Jo, you lucky bastard! I gotta see Buddy next time he rolls through here.
However, I must disagree about Iggy. If you've never seen him, you really should.

Ah, just read you saw him at the Isle of Wight. To be honest, the shows I've seen the past few years with The Stooges are okay, but I preferred him during the '80s and '90s when he was doing his solo stuff. But that's just me.

hey, GTRM...Buddy Guy is on the bill with George Thorogood at  Hammerstein  on August 15th. I am trying to figure out how to go....we are supposed to be leaving on vacation that day. Can you go then?

pleased you had a good time Jostorm, i saw him, the previous night, in London,
and he was exceptionally good.
It's a breath of fresh air to see a legend, having fun, smiling,joking and laughing with the fans, instead of the oh-too-usual navel gazing and air of obnoxious self-importance,
that so many so-called 'stars' have.

photos from the Manchester show, courtesy of the ever reliable SimonN, of IORR,
can be found here:-
http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,930758

Hello, friends!
GTRM, whenever you finally get hold of that fancy time-travelling machine with the in-built chilled chiba-dispenser just ring me, and we'll see Iggy together in the 80's, is that a deal, gal???  Iggy I found amusing, but the music didn't make me smile, if you know what I mean...
And yes, GTRM, I consider myself extremely lucky, it's just like Ade put it, a real salt-of-the-earth man and a fantastic performer! Still very active, he insisted in clambering amongst the gallery and circles of the theatre, didn't sound out of breath at all, I would have guessed him to be about mid-fifties from the way he looks, and my seats were absolute nose-bleed, BUT I took my hubby's Swarovski binoculars and it felt I could have touched him by just reaching out...Thank God the Bridgewater Hall has the most fantastic acoustic and is fairly small,so it was a real delight . By the way: DOES HE ALWAYS WEAR TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT SHOES??? Perhaps just an old-age excentricity....
Don't think he played "champagne and reefer" FOTP, but I'm sure some geek has posted a setlist somewhere.... SV and GTRM: listen to Parmeda, you gotta try and see him, God only knows "the good ones" seem to be dropping like flies lately, very sad....