Tag: gigs
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Asylums: One Band’s Story Of Coping With Coronavirus Lock-Down
What has been the impact of the Covid-19 lock-down on musicians? Coronavirus has taken away loved ones, jobs, incomes, stretched medical resources, and prevented people seeing people they care about in person. For other, more fortunate people, the worst impact of coronavirus is merely spending an extended period of time working from home in their…
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Things To Do If You’re At A Gig On Your Own
If there’s a show on in town, it’s always worth searching the hashtag on the band on Twitter. Invariably there will be a few poor souls offering tickets to the show at face value, due to the last minute drop outs of their gig-going friends. On the other hand this is great news for people…
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Dispatches – The Great Ticket Scandal
The way concert tickets are sold nowadays does little but irritate everyone involved. Twenty five years ago, I was occasionally pretty good at getting good tickets for gigs: front row for Def Leppard, Judas Priest and Anthrax shows at Hammersmith Odeon, and best of all Aerosmith supported by Guns n Roses at Hammersmith. I was…
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