What was the last live show you saw, in person? 2020 pandemic edition

Richard Thompson last week - 7/25/20 - in Woodbridge, NJ. The city is running social distance concerts this year. Have Grace Potter in NJ in a couple of weeks.

Pre-pandemic: Patti Smith in San Francisco 3/8 & 9/20.

 

Fortunate to have seen three shows in 2 weeks at the end of January in Columbus, Ohio: G. Love & Special Sauce, Black Pumas and Trampled by Turtles. All were really outstanding. But man I miss live music this summer.

 

Very nice. There’s a local promoter here running concerts at some of the drive-in theaters, but anything I’ve been interested in has sold out immediately.

 

This July 3rd I went to a special drive in concert by The Waco Brothers, sponsored by Fitzgerald’s Pub just outside Chicago. We were emailed the “secret location” the morning of the show, we were assigned parking spaces (maybe 50 or so cars) and watched the gig from our cars. The Wacos each played distanced from one another on the back of individual pick up trucks. They’re a fantastic live band anyway, but this gig was super unique and pretty crazy fun.

 

Last one was New Order during their residence in Miami Beach
Last one on a big arena was The Stones last concert in Miami. I hope that wasn’t their last

 

Dweezil Zappa and his band, February 29, 2020, at The Truman, Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Big Thief at Nottingham Rock City 29/02/20 great gig too.

 

Grace Potter back in January.
Enjoy the NJ show, @LandHorses !

 

Jazz fusion guitarist Scott Henderson back in January.

 

John Prine Oslo, Norway February 9, 2020.
John Prine died from Covid-19 on April 7.

 

Slayer 2019 Great Woods,Tweeter Center,Comcast or whoever owns it these days.

 

Didn't see any shows in 2020, but I was planning to see King Crimson in July, which was obviously cancelled. Long-time fan, and I've never managed to catch them live. Fingers crossed.

 

Stray, and Ken Pustelnik’s Groundhogs, Tavistock Wharf, Devon, UK, late Feb this year

 

Jeff Lynne in Anaheim a year ago. Harrison’s son opened and we got to see him sing his dad’s part of Handle With Care with Jeff. Pretty epic.

 

Burton Cummings at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, CA on 2/24/20.

 

Thurston Moore / Steve Beresford
Cafe Oto
16th March 2020

It was supposed to be a fundraising week for sound equipment but they decided to stream all of the gigs which is why on the Monday there were far fewer than normal actually there.

And then on Tuesday they announced that they would be shutting to live audience and streaming behind closed doors. The last streamed gig was on 23rd March.

This is the longest period without a gig since I started going on a regular basis 7 years ago.

 

First of february 2020: Blackberry Smoke & The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Wembley Arena, London, UK.

Post lockdown: a few weeks ago i saw a short concert (recorded & filmed for radio & tv/streaming) by my fave Dutch band Dewolff. Only 80 people allowed in this hometown venue which normally has a capacity of about 900.

 

Uriah Heep, February 7, 2020, Kyiv, Ukraine.

 

K-Flay in amsterdam, don't remember exactly when.
I was supposed to go and see Agnes Obel on the very first day everything was cancelled. The show has been moved to august 2021...

 

Large venue- Slipknot at Sheffield Arena 20/01/20. Small venue- Sisters Of Mercy at Manchester Albert Hall 07/03/20

 

February 7th, 2020: The Toy Dolls, Groningen, The Netherlands

 

Cool final week in Tokyo.

Jan 21 - Bon Iver
Jan 25 - Babymetal
Jan 26 - Queen w/ Adam Lambert

 

February 17th: Eric Clapton and Friends: A Tribute to Ginger Baker, Hammersmith Odeon, London, which was awesome.

I was supposed to go to two shows in Dublin since then: Gabrielle Aplin on March 10th, which I skipped for family obligations, and Steve Martin & Martin Short on March 11th, but I wimped out of going due to increased Covid concern. The Irish government announced lockdown here the next day.

If the Clapton show ends up being my last show for a while, that's perfectly fine with me. I had eight other shows lined up between now and then, most of which have been postponed, but a few were cancelled outright.

 

Joan Shelley, Jammin' Java, Nov. 9, 2019

 

Kiss '22. 50th. Ace on guitar, Peter last 4 songs. 25 dates. Count on it.