Just Announced Commentary - 2011 Edition

K8teebug wrote:
I justified the 87.50 after fee price of Nick Cave to the fact that I would spend that much buying a 50 dollar ticket to the 930 and then spending 40 on beers/tips that night too…

Won't drink at the Strathmore show.

I really can't believe its 87.50! Good lord.. of course if one likes a musician enough they'll pay anything…but it was $45 at the 930 in 2008…and I thought THAT was expensive!


He is definitely an amazing singer/songwriter/performer.. don't begrudge him charging what I suppose the market will determine he is ultimately worth…

I think it's alot, but I like that venue and it seems like that's how much people like him are.  I don't think Morrissey tickets there were much cheaper.

45 dollars+40 on beer=80 bucks.

and I'll pay the extra money to have a designated place to sit/stand!

This is also why I don't really go to many shows anymore.  I remember the days when someone like him would have been 20 bucks *shakes my cane*

it makes me sad to be priced out…  but he deserves any dollar he has coming his way… the guy has never put out anything I haven't liked….some I've liked a little (No more shall we part and nocturama) but the stuff I've really liked has been amazing


everyone who can't make show listen to your Live Seeds live cd… that is what really got me hooked back in the day


still remember seeing him at Lolla in 94.. in the heat  with the sun shinning in his face at 1 pm  playing to a few people who didn't know who he was.. it was awful…  i only caught a few songs because we got there late due to the roads being jammed…. I don't think he came back to the States for years after that ..

hutch wrote:
it makes me sad to be priced out…  but he deserves any dollar he has coming his way… the guy has never put out anything I haven't liked….some I've liked a little (No more shall we part and nocturama) but the stuff I've really liked has been amazing


everyone who can't make show listen to your Live Seeds live cd… that is what really got me hooked back in the day


still remember seeing him at Lolla in 94.. in the heat  with the sun shinning in his face at 1 pm  playing to a few people who didn't know who he was.. it was awful…  i only caught a few songs because we got there late due to the roads being jammed…. I don't think he came back to the States for years after that ..

That is the only time I have seen Nick Cave.  I thought he was decent. I probably only have listened to that one solo album though I do have the Birthday Party stuff.  Yeah it was a horrible drive that year to West Virginia.  But that was the year with Stereolab and Lucious Jackson whom were both pretty awesome.  I had just come back from Cape Cod and was sort of exhausted so I left just before Beastie Boys and I have never seen them since.  If I knew that I would have stuck around.

I can't think of a more consistent performing/recording artist than Nick Cave over the last 25 years…
Granted the first time i saw him was only maybe 15 years ago or so, but EVERY time I've seen him whether with the Bad Seeds or Grinderman he has delivered 100%.  I've never left one of his shows thinking it could have been any better. 

Which is why that show is worth 87 dollars. 

My husband was at the Lolla show.  Said he was great.

I wasn't allowed to go to shows in 1994.

kosmo wrote:
One of my favorite Singer/Songwriters will be making a rare DC appearance on Friday (12/7).  Recommended if you like Crowded House. Jellyfish

Cliff Hillis
solo at Nanny O'Brien's
10pm
3319 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington DC 20008

http://www.cliffhillis.com/index

Very cool.  Can't make the show but just got the new CD from his website.

When it comes to power pop I trust your judgment.

K8teebug wrote:
Which is why that show is worth 87 dollars. 

My husband was at the Lolla show.  Said he was great.

I wasn't allowed to go to shows in 1994.

thank you . . . for making me old.  "couldn't go to shows in '94"  omg.  one more time.  omg.  unless of course you were in jail in 1994, which one more time.  omg.

walkonby wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
Which is why that show is worth 87 dollars. 

My husband was at the Lolla show.  Said he was great.

I wasn't allowed to go to shows in 1994.

thank you . . . for making me old.  "couldn't go to shows in '94"  omg.  one more time.  omg.  unless of course you were in jail in 1994, which one more time.  omg.

AARP has Fleetwod Mac tix…

I decided to pass on Nick Cave and see Thao with The Get Down Stay Down at the Black Cat. I've seen Nick Cave a handful of times already and he's one of my all-time favorite artists, but I just think I'll enjoy the Black Cat show more. I love Thao too, but I've only seen her a couple times.

My favorite Nick Cave album is Henry's Dream. "Papa Won't Leave You, Henry" puts a hop in my step like no other song ever.

walkonby wrote:
thank you . . . for making me old.  "couldn't go to shows in '94"  omg.  one more time.  omg.  unless of course you were in jail in 1994, which one more time.  omg.

speaking of:

One More Time - The Tribute to Daft Punk
Thur 1/24
930

Shemp wrote:

kosmo wrote:
One of my favorite Singer/Songwriters will be making a rare DC appearance on Friday (12/7).  Recommended if you like Crowded House. Jellyfish

Cliff Hillis
solo at Nanny O'Brien's
10pm
3319 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington DC 20008

http://www.cliffhillis.com/index

Very cool.  Can't make the show but just got the new CD from his website.

When it comes to power pop I trust your judgment.

Cool, Cliff is one of my favs and I put together a quick spotify primer from his albums

http://open.spotify.com/user/djwren/playlist/3LtQAU1mZjalY79x6QJc1J

walkonby wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
Which is why that show is worth 87 dollars. 

My husband was at the Lolla show.  Said he was great.

I wasn't allowed to go to shows in 1994.

thank you . . . for making me old.  "couldn't go to shows in '94"  omg.  one more time.  omg.  unless of course you were in jail in 1994, which one more time.  omg.

I was in high school.  My parents were not cool with rock concerts for whatever reason.

for hutch:

http://www.goldstar.com/events/washington-dc/richard-marx

Vas wrote:
for hutch:

http://www.goldstar.com/events/washington-dc/richard-marx

Jose Feliciano is more my type currently…


Feliz Navidad!

QOTSA at the Fillmore? I hope that isn't true. Would rather they hit the 9:30 for 2 nights.

bearman wrote:
QOTSA at the Fillmore? I hope that isn't true. Would rather they hit the 9:30 for 2 nights.

I would rather they hit my living room for 5 nights.

HA! Black Flag used to play a lot of house parties back in the day, and I just couldn't imagine how cool it'd be to walk into some house and have them jamming away. QOTSA would be great in that capacity too. Especially if there was plenty of tequila.

Been trying to confirm, nothing on their site, can't seem to pull anything up on DC101. Nothing is coming up on the Google machine either.