{"id":4118,"date":"2002-08-21T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-21T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/08\/21\/music-to-my-ears\/"},"modified":"2002-08-21T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-21T21:16:00","slug":"music-to-my-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/08\/21\/music-to-my-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Music to my ears."},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago (link coming in a second, just checking for it in another window) I saw Garbage live at Colston Hall in Bristol. It was a great gig, they really rocked live so when I was browsing earlier today for gigs and noticed they were doing a couple of small gigs next week I thought about it. In the end I decided I wouldn’t bother. I’ve just been thinking about it again and ticket is less than \u00a325 and I figured what the fuck, its more than worth it. So next week is gonna boost my gig attendance by a fair whack, on Thursday night I’m off to see Garbage in Camden. That link of what I thought about them last time is here<\/a>…don’t bother even trying it. It was five words. This time I will do better.<\/p>\n

So on the subject of gigs. I’ve not got a great history of them…although its a hell of a lot better when you take into account that I have seen two of my favourite bands of all time live in Ireland.<\/p>\n

In the middle of 1999 I saw R.E.M. in Lansdowne Road, Dublin as part of their Up World Tour. Singing Everybody Hurts<\/i> was a pretty special moment. They were supported by The Divine Comedy<\/p>\n

On December 31st of the same year I rang in the New Year at a street concert in Dublin with a group of friends. Playing that night were The Afro-Celt Sound System, The Divine Comedy and was my first introduction to the excellent David Grey who I am planning on seeing later this year.<\/p>\n

Last year was pretty much the gig of all gigs. Ireland, a sunny August Saturday. Slane I 2001. JJ72, Coldplay, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers and the one and only U2. You just can’t ask for more than that.<\/p>\n

Then earlier this year was the aforementioned Garbage gig. <\/p>\n

Thats a total of four gigs. Pretty shit really all in all. Next week alone is going to add 50% to that, ok so one is a repeat but that’s not really relevant. I’m gonna add a few more by the end of this year. I want to see JJ72 and David Gray and I have for a while, they are both playing London in the next few months. I will be there. I’m also going to see Bruce Springsteen in October, tickets go on sale next week. I will sooner rather than later see Radiohead in concert. I cannot finish my time on this planet without seeing Radiohead<\/b> live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago (link coming in a second, just checking for it in another window) I saw Garbage live at Colston Hall in Bristol. It was a great gig, they really rocked live so when I was browsing earlier today for gigs and noticed they were doing a couple of small gigs next week … Continue reading “Music to my ears.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}