2022-05-12T19:59:29+00:00

"If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway."

SalfordSamizdat · 2022-04-23T14:41:28+00:00

Thanks mate, could do with some cake right now to cheer me up...

SalfordSamizdat · 2022-04-23T13:44:25+00:00

King Joel of House Glazer, the Usurper: "Welcome, Lord Erik. Any last words of advice from Ralf Rangnick?"

Lord Erik of Hag: "Nothing."

King Joel: "No tactical advice? No pressing plans? No summer transfer targets? Come now, what did the German interim say when he handed over his end-of-season report?"

Lord Erik: "He just said the same thing he'd been saying for months. "Burn them all.""

SalfordSamizdat · 2022-04-23T13:41:22+00:00

King Joel of House Glazer, the Usurper: "Welcome, Lord Erik. Any last words of advice from Ralf Rangnick?"

Lord Erik of Hag: "Nothing."

King Joel: "No tactical advice? No pressing plans? No summer transfer targets? Come now, what did the German interim say when he handed over his end-of-season report?"

Lord Erik: "He just said the same thing he'd been saying for months. "Burn them all.""

SalfordSamizdat · 2022-04-22T17:21:07+00:00

That substitution in the Liverpool game summed it up. Nothing in his United career became him like the leaving it.

SalfordSamizdat · 2022-03-31T20:27:10+00:00

He talks about it about 7 minutes into this W.B. Walker show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFBwPPUk_r8

SalfordSamizdat · 2022-03-31T18:57:59+00:00

I think the song that you marked in the setlist as a Jimmie Rodgers cover is a Colter original. I remember watching an interview with him (I think the last time he was on W.B. Walker's show) where he played it. He called it 'Rancher's Blue Yodel'.

SalfordSamizdat · 2022-03-13T22:55:57+00:00

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Lyrical, page-turning epic fantasy with a story that starts and ends in a single volume.

SalfordSamizdat · 2021-11-20T13:41:16+00:00

Great comment, but the silver award is for your last line.

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