Bob Dylan played the Free Trade Hall on May 17, 1966, shortly after he "went electric" and at the height of the controversy over his perceived betrayal of his folk roots. It was here that he was famously branded a Judas by a member of the audience. A bootleg recording of that concert was officially released in 1998 as The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert. This was in reference to the name of the incorrect naming of the circulating bootleg before it was released.
To mark the release of that bootleg recording Manchester's premier Acoustic Showcase are staging a weekend of Acoustic acts ppaying tribute to the God that is 'Bob Dylan' in Judas or unplugged mode!!
see www.m19bar.co
www.myspace.com/acousticfest
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Influences
Sounds Like
Bob Dylan,Birth name Robert Allen Zimmerman
Also known as Elston Gunn, Blind Boy Grunt, Lucky Wilbury/Boo Wilbury, Elmer Johnson, Sergei Petrov, Jack Frost, Jack Fate, Willow Scarlet, Robert Milkwood Thomas.
Born May 24, 1941 (1941-05-24) (age 66)
Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
Genre(s) Folk, rock, blues, country
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, author, poet, artist, actor, screenwriter, disc jockey
Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, keyboards, accordion, percussion
Years active 1959 – present
Label(s) Columbia, Asylum
Associated acts Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Al Kooper, The Band, Rolling Thunder Revue, Mark Knopfler, Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Van Morrison, Grateful Dead, Joan Baez
Website www.bobdylan.com
Album Year Chart position Notes
US UK
Bob Dylan 1962 13 Charted in 1965
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 1963 22 1 Platinum
The Times They Are a-Changin' 1964 20 4 Gold
Another Side of Bob Dylan 1964 43 8 Gold
Bringing It All Back Home 1965 6 1 Platinum
Highway 61 Revisited 1965 3 4 Platinum
Blonde on Blonde 1966 9 3 2× Platinum
John Wesley Harding 1967 2 1 Platinum
Nashville Skyline 1969 3 1 Platinum
Self Portrait 1970 4 1 Gold
New Morning 1970 7 1 Gold
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 16 29 Gold
Dylan 1973 17 Gold
Planet Waves 1974 1 7 Gold
Blood on the Tracks 1975 1 4 2× Platinum
The Basement Tapes 1975 7 8 Gold
Desire 1976 1 3 2× Platinum
Street Legal 1978 11 2 Gold
Slow Train Coming 1979 3 2 Platinum
Saved 1980 24 3
Shot of Love 1981 33 6
Infidels 1983 20 9 Gold
Empire Burlesque 1985 33 11
Knocked Out Loaded 1986 53 35
Down in the Groove 1988 61 32
Oh Mercy 1989 30 6
Under the Red Sky 1990 38 13
Good as I Been to You 1992 51 18
World Gone Wrong 1993 70 35
Time Out of Mind 1997 10 10 Platinum
“Love and Theft” 2001 5 3 Gold
Modern Times 2006 1 3 Platinum
[edit] Compilations
Album Year Chart position Notes
US UK
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 1967 10 3 5× Platinum
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II 1971 14 12 6× Platinum
Masterpieces 1978
Biograph 1985 33 Platinum
The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3: Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 1991 49 32 Gold
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 1994 126 Gold
The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 1 (UK) 1997
The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 2 2000
The Essential Bob Dylan 2000 67 9 Platinum
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack 2005 16 21 Gold
The Best of Bob Dylan (US) 2005
Dylan 2007 36 10
[edit] Live albums
Album Year Chart position Notes
US UK
Before the Flood 1974 3 8 Platinum
Hard Rain 1976 17 3 Gold
Bob Dylan at Budokan 1979 13 4 Gold
Real Live 1984 115 54
Dylan & The Dead 1989 37 38 Gold
The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration 1993 40 Gold
MTV Unplugged 1995 23 10 Gold
The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert 1998 31 19 Gold
Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances (Japan only) 2001
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue 2002 56 69 Gold
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall 2004 28 33
Live at the Gaslight 1962 2005
Live at Carnegie Hall 1963
Song U.S. Hot 100 U.S. M/S Rock UK Album
1962 "Mixed Up Confusion" / "Corrina, Corrina" - - - Non-album Single
1964 "Blowin' in the Wind" - - - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1965 "The Times They Are a-Changin'" - - 9 The Times They Are A-Changing"
"Maggie's Farm" - - 22 Bringing It All Back Home
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" 39 6 9
"Like a Rolling Stone" 2 - 4 Highway 61 Revisited
"Positively 4th Street" 7 - 8 Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" 58 - 17 Non-album Single
1966 "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" 119 - 35 Blonde on Blonde
"Rainy Day Women &035;12 & 35" 2 - 7
"I Want You" 20 - 16
"Just Like a Woman" 33 - -
1967 "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" 81 - -
1969 "I Threw It All Away" 85 - 30 Nashville Skyline
"Lay Lady Lay" 7 - 5
"Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You" 50 - -
1970 "Wigwam" 41 - - Self Portrait
1971 "Watching the River Flow" 41 - 24 Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II
"If Not for You" - - - New Morning
"George Jackson" 33 - - Non-album Single
1973 "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" 12 5 13 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 "A Fool Such as I" 55 - - Dylan
1974 "On a Night Like This" 44 - - Planet Waves
"Something There Is About You" 107 - -
"Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" 66 - - Before the Flood
"All Along the Watchtower" - - -
1975 "Tangled Up in Blue" 31 - - Blood on the Tracks
"Hurricane" 33 - 43 Desire
1976 "Mozambique" 54 - -
1977 "Rita Mae" 110 - - Non-album Single
1978 "Is Your Love in Vain?" - - 55 Street Legal
"Baby Stop Crying" - - 13
"Changing of the Guards" - - -
1979 "Gotta Serve Somebody" 24 - - Slow Train Coming
"Precious Angel"/"Trouble in Mind" - - -
1980 "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" - - -
"Solid Rock" - - - Saved
"Saved" - - -
1981 "Shot of Love" - 38 - Shot of Love
"Heart of Mine" - - -
1983 "Union Sundown" - - 90 Infidels
1984 "Jokerman" - - -
"Sweetheart Like You" 55[1] - -
1985 "Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?)" 103 19[1] - Empire Burlesque
"When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky" - - -
1986 "Band Of The Hand" - 28[1] 96 Non-album Single
1986 "Got My Mind Made Up" - 23[1] - Knocked Out Loaded
1988 "Silvio" - 5[1] - Down in the Groove
1989 "Everything Is Broken" - 8[1] 98 Oh Mercy
"Slow Train" - 8 - Dylan & The Dead
1990 "Unbelievable" - 21[1] 93 Under the Red Sky
1993 "My Back Pages" - 26[1] - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
1995 "Dignity" - - 33 MTV Unplugged
1998 "Love Sick" - - 64 Time out of Mind
2000 "Things Have Changed" - - 58 Wonder Boys
2006 "Someday Baby" 98[1][2] - - Modern Times
2007 "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)"
2009: The annual Bob Dylan festival is back bigger than ever, watch out for the warm up gig on Friday 29 May featuring a host of m19's favourite acoustic acts paying their own tribute to Bob Dylan.
The annual three day August Bank holiday weekend special is back by popular demand. It features a host of acts from all over the UK and Europe.
Friday 28 August: This is a tradfest special and features acts who like Bob were inspired by the Clancy brothers and Tommy Makem. If you like a good ol Irish hooley with plenty of Bob Dylan thrown in this is the night for you.
Saturday 29 August: Features a host of Europe's finest Acoustic driven Blues inspired acts playing tribute to Bob Dylan.
Sunday 30 August: We explore Bob Dylan's Country roots and bring the festival to a close with a headlining appearance from Jersey Budd whose new single features Kasbians lead vocalist
To get involved email rockfest24@hotmail.com
2009 Press
BRITAIN'S only festival dedicated to the music of Bob Dylan will be held in an intimate south Manchester bar next month.
The three-day event will welcome devotees and musicians from around the world, particularly Ireland, who will perform tracks from the living legend’s back catalogue.
This year, the festival, at M19 bar in Levenshulme on August bank holiday weekend, has teamed up with its counterpart in Moville, County Donegal, Ireland, and many of the acts will perform at both festivals.
Organiser James Hennigan, from promoter Acousticfest, said: "Bob Dylan has always had a massive connection with Irish artists. He was heavily influenced by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
"It is well documented about how Dylan used to hang out in the Irish pub The White Horse in New York, where the Clancys played and he took the tunes of the Clancy songs which were old Irish songs and put in his own words.
"We had a lot of visitors from Ireland last year and are expecting even more this year."
The festival kicks off on Friday, August 28, with a special Irish night, which features Shake the Barley, Bernadette O’Grady, Reckless Elbow, Tina McKevitt and Matt Hegarty, Mickey the Hat, Peter Aldridge and Andy Keeble.
On the Saturday, the festival will celebrate Dylan’s Blues influences, with performances by Bullfrog Brown, Oyana and the Sun Collective, Shimeon, Glyn Bailey & the Splendid Things and other acts.
Country is Sunday’s theme, headlined by Jersey Budd who recently appeared at Glastonbury and has been on tour with Kasabian. Other acts include Kav, Heroes of She, Chris Selman, Bobhowla and Laney Murphy and the Hybrids.
Mickey the Hat said: "I had a great time last year and I am really looking forward to appearing in both of these festivals this year."
Acousticfest, which takes over M19 Bar for acoustic showcases, is gaining a reputation for putting on one of the UK premier nights for such music with acts coming from as far away at Australia to play the south Manchester venue.
2008 line up: was as follows:
Levenshulme to stage UK's first Bob Dylan Festival
Levenshulme’s m19 Bar in Manchester will stage one of the UK’s first Bob Dylan tribute weekend’s when it stages a three day festival at the end of August.
Over forty Acoustic acts from all over the UK and Ireland are flying in for the event which is being held on Friday 29, Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 August at Live music venue in Levenshulme village.
The weekend coincides with the release of the Academy Award Nominee film “I,m not there” a film about the life and songs of Bob Dylan. It also marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan's infamous concert at Manchester's Free trade Hall.
As well as acts flying in from Cork, Belfast and Dublin the festival will feature ‘Risa Hall’ who was born in Bob Dylan’s hometown of New York but is now based in Manchester.
One of the acts Emer O’Neill from Belfast said about her appearance in the festival “I am really excited about coming over to Manchester and playing all my favourite Dylan tracks as well as my own stuff. It looks like a great line up for the weekend.”
Bar owner Lawrence Hennigan said about the event “We wanted to do something to mark Bob Dylan’s infamous concert just over forty two years ago at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall where he was called a ‘judas’ for going electric by a member of the audience. A bootleg recording of the concert was released in 1998 and we thought it would be an ideal opportunity to mark its tenth anniversary. Bob is seen by all acoustic artists as the ‘God of Acoustic Music’ and the response from artists wanting to take part in the festival weekend has been fantastic. We have acts coming from all over the UK and as far away as Ireland to perform at the event. He has a universal appeal to people of all ages.”
Acousticfest is fast gaining itself as a reputation for being one of the UK’s premier venues for Acoustic showcases with acts coming from as far away as Australia to play the intimate venue in South Manchester. As well as the Dylan Festival the venue has a full list of events already booked in for its Autumn programme. Highlights include a full weekend of fringe showcases for the inthecity festival in early October, Tom Hingley of ‘Inspiral Carpets’ is performing a one off acoustic show on the 7 November and a Jazz and Blues Festival is scheduled for the end of November.
The line Dylan Festival line up is
Fri 29 August: Nadia Lowe, Emer O’Neill, Stephen Copeland, Glynn Bailey & the Splendid things, Jonny Black, John Herring , Martin & the Manoeuvres, The Alun Parry band, Alex stork
Sat 30 Aug: CP Lee & the Salford Shieks, Josh McClurg, Victorian Dad, Risa Hall, Hilary Bichovsky, David Sayle, Emer O’Neil, Anthony Dalton, Matt Herbet & the Heavey Hitters
Sun 31 August: Joe Swindels, Get Cuba, Tony Winn, Tony Kehoe, Alex Hulme, She Blooms, Roy Benett, Sprungloaded & Ged Wilson
Plus unplugged outdoor sets from
The Resistance, Selective Memory, Aine Duffy, Hello Big World, Hannah Short, Jonathan Martin, Clare Helen and Papillon.
M19 Bar, 847 Stockport Road, Levenshulme, Manchester, M19 3pw
Tel 0161 224 8135 www.m19bar.com
Tickets available from bar (no booking fee)
www.skiddle.com (no booking fee on guest list)
www.ticketline.co.uk
www.quaytickets.co.uk
www.ticketweb.co.uk
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