2020 Concerts you saw before COVID / 2020 Concerts you missed because of COVID

measured and responsible means "in June" in my mind

lol i just got an email from a promoter announcing an indoor show, love the optimism guys

― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, March 23, 2021 9:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

While it doesn't make sense to most (including me), I have seen photos of indoor shows in the northern Virginia suburbs of DC for awhile now. Some Instagram story clips I have seen included people standing and crowded together (kinda like a Florida spring break crowd) often without masks. Sadly, some don't care about measured and responsible.

I usually avoid Medium articles, but this one (on the subject at hand) appears to be good:

https://marker.medium.com/live-music-is-about-to-get-its-grand-reopening-e90015825fa8

That is all accurate

there's gonna be a lot of this kinda stuff but this one looks partic egregious: $45 to dance in place in public for an hour while David Byrne yells at you over an intercom

Beginning on Friday, April 9, SOCIAL! the social distance dance club offers an interactive music and movement-based experience conceived by choreographer Steven Hoggett, Tony Award-winning set designer Christine Jones—both of whom are currently Armory Artists-in-Residence—and multimedia artist and musician David Byrne (Talking Heads, David Byrne's American Utopia on stage and film, and Reasons to be Cheerful). With a playlist curated by Byrne, Hoggett, and Jones and mixed by New York City DJ Natasha Diggs, SOCIAL! invites participants to the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall to dance in their own socially distanced spotlights, all while listening to a wonderfully singular instructional voice over by David Byrne with choreography by Yasmine Lee. Moving free-form or in sync with the spoken choreography, audience members take part in a communal moment of cathartic release.

Get tickets now to be a part of this one-of-a-kind participatory dance experience.

After purchasing your ticket, you will receive an instructional dance video and welcome message from David Byrne. There will also be "dance ambassadors" mixed in the crowd to lead you through the moves—or you can choose your own style!

SOCIAL! the social distance dance club
A Social Distance Hall Production
Previews: Friday, April 9–Sunday, April 11, 2021
Performances: Tuesday, April 13–Thursday, April 22, 2021
Tickets: $45 (plus fees)
SOCIAL! is approximately 55 minutes with no intermission. This is a solitary participatory dance experience unsuitable for children under 10.

I just want to know why kids under 10 aren't allowed to participate

not cool enough

Steven Wilson just cancelled his European tour and is not rescheduling it. I have tickets for Van der Graaf Generator in the autumn but I'm not optimistic.

Sturgill Simpson cancelled his Webster Hall residency due to the current state of the pandemic. I actually went out to a bunch of shows for the first time in a long time last week, and Bob Mould's show at Webster Hall was one of them - I'd say most people (at least towards the back) weren't wearing masks despite requests by Mould, but there was a lot of beer consumption so it was difficult to see how mask-wearing would've been that prevalent and consistent.

The Lindsey Buckingham show at Town Hall had the most compliant audience in terms of mask wearing, mainly because the bars were outside of the actual theater rather than a part of it like most GA venues. Combined with a strict venue rule to wear masks at all other times (or be asked to leave), it was easily the safest show I had seen throughout the week.

I avoided seeing ZZ Top at our county fair, and while it was an outdoor concert, I didn’t feel like a county fair crowd with no vax or mask requirements would be a good place to immerse myself in right now.

Classical concerts however, I have no qualms about since everyone has to show proof of vaccination and be masked.

Tomorrow is my first live show since it all went down, Lucy Dacus/Bachelor. Given mask requirements, vax requirements, etc. and SF being just more on the ball in general, I'm looking forward, though my general plan for shows for the time being will be maybe hover briefly up front to get a quick photo or two and then go the back of the venue for more space/closer access to the outside if I feel I need it.

The Stones have even put it out a PSA for their fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQew-5jkEw

I think it all really comes down to the venue. Buckingham did talk about the pandemic in the context of the long, convoluted road it took to get the our started (basically a two-year delay which began with his open-heart surgery), but otherwise he didn't have to ask or plead - Town Hall's setup and rules took care of everything. Mould apparently has been butting heads with anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers on his own Facebook page - he asked nicely at his Webster Hall show, but I think he had enough after some of the more obnoxious assholes made a stink on his social media feeds.

Over at the tiny Poisson Rouge, there was no mask rule. Thurston Moore simply said, "I trust you're all vaccinated" before asking related follow-up questions like "how many have had their booster shot?" After the show, he masked up and hung out with the fans, but he didn't seem to give anyone a hard time for not wearing one if they asked for a photo or autograph. Patti Smith gently asked people to wear a mask because it wasn't a big deal, the least they can do - the older members of the crowd were all pretty good about it, but it was actually a pretty young crowd up front (college age) and I want to say most did comply. Regardless, there's a vaccine requirement at all shows and venues thanks to the city, and honestly, that's really the only way to do it at this point.

I should add it's been a week since I've been to shows and it doesn't look like I caught anything. Fully vaccinated, but I also wear an N95 that I wear properly and never take off - goes on before I leave home and stays on until I step back through the same door. (i.e no drinking much less eating at any of the shows) I don't even touch it unless my hands have been thoroughly washed or at least hand-sanitized.

Bob Dylan just announced the first batch of dates for the “Rough and Rowdy Ways” World Wide Tour 2021-2024.

My first show back was Wilco/Sleater-Kinney a month or so ago, an outdoor/vax required event so I felt pretty safe. It was a good warm-up for the college football game I attended a couple weeks after that, 110,000 screamers and no vax requirement! At this point I would feel comfortable at any kind of outdoor event, but am still a little wary of indoor venues.

Hopefully Bob swings back through Chicago at some point over that four year tour, I'm not ready to pull the trigger on tickets for an indoor show just yet.

Shows I had tickets for before Covid:
Holly Herndon
Floating Points
Squarepusher
Jenny Hval
Dan Deacon

Shows I bought tickets for in May/June thinking it would be safe to see and didn't go to because of my concerns with Delta:
Madlib & Freddie Gibbs

I think the Deacon show has been rescheduled, not sure of the rest (I think most if not all were canceled and either refunded or given to the artists)

Dead and Company cancelled their two Florida shows coming up next month. Official reasoning being "routing and production logistics", but I won't be surprised to lean that is has more to do with DeSantis and his anti-vaccine proof stance. They've been pretty big on proof of vaccine requirements at their shows and vocally concerned about Delta. Considering they are still managing the "routing and production logistics" are still getting them through North Carolina and Georgia, it's hard not to read between the lines about why only the Florida shows got scratched.

Shit, wrong thread, thought this was the other COVID tour thread.