Gigs I've missed due to the Pandemic

Procul Harum (+Orchestra)

Steve Hackett

The Manfreds

Australian Pink Floyd

Bob Fox and Billy Mitchell

Jethro Tull (just me, the Mrs hates them!)

Riverdance

Contemplating Caravan and Steven Wilson

Last gig (just before lockdown) was Paul Carrack

Brit Floyd

Journey/Pretenders

Elton John

Styx/REO Speedwagon

Carrie Underwood (gift to my spousal unit and daughter)

King Crimson

I wished these bands would have played a indoor theatre or a club

In this case, they were to play an outdoor festival with a number of stages where you get people only there because others want company, thus talk when they should be listening, 

or other people walking actually walking in front of you because they are too inconsiderate to go around the crowd as it is many more steps.

Unfortunately for the case of Wishbone Ash, they would have been on a secondary stage, but you have to pay the price for the main act.

In such an instance, I just listened outside for Savoy Brown to play 45 minutes because they were charging full price for the Snoop Dog/Lion concert

I really wanted to say NONE on this, as I have pretty much sworn off concerts. When you get older the effort and ability gets its turn, and makes it difficult. 

I would like to catch a few of the newer things, but the touring spots are not opening in Portland just yet, and I'm not sure that we will see anything in those bars and grills for at least 6 more months, although Eugene (Oregon) is already advertising their "season" starting in August/September of mostly classical and semi/cardboard classical stuff and people you never heard of before! Typical Eugene! By comparison I have not seen anything listed upcoming for Portland and even the Mt Hood Jazz Festival (way too traditional for my tastes!) is not on this year as far as I can tell. They usually do it in the summer I think.

I would only get up to see a VdGG/PH show, or a Vangelis show (what a mad house that will be!!!!), or even a Mike Oldfield show complete with faux hippies and dress because no one remembers anything else!

If Grace Slick got off her butt and did a small piano tour I would go see her immediately ... but as she said a long time ago, she did not want to be the geriatric singer in her old days trying to do one song! YET AGAIN!

VDGG still do their gig in September, Banco haven't rescheduled yet.

Quite certainly I have missed a number of further ones, except that I don't tend to plan that long term, and I wasn't really interested in who'd have played at the point it was clear they wouldn't play anyway.

In other news, last Friday and following Saturday my live music attendance resumes with two concerts of the Angelica international festival for experimental music in Bologna that is amazingly going ahead. Experimental music is probably unpopular enough that letting in only 100 people or so doesn't make that much of a difference to normal times.