Future concerts you're excited to have tickets for.....

[Beef Oven!]

I'm very tempted to book for the Rattle Rite/Webern. Looks fabulous.
Still tix left at most prices.

Which of The Captain's albums is that the cover of, Beefy?

Was thinking the same, but it's a long way off and when I book so far in advance, Murphy's law kicks in.

Album cover is from 'The Rubettes Live At The Fillmore East'. I was at that gig, they opened for Paul Gadd & Youngsters, and did some Link Wray covers for an encore.

[Petrushka]

I'm very envious about the Rattle!

Yes that was the stand out concert for me and glad I've got the same front row Circle seat for all three concerts.

[Beef Oven!]

Yes that was the stand out concert for me and glad I've got the same front row Circle seat for all three concerts.

Fantastic! Something to look forward to, for sure

[teamsaint]

Was thinking the same, but it's a long way off and when I book so far in advance, Murphy's law kicks in.

Album cover is from 'The Rubettes Live At The Fillmore East'. I was at that gig, they opened for Paul Gadd & Youngsters, and did some Link Wray covers for an encore.

Ah, it must be have been brilliant to have been at such a legendary night, caught on vinyl for posterity as well. THey were always best when rocking out, I thought. A glittering line up indeed.

Like you, I'm wary of booking so far ahead...that day could easily be a sales meeting 2 day affair.

Mind you, can't see that not selling out, so could be an asset....

tickets the same as mine for the Berlin Phil RFH £25 tix are on viagogo at £118 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Beef Oven!]

Manchester Camerata at the Bridgewater Hall next Satdy.
Some Strauss song thingies,Mozart pc 25 and the Eroica.
Well I'm excited cos I don't get out much.

Sounds great. I love the Eroica in concert and M's pc 25 is brill. Can't beat a few Strauss or Mahler songs, any time of day!

Enjoy the gig and let us know how it went

[Beef Oven!]

tickets the same as mine for the Berlin Phil RFH £25 tix are on viagogo at £118 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Double booked? I'd complain.

[teamsaint]

Double booked? I'd complain.

and very effectively , I would imagine.

(£200 the pair to you though).

[Richard Tarleton]

All-Brahms at St David's Hall on 21 Feb - Academic FO, Violin Concerto and 2, with Christian Tetzlaff and Philharmonia cond. Andris Nelsons (I hope!).

As you were - just discovered that some genius has scheduled the concert on the same night as annual Wales v France fertility rites which means we won't be able to get into Cardiff from the west, let alone park, eat, get out again afterwards....Cardiff isn't big enough for rugby and anything else to happen at the same time, you'd think someone would have the brains not to schedule both events on the same day. I can only hope the concert is sold out and I can return our tickets. I only found out about the rubgy when I tried to book a table at our favourite Italian.....

[Honoured Guest]

21 Feb also has WNO's La traviata at the WMC so I don't believe that no one can "get into Cardiff from the west, let alone park, eat, get out again afterwards." Surely you could drive in a little earlier than usual and park a little further away.

[Richard Tarleton]

21 Feb also has WNO's La traviata at the WMC so I don't believe that no one can "get into Cardiff from the west, let alone park, eat, get out again afterwards." Surely you could drive in a little earlier than usual and park a little further away.

If there is a WNO perf. on the same night as an orchestral concert at St David's Hall (both competing for a similar audience, I'd have thought) then the planning is even worse than I thought. For the WMC you leave the M4 at J33 and don't go near the centre. For the centre you leave at J32. Le tout S Wales will be pouring in. The restaurants are booked solid. And for all sorts of reasons I won't bore you with the earlier start and parking further away don't suit. Plus there's getting back to the car afterwards. Park where?

[teamsaint]

If there is a WNO perf. on the same night as an orchestral concert at St David's Hall (both competing for a similar audience, I'd have thought) then the planning is even worse than I thought. For the WMC you leave the M4 at J33 and don't go near the centre. For the centre you leave at J32. Le tout S Wales will be pouring in. The restaurants are booked solid. And for all sorts of reasons I won't bore you with the earlier start and parking further away don't suit. Plus there's getting back to the car afterwards. Park where?

RT, at the risk of trying to teach grandmother to suck eggs.....
When I went to the Cup Final at the minellium, I parked at Caerphilly and trained it in. (and very civilised it was too).The Wales game kicks off at 8, so the concert will likely finish first, and concert goers should get in the queues first for the 22.09 from Cardiff Central.(and possibly the 21.31 but that is probably optimistic, I guess).
But I'm not the local boy..........

or what about Penarth? 21.31 or 21.49 from Queen street look just right . £3.60 return. Cheaper than parking in Cardiff.
But almost anything is.

[Honoured Guest]

As you're familiar with WMC, you could park in your usual place there and get a No. 6 Baycar bus from outside WMC to the rear of Cardiff Central railway station.

Returning to the car park would be best by taxi, if the concert ends before the rugby. I'm unsure of the taxi rank during the road closures for the match.

Personally, I always walk it (about 25 mins via Bute Street) but you seem to imply you couldn't manage that.

WNO and St David's Hall abandoned complementary scheduling when WNO performances transferred from New Theatre to WMC.

[Richard Tarleton]

I'm sure this is very boring for everyone else. We like to park in Dumfries Street, about 5 mins walk from St David's Hall. A wide choice of eateries, Giovanni's just down the Hayes being favourite. We're back in the car within minutes of the performance ending and heading for the M4, back home (around 2 hours west) before midnight. All very pleasant and easy. Add trains to Caerphilly, buses, taxis and/or a 25 minute walk (the walk a problem for Mrs T) into the equation and it very quickly becomes not worth the bother. Getting soft in my old age, obviously. I've been going to concerts and operas in Cardiff for 20 years, and have accidentally turned up on a match day before (having gone up for the whole day). Fine if you live there, or are there for the match.

Back on thread - we still have Florilegium in March and Bruckner 8 in April to look forward to, by which time Cardiff should have come to its senses. And after a tense night on the Aldeburgh website, we have 3 Aldeburgh Festival concerts in the bag, 2 in the Maltings, one in the Jubilee Hall.

PS Clemency's dad is hosting a film show in Aldeburgh cinema but we're not going to that.

[gurnemanz]

Looking forward to Sigiswald Kuijken (not seen him before) with OAE at Wilts Music Centre. The chin cello - violoncello da spalla - will be a novel experience.

[gradus]

Nige at the Round House in the next month or so, not sure what he's playing but Bach is included. Early March Ben Grosvenor doing a a Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt recital in Ipswich of all places before he jets off on a world tour.