Roxy Music: frickin' nice or frickin' not nice

Actually $55 now that I'm checking, but they really suck.

this is in Turonno

DC has $55 nosebleed tickets too

I'm going! Tickets at the brand new Moody Center in Austin were $135 + fees for dead center mezzanine level.

so what y'all are saying is that you wouldn't pay 92.25 for nosebleed tix

I got 4 tix for $110 apiece at the TD Garden in Boston in the loge on the side (I purposely ignored how awful the fees were). That felt ... reasonable.

x-post re nosebleed seats - maybe I would pay that (but decided to splurge for more expensive ones)

I'm going to O2 and The Forum lol!

If I was sitting in the nosebleeds, I would go for $55 because you're really not gaining ANYTHING from the distance achieved at the $92.25 level. To put it in perspective, I saw Elton John at the cheapest seats, and I don't think it was any different than the low level seats I passed to get to mine because in both cases, Elton was tiny and the screen behind him (what I basically stared at the whole time) was enormous.

So it's either cheapest possible for nosebleeds or a decent but much more expensive seat in the lower tiers or floor.

Like Naive Teen Idol said, for less than $20 more, you can get a whole lot closer than nosebleeds, but for half the price, you probably can't tell much of a difference when you're already that far up.

Or rather based on the numbers he gave for the seats he got.

I paid an extra $40 per ticket for the Phil Manzanera VR experience, you stand in the concourse and see a video feed of the entire show through his sunglasses.

lol

irl lol f. hazel

fuck it, just coughed up $150

Only going to go to this if Paul Thompson is on drums.

it is

It's basically the classic line-up, but not the first iteration with Brian Eno. I didn't think Eno would join, but Jesus I would've splurged for the $300 seats if he did...

i suppose it's possible he might pop into a London show but I wouldn't count on it (more likely, he may go to the show and not perform, ala Gabriel at the last Genesis gig)

the 2001 Roxy show I saw is by far the best “reformed band plays back catalogue” show i have seen - and i have probably seen too many - they were so good! i went as a casual listener and left a devoted fan

saw Ferry a few years back and found it a bit disappointing - he was cool but i found his band a bit underwhelming, i was hoping for a hyper-drilled unit of young guns recreating the studio sheen of his best solo stuff - but it just felt a bit tired and session-y

I remember at the 2011 (?) Roxy shows there was meant to be a bit of tension re Bryan wanting to fold his solo hits into the setlist, and the band resisting - i think they played Let’s Stick Together as a compromise - i certainly would have been outraged if the show i saw had ended with that instead of For Your Pleasure, it was a perfect way to close out a show

Wonder if that was the tour I saw in the little theater at MSG with Rufus Wainwright opening.

If you mean 2001, yes.

when was the last time eno was even on stage performing for a crowd?

Singing with Stephen Colbert and Michael Stipe in 2011?

I did not know this existed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_72UC9npjg

xxp I guess in 2016?

https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/brian-eno-3bd6a03c.html

i saw Eno perform live in 2009 - it was an event called Pure Scenius, a live semi-improvised collaboration with Karl Hyde, Jon Hopkins, The Necks, Leo Abrahams maybe some other people i've forgotten about! there were three concerts in one evening, with Eno directing the course of each improvisation from a little control station onstage (and very occasionally singing and playing a bit of keyboard). if it wasn't quite as good as it could have been, there were definite highlights and felt like a legitimate way to "see Eno live" - ambitious and interesting, rather than just a trad live show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDs70rPj36A

Well, went for tickets for SF so bring on the stately chaos, if you will.

I believe Eno did something live with his brother in the past six months in Athens.

Yes, at the Acropolis last August:
https://vk.com/video/@brianeno

Just noticed that the link works on my desktop but not my phone, where I'm prompted to register.

youtube-dl works on that link if anyone wants to d/l for later.

I briefly thought that Eno Bros at the Acropolis concert was for this summer and contemplated taking my family to Greece. I’m glad I checked. 😬

hell....yes

https://i.imgur.com/zqHLGph.jpeg

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