Bands You Miss Seeing Live

I had tickets to see the At The Drive-In, Murder City Devils, and Le Savy Fav show at the Black Cat in 1999 or so. I had to go to South Dakota instead….

could be for the best, sounds like that show would have rocked your face off

El wrote:
I had tickets to see the At The Drive-In, Murder City Devils, and Le Savy Fav show at the Black Cat in 1999 or so. I had to go to South Dakota instead….

I was at that show. I'm sad because my ghetto blaster ATDI t-shirt I got that night is half dust by now. Had no idea Les Savy Fav played, but I do remember MCD and ATDI and they are two bands I miss right now.

Murder City Devils have west coast dates for next year ;)

thats a solid list. i really miss the judybats (the lead singer does do solo stuff). some of my other additions would be:
the ocean blue
ride
the mighty lemon drops
the trash can sinatras - i think theyre still playing in the UK but rarely make it to the states.
the manic street preachers - who never play the states either these days.
and mani mentioned the stone roses might reform. ian, of course, is not on board but heres to wishful thinking! guess ill be enjoying mani with primal scream.

bearman wrote:
My list is a long one:

The Ramones
Inspiral Carpets (still doing UK shows)
Ned's Atomic Dustbin (ditto)
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine (ditto again)
Catherine Wheel
Curve
Material Issue
The Judybats
Paw
Red House Painters
Jawbox
Sugar
Heatmiser / Elliott Smith
Grandaddy
Face to Face (especially lately, even though they still do West Coast shows)
Queens of the Stone Age w/Nick Oliveri

and, back when they didn't suck, Smashing Pumpkins

You can add Air Miami to that list…saw them once with Spectrum and the Ropers at the Black Cat, THAT was a great show.

I'm going to add The Arcade Fire to my list. I know they're still around, but they tour so infrequently, apparently only one tour per album. Would it kill them to tour a little more? I've only seen them twice, the first time at the Club in January 2005 and last time being the D.A.R. concert in 2007, and their shows rank as some of my all-time favorites.

They toured 3 times for the first album, but DC area was ignored twice, including the first proper tour of small venues :P  They performed 3 nights in a row in San Francisco the 2nd time around (I saw them there twice!).  :o :o :o

I believe they opened for The Unicorns at the Black Cat (DFA1979 also on bill), but this was prior to the release of the first album…

http://www.arcadefire.net/tour/past/

Darth wrote:
I'm going to add The Arcade Fire to my list. I know they're still around, but they tour so infrequently, apparently only one tour per album. Would it kill them to tour a little more? I've only seen them twice, the first time at the Club in January 2005 and last time being the D.A.R. concert in 2007, and their shows rank as some of my all-time favorites.

Thanks for the info, but I don't live in San Francisco and I'm not one to pay for airfare to see some band I like. They've played DC twice since becoming at all well known, the last time being like 18 months ago, and that is too infrequent for me.

superchunk, Q & Not U, dismemberment plan, most secret method, butterglory, any variation of jenny toomey, tortoise, new bomb turks,
and i would watch mission of burma play *every day* if i could.

Midlake. Where the FUCK are they, and why aren't they touring now?