Concert tours for the summer are being announced … who’s got their tickets already? We’ve got tickets for Big Head Todd & the Monsters’ 30th anniversary (!) show at Red Rocks in June, and then Trampled by Turtles, also at Red Rocks, in August.
As it happens, I’m more excited about the opening acts for each concert (Dwight Yoakam and Lord Huron, respectively) than I am the headliners.
Any shows in your area that you’re looking forward to?
The Musical Box performing the Genesis “Black Show” in a couple of weeks, and the San Francisco Symphony performing *Das Lied von der Erde *in a couple of months.
I’ve got tickets for the Lush reunion tour in September. It’s the first time I ever bought tickets to anything 9 months in advance. I might or might not be out of town that day, but I had to take the chance.
Pearl Jam May 1&2 at Madison Square Garden, then Ben Folds in May 4 at the Beacon. Gonna be a busy music week, so I took it as a vacation week from work.
Still trying to get 1 or 2 tickets for Iron Maiden at MSG. At this point, you never know when their last tour will be, but resells are starting at over $200 a ticket now.
I used to like to head down to the Newport Folk Festival on occasion. But it’s gotten ridiculously hard to get tickets. It used to be that you could actually buy tickets at the gate, or at least, not long before the actual event. But now, and I’m not kidding about this, tickets are sold out for this year’s show before they’ve even announced most of the line up. Call me old-fashioned, but I’d kind of like to know what I’d be listening to, before I commit a weekend and a couple of hundred dollars.
I haven’t got a ticket yet, but I’ll be at the Oakland gig on May 19th–Pete’s 71st Birthday! I hope to be close enough to shout “Get On With It!” and have him give his customary reply. It will probably be the last chance I get to see The Who…could be an emotional night.
Thinking about going to see Florence + The Machine w/Of Monsters and Men at the outdoor place this summer. I’m not really too deep in to either band but a friend wants to see Florence and I think it would be a groovy show to see from the lawn.
Off to see the Residents in London next Friday!
Not seen them since they toured The Mole Show in, um, 1983, I think.
And reformed prog group Curved Air play Glasgow in April.