Saturday, September 06, 2008

Song stuck in my head



As many of you know I "heart" music. Lots of different sounds and experiences. I was just tidying up and came accross a bunch of old ticket stubs from concerts I have attended.. some of these date back as far as September 1983 when I saw Platinum Blonde on their Standing in the Dark tour in the Memorial Arena in Victoria.
Also quite dated was the Black Crows in the Forge night club also in Victoria close to a decade later when they were on their first major tour to promote Shake Your Money Maker about 1991.
More recent ticket findings were Buck 65 (good fun), The Dears & Ambulance Ltd (I was having a bad night and did not enjoy, I really do like Ambulance Ltd), Porcupine Tree, Marillion and h, Band of Horses (so/so), Death Cab for Cutie (would have rather stayed in and listed to the CD) BUT Styrofoam were great and a few festival wrist bands and tickets thrown in all from about 2004 till now. Some of these were Live & Coldplay, Black Mountain,Caribou, Marilyn Manson & Metallica, The Frames, Elbow, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Supergrass, Tokyo Police Club, Lamb (their very last show in Amsterdam) & so many more.

I even found a couple of set lists: Do you know who this is?
Giant
Auto
Fall of Man
Life Beyond
Machine
Time Bomb
Influence
Suburbua
Lets Get it On
Rico
xRated
Strange Days
DG
Load
Flash Dance
APP
BTK
sigh! That was a kick ass show!

Anyway, I have seen a TON of shows in my life. I remember Pearl Jam opening for Alice in Chains at Harpo's in Victoria way way back then. Eddy landed on my head stage diving!


I have left very few concerts because of bad performances (Guns and Roses, Death Cab for Cutie) and I have left many wishing it would not end (Depeche Mode, The New Pornographers and Peter Gabriel just to name a few).
I am also looking forward to seeing some new live gigs, The Swell Season, Kings of Leon spring to mind.
My last concert was out in Vancouver with my brother at The Faint which was super cool (and the beginning of a epic night out with the Dude) The opening band's lead (and I use the term loosely) singer should never ever have been given a mic and been encouraged to make that horrific noise, but what can you do?!
I bought tickets yesterday for the Crossing Border festival here in Holland for November and am looking forward to seeing The John Dear Mowing Club for free tomorrow at the Haag's Uit festival should be good.

So enough of me waffling on.. but check out this The Cold Cut blog for more serious music reviews.. he has a nack for picken'em.

Check out the cool illustrations from the super cool Exploding Dog website.

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