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Plenty of gig tickets for bands that are worth seeing, because they are good rather than just popular, are still available for between £10 and £20
Too right. I saw more gigs last year than any other year in my life and only 2 were over £20 - they were both the same band 😊 I love small hall gigs, hate big venues, so it’s all good.
Yep agreed. Paid £20 for the Lottery Winners in April.
The smaller hall gigs are available and blooming awesome nights.
(If you don’t know the Lottery Winners, play Start Again, The Meaning of Life or 21 and imagine those in a small hall venue!!)
Looking forward to Gold Panda at The Cornish Bank, Falmouth on Saturday. Staying over at the venue.
Just got tickets to see Daoiri Farrell next month.
Not long back from seeing Raven.
Very surreal, eventually seeing my heroes at close quarters.
Raw, yet groovy sound.
I had expected the band to have played topless, though.
Maybe it wasn’t cold enough for those Geordies🤣🤣🤣
Last minute waiting list ticket for Personal Trainer yesterday evening at tiny venue in Portsmouth. 7 piece band, Stage low enough for people to wander on for a dance, and really committed performance. £10. Venues on the tour are being upgraded due to demand. Bought a CD but I suspect that their forte at the moment may be live. Will definitely be looking out for another gig on the tour. Highly recommended
I went to my first Doom Metal gig the other day! Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh. £15. Not normally my cup of tea but I thought they were amazing. I'd definitely see them again!
Saw Gentlemen's Dub Club and The Skints Friday night, cracking evening!
Plenty of gig tickets for bands that are worth seeing, because they are good rather than just popular, are still available for between £10 and £20
Absolutely. Support your local independent music venue, take a punt on some £10 or so gigs, with bandcamp and spotify you can easily get a sense of what sort of music it is so it's barely a risk anyway, and the venue needs heads to keep afloat by buying a drink or two and so on.
Paying multiples of this, into the hundreds to watch some has been rehashing their back catalogue, or seeing ten small bands trying to find their way - no contest. Frank knows.
"I want bands who had to work for their keep
Drove a thousand miles and played a show on no sleep
Sleeping on the floor at a stranger's place
Hungry just to do it all again the next day!"
(ooh, machine gun snares too!)
New tickets- the Almighty reforming for 3 shows so I'm off to Barrowlands, £50 though! Last time they reformed it was the Garage and £15 but apparently you can get 3 times as big and 3 times as expensive just by not doing anything for 15 years... Ah well.
Balanced that out a bit with Empire State Bastard at the Cathouse- Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro's side project with Dave Lombardo out of Slayer. I've heard 15 seconds of the music, it might well be terrible, but it's a while since I saw Si in a venue that big so it'll be interesting anyway.
Just back from that London though, seeing Hell Is For Heroes and Hundred Reasons again with a mate who lives down there now. Hell Is For Heroes not quite as perfect, but still awesome. Hundred Reasons a lot better for having had a few more shows under their belt. Good times. Snuck in a wee trip to the London Garage to see Dub War, who I never saw first time round- finally got to rock the **** out to Gorrit after 28 years! Not exactly striking while the iron is hot...
Talking of small gigs/new bands - got PVA at the lovely Wedgewood Rooms tomorrow. Saw them last at the Joiners and even that wasn't sold out. Methinks I'll have plenty of dancin room at the Wedge 😀 (Portsmouth=apathy)
got PVA at the lovely Wedgewood Rooms tomorrow
On my list to catch at GM this year, have feeling they played the rising stage a year or two ago and were good.
PVA at Boileroom tonight. Should i go, sounds like it?
Yeah! I bet it's only about £15 😀
cheapskate.
£11.50 including a 50p venue restoration fee, plus £1.25 booking fee.
caught the Levellers in Brum on Saturday, but, ok not really a gig, off to watch the Dunstan Bruce film "I get knocked down" tonight, Q&A afterward, a different Monday eve........
I'm taking my parents to see Mike Oldfield performing Tubular Bells live in Edinburgh tonight. 🙂 I think it's billed as a 50th anniversary tour.
£11.50 including a 50p venue restoration fee, plus £1.25 booking fee
Bargin! 😛
It's only a bargain if it's something you actually want, as Martin Lewis says.
IT'S LIVE MUSIC!! Of course I want it.... I'll tell you how much of a bargain at around half ten tonight!
Took my daughter to go and see Panic Shack at the Bodega in Notts. Great little gig and a bargain at £12.
Thoroughly enjoyed it.
caught the Levellers in Brum on Saturday,
I saw Mark Chadwick at the Great British Folk Festival in Butlins in January. I nodded hello to him at the bar at 7, when we started drinking. He wasn't on his first pint, by the look of him. He came on stage, solo, at about 10, obviously a little merry. He was very entertaining, if not exactly 100% in time or in tune. I spotted a few people walk out when he told us his feelings about the government. 😀
Talking about cheap gigs - for four of us sharing an apartment that weekend cost £70ish each, not including diesel, food or beer. The highlights. for me, were Mark Chadwick, Ferocious Dog, Oysterband, Chris Difford (absolutely excellent!), and there were also sets from Pentangle, Steeleye Span, and plenty of other acts. It's a pity it was the last one.
I went to my first Doom Metal gig the other day! Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs at the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh. £15. Not normally my cup of tea but I thought they were amazing. I’d definitely see them again!
That's good to know – it's my next gig (at the end of April). I am not a massive fan of them but just going along for a night out with my brothers.
£11 well spent. Not my usual cup of tea but very engaging, industrial indie-electronica and a decent enough stage presence too
Sweet 🙂
I seem to recall some DAF influence in some of the tracks. Might wear my patent leather bib shorts (probably not though) 😆
Just back from Suede. They’ve still got it, and really helped by the fact their most recent album is their best for ages.
PVA at the Wedgewood Rooms tonight… me and my mate loved the support too, very different bit of bassy pop type stuff. We saw Charlie Xcx support Sleigh Bells a few years back and both thought tonight’s was better. PVA were superb, the mix was better than the last time I saw them. £11 well spent indeed (well £22 cos I bought both tickets!)
Was at the Black Midi gig last night. And the special guest was....
https://twitter.com/dlcmsndr/status/1633628178185945088?t=NK3Bm73c_-IvS4ZbamQ8eQ
That's ace
Unusual and special one tonight - Andrew Wasylyk on piano, accompanied by a string quartet and a trumpet in the main hall of the National Portrait gallery in Edinburgh. Beautiful setting, soft unplugged sound, intimate with comfy chairs. Winner!
I love sitting close to a string quartet, watching the dynamics between them.
Got Thrash metaler's Xentrix tonight...
Self esteem last night. Amazing as ever. Even managed to get a 6music dad hat from the merch. Gonna wear it to the 6music festival on Friday!
I dun a gig last night - Black Honey in a small brewery in Portsmouth. Wasn't bad. Alternative rock with a female singer - she was good, charismatic, music was a tad ordinary for me, but it was good to get out to a different venue. Gigs seem to be thin on the ground this year so far, wonder if it's the price of touring.
Saw Suede last night who were brilliant. Fantastic set list and Brett is a great front person (my biggest criticism of indie bands is the singers can be so boring live).
Only downside was it was at Birmingham Symphony hall which is an all seating venue and I much prefer standing (and smaller venues in general).
I also enjoyed Suede, but in Cardiff on Wednesday night. Another all seater venue, but Brett did his best to get the crowd up and spent some time with those who’d congregated at the front. Great to hear all the classic songs again, interspersed with those from their current album.
Managed to catch the support band, Desperate Journalist, who were better than expected and clearly enjoyed the use of the decent sound system. My hearing returned by morning.
Saw the Pixies at the Forum in Birmingham last Friday. Was there with Mrs asbrooks and daughter number 2, all three of us squashed in at the barrier. Was a good night with only a few minor spoilers, didn't our play our favourites songs which had been cut due to touring the new record.
Also saw pigs....... a month ago at the Leicester Academy they were very good and very load
Next gig is a certain ratio at the rescue rooms in Notts
@tartanscarf while I'm still fit and able, I'll always be found at the barrier
Saw Loyle Carner supported by wulu last night at the Victoria warehouse in Salford as part of th 6 music festival thing. Wore my newly acquired 6music dad hat. I remembered why I don’t like gigs at big venues. Shit beer. Luckily I was driving so only had one pint. The crowd were completely uninterested in wulu then watched Loyle through the massive bright phone screens. Woman in front of us thought it was ok to FaceTime her mate and hold her phone up so she could watch. Morons.
wulu I have seen before and I like. They seem hard to pigeonhole. Gave it everything despite the crowd of 16 year olds mostly chatting and texting through their slot.
Loyle was amazing. Such a poet.
Saw Stiff Little Fingers in Leeds on Thursday, excellent as usual
I’m playing tomorrow in Bradford. Then it’s back to Leeds on Easter Monday for The Damned
^Awesome. It’s like the last 45 years never happened.
The Pixies in Birmingham last Friday, The Levellers in Buxton last Saturday and Ferocious Dog this evening in Sheffield. All fantastic gigs. All very different.
Love live music 🙌
Loyle Carner is fantastic. Saw him at Field Day, didn't really know what to expect, definitely didn't expect him to bring his mum on.
Went down to London to see the Hold Steady do their annual weekender 3-nighter. Not much to say about that, it was brilliant, it always is. But it did make me think about how the weekender 2020 was the last weekend before the pandemic properly hit and everything shut. Last year when they came back,I had a proper cry down the front. Turns out, I did this year too!
Also the Go! Team in Edinburgh... A little bit conflicted, I had a good time and a couple of the songs really hit perfectly, but the setlist was kind of a mess and the sound way too much of a mush for that sort of sound. Also I'm not sure, do they really think we're an awesome crowd? If so, they've never seen an actual awesome crowd, 1% of Machine Head or Frank Turner's crowd in the same venue had more energy. But they do say it a lot... Still, mustn't grumble, it was still a good show, and Everyone's A VIP was almost perfect.
Just in from Butler, Blake and Grant in Sale Saturday evening. Great gig and venue.
Ferocious Dog
I've loved watching their evolution over the last 10 years or so. From playing passable versions of levellers tunes on the fringes of festivals to now being a credible main stage act, they have done it the hard way. For me, nothing will ever top the raw energy of their first record...great that we have a band that can go toe to toe with the likes of DKM and Flogging Molly.
Went to see underworld at RAH on Monday ..
Sensational.. in my top 3 gigs ..they properly blew the roof of that place .
Amazing to rave at such cool venue.
Black Honey in a small brewery in Portsmouth.
@desperatebicycle I was going to go but my mate wasn't up for it, a brewery and live music is a top combo, I should have just gone alone. Seeing BH on Friday with the family in Brighton after 3 missed gigs by them around covid time.