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What's the furthest you've travelled for a gig? Mates and I use to occasionally drive from Sydney to Melbourne for the weekend to see a band. Furthest for me was Jesus and Mary Chain with Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine and Blur at the Brixton Academy, a trip to England that I timed so I could see the gig. Would have topped that in 2009 with tickets for 65daysofstatic and a show they had at Barrow but it was cancelled last minute.
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After many years of being shite, the pessimism is understandable. BUT it's not as if we are managed by cabbagehead anymore, so it's a lot less about lucky wins.
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I thought that's how everyone knew!
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Bands I'm most disappointed about never having the opportunity to see in their prime Echo and the Bunnymen (never seen), Killing Joke (saw as old men) and Talking Heads (only ever saw David Byrne solo). First, not shitty local cover, band I saw was Spandau Ballet in 1985, things we do for girlfriends when you're young. Same year saw Howard Jones, Queen, Sting, BB King and the Style Council. Also was lucky enough to see Nirvana just weeks after they released Nevermind - almost didn't go as I wasn't really arsed about them - preferred Mudhoney, TAD, Killdozer and Dinosaur Jr. Saw Elbow at this tiny venue with about 50 others, Asleep at the Wheel wasn't huge here. At one stage, in my mid-thirties, I calculated how many bands I'd seen and it averaged out that from 16, I'd seen one band a night over those twenty years - that's not including all the bands on a festival bill if I went to it. Old age and covid have definitely dented those numbers.
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Considering some of the experts in this thread have barely played football, let alone know where the goal is, it's definitely
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The F1 2022, MotoGP and Other Sports That Go Vroom-Vroom Thread
sammynb replied to Craig's topic in General Chat
Ah got you but that's really down to what I said about Yamaha and how their engineers feel the engine has more than enough power and more would compromise other aspects of the bike. The big thing about the Japanese maunfacturers is that they have this unflinching belief that they are right and it is disrespectful to question any technical decisions they have made, just look at the times Honda has won the championship and then the following season made a completely new bike that is a horror, instead of just improving the winning machine they already have. Yamaha last year won both the MotoGP and Superbike championships, they would believe nothing but their own hype.