Fugazi. Tom Waits. Shellac. Eighties-Lineup Fall. The full Wu-Tang Clan.

are you stoned again?

x-post

Ratcat

flaming lips, always (don't care what you say about the new album.
with froginasock on ratcat. many other locals i'd pay to see. what ever happened to pollyanna?

the new season

Tom Waits, The Gordons, Can, Konono No.1, Chatmonchy, Dead C, Swans, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks.

radiohead, stone roses

Somebodies got to say it;

It is quite possible to pay an amount to see Tom Waits and many of these bands/performers.

So if the claim is that you would pay any amount to see them wouldn't have already done so?

wouldn't you have already done so?

thats what im thinking.

i would also say stone roses k2.

The Sailors, 1985 era Black Flag, Cheap Time and The Necessary Evils

i fucking had tickets to the second radiohead show that got cancelled.

stone roses aint gonna happen any time soon.

Sweet Baby, Boredoms.

me too k2! at the palae!

i can cross three off your list, zac. must say i'd go for '78-'82 flag over '85 any day. how about five piece mega-flag with chuck biscuits drumming?

dwarves '88-'91 is close to top of my list

My old list would have been Shiina Ringo, Chatmonchy, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, TsuShiMaMiRe, Go!Go! 7188 and The Flower Travellin' Band. However, over the last 18 months, I've managed to get to Japan twice and cross those bands off my list. I can vouch for all these acts as being simply amazing live and well worth the cost of the plane fares.

The Shiina Ringo show I saw in Tokyo in late 2008 was my gig of the decade. It's been gigs like this which have kindled my great love for Japanese music.

Currently I wouldn't mind seeing Judy and Mary if they reformed, but I'd settle for seeing YUKI play live.

Otherwise, Mean Machine, Tokyo Jihen, Perfume, Aiha Higurashi and Loves, PUFFY, Midori, and either Miki Furukawa or her band Supercar if they reformed too.

Fortunately over the last couple of years, I've managed to make quite a bit off progress on my old list and managed to see the following acts on my last couple of Japanese trips.

At The Drive-In and GYBE kthnxbai

I saw At The Drive-In at the hifi. Pack of sooks.

1985 era Black Flag, Cheap Time

I'm with rigid 78-82...although I'd most wanna see Chavo/Ron Reyes singing.

And Cheap Time 'Spoiled Brat' era with Jemima playing bass (although I wouldn't pay any amount to see that...I'm happy to stick to the youtube videos)

Os Mutantes 67-68

Red Cross 80-82

Supercharger 91-93, preferably playing with the Mummies

Little Richard 55 - October 57
(I'm reading his biography and it's mostly about butt-fucking. Mad!)

'Most any of the Back From The Grave bands around 66

Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto

Is another one of those threads made specifically for promoters to cash in on?

Kyuss played main support to metallica on the black album OZ tour I recall. They were pretty boring. as were metallica.

Jerry Lee Lewis in 1958.

Liz Phair.

Seriously.

damn straight, ashtray.

Royal Trux
Cooper Temple Clause
The Auteurs

The Auteurs

good one

I second Archers of Loaf and Husker Du

And add Neurosis

Cooper Temple Clause

Got a free ticket to see them however many years ago it was when they toured here, and it was so unmemorable that I'd completely forgotten about it until I saw this post. There was hardly anyone there.

Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue, current never ending tour Dylan, Husker Du, Cold Crush Brothers circa 1978, Bruce Springsteen, MF DOOM (even if he sucks live), and Daft Punk,

Bruce Springsteen

Holy fuck YES.

Got a free ticket to see them however many years ago it was when they toured here, and it was so unmemorable that I'd completely forgotten about it until I saw this post. There was hardly anyone there.

JudyDickslap... that is a bummer indeed!!

Oxbow.

Mingus, Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy as well

Judy/Rosevich:

From memory (and it's a bit hazy so I hope I got the right band) they were a late addition to the Vans Warped (more skate-punk) lineup ('04?) and didn't have a profile in Aus besides being an NME fave (like Vans Warped people read NME, right?). The band had a bit of a chip about how the festival crowds (and other bands on the tour) weren't giving them the respect they thought they deserved and were a bit snooty as a result, further alienating them from others.

I reckon it was just a bit of bad management to put them on that particular tour in the first place, and if they'd held out for about 6 months to build up some vibe (and Australian releases) before touring and did their own shows OR with a more similar/sympathetic lineup, they may have had a better reception than they did. When I went over to the UK one of my friends there (a Kiwi girl) was a massive fan, and she usually has some taste, so maybe I'll give them a second chance one day.

The Dead C, the Boss.

Not any amount 'cos I'm poor, but I'd pay a decent amount to see Jonathan Richman again. His show was one of the funniest, most enjoyable, good-natured shows I've ever seen.

From memory (and it's a bit hazy so I hope I got the right band) they were a late addition to the Vans Warped (more skate-punk) lineup ('04?) and didn't have a profile in Aus besides being an NME fave (like Vans Warped people read NME, right?).

English rock band from tropical Berkshire on a skate tour... no wonder THAT didn't work out.

Bowie (again)
Roxy Music (with Eno)
Icehouse

Back up, foolz. Cooper Temple Clause played the Warped tour? Who the fuck was the genius behind that idea?

JudyDickslap said 18 seconds ago:
Back up, foolz. Cooper Temple Clause played the Warped tour? Who the fuck was the genius behind that idea?

some tools like the guy who put Cat Power in Pyramid Festival? Ha.
I liked Cooper Temple Clause.

I really want to see Simians (before they are mobile and go to disco). Seriously, their debut album is fucking mind blowing.

i'd pay a reasonable amount to see jarvis cocker on a spoken-word only sort of tour. i could listen to him talk for hours and hours and possibly days. about anything. even the weather.