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Saw Sinead O'Connor last night. It was almost magical, I tell you. What a fantastic voice she has. I didn't think much of her band, but all the songs were really good even though I only knew two of them. After the first song of the encore, she surprised me by speaking in Spanish and dedicating the next song to Violeta Parra, our greatest songwriter ever, and she sang Nothing Compares 2 U, which I was absolutely sure she wasn't going to sing. One of my sisters was in tears, as it's one of her favorites songs ever. I sort of welled up too. It was one of those shows I'll never forget.
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A few minutes ago on Sinead's Facebook page:
Leaving Chile for home today. Had most amazing time. Lovely country. Lovely people. VERY handsome men! Most fun gig. Thanks so much to Womad and to the amazing audience. See you again soon I hope. Next stop Australia.
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Artemis wrote:Glad you weren't disappointed! Sinead still brings it live.
A few minutes ago on Sinead's Facebook page:
Leaving Chile for home today. Had most amazing time. Lovely country. Lovely people. VERY handsome men! Most fun gig. Thanks so much to Womad and to the amazing audience. See you again soon I hope. Next stop Australia.
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Today I checked her Wikipedia and laughed at a quote in which she says he prefers hairier men. So I guess it makes sense...
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Just got tickets for Paul Weller on June 15th!
The last time I saw the "Modfather" was about 20 years ago...can't wait!![rockon :rockon:](./images/smilies/rockon.gif)
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The last time I saw the "Modfather" was about 20 years ago...can't wait!
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John 5 is on tour right now. Somebody please catch a show, the guy's one of the finest around
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I'm going to see Viet Cong in June. That's it so far.
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I wouldn't mind catching Viet Cong. They had a show here at the end of January at a really small venue for $10 but it was sold out.
Tonight I saw St Vincent.
Crowd surfing.
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Tonight I saw St Vincent.
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Crowd surfing.
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I saw Evan Dando last week - not seen him or the Lemonheads since '94! Anyway, fucking brilliant show... 30+ songs and just great to see him still around. The guy's had troubles galore and looked completely out of it all night but the stuff that he does well is just beautiful.
So pleased that I went.
So pleased that I went.
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You probably heard about this, but if you didn't...farrellgirl99 wrote:I'm going to see Viet Cong in June. That's it so far.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicb ... their-name
Viet Cong: banned from playing because of their name
The Canadian art rockers have had a show in Ohio cancelled because their name ‘deeply offends’ some people. So what about Gang of Four or the Dead Kennedys?
What’s in a name? Quite a lot if you’re post-punk noise outfit Viet Cong, who have just had one of their shows cancelled in Ohio due to controversy surrounding their moniker. Gig promoter Ivan Krasnov took to the Oberlin ‘Sco Facebook page to apologise for booking an act whose name “deeply offends and hurts Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American communities, both in Oberlin and beyond”. He extended his apology “to anyone hurt or made uncomfortable by the name and its connotations”.
Patrons of the club have been responding to the statement on the club’s page. “This is how I’ve always felt about the band Gang of Four and how they might be offensive to Chinese folks who lost family during the Cultural Revolution”, said one Facebook user, presumably with tongue firmly in cheek. Others asked whether the promoters of the Dionysus Discotheque, where the band was due to play, would have turned away Joy Division or New Order because of the Nazi connotations in those names.
“I cancelled this show after meeting with representatives from the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) who expressed the desire to see this [show] cancelled,” explained Krasnov in a reply on the social networking site. He also posted an emotional open letter to the band written by Sang Nguyen, a first-generation Vietnamese-American, who objected to a quote in an interview with the Guardian in February regarding the band’s choice of name; Viet Cong apparently presented itself after drummer Mike Wallace made an offhand comment about bassist and vocalist “[Matt] Flegel bouncing around while playing, and ‘kind of shooting his bass like a gun’. I said: ‘All you need is a rice paddy hat and it would be so Viet Cong.’”
“This history of violence is what I am reminded of every time I see Viet Cong’s band name pop up on my news feed,” said Nguyen, who concluded the choice of nomenclature was offensive because it had been “thoughtless”.
The dispute raises interesting questions about what responsibility artists have to the public regarding such choices, and mirrors a debate in comedy about the offensiveness of jokes (somebody somewhere is always likely to be offended, so the argument runs, and if nobody is, then maybe the joke isn’t funny). Looking back to the inchoate days of hardcore, one presumes a band like the Dead Kennedys alighted on their name because it was offensive, which would have been in keeping with many other punk and hardcore bands at the time; by Nguyen’s rationale, it would at least mean they’d thought the process through. The Calgary four-piece were formed out of the detritus of another group, Women, and one could reasonably assume some women would be offended by the generic appropriation of their gender for an all-male troupe. Or taken to its logical conclusion, one could turn it around on the promoters and object to the name Dionysus Discotheque; after all, the Greco-Roman god Dionysus himself sometimes wore a bassaris or fox skin, which would offend the sensibilities of millions, and what’s more, Dionysus rarely if ever drank responsibly.
Viet Cong are not the first band to fall foul of censure; fellow Canadians the New Pornographers were banned from the Calvin College Fieldhouse Complex in Michigan in 2010. The college issued a statement insisting that “the irony of the band’s name was impossible to explain to many”, which presumably means that students thought they were actual pornographers. If the Ohio college was concerned not to offend an ethnic community, then the Michigan college was protecting its own religious community, as an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church named after John Calvin. One presumes neither institution will be booking Baby Jesus Hitler, Deep Fried Abortion, The Crucifucks or Smother Teresa in the near future.
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That's ridiculous.
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Yeah, I did see that! I don't think you can really start policing band names...some may be in poor taste, but I think there are bigger fish to fry. I guess that promoter wouldn't want to hire the Circle Jerks either? ![lol :lol:](./images/smilies/lol.gif)
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Just got tickets on the pre-sale for Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters with Pixies on June 7th. ![rockon :rockon:](./images/smilies/rockon.gif)
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you know how to pick em, first Kate Bush now this....
I saw Page/Plant on Roskilde Festival in 95. They toured with african musicians, one of the best shows I've seen
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I have been doing SXSW the last two weeks but looking forward to Dave Chappelle two weeks from tonight.. though that is not really a show
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Robert Plant played here last week. One of the best shows of last week's music festival, so I've read.Matz wrote:you know how to pick em, first Kate Bush now this....I saw Page/Plant on Roskilde Festival in 95. They toured with african musicians, one of the best shows I've seen
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He was here last week too, as second headliner of Lollapalooza. I heard it was a good show ![thumb :thumb:](./images/smilies/thumbsup.gif)
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Unfortunately, I never caught that Page/Plant tour, nor have I ever seen Plant solo. I'm really looking forward to it.Matz wrote:you know how to pick em, first Kate Bush now this....I saw Page/Plant on Roskilde Festival in 95. They toured with african musicians, one of the best shows I've seen
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Artemis wrote:Unfortunately, I never caught that Page/Plant tour, nor have I ever seen Plant solo. I'm really looking forward to it.Matz wrote:you know how to pick em, first Kate Bush now this....I saw Page/Plant on Roskilde Festival in 95. They toured with african musicians, one of the best shows I've seen
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My 2015 concert calendar is becoming rather robust.
Just booked tickets for The End Times tour with The Smashing Pumpkins & Marilyn Manson- August 4th
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Just booked tickets for The End Times tour with The Smashing Pumpkins & Marilyn Manson- August 4th
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This is turning out to be a pretty insane, expensive year for shows I wanna catch... U2, Rolling Stones, Faith No More, Fleetwood Mac, Rush, Robert Plant, Van Halen, The Replacements and Muse.
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Since I've never seen them, I'm thinking I should catch one of the two Toronto shows in June. Looks like this is going to be the final tour too. I may just go for the cheap seats in the rafters for $62. The only other seats available are for $175.Pandemonium wrote: Rush
I wouldn't mind catching the Stones again either. Rumour is they may be doing Sticky Fingers in its entirety. It's one of my all time fave albums.
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They will likely play a majority of Sticky Fingers cuts as there's a deluxe box set of the album coming out at the end of May, but Jagger has alluded to the fact that in a stadium setting, the significant number of slow songs from that album may alienate much of the audience so it sounds like mellow songs like Sister Morphine and I Got The Blues may not make the set.Artemis wrote:Since I've never seen them, I'm thinking I should catch one of the two Toronto shows in June. Looks like this is going to be the final tour too. I may just go for the cheap seats in the rafters for $62. The only other seats available are for $175.Pandemonium wrote: Rush
I wouldn't mind catching the Stones again either. Rumour is they may be doing Sticky Fingers in its entirety. It's one of my all time fave albums.
I've only seen Rush twice. Once in '84 and only because my friend and I were huge Gary Moore fans who was the support for Rush on that tour. neither of us liked Rush at the time and didn't even hang for their set more than a few songs before giving our seats away to some people on the lawn. Fast forward to 2002 when they were touring behind the Vapor Trails album and playing Staples Arena in LA - day of the show I was itching to see *any* live show and was poking around on TM and found a 9th row seat and impulsively went for it. Aside from an obnoxious bunch of drunks sitting next to me, the show was outstanding, well over 2 1/2 hours long packed with a lot of great songs, many of which I was completely unfamiliar with at the time. Totally converted me. Although I hear Geddy's vox aren't what they used to be, seeing as this is likely their last major tour and they're supposed to play some rare deep cuts, I'm going to try for one of the local shows this Summer.
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Not a concert but I saw Dave Chappelle last night and holy shit is he back with a vengence. It was HILARIOUS. If you have a chance to see him on this tour I highly recommend it.
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does he do a normal length show now or does he still go on and on for hours?
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It was about 70 minutes or so. All new material as well.creep wrote:does he do a normal length show now or does he still go on and on for hours?