Oh I am sorry, I didn’t realise that was being done.
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No worries- you can still see their content by hitting the text only button on your browser.
For now, at least. With everything going paywalled it would be nice if a subscription was available for a compilation of sites.
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In honor of Bastille Day, here is a little Frenchness.
In some ways, Erik Satie was a luddite. He never recorded any of his music, and he never used a telephone. But once he did appear on the radio, and he was also in a movie once.
Here he is with Francis Picabia and a stop-motion canon. This is part of a Dadaist short film titled Entr’acte. It was shown between acts of the ballet Relâche.
This was one year before he died.
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Fun, she came up in an episode of one of the new podcasts i’m listening to (new to me). The podcast being The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
she’s also known for making impressive conclusions in medicine. She seems to have had some idea that boiling water could prevent disease, and she also appears to be one of the first people to connect syphilis to its sexual transmission. And of course, as we explain in the podcast, she provided a remarkably thorough description of a female orgasm
I recommend the podcast, it’s delightful.
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I have a particular fondness for women’s voice choirs, and indeed women vocal ensembles in general, so I get to hear Hildegaard music a fair bit. She’s a megastar in that scene! Like Meredith Monk. Who is also totally awesome.
I mention this only as all these elements are things that I recommend everyone adds to their musical experience. Just because I believe they may make your life better and why not try?
I may also be in a good mood about the healing power of music as i just got the bus back from the life affirming Sparks and stopped for a glass of nice whiskey at the pub 50m from my house.
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Watching this now. Some interesting history of Chicago in the early part of this video…
And his editor getting saucy…
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Still not a fan…
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Stay strong!
I can’t admit to my child how, after queuing for four hours online and I couldn’t get tickets, I’m relieved. Really relieved.
And I really like live music.
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Obligatory “fuck Ticketmaster” response. I know I’m a hypocrite because of the amount of money they have made off of me over the past decade or so, but for so many shows they are the only game in town.
AXS sucks too, but I will say when I got tickets for Purity Ring I was able to get a 2 tickets, VIP package, and reserved table at the venue, and complete the transaction within 3 minutes of the on-sale time (and all at a reasonable price). It was a welcome respite from the amount of constant and predictable fuckery when dealing with TM.
Like this shit from the recent past:
ETA
By the time I was able to get into the site to buy
anything, it was sold out. Most everybody was pissed off at how much of a clusterfuck TM was, and the absurd ticket pricing. GA tickets were almost $500 FFS. I ultimately got ok-ish tickets at an ok-ish price a few days later once things settled down but I definitely didn’t feel good about it. That was outweighed by really wanting to see NIN.
I ran into the same problem when Lady Gaga tickets went on sale, and even with 2 additional shows being added, all 3 shows sold out almost immediately, and decent seats were over $1500. Nosebleeds started at $300. As much as I’d love to see Lady Gaga, I’m not paying that kind of money for concert tickets unless it’s something really fucking special.
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Oh yeah, TicketBastard deliberately made the sale go really slowly so that they could have people five hours in finally getting tickets and they were a hundred or more above the price you clicked and the wait helped with the conversion rate on that piece of fuckery.
Also shout out to that time that there was cross party support for anti-ticket tout legislation here and only one lobbyist against it: TicketBastard!
Scumbag monopolist vertically integrated actual fucking criminals. Lock them all up. Start with the CEO and CFO who are extraordinarily overpaid for the size and PE simply because they are running a crime syndicate.
All their major shareholders know this, and they are very comfortable with that fact, so lock those fucking criminals up next.
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It’s like I get supply and demand and all that, but The Cure showed that there can be an equitable way to do this by having a lottery, only allowing face-value resale, not allowing transfers, no “platinum” (airline style dynamic pricing), reasonably priced tickets (cheap seats were around $25), and no extra fees. The fan-to-fan resale process was frictionless with no double dipping on fees. There was also a drip feed of additional seats added closer to the show date. Everybody got an equal shot without bots buying everything up. This experience showed me that yes, it’s possible for TM to make this process not suck if the artist/promoter is willing to sacrifice some profit.
Pearl Jam did the same thing recently, but the mistake they made was pricing floor tickets at over $900. Fuck that noise. My row 2 tickets for The Cure were a completely reasonable $250. (And well worth it — the opener The Twilight Sad was absolutely amazing, and The Cure played for close to 3 hours.)
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I has a sad that I didn’t go to the Cure last time they came to town and my child said afterwards she wanted to go.
I’ve seen them a couple of times and they do play long “this is the last encore. But it’s going to be really really long”. Cue seven song encore including one really long song
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My sisters went to see Taylor Swift in Dublin last year. It was cheaper to buy tickets for the Dublin show and fly round trip from Chicago than it was to buy tickets for the Chicago show.
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Wow! That’s… insane. I had a friend in grad school from france and it was cheaper for her to fly home to get some dental work done than it was to have it done here…
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She was far from alone in that. I believe that TicketBastard have slightly less of a monopoly in Europe and that moderates prices somewhat.
Also air travel is massively subsidised (subsidised airplanes, subsidised fuel, subsidised airports, subsidised transport to and from airports, etc.) which means insane things like that can happen.
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I’ve seen them a couple of times and they do play long “this is the last encore. But it’s going to be really really long”. Cue seven song encore including one really long song
I’d never seen The Cure before as I’ve always been more of a casual fan than anything but I was just blown away by the quality of the show, cheap (but very high quality) merch, and reasonable ticket prices. Best of all, Robert Smith looked almost giddy with excitement to be there and seemed so genuinely humbled by the crowd response. After a ho-hum performance of one of their deeper tracks/indulgences, Smith apologized to the crowd saying how they like to play with the set list at every show and sometimes it doesn’t work out. His authenticity was lovely. I’ve seen so many bands who are clearly just there for the paycheck and going through the motions that Smith’s whole positive demeanor really resonated with me. It really converted me into a bigger fan and supporter.
While not quite the same, I’ve found that often times it’s way cheaper to get tickets to shows in Vancouver BC, which is just a couple hours away versus the same shows when they are here. Also I find the BC crowds to be much more enthusiastic than Seattle crowds — probably because it’s even more of a wilderness when it comes to tours. I like to say, Seattle doesn’t have music fans, it has music enjoyers, which means concerts often have pretty low key and more serious crowds. I’ve been to some wild shows here before, but usually it’s a different vibe.
It’s not necessarily worth it for me to pick Vancouver over Seattle since things like fuel and hotel costs will generally balance out in the end, but given the choice between that and Portland or central/eastern WA, it’s usually a no brainer. (Then again, these days I’m less enthusiastic to cross the border.)
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