For Kate’s Listography this week we’re asked to nominate the top five bands we’d like to see live. I’ve never been a great one for going to gigs and seeing bands live partly because they’ve often seemed unreasonably expensive and partly because you can often get a better sound from a studio recording without being deafened — but then I grew up with the excessively loud rock bands of the 60s/70s. Nevertheless there are a few bands I wouldn’t mind seeing live. Those of you who know me at all can probably guess a lot of the list …

Well we’ll start with three all-time favourites Pink Floyd, closely followed by Yes and Caravan. What more is there to say about any of them?

At #4 I’d probably but The Beatles. It would have to be late Beatles, as of the era of Abbey Road and Let It Be, by when they’d stopped performing live and the cracks were beginning to show.

All of those four create such magical music (at least it is for me). How I’ve never been to see especially Pink Floyd I just don’t know.

Creeping in at #5 would I think be the Barron Knights. Originally formed in 1959 they’re a set of guys who performed for the hell of it (as I recall they all had regular jobs) and did those brilliant Christmas-time parodies of other bands. And they were still performing live until relatively recently.

And the Barron Knights win by the shortest of short heads from Who, Rolling Stones, Queen, Dire Straits, Moody Blues, not necessarily in that order.