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Within the next week I'm going to Orville Peck and Tomorrow Syndicate both at Mono, Bambara at The Poetry Club, Harri Endersby at The Hug & Pint and Cher at the Hydro. Properly buzzing for Cher. 

Managed to get a Nick Cave on presale this morning as well. Never seen him before and the new record is fantastic, so that should be great.

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5 hours ago, GrahamJags said:

Within the next week I'm going to Orville Peck and Tomorrow Syndicate both at Mono, Bambara at The Poetry Club, Harri Endersby at The Hug & Pint and Cher at the Hydro. Properly buzzing for Cher. 

Really looking forward to seeing Cher as well. It'll be some show.

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Saw the Mondays last night in Aberdeen, finally completed my triangle of ex-Factory bands I'd really wanted to see. Sounded solid enough, and getting to hear Ryder swear his way through 24HPP was a joy. (Think he may have had some inner-ear lyrical assistance, mind you.)

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Spare ticket for The Libertines in Zürich tonight, if anyone wants it...

Missus has pulled the pregnancy card and can't be fucked going, and the folk over here I would generally go to gigs with have all said no. Hasn't sold out either so not much of a market for punting it on.

On that note, whats the general thoughts on attending gigs on your lonesome? Can't recall ever having been in this position before!

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2 hours ago, Ross. said:

On that note, whats the general thoughts on attending gigs on your lonesome? Can't recall ever having been in this position before!

I go to gigs on my own a lot, and often prefer it. Sort of like going to the cinema on your own. Means you don't have folk talking during the band's set (that you know, anyway) and can show up for stage time and just head straight home. 

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6 minutes ago, GrahamJags said:

I go to gigs on my own a lot, and often prefer it. Sort of like going to the cinema on your own. Means you don't have folk talking during the band's set (that you know, anyway) and can show up for stage time and just head straight home. 

Only ever done it at festivals when there was a clash and folk wanted to see different bands at the same time. Will be a first for me at a gig on my own. Your plan sounds quite good, though I'll need to see who the support act are before I decide just when to show up. Couple of pints, find a good view, then boost as soon as it is done.

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I go to quite lot of gigs by myself, more so as I get older. Two reasons really.

1. My pals aren't hugely into music generally, and those that are have fled far and wide as life has taken hold - marriages, kids, careers etc etc. So nights out can take a good bit of planning these days and in our group that seldom involves music.

2. I like to travel to see a band, can't beat an overnight trip somewhere new with a gig to anchor your night to. Great with a pal in tow, but understandably it can be hard to get them to come along if they're not that interested in the band - money, time off work and so on.

So to me it's often a case of just book it up and then see if anybody wants to join me.

This weekend I went to one gig with a pal and one gig without, and both nights were absolutely fine by me, I'm very happy with my own company.

The fact is that once you're there, nobody gives a toss who you came with, so the only social awkwardness is within you, and you can just get over that with the right mindset.

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1 hour ago, Le Tout P'ti FC said:

I go to quite lot of gigs by myself, more so as I get older. Two reasons really.

1. My pals aren't hugely into music generally, and those that are have fled far and wide as life has taken hold - marriages, kids, careers etc etc. So nights out can take a good bit of planning these days and in our group that seldom involves music.

2. I like to travel to see a band, can't beat an overnight trip somewhere new with a gig to anchor your night to. Great with a pal in tow, but understandably it can be hard to get them to come along if they're not that interested in the band - money, time off work and so on.

So to me it's often a case of just book it up and then see if anybody wants to join me.

This weekend I went to one gig with a pal and one gig without, and both nights were absolutely fine by me, I'm very happy with my own company.

The fact is that once you're there, nobody gives a toss who you came with, so the only social awkwardness is within you, and you can just get over that with the right mindset.

I think it is something I will maybe have to start doing, in part for some of the reasons you mention. Most of the guys who listen to the stuff I am into are all back home in Scotland, and generally over here the folk I socialise with have very different tastes in music and they don't tend to be as open to going to a random gig as people in the UK. I will generally take a ticket for anything that is going if someone has a spare, even if I'm not a huge fan of the music. I quite like going to different venues and seeing what the atmosphere is like at different events, but that doesn't seem to be something that many people are open to here. If they don't like the name then they just don't bother.

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I'm in much the same place - I generally buy two tickets to any gig I fancy on the basis that there'll probably be someone I can drag along. But it hasn't always happened for one reason and another (yeah, people have families and stuff - but chief among the reasons is probably the obscure / barely listenable nature of the music I've been dragging them along to). So I've started getting used to the idea of being there myself sometimes and it's been fine. I'm less likely to go along in time for the support, unless it's someone I'm looking forward to seeing in their own right, but it's certainly never lessened my enjoyment of the music itself.

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4 hours ago, Le Tout P'ti FC said:

The fact is that once you're there, nobody gives a toss who you came with, so the only social awkwardness is within you, and you can just get over that with the right mindset.

I won't tell you how many times I've been to a gig on my own, or why, but this is the sort of advice I was going to share.

Maybe you stand next to an overly friendly person and talk to them for a bit. There's nothing wrong with it. 

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2 hours ago, Andrew Wells said:

I'm going to Bjorn Again in Sheffield myself. I get to make a total c**t of myself singing, boozing and dancing with nobody who knows me within a shitload of miles of me.

Gotta love it.

Going to see The Damned, Jesus and Mary Chain, or the like, on your own is fine.

Going to see Bjorn Again, Steps or the like is weird.

Hand yourself in.

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