Bands you’ve seen the most times on one tour

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A recent chat that I thought would make a nice thread. By that I mean one set of tour dates around the country rather than a rolling global tour that goes on for years (I’ve seen the Levellers touring Levelling the Land plenty of times over ~30 years).

I saw three dates on the Placebo / Deus /AC Acoustics tour in 97, the Mogwai tour between Rock Action and Happy Songs, an early Hell is For Heros tour (convenient locations, rather than being a big fan at the time) and probably some more I can’t remember. I’m sure that can be bettered.

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Arcade fire on the Reflektor tour (Coachella, Primavera, Hyde park thingey).

Wasn’t really intentional to follow them around like that, just worked out that way (the hyde park thing was a £2.50 ticket job and had sod all better to do than go see them for a third time that evening).

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On an actual tour, no more than twice I think.

Saw Mogwai twice on their mini anniversary tour in 2015, in Dublin and London about a week apart. Had bought a ticket for London before they announced Dublin and then just went to both with different friends. Almost entirely different setlists so it was very worth it.

Saw Arab Strap twice on their Irish tour last year. Me and my friend had tickets for what was supposed to be their one Irish date on their 2021 tour, a big show in Vicar Street in Dublin, but it got cancelled due to Irish covid restrictions and they ended up doing a proper Irish tour of smaller venues last summer instead. Saw them in the Empire in Belfast which is nice and local to me but friend easily talked me into coming down to one of the shows in Whelans in Dublin too as it’s such a great small venue. They were about a week apart as well so nice break in between. Almost entirely the same setlist in a different order but still had a lovely time at both.

I’ve definitely seen some bands more times in the same album-period (think I saw ASIWYFA about 4 or 5 times at different points of the year while they were touring the third album) but not on one specific tour.

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self esteem like 6 times on this tour - 5 festivals/day events, 1 gig

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has been going on for eternity though

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Not sure if it counts but I saw Black Midi 7 times before the first album came out.

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Oh yeah I also saw Mclusky twice about a month apart in Glasgow and Belfast in 2019. Again I’d bought a ticket for Glasgow before they announced Irish dates.

Considered doing the Dublin show as well and making it three but decided against it.

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I saw Fugazi 156 times before Minor Threat had even broken up

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Saw R.E.M four times when they toured Monster in the UK. That was a good week.

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Lots of bands: once

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I saw REM twice on the Green tour and American Music Club twice when they were touring Everclear. Never more than twice I don’t think.

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I’ve similarly seen American Music Club twice on a couple of tours. Other bands I’ve seen two times include Decemberists (not intentionally, I was given a free ticket), Okkervil River, Vigilantes of Love and the Noisyland Flying Nun Records tour (with the Bats, Straitjacket Fits and Jean Paul Satre Experience).

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Desperately wish there was a better answer to this question but I saw Ryan Adams five times over about ten days.

I also used to see Jetplane Landing loads when they did those mega 30-50 daft UK tours, including three times in five days cos they did Oxford, Kingston and London and that was all very easy for me to do.

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Three dates of the mbv reunion tour. Had tickets for Glasgow as well but sacked it off

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Have done so when an act has included a few festival dates in their tour. Saw Placebo on consecutive nights back when they were touring WYIN. Saw them 4 times between the release of that album and BMM.

Would have seen a fair few artists more than once over multiple tours but for the same album.

Will be seeing boygenius twice within a week next month.

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If we mean stand-alone tour rather than “promoting the same album” then three times. If you mean the latter then there are some I saw 10+ back in the day and most of them are very embarrassing.

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Deerhunter, 2010 - 7 times in a week and a half.

Manchester Academy Club 04/05/10
Leeds Cockpit 05/05/10
London Heaven 06/05/10
Brighton Concorde II 10/05/10
Amsterdam Trouw 11/05/10
Brussels Botanique 12/05/10
Paris La Maroquinnerie 13/05/10

Also, Roddy Frame in 2008

Gateshead Sage 06/11/08
Glasgow Oran Mor 08/11/08
Glasgow Oran Mor 10/11/08
Birmingham Glee Club 16/11/08
Milton Keynes Stables 17/11/08
London Cadogan Hall 18/11/08
Brighton Komedia 20/11/08

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Never done more than one

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I saw The Wave Pictures play five times in three days in 2012. They did three shows at the Old Blue Last where they ticked songs off a list to avoid any repeats. They also played sets on two of those days at Roughtrade and St Pancras station where, again, the sets featured unique tracks too.

Last year caught Jeffrey Lewis in Cambridge then travelled to his Brighton shows (afternoon and evening) and then the next day dashed to Bristol for his two sets there. Like the Wave Pictures the sets were unique with barely any songs repeated over the five gigs so was worth it.

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