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Big Al
To be perfectly honest, concert-going is, for me, not worth the bother until they completely relax social-distancing.
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jbwelda
haven't thought about Squeeze in a long time, they were one of my favorite outfits for quite a while. Really thought they were pretty exceptional. Very Kinks-like in a way.
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crawdaddy
Just found out that James Walbourne (The Pretenders and Ray Davies) and his pal Peter Bruntnell are doing a gig at The Cavern Pub in Raynes Park soon , with local guys on bass and drums...............and really looking forward to this one.
Luckily from me in Epsom about 20 minutes on the train.
Great venue, and great local bands who play down there at normal times before covid got a hold of things in so many bad ways.
Hope a few videos come out from the gig.
Next Wednesday 8pm October 21st is in my diary.
Limited tickets and should be a great night.
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crawdaddy
Just found out that James Walbourne (The Pretenders and Ray Davies) and his pal Peter Bruntnell are doing a gig at The Cavern Pub in Raynes Park soon , with local guys on bass and drums...............and really looking forward to this one.
Luckily from me in Epsom about 20 minutes on the train.
Great venue, and great local bands who play down there at normal times before covid got a hold of things in so many bad ways.
Hope a few videos come out from the gig.
Next Wednesday 8pm October 21st is in my diary.
Limited tickets and should be a great night.
Just found out my replacement knee operation is 90% sure to go ahead on October 26th and not a wise thing to go to a gig and travel by public transport there as well.
Gotta make sure I'm fit and healthy for the 3 or 4 day stay in Epsom Hospital.
Still got good memories of the two gigs at The Black Lion Pub in Surbiton a few weeks ago now. Outside in the Garden area and Social Distancing was in operation.
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Just found out that James Walbourne (The Pretenders and Ray Davies) and his pal Peter Bruntnell are doing a gig at The Cavern Pub in Raynes Park soon , with local guys on bass and drums...............and really looking forward to this one.
Luckily from me in Epsom about 20 minutes on the train.
Great venue, and great local bands who play down there at normal times before covid got a hold of things in so many bad ways.
Hope a few videos come out from the gig.
Next Wednesday 8pm October 21st is in my diary.
Limited tickets and should be a great night.
Just found out my replacement knee operation is 90% sure to go ahead on October 26th and not a wise thing to go to a gig and travel by public transport there as well.
Gotta make sure I'm fit and healthy for the 3 or 4 day stay in Epsom Hospital.
Still got good memories of the two gigs at The Black Lion Pub in Surbiton a few weeks ago now. Outside in the Garden area and Social Distancing was in operation.
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Big Al
To be perfectly honest, concert-going is, for me, not worth the bother until they completely relax social-distancing.
My sentiments entirely ...
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paulywaul
I don't trust the world situation. What with socially distanced gigs, god knows what kind of quarantine restrictions between various countries that will be in place and prone to change at a moment's notice, and the continuing utter uncertainty - I am making precisely no plans to go anywhere or do anything until all this has either died a natural death, or I have a died a natural death ! Whichever comes first ...
This is not life as we knew/know it, this is 'existence' ! An unpleasant and difficult one ...
Attending gigs is therefore 'on hold' for me ... until something resembling normality returns to us.
I bought a ticket for two concerts. October and December, so I'm hoping then we'll all be better off. Moreover, especially for the smaller acts and stages it makes sense to buy now, so that they are not completely strapped off liquidity.Quote
paulywaul
I don't know about anyone else, but I routinely get emails from various ticket agencies and/or promoters advising me of upcoming gigs. I find it more than a little bizarre, given that realistically - there's absolutely f**k all chance of pretty much any of those gigs actually happening. The most puzzling of all to my mind (recently) was the fact that the RAH was/still is selling tickets for a clutch of Eric Clapton shows in mid May this year !!?? Given the current state of play COVID-wise in UK and worldwide generally, and what with the UK government reminding us all pretty much daily not to expect the present full national lockdown to even be eased off just slightly until May at the very earliest - who the hell in their right mind thought it a good idea to put EC tickets for shows in mid-May 2021 on sale ? Naive stupidity or what ?
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WhaleI bought a ticket for two concerts. October and December, so I'm hoping then we'll all be better off. Moreover, especially for the smaller acts and stages it makes sense to buy now, so that they are not completely strapped off liquidity.Quote
paulywaul
I don't know about anyone else, but I routinely get emails from various ticket agencies and/or promoters advising me of upcoming gigs. I find it more than a little bizarre, given that realistically - there's absolutely f**k all chance of pretty much any of those gigs actually happening. The most puzzling of all to my mind (recently) was the fact that the RAH was/still is selling tickets for a clutch of Eric Clapton shows in mid May this year !!?? Given the current state of play COVID-wise in UK and worldwide generally, and what with the UK government reminding us all pretty much daily not to expect the present full national lockdown to even be eased off just slightly until May at the very earliest - who the hell in their right mind thought it a good idea to put EC tickets for shows in mid-May 2021 on sale ? Naive stupidity or what ?
One of these concerts though is Power Trip / Kreator / Lamb of God. But very sadly the singer of Power Trip has died. Power Trip was putting out records on the level of Metallica's younger Cliff Burton days. And now he's gone. It's unbelievable.