shows you inexplicably didn't go to

Ya didn't miss much.

Do I win?

Will Oldham / Bill Callahan uk tour 1994/5 - couldn't be bothered going to Glasgow.

Ted Leo in glasgow on tuesday - couldn't be bothered going to glasgow

There is a lesson her somewhere.

I didn't go see My Bloody Valentine, just didn't get tickets. how was I to know they'd never play again?

I missed the last Cocteau Twins tour. At least there I've heard it didn't measure up to the previous one.

Also, Sundays and Galaxie 500 at the Vic in 1990.

Also, a few years ago Talib Kweli played about a 10 minute walk from my apartment and I was still really into him at the time. I just didn't go.

also karl bartos at king tut's. "he'll be shit," i said, unwisely.

oh: and alext and i missed the chance to see franz ferdinand at stereo a couple of years back. "they'll be shit, and i can't be arsed going out west," i said, ordering another round. ho hum.

in fairness, i bet they were shit and all.

And to make it worse it turned out that Jarvis was in the audience as well :(

Same here. LAst week we went to RTX... but *they* failed to show up. Hah!

And the worst:

Royal Trux in Brighton in 1998 - I couldn't find anyone to go with and I was too shy to go by myself :-(

Ted Leo in glasgow on tuesday - couldn't be bothered going to glasgow

Saw them in Norwich on Sunday, IMO you didn't miss much, got really samey after the first few songs.

Oh, and someone I know put Nirvana on twice at Norwich Arts Centre and didn't see a second of either gig...

I loved his performance. Only his *attire* was really awful: a bright orange tracksuit and green sneakers. WTF.

That was a great show! Gary passed out raw, uncut vegetables to the crowd before they played so I watched the show while munching on a carrot.

Also, I grew up in Durham, North Carolina and passed up God only knows how many free/cheap Ben Folds Five shows. I remember my friends asking me to go to what turned out to be their last show ever, and me responding "Eh, it's not like I'm never going to have a chance to see them again". Oops.

YEAH I LIKE BEN FOLDS FIVE DAMMIT SHODDOP

I didn't go to The Screaming Trees when they supported Alice in Chains somewhere in '91 or '92 (again in Noorderligt). The story goes they blew headliner AIC off stage (not suprised by that actually). Never got the chance to see The Trees after that :-(

The truly great instance was the time my friend and I had tickets to Sonic Youth in Chapel Hill, drove four hours to get there, and ended up having gone on the wrong day.

totally excusable. the aragon sux. no point in supporting that place.

it was way fun.

One time, thanks to Capital Radio, I won two pairs of tickets to a couple of london based gigs (to be picked from a list)..

List was slim pickings:

First gig was to The Lightning Seeds, which was at the Astoria, pretty alright...

2 days later, we went to see Blur at Brixton, tickets we'd already bought so that was great stuff.

3 days after that was the second part of the prize: CRadio did contact us inbetween time to arrange this one (the first was straightforward posted to the house) we had to give our names and the credit card details for the person at the CRadio office, Samantha Tarrant (orlly? Ysrlly)

But: My wife was hevpreg with our first daughter, and having successfully made it to 2 packed out gigs without feeling ill, decided we didn't really feel like we *had* to see this last gig.

So, I thought I'd get my mum and sister to go instead.

The day later, the particular artist hits the news because the people servicing his PC had contacted the police about some images they'd found on his hard drive.

So, I never told my mum about this gig, which still went ahead and which proved to be the last one he ever did. Apparently, he thanked his fans for standing by him, and a good time was had by all.

About a year later, I checked out his unofficial fan site, and a worse case of mass denial I have never seen in my life.

So, there you go. A show I did not go to. Fairly explicable though....

Nirvana twice in 1992, just as Nevermind had come out so they were still doing small venue shows. Apparently the canberra uni bar show was chaos and ppl broke down doors and stuff.

MBV the same year(? or 91 maybe?), for NFI reason why. They never came back.

missed mount eerie (in union chapel, london of all places...what a venue), diane cluck (at the morden tower, newcastle, no bigger than a living room... although i saw calvin johnson there this year and that made up for it) and graham lambkin at cafe oto, london too.

MBV: I'd been going out w/gf about 2 months, and MBV were playing with J&MC and (Dinosaur?), but I opted against it as I thought it unfair to subject her to the death chord so early in our relationship.

some time this past summer, high on fire played a show at the chop suey, a club on capitol hill that doesn't hold more than 200 people. was lame and did not go. regrets. have also recently skipped: gories reunion, sleep reunion (explicable, actually: sold out (but i had plenty of advance warning)), GBV original lineup. blew off circle a while back. when the hell are they ever gonna come round seattle again?

On the other hand, forced ourselves to go to 'latterday' Ramones and Velvet Underground gigs, knowing there would be no other chances.

BOC + J. Geils Band + Black Sabbath at Nassau Coliseum. I've been kicking myself since 7/27/72.

Blue Oyster Cult, J. Geils Band, and Black Sabbath at the Nassau Coliseum, 1972.
― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Friday, March 4, 2005 6:29 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

watch the reposts dude

heh, senior moment.

Hey, I'd be upset enough about missing that show for it to still be bugging me another five years on! Besides, I ca't rememebr what I posted last week, let alone 5 years back.

I passed up a chance to see Grateful Dead at Soldier Field on July 9th, 1995 - mainly because I'd already had tickets for Pearl Jam there two days later and the logistics for the trip up there for one show were difficult enough already. It basically came down to me needing to choose one of the two. In terms of performance quality, I definitely made the right decision - Pearl Jam put on a thrilling show, while, judging by what I've heard and read, the Dead show was pretty lackluster. Little did I know, however, that Jerry would die shortly thereafter and that was the last official Dead show ever.

i sold my tickets to Bon Iver and sold my tickets to Jens Lekman...DAMN IT.

one that springs to mind is the bonnie billy/matt sweeney superwolf tour--i really liked that record and just didn't bother going.

Yeah, see I can't just start listing shows I didn't go see because I was too lazy or too broke, because it will be a long list. One of the perils of living in a city like this means there being 1-2 shows you'd absolutely love to be seeing every week.

Ghost, a few years back. Don't know how many times they've played in the UK, but I'm guessing that it's not very many at all.

the memories are too painful for me to recollect

Fever Ray last year. I'm still filled with regret.

she played again this year!

would I be a fuckwit if I don't go to Mouse On Mars this weekend? I don't know if they've ever even been to the country before

Blue Oyster Cult, J. Geils Band, and Black Sabbath at the Nassau Coliseum, 1972.
― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Friday, March 4, 2005 6:29 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

watch the reposts dude

― Eddie Cibrian levels of irony (rip van wanko), Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ I disagree. Missing this show in '72 is worthy of a lifetime of regret.

Weird that J. Geils would be on a bill with those two, but I guess that kind of stuff was common back then.

Spring of '92. I didn't drive the hour down to Ruston, La., from Magnolia, Ark., to see Beat Happening cuz I'd just met this guy who wanted to go but he creeped me out a bit. Later he became one of my best friends. Ah well.

Actually, that kinda makes it a show I explicably didn't go to.

I missed a spiritualized show back in 2003/4 or so because I was too fucked up to leave the couch. I over did the preparty. *facepalm*

Show I was at but slept through: PIL's second ever gig at Futurama, Leeds, '79 - we'd gotten the overnight boat to Liverpool, and, by 11pm I was knackered, and lay down for a minute....next thing I knew, it was morning. My *friends* claim they tried to wake me. On the plus side, I was the Fall for the first time that weekend, Joy Division and Scritti Politti among many others.

'Saw' the Fall - I've never been the Fall (or even in them)

my lamented list

venom/black flag @ city gardens, trenton, 1986 - where the venom banter tapes were recorded. not so inexplicable tho, my ride bailed.
dog faced hermans, nyc, hum of life tour - made up for it by catching them twice on their final tour but fuuuuck
pj harvey, cbgb's, first US tour
cat power, nashville, what would the community think tour

I had a ticket to see the Michael Schenker Group in about 1983 and just didn't feel like going on the night, the only time I ever did anything like that. Probably a good move to be honest. Not even sure why I remember that.

A guy at work offered me two spare tickets to a small club show by this new band called Oasis in 1992 or thereabouts. I didn't feel like going out that night so declined his offer.

Weird that J. Geils would be on a bill with those two, but I guess that kind of stuff was common back then.

even more strangely, it looks like they finished out that '72 tour with gentle giant opening.

http://www.black-sabbath.com/tourdates/1973/index.html

Bowie in '97: three-hour show, with lots of audience requests.

Johnny Cash at The Blue Note in Columbia, Mo., circa. 1994.

I just couldn't muster up twenty bucks to spend on the ticket.

Ghost, a few years back. Don't know how many times they've played in the UK, but I'm guessing that it's not very many at all.

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Thursday, 28 October 2010 14:38 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm assuming you mean the Japanese Ghost, but just in case you're talking about the Swedish Ghost, they're playing with Blood Ceremony next April.

"even more strangely, it looks like they finished out that '72 tour with gentle giant opening."

The dates early in that tour with the Groundhogs opening must have been spectacular. I would have gone, but i was two years old at the time.

that's a lame excuse

I saw cash at an NJ state college auditorium in '92, before rubin got his hooks in him so admission was cheap

he was awesome, like listening to a bottomless well singing

saw dylan 9/27/78 at nassau coliseum (street legal) over neil young same night at madison square garden (rust never sleeps).

big, big mistake.

Way off topic, but I still rue that i watched the first part of "Kennedy" starring Martin Sheen and Blair Brown one Sunday night in 1983 instead of the show everyone else watched, "The Day After".

All my classmates and teachers were walking around mindfucked the next day, and I was all like "They didn't even show the assassination yet!"

Ha, I remember seeing that the Sex Pistols were on London's "Tonight" show, and thinking ach I saw them on Nationwide 2 days ago...

LCD Soundsystem w/ Hot Chip - last night.