Mine would probably have to be Death From Above 1979 at reading festival 2 years ago, who i missed to watch Graham bloody Coxon on the main stage. Not that i dont like Coxon, its that i thought at the time i could see DFA 1979 anytime and Coxon would be someone you would see once in a blue moon. How little i knew.
A story will stay in memory was my house mate who told me once how he missed out on seeing McLusky at the Square in Harlow. Supported by a then unknown band called The Libertines.
i missed elliott smith supported by grandaddy
at the Festival Hall in about 2001 because our head of sixth form told me and my mate, who already had spent £20 each on tickets, that if we didnt turn up to help at school open day we would be suspended. We got there and literally just sat about. I showed a group of about 6 parents round the gym, before two of them stormed off demanding to see the maths department, then the others lost interest. I have never forgiven my head of sixth form since. What an absolute cunt. I never got to see Elliott Smith.
That was actually sadder than when Bambi's mum died
({)
thats is pretty shit
i missed hope of the states all the times they played in Nottingham, im gutted i never saw them.
Interpol
at the Metro and Barfly back in 2002, just couldnt be arsed really, damn my laziness
i went to interpol / simian
when simian were still a proper band before all the disco nonsense - we'd gone to visit sussex uni and we were gonna go to the freebutt to see this gig, but we got there, and it wasn't open yet, and me and my mate were both so tired that we decided to get a lift home to London with my mum rather than go to the gig and get the train.
That would have been a good gig.
I missed Iggy and the Stooges
at Leeds because I was seeing Maximo Park.
To be fair I wasn't that aquainted with The Stooges' music at that time.
I want to punch that man
on your behalf.
it was a woman
just about. She looked like Brian May.
*abandon reply*
sleater kinney
i am an awful person :-(
yeah i passed on Sleater
as well back in 200 at the ULU i think, silly me..took me 5 more years to go see 'em
2000**
that
was a good show. mary timony in support. you missed out.
i got so drunk at atp in may last year
that we sat in the chalet drinking and saying "Sleater-Kinnoooy" in as many different Irish dialects as we could come up with. After doing this for about an hour, someone said "when are Sloooitaaer-Kinnaaay actually on?", and when we checked the schedule they were just about to finish.
Luckily I saw them at Reading the previous year.
broken social scene supported by los campesinos!
t the point in cardiff last year, would have a brilliant gig!
!!! at thekla in bristol
I really should've bought a ticket.
I regret NOTHING
except occasionally my refusal to pay £65 for a tom waits ticket, and the fact that I was 12 when I went to Glastonbury 99 and so didn't see/know Pavement or Qotsa.
i regret that
i only knew Teenage FBI when i saw guided by voices
buffy_summers
damn you
no i heard it cos steve lamacq played it looooads and he even had an interview with the bob when the album came out
to be fair
I didn't even know Teenage FBI, and my friend had told me Guided By Voices were "some folk band". Still, I have vague memories of laying on the grass outside the right hand side of the tent (which became a bit of a Reading theme over the years) listening to tunes such as Chasing Heather Crazy and Fair Touching. Though I'm probably just making this up in my head. I was definitely there though, even if I wasn't listening.
the Cure
when they were good.
But I hated their fans !
RFTC back in 2001.
I'm such a complete bellend for not going. :(
nirvana
reading '91 because my then girlfriend wouldn't let me go and see bands untill i'd blown up the double airbed using lung power alone
or fantomas
at the knitting factory in new york.i drank too many spirits on the journey into the city and decided i'd rather pass out on the back seat of the car.i woke after an hour,really refreshed and wanted to go into the gig.but my friends hadn't left the keys to lock up so i had to sit in the car for 4 hours untill they got back.fuckers
I always kept missing Pretty Girls Make Graves as I thought they'd tour later
dammit.
its ok
based purely on the three times i saw them, this was easily the worst live band in comparison to how good their (first two) albums were that I've ever seen.
i disagree
they went shit when they lost the second guitarist. before that live they were immense! i seen um at reading festival on their fist proper tour :) i saw them again a year or 2 later and they sounded crap and empty
lift to experience
twice when I loved in cardiff because I was a tad agrophobic
*lived in cardiff
I never loved in cardiff
ATP 2004
choosing Har Mar over LCD soundsystem.
also
not being quick enough on the uptake for the Blow tickets earlier this year.
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no worries on the blow though back in november...but elliot smith man... i remember being in school seeing he was playing manchester (being from liverpool and probably about 15 at the time, only 21 now) and thinking, god, that song 'everything reminds me of her' is alright..but travelling to manchester man, thats an effort, next time maybe....not jeez....that was a bad move, i cant believe it
huh?
Wasn't Har Mar on AFTER Lcd Soundsystem on the same stage? Then Dizzee Rascal?
the libertines fo'sure
i'd go with dfa 1979 at reading, i too was seeing coxon. i remember him being quite good though
tool, everytime they tour i seem to miss them.
i totally forgot
clor!
Well
they're back over here in a couple of weeks, playing Brixton on 22nd. I'm seeing them in Manchester the day after. They're being supported by Russian Circles this time too, woo-hoo!
Roses ... Spike Island
The Ally Pally gig was no match. And my mate Nick got a modelling contract with Face magazine off the back of it after being 'spotted' in the crowd. Of all things.
Missing the Smiths
when I was 2. From then on I knew that I WOULD NEVER MISS ANYTHING EVER AGAIN
Ha ha
I saw The Smiths
I wasn't 2
Mclusky
Then they broke up a matter of weeks later
No-one really
Bands I wish I'd seen, but not any that I've really missed out on even though I had the chance.
The Verve
When Bittersweet Symphony came out they did a tiny tour, including Wolves Civic. I just never got round to buying a ticket. My mates said it was one of the best gigs they ever went to.
I should have also seen At The Drive-In when I had the chance - had a ticket for a show in Nottingham, but they split just before it.
i saw at the drive in
at the roadhouse in manchester which is liek teeeeny. i didnt know who they were tho then, luckily though i saw the ma year or 2 later at manc uni :) im still gutted i didnt know who they were at the time i saw them first.
i didnt go and see oxes play in oxford
i didnt go and see mono play in bristol, i missed seeing charlottfield being supported by the edmund fitzgerald becauase i was drunk and had to go to work the next day, even though the guitarist invited me (tho i did see the ed fitz twice after that).
probably more.
Ummm
Smashing Pumpkins at the Astoria, 1993 (just missed the second date selling out)
Bowie at Phoenix '95 (sprained ankle)
Monster Magnet & Mastodon at the Oxford Zodiac, 2004 (got the wrong day)
My dad has the best one, though: when he was an undergrad at Oxford in 1961, a friend invited him to come and see a new band from Liverpool, but he went to a folk night instead. That band was called the Beatles.
Joanna Newsom at Brudenell Social Club
and then City Varieties.
Her playing with The Northern Sinfonia was incredible, one of the best gigs/nights ever.
I would've loved to see her in an intimate place though, playing songs for TMEM.
Joanna Newsom
I had a ticket for her gig at the teeny 12 Bar Club in summer 2004 but had to move to Dubai a few days before the show. Still gutted.
Circle Takes the Square / The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg
Few years back now. Wasn't really into them at the time. A couple of months later, I had both their albums, loved them to bits, and was crying myself to sleep at my mistake.