Are all free gigs rubbish?

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TONIGHT!! We at BOSS are feeling a bit overheated and ready for love...

SUEZ - Italian Icelandic residents with the strongest songs we've heard in a long long time ON STAGE 9.30pm
ATLAS - you know Atlas. Beauty AND talent do go together very occasionaly ON STAGE 8.30pm

At COLOUR, 22 Inverness St, Camden. FREE!!

Club till 1am

― Jane, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Carnival

― sean g, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Are all free gigs rubbish?

Not if you are going to see OutKast tomorrow on a small island off the South coast of France! Wahey!

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

almost all the best music related events i've been to have been free

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I think paid-for gigs are more likely to be rubbish cos expectations are so much higher, ie. "I've paid for it, I *must* enjoy it! Oh..."

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The best free gig I ever went to was when I saw The White Stripes perform 'I Think I Smell A Rat' six times so the television cameras could capture the performance from all angles.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

shed seven at castlefield mini-stadium manchester.
think i'm joking ? roof came off the f*cking place.
i've seen *radiohead* do worse gigs.
it's all context people, pop/punk/fun is where u find it.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Joan Jett on the motherfucking fourth of July, dude.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been to a lot of good free instores. Mountain Goats, Need New Body, Ted Leo, Smog, Matt Pond PA.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

During the summer at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen they put on gigs. You have to pay to get into the gardens as always but the gigs don't cost anything extra, so they'd be classed as free. Best one I've seen - Isaac Hayes.

Definitely not rubbish.

― mms (mms), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Earlier this year: the Breeders, at a club, free show, full show, no messing around. Absolutely fantastic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

interpol played, of all things, a free street fair here in chicago recently. i didn't go, but i heard it was good.
so, to answer yr question, i'd say no.

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

free gigs. arhhhh the memories. Leeds used to host a free music festival every year in roundhay park. they were all blinding .. saw major acts next to indie/unknowns etc .. they were some of the best gigs i ever went to. (banshees/senseless things/pwei/pulp/marion/shed 7 were all part of the last one .. a very fine free concert ..)
also .. New Model Army free gig in Leeds City Centre. I hate NMA .. but as a gig it was amazing.
the semi-naked 3 level human pyramid in the pouring rain right in of the stage was quite something to watch. cant recall the music though ;-)
mark e/ireallylovemusic

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The preceeding weekend has seen the grass outside Cardiff City Hall rock to The Bluetones, Athlete, Go West, Limahl and The Proclaimers. How the city failed to snag European Capital of Culture is something that will baffle me forevermore.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

rowland s howard plays for free on a weekly basis

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 7 August 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The DEMF's have all been free.

I saw Liquid Liquid kick serious ass earlier this summer. Second best show I have ever witnessed and I did not pay a dime to get in.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Lightning Bolt play free shows once or twice a year, about.

I've also seen free shows by The Microphones, Ted Leo, and a fair number of house shows where the cost was "donation if you're drinking from the keg." (I don't drink usually.)

― Ian Johnson (elmo oxygen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the Guinian group Bembeya Jazz for free recently, and that was very good. I saw Blonde Redhead free by watching from the side of of fenced-in pay area, and tho I couldn't see them as well as the paying people, the sound was just as good (I was 40-50 feet away).

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 7 August 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw X play for free at Cal State Fullerton in 1982 and it rocked.
I saw them in 1980, but I had to pay.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 7 August 2003 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been to a lot of great house shows where its a pass the hat affair for the bands. And they can usually bring in much "better" acts than the clubs because they're not risking money on it and wouldn't have a crappy covers band in anyway.

― Xii (Xii), Thursday, 7 August 2003 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I saw the Spinanes play an instore that was really good. And Firehose at a local college. And the Minutemen, Fishbone, Horace Tapscott, and many others at LA's long gone Street Scene festival.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 7 August 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The best gig I've ever seen was free - AMM at the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 9 August 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

gallery?

I saw the trash can sinatras for free at ayr's 'burns an' a' that' festival.

and heard the delgados and deacon blue later even though I was seeing lloyd cole at the time [which I had paid for].

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 August 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, Gallery of Modern Art, yer right.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 10 August 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The best free gig I ever went to was when I saw The White Stripes perform 'I Think I Smell A Rat' six times so the television cameras could capture the performance from all angles.

Yeah, I went to see Alex Chilton doing a TV show recording, and it was exactly like that. He was v. pissed off.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 August 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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