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Do you sometimes think you could've spent your iTunes gift voucher even more wisely on the essential tunes that you don't have in your collection, or would you like to have some advance knowledge of gigs coming to Toronto/Vancouver/Moncton so that you can be first in the queue for tickets? Well, okay there are internet sites for this but still...

Probably not, and perhaps this thread won't last, but I may be able to tempt a couple of people in >>>> I have one spare ticket for the Rogers Waters "The Wall" gig at Rogers Centre (how apt ...) on June 23th if anyone wants it. It's in the 500 section and I'll flog it for $45.00 which is less than I paid for it ... if anyone's interested. Not sitting by me - you may be pleased to know :) - but not a million miles away. First come, first serve...

Now then, what other gigs are coming up? Who you seeing and where ...? Also, what are people buying on iTunes / mostly listening to on Spotify this week? I just bought lots of 70s tracks because I was bit light there - in case anyone wants some tips. :D

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I went to see him at the Air Canada Center, WALL concert last year and it was awesome :thumbsup:

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If you live in Vancouver this is a good resource to find out what's coming and when and how tickets are sold.


http://concertaddicts.ca/

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I was lucky enough to see roger waters tour the wall the night david gilmour performed (may 12th). God what an EPIC concert.
500's aren't bad for that type of concert. main reason being that all the visuals are actually better seen from further back.

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I have some tickets to see Nickelback, anyone want them?:p

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That's good to know! It's not bad for the baseball eitehr at $13.00 a throw, but I reckon for Floyd AV it will be awesome! :thumbup:

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Me too!!:thumbsup:

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Bit young for this thread, aint they?

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Grr I get v annoyed at BC gigs - mostly all 19 plus - I used to take my kids to loads back in Uk At Sheperds Bush, Brixton Academy etc

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I used to go to hundreds of gigs when I were young.

Now I go to concerts. And sit on my arse, and clap politely :D

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Owt wrong with that. I've sat on my arse at Glastonbury a few times and clapped politely.

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Managed to get some free tickets to see Ria Mae tonight at the CBC Recording Studios in Halifax .....not heard a lot that she has done but a few songs on Youtube sound good....

.....also going to see Deep Purple at the Metro Centre, Halifax tomorrow night.....support group is Gloryhound it will feel strange to see a band I last saw in 1976 !!! :thumbup:

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Going to see Shinedown this coming Thursday night and then Seether and Three Doors Down in March...wahoo...both in the UK mind!

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As it happens this is still available, and for those who may not be too sure the gig is based in Toronto.

Also, getting tickets for First Aid Kit soon and if anyone can get to see the Hamilton-based 'Junior Boys' I recommend it. Excellent sound.

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I am going to see Kurt Vile w/Real Estate coming up at KOKO. Also going to see the Warchild gig with Dry the River, The dudes from Blur
and ed sheeran (really NOT into)
I'm also going to see St Vincent, Veronica Falls, and Fanfarlo.
In the last few weeks I have seen:
The Maccabees
Dry the River (Q Sessions)
Yuck

If you are really interested in music properly,check band websites, venue websites, music review websites and plain music websites such as pitchfork, the quietus, etc...songkick which gives basically every listing of bands playing in venues everywhere so long as you have them added to your
directory for a search etc.
Also, and this is just my own opinion, if you have spotify or sqeezebox ect, i would invest in a good pair of headphones like the hd800s and a proper dac, also FLAC format.
That will allow you to listen to the music the way it was meant to be heard. Just a suggestion, obviously.

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I saw Shinedown almost 2 years ago. They were very good.

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That's better than across a smokey room from the singer and her accompanists?

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Obv not.

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Nice to see the National Battlefields Commission cannot be bought off :lol:
I guess this will end up as a different kind of battle on the Plains of Abraham

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...admission.html

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She's a cow:lol:

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For those in Toronto or the GTA, Radiohead are playing on the 16th June at Downsview Park. Tickets on sale tomorrow ...

Also, Spiritualised playing the Phoenix on May 5th.

Lovely jubbly!

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Also playing in Vancouver on May 26th.

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It's such a shame that Radiohead are playing Downsview Park, if they were playing anywhere else then I would probably have come home to see it. Ohwell, I've got tickets to see them in Nimes this July and tickets to see them both nights at the O2! (thanks waste)...
There are lots of good bands playing soon in Toronto. A lot of up and coming acts who may already be known over here like Laura Marling, dtr, First Aid Kid... Also playing soon will be Atlas Sound (the guy from deerhunter)...eecctt

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Got tix for Radiohead in Downsview! Hurrah. Also got tix for First Aid Kit.
Also, Ozric Tentacles playing in May too. Toronto is having a good gig year!

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Saw Radiohead some years back when they toured UK with a Marquis tent.

Of all the great albums they had, this tour was for a crappy experimental music album they had just released.

They only played music off that album and other crap that must have missed the cut of that album.

They refused to play anything the people there knew and wanted to hear.

Haven't bought anything of theirs since.

On another note, one of my work colleges just saw Hugh Cornwell and Glen Matlock at a small venue here, apparently they are touring as a threesome (drummer included) and play a Stranglers and a Sex Pistols set.

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LOL you must be joking surely?
that album was most likely Kid A, which is the best record they have ever put out according to fans and critics alike, but to each their own i guess.
Also, the entire point of music is that it's art, and I actually respect the fact (although sometimes I agree, it can be dissapointing) that they play different stuff all the time, and not fan favorite singalong songs.
Some of the best musicians are the ones that are forever reinventing themselves and refuse to be put into a specific category by their "fans"...
People like Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, The Smiths, Radiohead, Neil Young etc.

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Nothing against re-inventing (you missed the biggest style changer David Bowie there), and no-one expects the concert to be a big sing-a-long.

But the bands should recognize that the fans pay their money to buy their albums and should acknowledge that the fans were brought in by their music as a whole. For quite a few any concert maybe their only chance to see their hero's sing live.

So while I would have no problem with Radiohead playing the whole album, you'd expect them to play some things that the fans had lived with for years, to allow them to hear at least some of the songs that they know so well.

For example I saw Pink Floyd during their A Momentary lapse of reason tour, they played the album in its entirety sync'd with film, once they completed that they played a best of, it was great!!

Led Zeppelin played a mixture of old and new on their last tour.

Most bands will play the 'new' album to promote and push the music but they also play some of the music that the fans have bought into.

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haha yeah, bowie is another one, but I was just listing mearly a few as an example.
Whilst I agree that it is frustrating and dissapointing, I still disagree that bands should bow to every demand made by their fans. If bands recycled all their "hit songs" over and over again on each tour, it would get pretty boring for all that attend after a while. Well at least, to me. The entire point of seeing a band live, is to enjoy the art which is the music they make.
I'd also be curious to know which uk show you went to exactly? As they tend to play 24/5 songs, they must have played other songs from their back catalogue which fans would know as Kid A only has 11 songs on it.

I've seen Radiohead numerous times in Canada and in the UK and can say that they do tend to switch it up a lot. They have a massive back catelogue and so, they do tend to play a bit of everything. This time around it will be new songs/tkol/inrainbows with the odd song from the other albums/bsides. (like for example, the other night they played "the amazing sounds of orgy" which is a bside from like the amnesiac sessions I believe.

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The miserable bastards should moaning and play Creep.

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they did in 2009 at reading festival.

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This one

Radiohead Warrington 2000 (bootleg live recording)

The playlist don't look too bad but I can remember long parts being totally bored and my wife (who was the Radiohead fan) being disappointed at the end plus the grumblings in general of the exiting crowd.

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Oh wow! In retrospect you got to see a great gig.... You're right, they didn't play much from ok computer or the bends but holy shit you got some rare songs in. They have only ever played pearly like 13 times...you can see all the Radiohead song stats on 58 hours website...you got to hear some mighty good and killer tracks like in limbo and motion picture soundtrack -and talk show host....I'm jealous... If u look on 58 hours you will see the stats of everything they have ever played... Actually looking at that setlist properly, there are songs from all their albums during that time amnesiac, kid a, ok computer, and the bends....I guess u just got unlucky in that u weren't familiar with them. In my eyes that is a fantastic setlist. Sorry u disagree!!!!

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Kid-A sounds like an album that you have to 'get into', I never have listened to it.

I'm playing that gig now maybe after a few goes I may change my mind, but at the time I didn't feel it was great.

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I was in the audience at the Zodiac when they filmed that video.:)

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Obviously, I'm older than you are but I'd like to offer a thought as valid today as in 1977.

"**** Art, Let's Dance"

And when I say that, I'm as serious as cancer.

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When it first came out, a lot of people were like WTF is this??? Then people realised how amazing the record really was, and it's now seen as their best work. I missed the kid a tour that came around in Canada because it sold out instantly. I regret that so much, I've never heard In Limbo live and would LOVE to. I'm seeing them 4 times this year, twice in Nimes, and Both nights at the 02, and hope to god they play a few from Kid A...Although to be honest, either way I'm sure it will be good.

I saw Thom Yorke at Cambridge in 2010 Feb...and he played some really obscure ones then, so I guess it worked out for me in the end. I got to hear like "I froze up" which had only ever been played during a webcast they did and like "true love waits" which is a great track that rarely gets played. So, I feel lucky about that.

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well, I just don't know who to pick - in the next couple months here in Newfoundland we have Bryan Adams, Chris de Burgh and Johnny Reid. a girl just doesn't know what to do!

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I do like Kid A, and The National Anthem is one of their best tracks ever, but OK Computer for me is not just their best record it's THE best record made since The Stone Roses first album. When I saw them do their homecoming concert in Oxford (where I'm from too) with Supergrass and Beck back in 2001, I practically cried my heart out during "Lucky" in the pouring rain. The drugs and alcohol helped with that too though.

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Hubby going back to Uk next week and catching a Paul Weller Gig! Jammy git

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Ahahaha aww yeah, OK Computer is an astonishing record, I just prefer the sound of Kid A more...Either way, both records are out of this world good. I missed the Radiohead tour that happened with Beck (2001) Kid A era like i mentioned in previous posts...but he is another artist that I am desperate to see. I know he's playing some places in the states and headlining cochella this year, but we can't travel across to the states just for that. Shame though...
I'm seeing Radiohead 4 times so far this tour...So, i reckon I should get to hear a good mix of their songs. When I saw Thom Yorke in Cambridge in Feb and he played True Love Waits, it was one of those moments for me...but I wasn't sad, I was just like, I wish I could hold onto this moment for a little while longer. My husband and I are pretty big fans, he has seen them something like 16 or 17 times. I've only seen them so far 5 times so yeah. (although, I missed them in their prime, which I'll always regret)