2025 Concert Calendar: Concerts Near You

2025 Concerts near you or in your region or not that far that you wish to attend. Of course you can mention any others you plan to go to or wish to attend for 2025.

For Vancouver, BC, Canada so far, I have:

Feb. 13, 8 PM:   Mount Eerie (Rickshaw Theatre)
Feb. 24, 6 PM:   Mercury Rev (Hollywood Theatre)
April 7, 7 PM:    Beak> (Hollywood Theatre)
April 7, 8 PM:    Kraftwerk (Queen Elizabeth Theatre)
April 24, 7 PM:   Mogwai (Commodore Ballroom)
May 10, 8 PM:    Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Vogue Theatre)
May 11, 8 PM:    Geordie Greep (The Pearl)
May 11, 8 PM:    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Queen Elizabeth Theatre)
June 9, 7:30 PM: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Orpheum Theatre)
June 26 & 27, 7 PM: Pixies (Orpheum Theatre)

Some conflicts there with two different concerts happening on the same day twice. The Godspeed concert is the one I would most like to attend.

Pom Poko - Boston 1/23
Nik Bartsch Ronin - Montreal 3/3
Selcouth Quartet - Boston 3/8
Tigran Hamasyan - Boston 3/29
Nubya Garcia - Boston 4/4
Elder - Boston 4/19

I have tickets for Laibach (Bologna 28 Feb), Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Bologna 11 March), Heilung (Milano 27 April), and in fact also for Steven Wilson in Rome (I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of his more recent work, but a friend whom I don't meet often enough asked me to go). 

Edited by Lewian - 14 hours 8 minutes ago at 10:10

Criswell wrote: Criswell wrote: Just Kraftwerk for me so far - 3/29/25 Auditorium Theater Chicago ...Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds also at the Salt Shed in Chicago 4/28/25... (originally thought this was just Prog concerts...)

^ This is The Prog Lounge, so it's very understandable. This is a case where I thought it made more sense to make this in this forum because I would expect the emphasis to be more on Prog, I think this could be useful, and in General Music Discussion it would very probably quickly get neglected. Especially with the popularity of things like "What Are You Listening to Now?" other topics get easily lost.

I also have thought that more people might get the chance to meet each other at concerts if we post about it in such thread. Seems amazing to me considering that I have been visiting this site for more than 20 years, but I have not met one person here yet nor talked to one person on the phone. At the forum I belonged to just before this one, a couple of years in I had met many of them. That said, it so happens that a convention took place near my home and people flew in from the US and Europe to go. And two others lived in Vancouver and so we would get together. I have become far less sociable than I used to be, and I was not very sociable then.

By the way, I don't like to organise my music into prog and non-Prog, or even think in those terms unless I have to for site business, and it just doesn't work with the kinds of music I like. It's mostly art music to me. And I can get the same qualities from Nick Cave and the bad Seeds as I do from music in PA. Buy yeah, I would expect the emphasis to be on Prog and Prog related/ adjacent music. It's also going to be about concerts that certain people into certain kinds of progressive rock/ progressive music like. I don't consider myself to be a Progger, but I like a lot of music in PA and a lot of music that is often put under the prog umbrella.

By the way, not all music talked about in the Prog forums needs to be Prog, but it is expected that would be the major emphasis. I hope people don't get really anal about such stuff but also are not making topics in Prog sections on obvious non-Prog topics. :)

Anyway, those two concerts are two of the concerts I would most like to attend when they are in Vancouver and both are happening on a day that I also would like to see someone else in concert. I suggest that it should be Nick Cave and the Bad Geordie Greeps in concert and Kraftwerk's Beak (which would blow Spock's Beard and Nose away). :)