After not being interested in watching music live since Offset in September today I have been reignited due to a love of the new Flaming Lips album, Embryonic, and also seeing the announcement that Pixies will be playing Primavera Festival in May 2010. However, in the traditional Heath Linn sense every gig I want to go to now has already sold out, and by every gig I mean two gigs, Major Lazer w/ Toddla T & Boy 8-Bit and The Flaming Lips, two gigs where the tickets had been on sale since the Summer Holidays. This is a familiar theme in my history of purchasing gig tickets, and none more painful than Jonathan Richman just a month ago.
There has only been one occasion when I have gone out there and been proactive in not wasting time and buying the ticket straight away – Nick Cave, and that was full of boring old farts who were trying to find their gothic roots from 25 years ago.
Anyway, if I have money left over tomorrow after my fortnightly shop I may go to the academy and try to buy a tout ticket for The Flaming Lips, as has Q magazine says, you have to watch them live before you die, and I plan on dying in the future.
