I thought it was a good-humoured "actually it was even cheaper than that!"
― Alba, Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:50 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn9ihX4SBeA
― Cathy Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 May 2023 17:56 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uU5JsyD.jpg
My actual ticket stubs with some bonus shows I saw. This was the third and last time I saw them and this would be The Queen Is Dead tour. This one cost me $19.50, inflation lol.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 20 May 2023 18:13 (eleven months ago) link
There's part of me that regrets missing these shows massively (though granted I was in San Diego rather than the LA area). At the same time, I kinda appreciate how this *wasn't* my high school listening -- college, sure, but it's nice not to have those bands/music tangled up with said high school times. Probably explains why they last for me.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 May 2023 18:18 (eleven months ago) link
I wish I still had my ticket stubs. I saw them in 1986 at what we affectionately called the "Cement Center" on the University of Colorado campus.
The SmithsSeptember 3, 1986CU Events Center, Boulder, CO
Still IllI Want the One I Can't HaveThere Is a Light That Never Goes OutHow Soon Is Now?Frankly, Mr. ShanklyPanicStretch Out and WaitThe Boy With the Thorn in His SideIs It Really So Strange?Cemetery GatesNever Had No One EverWhat She Said(with Rubber Ring intro and outro)That Joke Isn't Funny AnymoreMeat Is MurderRusholme Ruffians(with (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame intro)The Queen Is Dead
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 May 2023 18:37 (eleven months ago) link
Our seats were pretty far back, so it was hard to get a solid impression of the band. I did get to see Mike and Andy playing with Sinead on her first US tour a couple years later, we were right up front. I had no idea they were touring with her until I saw them. What a magic moment that was.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 May 2023 18:41 (eleven months ago) link
Meanwhile their music is almost entirely tied into my miserable high school experience to a profound degree. I don’t think I listened to this band for 15 years after hs until it seemed like distant history bc my life had changed sufficiently.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 May 2023 18:48 (eleven months ago) link
I can find almost no evidence online of that Sinead show, other than these photos from her press conference of the same day. Odd.
https://fairangels.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/sinead-oconnor-in-denver-1988/
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 May 2023 18:50 (eleven months ago) link
xp I can relate, LL. For me, it was the middle of my college career, a time when I felt lonely, isolated and exhausted. I found the Smiths affirming as well as depressing.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 May 2023 18:51 (eleven months ago) link
Bee OK forgot to mention that the $17.50 Nov 1986 New Order show at Irvine Meadows also included The Fall and The Durutti Column as openers
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 May 2023 05:52 (eleven months ago) link
I texted some friends that went to this show with me to see if we were on time. We were and The Durutti Column opened the whole damn thing. My mind is sort of blown right now as I realize that I saw the Fall live.
Thanks ET for taking me down that road for some early memories.
― Bee OK, Monday, 22 May 2023 00:16 (eleven months ago) link
Ah, yes, the "Pumped Full of Drugs Tour."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 17:28 (eleven months ago) link