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| martian-honey |
Posted - 09/04/2005 : 13:54:06
so, how much do you love your favourite band? how far would you and have you travelled to a gig, whats the best and worst gigs you've been to and why? ever made any really good friends at a gig? ever met the band?
...do tell! |
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| martian-honey |
Posted - 09/08/2005 : 09:08:17
i would fly anywhere to see the pixies, i caught a coach up to see them on the 28th of august... 14 hours on a coach with travell sickness aint pleasant. i would do it again in an instant though!!! |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 09/07/2005 : 23:37:47
what?
The waxworks were an immensely eloquent dissertation on the wonderful ordinariness of mankind. |
| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 09/07/2005 : 11:19:14
I got a terrible story about this. I'm a fan of some of the Ipecac Record bands and one year they decide to hold a halloween showcase at the Roxy in NYC. And looking at their message board there were people who were flying from Europe to NY just for the show. So about two weeks before said show is supposed to happen Ipecac announces that the Roxy double booked by accident and gave Ipecac the boot! So people were sending in death threats to Ipecac and to this techno dj that the Roxy decided to go with. OUCH!!! |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 20:36:04
the furhtest I have traveled to watch a gig is flying to see the pixies from minny to nyc.
now that's wild and crazy.
before I have traveled a few times ... four hours tops for other gigs.
"I ain't goin to be what I ain't" |
| Levitated |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 19:34:57
[quote]Originally posted by martian-honey
so, how much do you love your favourite band? how far would you and have you travelled to a gig?
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I think my good friend ccuadros has a nice story about this.
Oh gosh, I wish I could've done that too  |
| Domestiques |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 06:56:22
I finished work at 5 in Telford, hopped on a train to london, watched darren hayman support art brut then hightailed it back to euston to get the train back.
Travelled many distances to see hefner and billy bragg and in february of this year was close to travelling to the states to see mary prankster, didnt happen....that time.
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All I know there was humous. |
| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 22:26:09
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Worst gig, probably Kinks in NY in '81, only because I was hallucinating so hard I thought I was at a Bob Seger concert (where I would not be caught dead). I have absolutely no recolletion of that show. I am told they played most of Give The People What They Want.
This post fucking cracked me up! And what's wrong with Bob! I used to make my mom listen to "Main Street" every morning when she was taking me to pre-school! Something about the lead guitar melody put me in a trance.
Worst gig was Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Key word I should have been suspicious of..."REVISITED". I thought they would still have John Fogerty playing with them (yes I'm a Creedence fan, I'm pathetic). Instead they had some ass shaker who just had a guitar propped on him to make him look good while he did his Vegas impression of Fogertys' singing. My friend and I still refer to it as our own personal "Great Rock N' Roll Swindle". So bad it was good I guess you could say. |
| Erebus |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 08:55:41
The fan living in Reno and other relatively isolated points in the American West simply must rack up the miles to catch his shows. I always drive, can't stand flying. Most recently I traveled 1700 miles roundtrip for the four Pixies shows in Portland when they opened their 2005 tour. Last year I did the Boise-Eugene circuit for a couple Pixies "warmup tour" shows. And then there are the jaunts over to San Francisco a couple three times a year, usually for two or three shows, with sidetrips to Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Big Sur. Desert boy needs his ocean. |
| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 09/05/2005 : 01:03:22
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Originally posted by HeywoodJablome
I flew up to SF to see Fantomas in April. It helps to approach this sort of thing with a vacation/gig mentality. I met up with some friends that live there, went out to eat and drank too much. Then we headed to the Fillmore and watched one of the greatest shows I ever been to. I'd do it again in a heart beat.
*SCREAMS WITH INSANE JEALOUSY*
Okay where to start...
So many of the gigs I go to are down in London - 230 miles from Leeds roughly, so that's pretty far - unless you count seeing Velvet Revolver new years eve in Vegas but that wasn't the purpose of that trip - plus they were a bit on the boring side so I left to go gambling halfway through. I tend to go to gigs on my own (I enjoy the freedom of it) the best friend I've made at a gig is probably a photographer that I kinda freaked out just a bit who I recognised from quite a few gigs I'd been too (and now have access to his immense collection of shots  ) Meeting the band - been lucky enough for a couple of curious bits of luck from being smuggled in via dressing room & backstage area for Slayer, Hatebreed & Mastodon show and then somehow being issued the task of babysitting the Mastodon lead guitarist for the night, seeing Clutch 2 nights in a row and ending up smoking their exceptional weed and working their merch stand, seeing Red Sparowes in an almost empty venue and being blown away by them and then just hanging out drinking beers with them afterwards, Isis - guitarist from Red Sparowes recognised me from their last show, I managed to not go fan girl giddy - watched Jesu together which was pretty damn cool, the time my buddy showed Greg Pucciato from Dillenger Escape Plan just how to play with fire properly, having Bruce Dickenson bring me beer backstage at Leed Festival, Blag Dahlia from the Dwarves entertaining me with tour stories, being plyed with champagne by Jesse from Death From Above 1979 while he lamented the end of his tour - out of all of those the best live show still has to be Pixies last year at Brixton. First time I saw them - biggest impact. (Closely followed by Dillinger Escape Plan at the Cockpit, Isis at Josephs Well and Mastodon at the Garage)
Reading back on that the past year has been pretty damn rock and roll.
Fire made it good. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 09/04/2005 : 15:50:10
I travelled to Stirling (Scotland) from Worcester (Worcestershire) to see R.E.M. when I was 17 and that was amazing. I went to Newport from Oxford to see Radiohead a few years ago. I recently travelled from Sheffield to London to see the Pixies dontyouknow. I used to travel a lot to gigs all over the country when I was at college, no time or money nowadays.
I also used to meet a lot of people at gigs, I've picked up a lot of friends in gig queues. Some of my closest friends I have met outside gigs or propped up against the barriers. It's quite nice, I get a bit happy at gigs so tend to just chatter away to anyone who looks friendly heh.
Best gig, I'm still post gig euphoric so I would say the pixies although rem come a close second. Worst gig... the jeevas. No idea what I was thinking there.
I've met a few bands and embarassed myself quite badly. I don't want to talk about that though. |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/04/2005 : 15:00:50
I travelled a good two miles, three at tops to see my Favourite Band Ever the other day, which was nice. Furthest, I guess when I travelled up to London from my old home in Hampshire to see Pennywise and Lagwagon, and a few others.
Best: either Groop Dogdrill summer 2000, Joiners Arms in Southampton; or Tanya Donelly, summer 2004, Bush Hall London.
Worst, no idea, probably some feeble local band.
Never met new people at the gig as such, I don't think.
I met M83 to interview them once, backstage at the LA2.
How's that for a slice of fried gold? |
| kathryn |
Posted - 09/04/2005 : 14:49:55
I've travelled long distances for gigs but the thing I've done that most shows my dedication (or my stupidity?) was
moshing at an *amazing* Catholics gig in Montreal (DITS tour) despite being "confined" to bed due to pregnancy-related complications.
I also once cancelled a week of classes (that I was teaching) to go on a Catholics mini-tour (I LIED to my department chair and said I was ill). Not proud of this but it had to be done.
Worst gig, probably Kinks in NY in '81, only because I was hallucinating so hard I thought I was at a Bob Seger concert (where I would not be caught dead). I have absolutely no recolletion of that show. I am told they played most of Give The People What They Want.
Hard to decide on a best gig.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 09/04/2005 : 14:42:53
I flew up to SF to see Fantomas in April. It helps to approach this sort of thing with a vacation/gig mentality. I met up with some friends that live there, went out to eat and drank too much. Then we headed to the Fillmore and watched one of the greatest shows I ever been to. I'd do it again in a heart beat.
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| VoVat |
Posted - 09/04/2005 : 14:27:44
Well, my favorite band is They Might Be Giants, and I've never travelled any farther than New York to see them. I guess that would be about 150 miles from my house. I'm not really much of a road-tripper. I HAVE met the Johns, but it was at a signing where they were rushing people through, so it wasn't a particularly satisfying experience.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
