Editor’s Note: As of October 2016, the concert list below is no longer being updated. I have replaced it with a Page about concerts I’ve seen.
This is not, strictly speaking, a post about Europe, but it ties together. With the Jazz Festival in town this weekend, I’ve been getting to see a lot of interesting bands, which got me thinking.
I love live music. I love all music, really, but live music is especially fun for me.
Much of my travel to a new city happens because of a concert. It starts when a band or artist that I’m interested in seeing announces a show. If they’re playing within an hour of me, I’ll usually just hop a train to see the show but if they aren’t playing a venue within an hour of me, the concert becomes my next trip.
I saw Frankfurt because Thomas Dolby played there. I saw Kempten because VNV Nation played there. I’m going back to Berlin again in October because the Scissor Sisters are coming. (Edit: It was cancelled. ::sigh::) I’m thinking about seeing Covenant in Hamburg and Muse in Munich. You get the idea. I pass up more concerts than I actually select, despite the fact that I want to see them all. There just isn’t enough time and money to see them all.
It’s nice to look back at what I’ve seen though, because I’ve seen a LOT of concerts, and sometimes I forget just how actively I’ve followed the music. What follows is a list of every concert I’ve seen (that I can recall), including some well known comedians. I’m not including musicals, broadway or otherwise, but that would add another dozen or so names to the list. An asterisk (*) means I’ve seen them more than once. I plan to add this post to the navigation bar on the blog and keep it up to date moving forward.
I’ve always thought you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to. Judging by this list, I either have really good taste or a deep and fulfilling psychosis.
Editor’s Note: As of October 2016, the concert list below is no longer being updated. I have replaced it with a Page about concerts I’ve seen.
- Air Supply
- The Alan Parsons Live Project
- Tori Amos*
- And One
- Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull
- Apoptygma Berzerk
- Fiona Apple
- Augustana
- Bad Company
- Barenaked Ladies
- Baskery
- Bauhaus
- Ben Folds Five
- Big Electric Cat
- Lewis Black*
- Black Tape For A Blue Girl
- The Blue Man Group*
- Jimmy Buffett
- Capitol Steps*
- George Carlin*
- Carrot Top
- Peter Cetera
- Eagle-Eye Cherry
- Chicago
- Christian Death
- Peter Cincotti
- John Cleese and Eric Idle
- George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
- David Copperfield
- Counting Crows
- The Cranberries
- Sheryl Crow
- The Cure
- The Dandy Warhols
- Das Ich
- Depeche Mode*
- De/Vision*
- Dennis Deyoung
- Thomas Dolby
- Eels
- Erasure*
- Faith & The Muse
- Florence + The Machine*
- Freezepop
- Front 242
- Funker Vogt
- Gin Blossoms
- Glasperlenspiel
- Dana Gould
- Ellie Goulding*
- Buddy Guy*
- Colin Hay
- Hayseed Dixie
- Ichor
- Imperative Reaction
- Indigo Girls
- Information Society*
- Inhouse*
- Eddie Izzard*
- Jars Of Clay
- Jesus and Mary Chain
- Eric Johnson
- Howard Jones
- Kansas
- BB King
- Kraftwerk
- Chantal Kreviaczuk
- Cyndi Lauper*
- Legendary Pink Dots
- Lisa Loeb*
- Lonestar
- Bill Maher
- Malign
- Barry Manilow
- Marilyn Manson
- Sarah McLachlan
- Andrew McMahon
- Meat Loaf
- Melotron
- Idina Menzel
- Mesh
- The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones
- Mika
- The Mission UK
- Alanis Morissette*
- My Morning Jacket
- New Edition
- Nine Inch Nails
- Gary Numan*
- The Nylons
- Billy Ocean
- Patton Oswalt
- Owl City*
- Panic! at the Disco
- Paramore
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Pet Shop Boys
- Bernadette Peters
- Emo Phillips
- Pixies
- Postmodern Jukebox
- Primitive Radio Gods
- Prince (as “The Artist”)
- Project Pitchfork*
- The Psychedelic Furs
- Rasputina
- REO Speedwagon
- Bob Saget
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Vonda Shepard
- Ashlee Simpson
- Sisters Of Mercy
- Slip and the Spinouts
- Lindsey Stirling*
- Stomp*
- Styx*
- Sunshine Blind
- Switchblade Symphony*
- Tegan & Sara
- They Might Be Giants
- KT Tunstall
- U2
- The Village People*
- Violent Femmes
- VNV Nation*
- Voltaire
- Wallflowers
- Weezer
- Welle:Erdball
- Winger
- Weird Al Yankovic*
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