My variant: gigs I had tickets to but didn’t go:
Buzzcocks supported by Joy Division, 1979, leeds uni student union. I probably tell people I actually went to this as I had a ticket. Can’t remember whether I sold it or just didn’t bother as I had homework or something…
Led Zep – 1978 (or 9?) Knebworth. Again had a ticket someone got me but wasn’t that into them, so sold it. Would now actually like to have seen them I guess.
James Brown, playing Istanbul, 1988. A few of us, living on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, he was playing the European side. We had tickets, but an unprecedented metre or thereabouts of snow started falling out of the sky (closed school for a fortnight), ferries stopped running, and the taxi driver refused, ironically enough, to take us to the bridge.