I used to think that, and this was my way of justifying the fact that I never bought music, I’ll support bands and music through ticket sales. In theory that makes sense and cleared my guilty conscience of any wrongdoing but in practise, it didn’t. Despite enjoying music nearly everyday, I’ve only been to a handful of gigs.

A Red Hot Chilli Peppers gig that seemingly everyone went to, two Maximo Park gigs with Art Brut and Good Shoes as excellent support acts and one Futureheads gig with Field Music providing more than worthy support. Unless there is one I’m missing or forgetting about, that’s the lot. See, I have only been to a handful of gigs, you can literally count them on one hand.

I don’t know why I don’t like gigs, but it’s probably something to do with the fact that they are the worst places to listen to music. Everyone is just drunk and is trying to push you over and you can never really hear anything right. Maybe, I do know why I don’t like gigs. I can kind of see the appeal but I’d rather listen to something on my turntable and drink tea or something…

I’m starting to sound like an old man here, so I’ll stop.