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1970s
Beach Boys (x2) (Great Adventure and a free concert for 4th of July in some park in Philly

1980s
Flock of Seagulls (Queen E)
The Fixx
Simple Minds (x2) (UM)
China Crisis (x2)
Thompson Twins (UM)
Midnight Oil (Le Spectrum)
X (Le Spectrum)
The Spoons (McGill Student Union)
Dead Kennedys (Le Palladium)
Violent Femmes
Front 242 (Le Spectrum)
Rainbirds (Goethe-Institut)
Chameleons (Le Spectrum)
March Violets
Mighty Lemon Drops
Anne Clarke (Palladium/South Shore)
The Cure (Vanier Arena)
Book of Love
Einstürzende Neubauten (Stadtpark Hamburg)
Depeche Mode (Vanier Arena)
New Order (Vanier Arena)
Flesh for Lulu (Le Spectrum)
The Smiths (Tower Theatre)
Paul Simon Graceland Tour with Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba and Ladysmith Black Mombaza (Veterans Stadium?)
Chris Isaak (Tower Theatre)
Duran Duran (The Spectrum)
Erasure

1990s
Flesh for Lulu (Revival)
Lard (Trocadero)
Pigface
Shonen Knife (Trocadero)
Laika and the Cosmonauts (Khyber Pass)
Original Sins (x3?) (What’s that joint on South Street?)
Tragically Hip (The Ardmore East)
George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars (Century Club)
Brian Setzer Orchestra (Century Club)
those reggae Elvis guys, what are they called? (Universal City Walk)
5 Blind Boys from Alabama (HOB New Orleans)
U2 (some fucking enormous stadium in Philly)
Ministry (Paramount)
L7
Smashing Pumpkins (x2) (GM Place, BC Place)
Our Lady Peace (BC Place)
Deftones
Soundgarden (final tour, PNE Forum)
Everclear (Plaza of Nations)
Depeche Mode (PNE Coliseum)

2000s
Flogging Molly (Shim Sham, New Orleans)
Jane’s Addiction (reunion tour, PNE Coliseum)
Moby (Plaza of Nations)
Bauhaus (Queen E)
Beck (Maple Leaf Gardens)
Hawksley Workman
Pearl Jam (GM Place)
Idlewild
Nashville Pussy (Richard’s)
Beck (x2: Queen E, Orpheum)
Flaming Lips
Black Keys
Radiohead (x2: UBC Thunderbird Stadium)
Christopher O’Riley (Knitting Factory LA)
REM (UBC Thunderbird Stadium)
Wilco
Dandy Warhols
Beta Band
Malkmus
Tragically Hip (Queen E)
Christopher O’Riley (that theatre in Tacoma)
Stereolab (Commodore)
Ima Robot (what’s that place I went in London…? urgh!)
Junior Senior
The Shins (Commodore)
Zero 7 (Commodore)
Violent Femmes (Commodore)
Sonic Youth (Commodore)
Pixies (Plaza of Nations)
Metric (ENDfest, White River Amphitheatre)
Muse
Psychedelic Furs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Franz Ferdinand
Echo & the Bunnymen
X
Violent Femmes
Franz Ferdinand (Commodore)
Futureheads
Ministry (Commodore)
Tom Waits (Commodore)
Flogging Molly (Commodore)
Interpol (Paramount)
Secret Machines
Interpol (Commodore)
Secret Machines
Trail of Dead (Richards)
(International) Noise Conspiracy (Commodore, can’t remember exactly when)
Death Cab for Cutie (Commodore)
Blonde Redhead (Commodore)
Helio Sequence
Le Tigre (Commodore)
Lesbians on Ecstasy
Robosapien
Chet
Arcade Fire (Commodore)
Nina Hagen (Commodore)
The Scissor Sisters (Commodore)
Will Freedom Power something LOL
The Hidden Cameras (Richard’s)
The Blow
Interpol (Paramount)
Blonde Redhead
Futureheads (Richard’s)
—who opened for the Futureheads at Richard’s?
Kasabian (Commodore)
The Music
Pedro the Lion (Richard’s, left early)
Bloc Party (Richard’s)
Shonen Knife (some little pit in Gastown)
Hot Hot Heat (Commodore)
The Futureheads
Coachella 2005….I have to remember, basically, my diary of that whole trip is lost. Fuck.
Futureheads
Gang of Four
Bauhaus
Kasabian
ARCADE FIRE
Nine Inch Nails
Autolux
overheard Snow Patrol and Weezer on Day One while recuperating from the heat in the shade of the VIP tent, walked away from Coldplay *shudder*
Gang of Four (Commodore)
Kasabian (Commodore)
Architecture in Helsinki (Media Club)
Tom Jones (GM Place)
Beck (Queen E)
Le Tigre
Sufjan Stevens (Richard’s)
Sigur Ros (Orpheum)
Death Cab for Cutie (Commodore)
Arcade Fire (PNE Forum)
Wolf Parade
Bell Orchestre
Front 242 (Plush)
Sisters of Mercy (Commodore)
Franz Ferdinand (Coliseum)
Death Cab for Cutie
INXS (GM Place)
Futureheads (Commodore)
Psapp
Juana Molina (Richard’s)
Radiohead (Berkeley)
Deerhoof
Radiohead (San Diego)
Deerhoof
Sufjan Stevens (St Andrew’s Wesley)
My Brightest Diamond
POLYSICS (Plaza)
Fun 100
Interpol (festival set, Commodore)
Bjork
Interpol
Jesus & Mary Chain
Of Montreal
LCD Soundsystem
Blonde Redhead
Arcade Fire
(Travis overheard)
Hot Chip
LCD Soundsystem (Commodore)
Yacht
Burt Bacharach (River Rock Casino)
Ryan Adams (electric) (Commodore)
The Aliens (Richard’s)
Augie March
Ministry (Commodore)
Meshuggah
Bob Mould (Richard’s)
Radiohead (Westerpark, Amsterdam)
Radiohead (Main Square, Arras)
Sigur Ros
Radiohead (Berlin)
Die Aerzte (Berlin)
Nine Inch Nails (Key Arena)
Radiohead (Thunderbird Stadium)
My Bloody Valentine (WaMu Theatre)
Lou Reed (Lollapalooza)
Crystal Castles

Metric (V-Fest)
Our Lady Peace
Jarvis Cocker
Sonic Youth
K-Os
The Dead Weather (Commodore)
Shonen Knife (Biltmore)
Flogging Molly (Commodore)
Skinny Puppy (Rickshaw)

Infected Mushroom (Commodore)
Asobi Seksu (Media Club)
Nouvelle Vague (Venue)
Philip Glass (Chan Centre)
Spoon (Orpheum)
Deerhunter
Evelyn Evelyn (Venue)
Public Enemy (Commodore)
Massive Attack (Malkin Bowl)
LCD Soundsystem (Malkin Bowl)
Pavement (Orpheum)
Arcade Fire (PNE Forum? Coliseum?)
Sufjan Stevens (Orpheum)
Ryuichi Sakamoto (Vogue Theatre)
Grinderman (Commodore)
Front Line Assembly (Venue)
Interpol (Orpheum)
Ryoji Ikeda (SFU Woodward’s)
Meat Beat Manifesto (Venue)
Maceo Parker (Commodore)
Owen Pallet (CBC)
Pixies (Orpheum)
Short Circuit Fest (Roundhouse, London)
Portishead (PNE Forum)
Amanda Palmer/Neil Gaiman (Vogue)
Peter Murphy (Venue)
OhGr (El Corazon, Seattle)
Gotye (Vogue)
Radiohead (Key Arena)
Thomas Dolby (Rio Theatre)
X (Showbox, Seattle)
Santigold (Commodore)
Jack White (Queen Elizabeth)
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
Liars (Biltmore)
Dead Can Dance (Orpheum)
Amon Tobin (Paramount)
Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra (Commodore)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (El Rey)
The Specials (Commodore)
KMFDM (Showbox SoDo, Seattle–My MD saw them; I left early)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (Vogue Theatre)

A plug

For Quinn’s awesome music blog, From Blown Speakers. There’s been a link in the sidebar for a while, but then again, he’s been on hiatus for a couple of months. In any case, he’s back, and always has good listings for upcoming concerts in Vancouver. He and Sean both reviewed the recent Pavement show.

The Main Distractor and I have a pretty good concert calendar coming up ourselves: Arcade Fire, Sakamoto, Grinderman, Blonde Redhead, and Sufjan Stevens, not in that order. A bit eclectic, I guess. :p

MBV?

Finally?

Hitting Seattle April 27. Onsale next week. The MD and I are considering Lollapalooza, so not sure where the concert budget is on all this, especially since dates are kind of thin on the ground (perhaps they’ll play Lolla as well? doubt somehow that they’ll come to Vancouver but you never know).

FLAPPY HANDS!

OK

When I look at the shocking state of my bank account and such, I am shocked. And then I look at my concert list for the month of July, and I understand why. It’s still pretty breathtaking though.

Supposedly Telus is repaying me for a whack of services that I’d prepaid and then cancelled, so that will help a little. IF it shows up at a useful time. As well as the lower telecom bill from Shaw for the duration of the promos (another two months?).

I, of course, can resist anything but a presale, and I’m really really psyched to see two shows that I got tickets for this week: Nine Inch Nails, whom I’ve never managed to get to…I really wanted to see Glass Spider, all the way back then, but the timing didn’t work out.  And now the general idea is to go to this show with the Main Distractor, who is a big fan. I’ve been advised to wear earplugs, and since we have floor tickets, I think I will try to remember to do that. The other show is not till September: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I don’t know all that much of his stuff, but what I know I like. That’s another one that the Main Distractor was all over though. And that’s another chance you have to grab when it presents itself. And thank God it didn’t involve a $160 ticket like Tom Waits did. :p There may yet be a Nick Cave show scheduled for Vancouver, in which case I’d probably try to get tickets for that and sell the Seattle ones on Craigslist or something, save the gas and the border lineup etc., but I wasn’t going to chance it.

Luckily, I like ramen.

*yawn*

Still kinda sleep-deprived. But had a nice, if brief, visit with my Main Distractor.

Also some overwhelming sadness, with the loss of a dear friend’s child, who was taken from us all too soon.

Because of this, feeling happy feels insensitive in a way, but I can’t help it: we have a tentative ETA of August 1, not counting intermediate visits. I can scarcely contain myself.

Oh and he won’t have to travel here to see Radiohead in August, and we’re going to see Nick Cave in Seattle in September :D

Werchter’s up.

€75 per day (€165 for all but I won’t be going to all).

Friday so far includes Neil Young (cool) Moby (decent show, seen him before), The Verve (not my thing), Babyshambles (NMT), Digitalism (noncommittal), and Duffy (no idea).

Not worth €75 for me.

Saturday is more my thing: Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Ben Harper (meh), Kings of Leon (meh), Editors (aight), and a whack of people I can’t be arsed to switch windows to look up and type.

Perhaps I’ll stop in Brugge or Brussels on Friday on my way down from the ‘Dam.

Tickets are onsale Saturday 0900 Continental time. I have to remember to stay up late :p

***

Realized that I am going to see Sigur Ros AND Radiohead two days in a row. Whoa!

Shout out

to my number one fan.

*waves* *blows kiss* *growls*

Rock Werchter are supposed to be selling tickets on Saturday.  And yet, they haven’t announced which bands are playing which days, or how much tickets will be. This is T minus 24 hours or less, really…it’s already tomorrow in Europa.

Perhaps there’s some special pre-sale email list I’m not on.

I’m assuming that Werchter won’t sell out as fast as Radiohead’s US dates though.

What a week.

Well, not really, I guess. I’m just tired and sleeping a lot. Weather’s been nice. Serbia and Kosovo situation is alarming to say the least. Obama won the “Democrats Abroad” primary which is pretty cool. Tonight, another debate. Oh, after Jenn’s show, I hope (Project X, 19:30 on CBC; they have a bona fide website now).

Radiohead is playing not one, but two nights at that Coachella East show, what’s it called. Maybe I’ll win the lottery…haven’t been to NYC in AGES. Actually, I was thinking that the kind of commentary I tend to make on the road would be perfectly natural in NYC, and people wouldn’t get all affronted there either. I should get a FUCK YOU I’M FROM NYC bumper sticker or something.

I’m exceedingly cranky about the lack of formalization of the Werchter lineup. YES I AM A BRAT.

Five weeks until a bunch of non-strangers whom I’ve never met will converge upon Vancouver for a William Gibson-oriented meetup. Plans are in progress for a tour of Spook Country locations, a Ministry show, cake…what else do you need for a fun weekend? perhaps karaoke; I heard of a place with rooms for rent for not too much money. I have to go there though and see if the book’s any good. Otherwise maybe the hobo-oke from the Vespa rally. At least the drinks are cheap, and it’s close by some of the less-salubrious Gibson locations.

More Main Square too!

The Main Square fest site has sorted out the bands into nights:

Friday 4 July: Chemical Brothers, Justice, Boyz Noise + guest

Saturday 5 July: Mika, BB Brunes, Digitalism + guest

Sunday 6 July: Radiohead, Sigur Rós, The Dø, The Wombats

Click above for a link to reservez vos billets; I already got mine through waste. I think.

Also, MBV‘s Roskilde date is confirmed (via their site) as Saturday the 5th, so I guess I am hooped basically unless I somehow find enough cash to head back to Paris from Berlin on the 9th. Which seems unlikely. So now I have to hope they come to North America, and that I can afford a ticket. Le sigh.

Werchter 2008 additional info

24 bands, none of which is My Bloody Valentine. :(

REM (July 3)
Radiohead
dEUS
Lenny Kravitz
Chemical Brothers
Mika
Sigur Rós
Kaiser Chiefs
Nightwish

Ben Harper
Counting Crows
Editors
Roisin Murphy
The Hives
Chris Cornell
The Kooks
Air Traffic
Justice
Digitalism
KT Tunstall
Beirut
Gossip
John Butler Trio
Band of Horses

Onsales start March 1. More info soon.