And (whispering this in front of my angry fellow Jack White fans) Twenty One Pilots doing White Stripes covers.

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Haim provided Ross’s Year of Live Music™ with a Halloween — or Haim-lloween — spectacular. They put on one of the most purely enjoyable shows I’ve seen all year. Blistering stage presence and now firmly on my roster of bands to see again and again.

Can he be enticed out with Kettle Chips?

Is it impending? This is exciting. (Not the Kettle Chips)

And a Ross’s Year of Live Music™ bonus since it’s always good to get a support act with a personal connection to the act they’re supporting, so it was a pleasure to have Toyah, a scene contemporary of Adam Ant and onetime co-star.

Thank you!

And so Ross’s Year of Live Music™ picks up again for another busy spell, starting with Adam Ant for the first time in a while. An artist I love with a blistering catalogue of bangers and a set that also took in some lesser-heard rarities.

Trying to get high enough up to peer into your flat.

If only this was remotely the extent of it as far as 2026 is already looking.

And rounding off the busiest week in Ross’s Year of Live Music™ so far was returning heroes The Beta Band, celebrating The Three E.P.’s in the most fitting venue possible in their first gig in nearly 21 years. Mighty.

Claire you are absolutely not wrong