Until now the most gigs I went to on consuecutive nights has probably been 3, although I can't actually remember what gigs!
I went to the Great Escape from Thu-Sat ('commuting' from London and back each night!), saw Bon Iver on Sun, Roger Waters last night and I'm seeing Elbow tonight, smashing my previous record. Admittedly two of them are just instores but they're still evenings spent at gigs. I'm shattered but having lots of fun! It's gonna be tough to top that record now with a full week of gigs!
So how about everyone else? What's the longest run of gigs you've got through?
7 in 7 last year
never again
i'm currently on 4 in 4, and am v tempted to go to gigs tonight and tomorrow before animal collective on thurs but am going to give it a break
The old NME gigs
at the Astoria usually meant 4 or 5 gigs over the week. Couldn't do that now though!
5
All Hope of the States gigs, in 2004.
hmmm
last thursday jesse malin
fri-sunday ATP
last night raekwon
tonight de la soul
then a gap of a day
thursday is animal collective
friday is public enemy.
tired.
How was Raekwon last night?
Missed him at ATP, went for BSS. Was Ghostface there again?
yeah the atp runs
are pretty long. but infinately fun.
I might break it back in belgium
something like this: A place to bury strangers followed by martha wainwright followed by fleetfoxes followed by born ruffians followed by Tokyo police club
But ill probably just go see fleet foxes as I am lazy!
3 is most for me
3 is most for me
i think i managed 7 in 8 days
last year. it was during in the city. hardcore
Actually
with Hox To Dot on Thurs that's 7 out of 8 for me!
6
Wouldn't do it again
About 2 I think, which is pretty lame.
I've done 7 days in a row before
I also remember returning from SXSW last year and jumping straight on a train to Brighton to see The Sounds completely knackered!
I've just remembered
last year I was at the Connect Festival for three days then made my way back to London via four Tilly and the wall shows!
Taptastic!!
following atp, i have a run of three starting tonight
last november i went to something like six in a week, across sheffield, manchester and leeds, which was tiring
If you include playing gigs
I think it's 8. (3 of those were my own.)
Exhausting!
10 nights in a row
in October 2006 inc gigs in Glasgow, Stirling, Edinburgh and London with travel between cities done by bus. Looking at the photos it appears to actually be 14 gigs in 14 nights
plus I've went
straight from Glasgow airport on return from US/Berlin to gigs in Glasgow with rucksack and camera bag in tow
thats hardcore cadd...
respect!
7
this week.
mega may!
3
oh it was so exhausting
this was a good week
Q and Not U
Fugazi
Fugazi
Fugazi
Morrissey
Girls Against Boys
The Cure
The Cure
yeah!
these 7 people are mental!!! i've done three in a row a bunch of times and it kills!!! I think the 3rd one time was LCD at brixton in 05 doing a late show.... that hurt the next day when i had to write a 1500 essay on something i knew nothing about (i got an E)
I've done
11 before though that did include an ATP
Didn't Steve Lamacq do
a ridiculous amount of gigs in a year to win a bet? Something like 200 individual gigs in one year, I seem to remember.
No wonder he's so thin - he mustn't have time to eat with that schedule.
Joe - www.anewbandaday.com
197
apparently
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/innewmusicwetrust/stevelamacq/biography.shtml
I thought it would have been higher
I managed to do about 120 in a year, from jan-jun I managed 75 shows whilst going to uni and having 2 part-time jobs, if someone works in radio I thought it would have been about 5 times a week?!
I'm currently in the middle
of 13 shows in 13 days. 19 gigs in total this month.
14
in 13 days is the most ive ever done.
14 in 13
Yep, that's where I fall as well. April this year.
6 different towns/cities as well. And after getting bruised ribs at the second of those.
why would you want to go to more than one or two gigs a week?
Because in any given week ...
... there are at least ten gigs in London I wouldn't mind going to see !
Nevee managed more than five in a row, although I DID see Dexys Midnight Runners four times in two days in 1982 ...
I dunno
I think I've done about 5 in a week before. Cashflow reasons mean this is something that I'm unlikely to be doing anytime soon.
Just two
probably about 25 in 25
i go through phases.
as it is, I've been at gigs 11 out of the past 12 nights...
only 3
I once went to see James, Ash and Pulp on consecutive nights. It was 2001.
i did xfms gig pig last year....
and did 3 weeks, gigs everynight, then off to Glasto.
That was just after I'd done 5 in the week before.
Haven't really been arse'd seeing bands since :-(
10 in 8 days sometime last year
on the Saturday I went to three, including a RoTa
7 in 7......
last year for Brighton Live Week.
Needless to say i was pretty fucked by the Sunday.
it's
3 for me. I get all crotchety and pissed off if I have more than 3 nights out without a couple of nights of doing nothing at home
109
and still counting
probably 5 or so... (memory is a bit vauge)
i cheated and went on tour with earthtone9.
I think it's only been two for 'proper' gigs.
But if you count watching local bands, it'll be more, at least four.