#5

Always tends to be the opposite for me - oh, there’s this really great new band, I wonder if they’re playing Manchester soon… oh, they played yesterday. I don’t have the time to keep up these days.

The only time I’ve come close to this was when I was trying to get in to The Antlers, since a lot of people on here were in to them, and my wife noticed and bought me tickets to see them for my birthday a few weeks later, and before the show I decided they were actually very, very boring but we went to the gig anyway, and it was… very, very boring. Left after about three songs.

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#6

This happened me with Errors about 10 years ago and I’ve still never seen them

#7

Think I saw the (now cancelled) Surfer Blood on a Thursday, 3 days after their album came out. They were supporting a much worse band, possibly Hot Club de Paris.

#8

take that back you absolute turkey

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#9

I will concede that it might not have been them (although I’ve just Googled it and apparently it might have been the Walkmen which doesn’t sound right at all).

#10

im just a big Hot Club fan, v underrated (but can see why they’d annoy)

#11

It was at the indie night in Kingston, which they seemed to play once a month.

UPDATE: just found the gig, it was Pete and the Pirates.

#12

:smiley:

#13

had this album too, don’t even like it much but i think it’s the exact sort of thing that would flood me with nostalgia

ahh, for the days when i thought 4th rate indie rock bands were the pinnacle of all music

#14

Saw blur in Bristol about 6 or 7 weeks before Leisure came out. They’d just released ’There’s no other way’

That was a good gig

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#15

Bought I’m All Ears, which inspired me to see Let’s Eat Grandma at Heaven a couple of weeks later. Now that was a show!

#16

Longer timeframe, but when My Bloody Valentine announced their reunion shows I’d never heard of them, read a magazine feature and liked the sound of them, thought I’d check them out. By the time the shows came around 7 months later, they were one of my absolute favourite bands and the gig was great!

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#17

Had a free Friday in 2012 nobody was out and the one day Mrs Roughyed was at a leaving do in town. Went on see tickets saw Willis Earl Beal asked on libertines.org forum if he was any good someone replied he was booked tickets that day and went that night. Best gig I have ever, ever been to:

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#18

Still struggle to this day to get into his debut, and it’s because his live performances of this song is just perfection. I’ll never understand the recorded version.

#19

The recorded stuff on his debut was done before he even performed live. Think the gig at Trof was his 2nd or 3rd ever gig.

There are some better recordings he did later that year called “Principles On A Protagonist” that are worth tracking down lot closer to how he was live back then.

#20

It’s just always been a weird stylistic choice for me. He clearly had that live performance style in him when he recorded it, so I could never understand that decision. But from what i’ve read he’s been quite hesitant of exposure/mainstream, so I always put it down to that and just the type of artist he wants to be. I respect that though, and always mean to catch up on his more recent stuff.

Thanks for the heads up though, i’ll see what I can find!

#21

This happened with a kpop group called Ateez, I got to see them about 2 or 3 months after starting to listen to them and I’m glad I did, they didn’t have many songs out yet but were already well liked enough to justify touring world wide, they’ve done really well since (this was 2 years ago) and I like them even more and was supposed to see them again last year but it was cancelled because of coronavirus. I prefer being able to see a band I love tbh once I know them really well so I can fully enjoy the songs, it has happened that I listened to a band live then got into them more after and was like “i wish I loved this song earlier so I could have appreciated it more when seeing it live”. That excitement of hearing a song live that you listened to for ages and love and are now enjoying it in front of your face with loads of others who love it just as much as you is so so good <3

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#22

I think I went to see Black Midi having barely heard a note (because it was just some YouTube live videos and stuff like that available at the time)

I always like when you hear a band, like em, and then find they’re playing near you (esp seeing as I live in the W Midlands where bands tend to skip over)

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#23

The big one for me is hearing Young Fathers for the first time and thinking they were great, then a couple of days later walking home in the evening when I came across a guy walking up and down a queue outside Gorilla asking if anybody needed a ticket as he had a spare he would sell for cheap. I overheard and asked who the band was, he said it’s Young Fathers and I was like yeah I’ll take that ticket. That show was, and still is one of the best I’ve ever seen.

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#24

I used to regularly go and stay with mates in Nottingham. One weekend in 2003 I got up there to be told that we were all going to a gig the following night.

It was Arab Strap on their Hug and Pint tour. I hadn’t heard a note of their music before. Phenomenal. I went out and bought Philophobia the next morning.

Covid permitting, I’m going to see them with the same pal in September.

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