The Summer of Goth got even better.
Day or so after seeing The Cure here in NOLA, I'll be hopping on the Harley for an epic 4000 mile road trip. Catching Sisters of Mercy in Vegas, then LA for Cruel World Festival, then back to Vegas for Punk Rock Bowling. There's about 8 days of slack time in there, and I managed to work MGM for seven nights of comped rooms on the strip.
All that is in addition to a pretty busy show schedule. A whole lot of the Old Gods are touring at once, and if Peter Murphy had just been able to manage his addiction I'd be seeing the granddaddy of them all instead of just the Love & Rockets spinoff. Probably going back into the corporate world this fall, ending my three year (p)retirement of working maybe 10 hours a week for a year, then not at all for two more. It's been a blast, but things didnt line up well enough to make it permanent, not while staying in the US anyway.
SO here's the show/travel schedule so far...
Last weekend - New Order, NOLA
8th April - Skinny Puppy, NOLA
27th April - Ministry/Gary Numan/Front Line Assembly, NOLA
30th April - Agent Orange, NOLA
10th May - The Cure, NOLA
12th-14th May - ride from New Orleans to Las Vegas
14th May - check in at the concert venue/hotel, see The Sisters of Mercy, Las Vegas
15th-19th May - comped room at the Luxor on the Vegas Strip.
19th May - ride to Los Angeles.
20th May - Cruel World Festival (Siouxsie, Love & Rockets, Adam Ant, Billy Idol, Echo & the Bunnymen, Iggy Pop, Gary Numan)
21st May - ((itinerary unknown)
22nd-24th May - Comped room at the Luxor, Vegas Strip
25th-30th May - Punk Rock Bowling, Vegas (The Damned, various old UK punk bands: GBH, The Exploited, etc)
31st May-2nd June - Ride back to New Orleans.
21st June - PIXIES, NOLA
7th October - Depeche Mode, NOLA
All that is in addition to a pretty busy show schedule. A whole lot of the Old Gods are touring at once, and if Peter Murphy had just been able to manage his addiction I'd be seeing the granddaddy of them all instead of just the Love & Rockets spinoff. Probably going back into the corporate world this fall, ending my three year (p)retirement of working maybe 10 hours a week for a year, then not at all for two more. It's been a blast, but things didnt line up well enough to make it permanent, not while staying in the US anyway.
SO here's the show/travel schedule so far...
Last weekend - New Order, NOLA
8th April - Skinny Puppy, NOLA
27th April - Ministry/Gary Numan/Front Line Assembly, NOLA
30th April - Agent Orange, NOLA
10th May - The Cure, NOLA
12th-14th May - ride from New Orleans to Las Vegas
14th May - check in at the concert venue/hotel, see The Sisters of Mercy, Las Vegas
15th-19th May - comped room at the Luxor on the Vegas Strip.
19th May - ride to Los Angeles.
20th May - Cruel World Festival (Siouxsie, Love & Rockets, Adam Ant, Billy Idol, Echo & the Bunnymen, Iggy Pop, Gary Numan)
21st May - ((itinerary unknown)
22nd-24th May - Comped room at the Luxor, Vegas Strip
25th-30th May - Punk Rock Bowling, Vegas (The Damned, various old UK punk bands: GBH, The Exploited, etc)
31st May-2nd June - Ride back to New Orleans.
21st June - PIXIES, NOLA
7th October - Depeche Mode, NOLA