[Music] Gigs / Concerts you're going to miss in 2020

[southstandandy]

Reading an interesting article from one of the Sunday papers about the likelihood of most if not all large scale music events being cancelled or delayed for the rest of 2020, and knowing that many NSC'ers are keen music fans I was wondering what gigs you had planned that you're going to miss this year?

Behind the Albion my main passion has always been gig going (usually 20 to 30 gigs a year) and having checked my diary I am likely to miss the following :

Pearl Jam
The Eagles
Foals
Gabrielle Aplin
Elbow
Texas
Michael Kiwanuka
Paul Weller
Thw Wedding Present
The Stranglers
Nick Mason

Most will be rescheduled but what gigs did you have planned you're going to miss?

 

[atomised]

Reading an interesting article from one of the Sunday papers about the likelihood of most if not all large scale music events being cancelled or delayed for the rest of 2020, and knowing that many NSC'ers are keen music fans I was wondering what gigs you had planned that you're going to miss this year?

Behind the Albion my main passion has always been gig going (usually 20 to 30 gigs a year) and having checked my diary I am likely to miss the following :

Pearl Jam
The Eagles
Foals
Gabrielle Aplin
Elbow
Texas
Michael Kiwanuka
Paul Weller
Thw Wedding Present
The Stranglers
Nick Mason

Most will be rescheduled but what gigs did you have planned you're going to miss?

Pearl Jam
Taylor Swift
Slipknot
Stormzy
The Wedding Present
BTS

 

[Superphil]

Anvil
Parkway Drive
Saxon
Taylor Swift
Phil Campbell
Amy Wadge
All so far either postponed or cancelled,

In addition I’m guessing that Guns ‘n Roses in May and Doomsday Fest In June will be cancelled too.

 

[Driver8]

So far

Guns n Roses (will be cancelled shortly)
Download Festival
Nick Mason (rescheduled for October).

 

[Mr Bridger]

Have already missed
Stiff Little Fingers

will miss

Glastonbury
The Eagles

 

[jimhigham]

So far...

Beach Riot
Lady Bird
Foals

Martin Rossiter rescheduled for October so hopefully still good for 2020 but who knows?

 

[Barry Izbak]

Joe Bonamassa in Brighton this Saturday.

I was going to manage to get down there after the Man City game only for that to be moved to tea time.

Little did I know I would miss both

 

[Peteinblack]

Luckily saw Half Man Half Biscuit in Bristol a week before lock-down kicked in!

Gigs I've got tickets for:

Killing Joke (Bristol - June)
Blancmange (Bristol - October)
Sparks (Amsterdam - October)

Really hoping that the October gigs will go ahead, but know I'm probably being over-optimistic.

 

[OzMike]

My birthday reunion with my twin brother and rest of my family in England, it should have been last weekend.

 

[southstandandy]

Luckily saw Half Man Half Biscuit in Bristol a week before lock-down kicked in!

Gigs I've got tickets for:

Killing Joke (Bristol - June)
Blancmange (Bristol - October)
Sparks (Amsterdam - October)

Really hoping that the October gigs will go ahead, but know I'm probably being over-optimistic.

Yeah - some of my April gigs have been moved to October but without trying to be negative I can't see any event with more than a few hundred in attendance likely to go ahead until next year. That was the gist of the article I was reading. Will be gutted if not only I'll lose the chance to go to the footy again in 2020 but the gigs as well - my 2 main passions (after ther wife obviously...)

 

[blue'n'white]

Only had the one gig planned for early in the year - Jeff Beck at the Albert Hall at the end of May - as I was due to go into hospital for a hip operation in late March. The operation was, obviously, postponed but I've heard nothing about the concert.
I've got a festival planned for late August and am hoping that that will go ahead.

EDIT : Now checked and it's been postponed

 

[AmexRuislip]

Only had the one gig planned for early in the year - Jeff Beck at the Albert Hall at the end of May - as I was due to go into hospital for a hip operation in late March. The operation was, obviously, postponed but I've heard nothing about the concert.
I've got a festival planned for late August and am hoping that that will go ahead.

A bit way off for us, but Jools Holland at the RAH in November, will hopefully still go ahead.....

 

[Peteinblack]

Yeah - some of my April gigs have been moved to October but without trying to be negative I can't see any event with more than a few hundred in attendance likely to go ahead until next year. That was the gist of the article I was reading. Will be gutted if not only I'll lose the chance to go to the footy again in 2020 but the gigs as well - my 2 main passions (after ther wife obviously...)

A kindred spirit - footie and gigs are my two main interests, along with reading novels. Still go to gigs by bands I first saw in the 1980s - Wedding Present, Stranglers, Wire, Chameleons, Blancmange, Nick Cave, Sparks, Half Man Half Biscuit, Killing Joke - many of them are as good, if not better, now than they were in their early days.

 

[Superphil]

A kindred spirit - footie and gigs are my two main interests, along with reading novels. Still go to gigs by bands I first saw in the 1980s - Wedding Present, Stranglers, Wire, Chameleons, Blancmange, Nick Cave, Sparks, Half Man half Biscuit, Killing Joke - many of them are as good, if not better, now than they were in their early days.

I'd suggest that Killing Joke are most certainly better now than they were then. Their show at the Concord II a couple of years back could well be my favourite ever gig.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I assume Buble at the cricket ground is off?

Mrs had VIP tickets with her mates. I was very much looking forward to a quiet night in nowhere near Buble

Was hoping to break my Great Escape duck this year. Never quite organised it

 

[pasty]

Not been officially cancelled yet, but I can't see Hastings Reggae Festival going ahead on August 1st

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

We were looking forward to seeing these, two weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OsETaZhBzE

 

[Alba Badger]

Elbow and possibly Doug Stanhope.

If this had been before I'd had kids the list would have been huge, sadly now I have no life and very few babysitters.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'd suggest that Killing Joke are most certainly better now than they were then. Their show at the Concord II a couple of years back could well be my favourite ever gig.

Wow.

I've seen them a couple of times, most recently about ten years ago. They are better when Jaz sings rather than growls, in my opinion. If he's gone back to singing . . . .

 

[Wilka]

Some of the gigs being re arrange for the end of the year seem a bit optermistic.

That fat boy slim gig for the NHS staff in October for instance seems a bit soon for a big gathering?