This week rollcall

Bleached - Tue at Ust  this new album is soo good, really looking forward to this show
Nick Cave - Friday

then it's like 1-2 shows a week until the end of rocktober

B-52s/OMD, If I can get a cheap or free ticket, Tuesday
Craig Finn & Uptown Controllers, Thursday
Christone Kingfish Ingram, Sunday

Wednesday - Ar-kaics
Thursday - Visual Rhythm
Friday - Nick Cave
Saturday - Fela! concert / Osyx
Sunday - Baltimore Record Bazaar

Ezra Furman
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Boy Harsher
Orville Peck

opera on Sunday - The Love for Three Oranges

B52's Tuesday
Nick Cave Friday

Ah, I spaced on the Mannequin Pussy show this week, which is a bummer

good band.

crazy how they sold out dc9…couple years back no one ever came to their shows (well just azaghal and killsally).

nkotb wrote:
Ah, I spaced on the Mannequin Pussy show this week, which is a bummer

Jez, next week is going to be busy
Whitney
Massive attack  (no opener? so they will go on at 8 sharp)
Sterolab
All back to back…going to have to do double honey-do lists this weekend

Yep. I'm doing the Sterolab/Massive Attck double, but its birthday week so I should get a pass, right?

Vas wrote:
Ezra Furman
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Boy Harsher
Orville Peck

opera on Sunday - The Love for Three Oranges

Enjoy that Boy Harsher show. I'm pissed that they switched their tour stop from DC to Baltimore but what can you do, right?

^^ Lucinda Williams too on Tuesday.  Massive Attack's setlist is a little odd….

grateful wrote:
Yep. I'm doing the Sterolab/Massive Attck double, but its birthday week so I should get a pass, right?

Did we all marry partners who question why we would want to go to shows at our advanced ages instead of spending time with them?

I'd hit this show, if it wasn't the wharf on a Friday night:

The Long Ryders
Friday, September 20, 2019
Pearl Street Warehouse

loved those paisley underground days

Space wrote:
Did we all marry partners who question why we would want to go to shows at our advanced ages instead of spending time with them?

Not I.

Space wrote:

grateful wrote:
Yep. I'm doing the Sterolab/Massive Attck double, but its birthday week so I should get a pass, right?

Did we all marry partners who question why we would want to go to shows at our advanced ages instead of spending time with them?

I have always had a show buddy since my partner and I got together because he doesn't want to go to as many shows as I do. But, he has always been supportive of me going to them.

Almost got a Stereolab ticket, but am already going to Adam Ant and Lizzo, and just can't do three in one week.

If anything, my wife wants to go to more concerts than I do.

Space wrote:
Did we all marry partners who question why we would want to go to shows at our advanced ages instead of spending time with them?

mine doesn't lament me not spending time with her (goes to bed around 9pm)
more that 'I should grow up, what adult in their late 40s with kids goes to more than 2 or 3 shows A YEAR'
um, I know a guy with two thumbs who begs to differ…but sept/october is always a bitch, no matter how many times I state that this is when a lot of shows happen around the same time
Always forgets that from May to Aug, I catch only 3 or 4 shows

I generally have a rule that I won't leave for a show until after the kids are ready for bed (there are exceptions here and there), so usually it's not a big deal.  But I have caught some daggers if he's too many in a row or week, but mostly because most of our time to hang out together are after the kids are in their rooms.  For the most part, though, she's a saint with it.

Space wrote:

grateful wrote:
Yep. I'm doing the Sterolab/Massive Attck double, but its birthday week so I should get a pass, right?

Did we all marry partners who question why we would want to go to shows at our advanced ages instead of spending time with them?

Young kids are tough. I basically didn’t go to any shows for 6-7 years. Forever missed out on seeing some great artists. That’s life.

Girlfriend is saintly, and is happy for me to do my thing, which is to go to too many concerts…she goes to approx. 40% of the shows that I attend. When my children were children and lived at home I maybe went to 10 shows a year, and never travelled for such. Now it's around 60-80/year, and includes away-dates.