I feel like what #LFF needs is a few more screenings of the History of Concrete

Any recommendations for a site that sends you email notifications for when bands are touring near you that aren’t Songkick or Bandsintown?

I feel like many people don’t know or have forgotten Tom Hardy’s MySpace era

In other film related news, the best film I saw in 2023 is on iplayer – The Taste of Things: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002rlpp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002rlpp

I saw Coyote vs Acme yesterday and really enjoyed it. It’s fun, funny and at times unexpectedly touching

Reading back in my livejournal to try and figure out why Concert Archives has me at a Frank Turner gig in December 2009 and OUT OF NOWHERE finding the answer to why I don’t remember going to see Muse in Birmingham. This has literally baffled me for YEARS.

I know what my favourite band look like. I’ve seen them probably about 10 times in person at this point and watched countless videos. I’ve been at the front of gigs enough times and now I like being further back where it is slightly less energetic.

Anyway, it got me thinking and really the thing I want from being at a concert is that visceral feeling of being in community/communion with everyone in that room who loves this band as much as I do.

…but eh whatever it’s a gig and we are all squashed in together and more importantly, because we were squashed in together I was getting too hot so I told him and he swapped places so I now had less human at my back and was cooler. I think among whatever thoughts he was having was that he was taller than me and I wouldn’t be able to see, because he did seem to check a few times but the thing about going to gigs is the being there, with the other fans, feeling the music blast you at volume.

Just come back from seeing my favourite band, AFI, in Birmingham and ahhhhhhhhhhh they were so good and last night’s gig was even better than the London one last week so actually it’s good that the London date only got announced weeks and weeks and weeks after the rest of the tour.

Probably about 3 or 4 songs in, I turned to the guy behind me and asked him to swap places and he was like “no, it’s ok” I suspect because he was aware he was very close and I dunno what else he might have assumed…

I do enjoy that obviously trains in the midlands have announcements with midlands accents