2026-05-24 Concerts
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A bandwagon is making the rounds on fedi: “Introduce yourself with 10
bands you have seen.”

I haven’t seen 10 bands? Or maybe I have. Let’s see.

The Cure, I guess. Disintegration was the best. Many years later I
happened to see The Sisters of Mercy. A wall of sound that left me
stunned. I hadn’t realized that Andrew Eldritch was still touring.

The Pogues, in a school auditorium. Around the time I met my wife. The
Dubliners, too, many years later. So old and frail!

U2 was big around Achtung Baby and Zooropa. My first and only open
football stadium concert. Ugh!

Transglobal Underground. Natasha Atlas. This was the kind of global
music I was looking for at the time.

Gaslight Anthem. I went to see them because a friend said they were “a
bit like Bruce Springsteen” and I loved Bruce Springsteen. Indeed that
first album I heard seemed to be full of references. I never saw Bruce
Springsteen, though. I used to be a big fan as a teenager. Later it
was just too expensive, I felt. I did go to two additional Gaslight
Anthem concerts, however, but they weren’t as good.

I remember seeing Depeche Mode as a teenager and not liking them.

I remember not liking CocoRosie in concert but still loving their
albums. So weird!

Never saw a grunge band. Never mind Nirvana. Never saw a trip hop act.
No Portishead, no Tricky, no Massive Attack. I do remember seeing
Goldfrapp at some point. I used to like trip hop a lot.

Never saw PJ Harvey or Nick Cave.

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