Havnfun

I just bought tickets for Bush & Theory of a Deadman at The Wiltern in January. Also have tickets for Maroon 5 in April and Nickelback in June.

Hotscot

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Outdoors bayside gig San Diego in May.

(Was going to go to Lana Del Rey but stupid ticket prices.)

N1cky

I'm considering buying tickets for Noel Gallagher too, but it's a Monday night at The Fillmore, so a PITA to get to.

Hotscot

I think that's where we saw La Roux coupla years ago.

Treat yourselves to a weekend in San Diego? That gig's a Sat night. (Our favorite Indian is there, Monsoon's)

GeoffM

Hmm, Michael Buble at Mall of Asia Arena, 2 minute walk from where I'm staying, $36 this Saturday. Tempting though I don't really know his stuff.

Giantaxe

The Warfield, my favourite concert venue... and BARTable too.

Sarah

Manic Street Preachers at Webster Hall in April, hope it's as good as the last time they played here in 2009.

Hotscot

What? NY?

Goddamn...I may have to come to the East coast...saw them in Ingliston...one of the best gigs ever.

Sarah

People are bummed out there are no west coast dates. I suspect they're going to see how well the east coast dates sell and then maybe announce some dates there. Or they can't be arsed and have to do a quickie tour and then get home for the school run.

SultanOfSwing

Mark Knopfler is coming back to Chicago in October. Hopefully I can go see that one

Englishmum

Last night I went to see Ed Sheeran. In Zurich. What a fantastic performer, just him and his guitar! He will be playing Wembley Stadium this Summer (10th, 11th and 12th July) so if you're over in the UK it would be well worth trying to get tickets.

You can get a free download of an EP on his website if you sign up to the mailing list; he sang the last track last night (bear in mind it has the 'F' word in it if you have kids nearby).

Ed Sheeran Homepage

Phyzz

Have my tickets for the Foo Fighters, plus many others, 4th July in DC.

Havnfun

I would love to see Ed Sheeran, glad to hear he puts on a great show!

Hotscot

I think he lives in Courtney Cox's house up in Malibu at times...

Pulaski

I spent the day at the first day of the Carolina Rebellion festival. It's the first festival I have been to in almost 14 years, since I came to the US. In many respects it was very familar, but the experience didn't seem somehow "authentic". Perhaps it was that it didn't rain, the resulting lack of mud, or perhaps it was that there were virtually no bottles thrown?

Anyhow I passed on the early bands, none of which I recognized, and a bit of YouTube research revealed that I wasn't missing anything interesting. I started out seeing Chevelle, a very heavy but remarkably slick power trio, that sounded like a cross between a slowed down and polished Motörhead, and Muse, then I caught all but the first few minutes of Cheap Trick (bands were running consecutive shows on four stages, spead over a half mile tract of land). I then moved on to Papa Roach, but wasn't impressed, so I went back to the stage where I had seen Chevelle and found a spot ready for Rise Against. They put on a good show, but I left a few minutes before the end of their set to be sure to catch the Sammy Hagar show from the start. I got fairly close to the stage, maybe 50-60ft back, and he and his band put on a great show, playing for 65 minutes they played songs from throughout Sammy's career, from Montrose to Van Halen, plus three Led Zeppelin songs, in part no doubt because Jason Bonham was playing drums, along side Michael Anthony on Bass, so a super-tight rhythm section!