They played The Old Trout (basically the size of a scout hut) as their warm up for Reading in 1990...I used to walk past there all the time and didn't find out until after. Apparently it was so hot in there they had to have an intermission so everyone go outside for air.

Dog Fashion Disco @ Cathouse
Blackalicious @ QMU
The Arcade Fire @ GU

I was in the next field monged off my juniper dancing to the Chemical Brothers instead.

supported by Travis and Embrace, at the Worcester Northwick Theatre. The place went into liquidation before the show could happen, and I lost the £6 I'd spent on the ticket. Gutting.

Anyone.

The Murder of Rosa Luxemberg
Trencher

in Nottingham, 2004. Even typing this is making me cry real tears.

col

Was with my brother who didn't want to go and see someone he hadn't heard of, so given a choice of going to either of those excellent bands, I went with my brother instead to see ... Razorlight. Oh dear.

Never did get to see Sleater Kinney, Hope they come off Hiatus.

I will forever regret not going to the Eighties Matchbox/Ikara Colt/Parkinsons tour.

I've seen each band numerous times indidually since, but I ha a stupid exam and should have put that gig first.

Somewhere on Old Street, secret invite-only gig, and me ill and unable to get out of bed, focus on moving objects, or breathe, much. So I didn't go.

They covered "Prayer to God".

One of my mates did swipe my copy of "for hero: for fool" and get it signed for me, so that was a (very tiny) consolation. Thanks Dave!

had tickets to see The Arcade Fire at that tiny student bar gig they did in London, on the Funeral tour (Kings, maybe?). He didn't go, for some strange reason, and I had "had a tiring day at work", and couldn't be bothered. Neither of us went.

In his wallet, in the window where you might reasonably expect to see a photo of a girlfriend or a pet, he has his unused ticket.

Had my ticket and everything but also had a bit a nothing coursework to do

I didn't think they would be big untill next year :-(

Not were all three acts mindblowingly amazing, my nephew was born later on that night and I met Jarvis Cocker.

Lightning Bolt and Wolf Eyes @ The Electric Ballroom- I remember being right at the front, crying with happiness.

Buraka Som Sistema @ Hoxton Bar & Grill- everyone should LOVE this band.

at the physio and firkin in leicester.
i was 14 a and had didn't know who they were.

any at the drive-in gig.

both at this amazing little venue in aberdeen. both were just a month or so before I got into their music.

really annoyed.

But when Radiohead announced that tiny gig at Rough Trade (or wherever it got moved to) at 9am in the morning I instantly texted my radiohead loving mate who's at uni in London. I told him to get there as soon as possible to make sure he got in. The idiot didn't show up there until 2pm when the queue was massive and missed out on seeing his favourite band ever in a tiny venue. Silly Tom.

Just months before D. died. I was living in Chicago and had a ticket for the second show of a 2 show nite. When I got to the club there was a sign on the door saying the the police had cut their power off cause the first show was too loud-FUCK ME!

Split up about a day before I was meant to see them.

Also, during my younger 'emo' days, I missed out on Taking Back Sunday with Brand New supporting, again because of TBS splitting up... that was a kick in the balls.

the place was full of media whores and their significant others talking the whole way through. Truly awful gig.

when I was going through a cant leave my room phase, also I have no idea what I was thinking when I decided not to see low at the spitz, also the 100's of gigs I missed before I started going to gigs by myself

glassjaw and..
glastonbury 2003...

I'll discount the fact that I never saw them when they played the UK since I didn't know about them at the time but when they announced those reformation shows, I merely sighed and thought how cool it might have been to go.

In retrospect this was a mistake. A definite mistake. If they reform again (which isn't a complete outside possibility as when they split they may reform for benefit shows) I shall buy the ticket, the plane ticket and work out the finances somehow.

On the plus side, I got a 2.1.

I also missed one of Million Deads last shows due to not having enough money for both the gig and a bus home. If I could go back in time I would have walked the 10 miles.

at sommerset house last summer...just didnt have the cash, and went out the same night and spent double the ticket in one night. IDIOT

at the joiners. depsite them being one of favourite bands ever at the time i still didn't go.
Twat

Not really a very impressive gig though, anyway.

Refused although, admitedly I would have been about 11 when they played their last show.

About 6 months before they went away, stopped touring and then announced they were splitting up. I was gutted.

I had to miss Mars Volta (not too fussed), Melt Banana, Mondo Generator and Melvins doing the live soundtrack to 3 short films...that being the one i was really gutted about.

Oasis at Maine Road.

at the arches in 2000.

it was the night before my higher english prelim :(

still regret that...

my parents forced me to go holiday
now i will never get to see him

a TINY venue in Manchester to promote the release of 100 Broken Windows which had been out a week or so.

I am still gutted about it, especially as now they've gone shit.

80s matchbox, ikara colt, the parkinsons on that no name sean mclusky tour thing.
radiohead at south park, oxford.
muse, newport centre, november 2001.
bloc party supported by mystery jets, clwb ifor bach.
les savy fav, thunderbirds are now!, weird war, bristol anson rooms ar2.

those are the ones i'm bitter about. mostly the j-new thing though.

rapeman / dino jr / band of susans.

i chose to see house of love that night instead of these unheard of US upstarts.

what a fucking stupid tosser i am!!

i have resented chadders and his merry men ever since.....

...though I don't know if that really counts.

I saw them on their reunion tour at Shepherds Bush, and amazing it was too. But only after that did I find out they'd played the Montague Arms in New Cross (which is quite possibly my favourite pub in London) as a warm up for a fiver.

Woe.

who's name I can't remember at The Joiners some time in 2002.

I was supposed to go but couldn't be arsed. My sister was working/living there at the time and rang me to say Evan Dando had just randomly walked in. He was off his tits and dragging people down to the the cellar to play them one-on-one acoustic renditions of Lemonheads songs!!!

With the Victorian English Gentlemens Club at the Garage because I couldn't be bothered to scrape up £6 and then again at the Islington Academy earlier this year because my friends 18th was on the same day. The party was horrible I drank far to much and yeah....bad things.

Also, Good Shoes when they did that free gig in Morden because it was raining out.

of gigs i wish i'd gone to at the joiners, mostly bands i've become interested in ages later, unsurprisingly

Artic Monkeys
Million Dead
Oceansize
Libertines, but that was a while ago

Ummed and erred about getting a ticket for ages, then decided to go for it only to find the tickets had just sold out.

See also: Sufjan Stevens, Barbican

at glasto last year - supposed to have been an epic night, think i was watching kasabian instead, oh dear...

at the Ocean in Hackney in 2002, I didn't go because it was my birthday and I didn't want to go to a gig on my own on my birthday. I'm pretty sure it was the last time they ever played in London. BOLLOCKS.

Kenickie at the LA2, went to a TONY ADAMS book signing instead, I kid you not. Turned out to be their last ever gig.

When TV On The Radio cancelled the Scala gig in 2005 but the "support" were going to play anyway but I didn't bother. The support turned out to be a surprise appearance by the Breeders.

I also regret not seeing Atari Teenage riot and Beta band, though I only got into the latter after they split up.

Spike Island. I did the Roses at Ally Pally instead ...

John Fogerty @ Glasto 07

But I'm seeing Foggywoo in Manchester just before this Glasto, so WOO.

at the montague arms in new cross a couple of years back. Even got offered a lift down, but there was no way it was possible...

the Nirvana and Elliot Smith gigs I had tickets for that got cancelled for obvious reasons.

That may have turned out good.

at the tail end of the '..bright lights' tour...supported by franz f, about 2 months before the debut album came out.
devo'd.

it was my brothers birthday, and my parents decided i was too young :'( epic fail!

at Jericho Tavern, Oxford in 1993, and just because I couldn't persuade anyone else to come along...

I also missed loads of great gigs in Oxford between 1990 and 1992 when i was away from town. Missed a fair few early radiohead, ride and lots more...