Rocafella Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 Aston Villa or the Red Hot Chili Peppers live? Tough call.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 The pogues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post mjmooney Posted February 28, 2020 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2020 Apples and oranges. Bands only tour intermittently, but football teams play at least twenty games every year. Scrap the 'favourite band' bit, and rephrase the question: would you choose live music once a week (different bands) OR live football once a week? I made that decision some years ago - I've been to one Villa game in the last five years (maybe longer, actually), but I've been to scores of gigs. I'd like to do both, but cost and logistics have ruled it out; it's easier and cheaper to let the bands come to me than for me to go to games. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 I don’t have the money to watch corporate level giant stadia football just as I don’t have the money to see corporate level giant stadia bands. Luckily, even if I had the money for that, I wouldn’t have the inclination. I want their star striker to hear my artfully honed insult. I want to get a smile from the bass player. So last week I stood with 299 others and watched Barry Town and this week I’ll be stood with 299 others wigging out to The Keys. Total spend over 2 weekends, £23. And that includes parking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 My favorite bands come around my way with regularity, and being in the USA, watching Villa in person is hard to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veloman Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 7 hours ago, chrisp65 said: I don’t have the money to watch corporate level giant stadia football just as I don’t have the money to see corporate level giant stadia bands. Luckily, even if I had the money for that, I wouldn’t have the inclination. I want their star striker to hear my artfully honed insult. I want to get a smile from the bass player. So last week I stood with 299 others and watched Barry Town and this week I’ll be stood with 299 others wigging out to The Keys. Total spend over 2 weekends, £23. And that includes parking. There you are; best of both Worlds. !! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 In my early 20s following on from the libs and strokes when there was a boom it was a band a week, the enemy, pigeon detectives, the twang etc for less than a tenner, failing that just the sunflower lounge to see who was on, barfly was a great venue for upcoming bands too then it was a villa season ticket, then it was villa home and away, then Europe...then villa went shit, really shit at the moment it’s neither i would say bands but as I’m now older and like what I like rather than going to see someone with a bit of buzz around them gigs pain me half the time, proper old man mode when I see someone I’ve seen 10+ times charging north of £30 half the time I can’t be bothered, I think I’m more interested in day festivals and cramming bands in, shame the brum one last year with twang, coral, Marr and doves, which was something like £40 didn’t sell out so they had the best competition in history and gave every entrant a free ticket, absolutely pissed it down so still no one turned up and it was probably considered a failure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 29, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 29, 2020 Yeah, seconded on the advantages of watching 'further down the ladder'. I have been to watch non-league football, and for every seventy quid Neil Young I go to, there are dozens of 'pass the hat' local gigs - a lot more fun in many ways, for the reasons Chrisp suggests. And playing open mic nights myself is like my current equivalent of playing parks football back in my 20s and 30s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCU Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 5 hours ago, villa4europe said: In my early 20s following on from the libs and strokes when there was a boom it was a band a week, the enemy, pigeon detectives, the twang etc for less than a tenner, failing that just the sunflower lounge to see who was on, barfly was a great venue for upcoming bands too then it was a villa season ticket, then it was villa home and away, then Europe...then villa went shit, really shit at the moment it’s neither i would say bands but as I’m now older and like what I like rather than going to see someone with a bit of buzz around them gigs pain me half the time, proper old man mode when I see someone I’ve seen 10+ times charging north of £30 half the time I can’t be bothered, I think I’m more interested in day festivals and cramming bands in, shame the brum one last year with twang, coral, Marr and doves, which was something like £40 didn’t sell out so they had the best competition in history and gave every entrant a free ticket, absolutely pissed it down so still no one turned up and it was probably considered a failure Similar to me. Absolutely caned Villa home and away back in my late teens. The last 7 or so years (ironically when we've started doing shit) I just lost interest. I will go to the odd home game a season and do enjoy it, but I've lost the spark. Went to my first gig in 2011 - Arctic Monkeys so would have been 20 odd. Quite honestly blew me away, I can't express the feeling I had that night seeing one of my favourite bands perform music I'd casually listen to every day. That kicked off my serious love for it and still to this day. (Saw Editors on Thursday night, my first gig this year). You can leave a gig happy... but not always a football match. So in response to the dug up thread... right now it would have to be band over team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 5 hours ago, veloman said: There you are; best of both Worlds. !! We had a Europa League qualifier round match against Cliftonville back in the summer. They had a band in the clubhouse that basically just kept playing that song. We went in to town and a pub put it on repeat on their sound system. We went in a pub late after the game and there was a fiddle band in the corner, they played it. But just the fact we were in their clubhouse, before and after the game, that ain’t happening for big team vs big team. Imagine Villa getting in to Europe and the other team finding you on twitter and dropping you a mesasage to say its free burgers in the clubhouse pre match. Belfast: by an absolute country mile the friendliest place I have ever been, it was actually difficult to buy our own beer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 14 hours ago, Seat68 said: The pogues 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 Live music often sounds shit IMO. I'd probably rather pay for a holiday to go and watch 2 neutral foreign teams play over my favourite band live for free. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 4 hours ago, rjw63 said: It's backfired on me a bit. I was taking the Mick out of the favourite Christmas song thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted February 29, 2020 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted February 29, 2020 23 minutes ago, kurtsimonw said: Live music often sounds shit IMO. I'd probably rather pay for a holiday to go and watch 2 neutral foreign teams play over my favourite band live for free. Wow. That is the diametrical opposite of my view. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 11 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Wow. That is the diametrical opposite of my view. I think, even if I take the quality of live music out of it, the atmosphere is generally piss poor now. I remember seeing Green Day as a teen, it was brilliant. This was around 2005. I didn't even own a phone at the time, everyone was just in to the music, I was exhausted and loved the whole show. Now? It's a few thousand people watching the band through their phones. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted February 29, 2020 Moderator Share Posted February 29, 2020 I'm not keen on most live gigs - it's like listening to your favourite band with a paper bag over your ears, with a couple of thousand people you don't like, while looking at the back of someone's head. I'm happier at the football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted February 29, 2020 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted February 29, 2020 You all go to the wrong gigs 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 54 minutes ago, Seat68 said: It's backfired on me a bit. I was taking the Mick out of the favourite Christmas song thread. I did guess 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted February 29, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 29, 2020 If this was a preferred split calculated over 100% then football would probably be around 5%. No comparison for me. Give me music / live music any day of the week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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