Clutch

[shermarama]

Crap crap crap crap on a stick. I only found out late last night that Clutch are in the country. I've missed every single accessible night except for the one in Islington on Saturday (within walking distance of my house, forsooth) and the only spare pair of tickets going for it anywhere online are being sold by a wanker who wants seventy five quid for them. It's one thing for the price to get high by people outbidding each other but this is just up-front straight-out wankery. They were in Brighton on Wednesday night, too, when Chris headed down for work; I could have gone with him and driven back in the wee small hours or something. Aaaagh.

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[khalinche.livejournal.com]

Ooo, that burns. That's like when I was beginning to have an idle interest in Peaches and found out through t'internet that she'd played a gig _two days before_ in the Amersham Arms, down the street from Goldsmiths (unless there's another Amersham Arms). Fffff and other noises of frustration.

[shermarama]

In this case I've seen them lots of times already and they're no longer the screaming revelation they first were; they've got beer-guts and beards these days, but I'd still be very happy to see them. I might walk down there tomorrow night and hang around, at least.

[blue-mai.livejournal.com]

i believe it was only a DJ set. i was all set to go anyway, but then work happenned.

[ironlord.livejournal.com]

You've just reminded me. They're in Birmingham tonight!

...sold out. Perkele!

[shermarama]

Quite.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Clutch are in town? Agh. Goddammit.

[shermarama]

They are, but the likes of us can't go. I found out about them being here from a bloke who doesn't really know who they are who is going because his mate has a spare ticket. *sighs* Well, I suppose converting the knowlessmen could be considered a better thing than me going to see them for the ninth time or whatever it is.

[toby-on-tour.livejournal.com]

I don't know how I came across it, but this is a band you like that I've actually heard of! I have the song "Careful With That Mic..." which is pretty amusing.

I hate missing bands although I tend to do it through stupidity such as missing Midnight Oil because I was young and had never been to a gig on my own or missing Rufus Wainwright because I got the dates mixed up and thought I'd bought tickets for a much later gig.

[shermarama]

Careful With That Mic is good. You should have a listen to the whole album it's from, Pure Rock Fury. Mind you, I can imagine either the self-titled of Elephant Riders appealing to you. Or, well, you could just listen to everything they've done, oh yes.

[mattydesade.livejournal.com]

I don't think Brighton was sold out though!

They seem to be one of those bands that are getting bigger and bigger without any real media push.

I got a lovely t-shirt and cos they're Clutch they only charged a tenner for it too...

[shermarama]

Brighton probably wasn't sold out but I didn't know they were in the country til after the Brighton gig. I got a t-shirt too but foolishly I waited til the end when a) they only had medium left of the one I wanted and b) I was too enthused to turn down a Clutch t-shirt for a tenner, even when medium really isn't big enough. Oh well.