Picture This: VA Poster Collection Highlights
Posted: August 1, 2013 Filed under: 1957, 1970s, 1973, 1978, 1980s, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1990s, 1994, 2000s, 2006, 2007, 2010, 8 Tracks, advertising, alt country, alternative, americana, Canada, Classic Rock, comedy, Concerts, Glam Rock, indie rock, Live, Music, New Wave, Ontario, pop, post-punk, posters, R&B, record advertising, skydome, Television, Toronto, Uncategorized | Tags: 8 tracks, aretha franklin, david bowie, ed wood, film, iggy pop, joni mitchell, kd lang, little britain, lou reed, lucinda williams, marilyn monroe, music, neil young, ottawa bluesfest, patti smith, poster art, posters, red heat, reveen, sharon jones & the dap-kings, siouxsie & the banshees, soundgarden, the grapes of wrath, tony d, trailer park boys, tv, u2, van morrison, variousartists 6 Comments
Howdy to those of you on both Open Salon and WordPress … I’ve had another OS/WP absence owing to a few reasons: life stuff, some needed household re-arranging, and a spell of writer’s block. I was also having too much damn hot fun in the summertime as of late, seeing a slew of great gigs over the past two months.
Well … that fun seems to have unblocked things. Read the rest of this entry »
020b. Waiting In Vain: 20 Performances I Missed, 1980-2011
Posted: May 19, 2012 Filed under: 1980, 1980s, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1990s, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2000s, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2010s, 2011, alt country, alternative, americana, blues, Canada, Classic Rock, Concerts, Festivals, folk, funk, indie rock, jazz, Live, Memoir, Music, New Wave, pop, post-punk, R&B, rockabilly, roots, ticket | Tags: arcade fire, beck, black keys, blossom dearie, bob marley and the wailers, bonnie raitt, broken social scene, clash, elastica, feist, flaming lips, george clinton, grateful dead, heatwave, leonard cohen, live, lollapalooza, London, missed concerts, moby, music, My Life -- In Concert!, neko case, nick cave and the bad seeds, pine knob, police picnic, simon and garfunkel, simple minds, sonic youth, stephane grappelli, tickets, toronto, u2, variousartists, wanda jackson, xtc 1 Commentn
XTC at Centennial Hall, London, Ontario, Monday November 24, 1980. Too bad the show never happened (Thanks to MZ for the scan of her handbill).
You’ve got the warm ticket in your hot little hands, anticipation is building, and you just know it’s going to be a great experience and a fun night out.
But it doesn’t always work that way. Shows get cancelled or artists are pulled from advertised lineups owing to illness or personal emergencies. Or ticket demand is too high — or too low. Or shows go ahead but it is you that is ill or can’t afford to get yourself there (as you’ll see, that’s a popular one for me during my university years). Or the weather turns crap. Or rides vanish. Or someone joins a cult. And on it goes. Read the rest of this entry »
