Music Hipster confession time
A post from
indielass about seeing the first Lollapalooza made me chip in on the fact it was a near miss, and I'll expand a little bit about it here.
I was in Toronto that same weekend and wanted to go for Living Colour, Siouxsie & The Banshees and Jane's Addiction (at the time not knowing NIN, Rollins Band and Butthole Surfers were also on the bill), but since we were only there for a couple of days, I couldn't go. Nonetheless, there's a photo of me standing in front of Lee's Palace that day pointing at a sign saying that night the guests were Primus with Tad opening...
(that was a really annoying summer for that. I was visiting my mother in Brockville which was in the midst of its summer festival. When she picked me up at airport, my mother was raving about the band she saw play the festival the night before: The Tragically Hip, right around the "Up To Here/Road Apples" era which is when I really liked them. My mother assured me that I'd be sure to see another good band at the Festival that night. Instead, I got to see Frozen Ghost.)
In Winnipeg the only real regrets I have in terms of missed gigs is I missed out on the Monster Voodoo Machjne/Malhavoc all-ages show at the Zoo circa 1994, I also missed Autechre when they played here in the 90s, and on the heavier side of things I missed out on Neurosis and most recently the reunited Celtic Frost. I'm sure there are other ones too but those are the ones that immediately leap to mind in terms of regret.
So I ask those who read this, what are the musical gigs you wanted to go to locally that you never did catch, or even worse the ones you didn't even know they played until after the fact and you never had a chance to see them again?
indielass about seeing the first Lollapalooza made me chip in on the fact it was a near miss, and I'll expand a little bit about it here.
I was in Toronto that same weekend and wanted to go for Living Colour, Siouxsie & The Banshees and Jane's Addiction (at the time not knowing NIN, Rollins Band and Butthole Surfers were also on the bill), but since we were only there for a couple of days, I couldn't go. Nonetheless, there's a photo of me standing in front of Lee's Palace that day pointing at a sign saying that night the guests were Primus with Tad opening...
(that was a really annoying summer for that. I was visiting my mother in Brockville which was in the midst of its summer festival. When she picked me up at airport, my mother was raving about the band she saw play the festival the night before: The Tragically Hip, right around the "Up To Here/Road Apples" era which is when I really liked them. My mother assured me that I'd be sure to see another good band at the Festival that night. Instead, I got to see Frozen Ghost.)
In Winnipeg the only real regrets I have in terms of missed gigs is I missed out on the Monster Voodoo Machjne/Malhavoc all-ages show at the Zoo circa 1994, I also missed Autechre when they played here in the 90s, and on the heavier side of things I missed out on Neurosis and most recently the reunited Celtic Frost. I'm sure there are other ones too but those are the ones that immediately leap to mind in terms of regret.
So I ask those who read this, what are the musical gigs you wanted to go to locally that you never did catch, or even worse the ones you didn't even know they played until after the fact and you never had a chance to see them again?