Gig Overload

admin on Jun 9th 2008

After the free Plants and Animals show I intend to catch tonight, I’ll be heading back home for a few days where a seemingly unmissable string of gigs awaits. I don’t know how I’m going to be able to afford to get to them all, but I’m goin’ to try. I could put it all on the credit card and worry about the consequences later. Or, more likely, I’m going to have to make a sacrifice or two among these…and I’m thinking that might have to be Bonnie Prince Billy.

My next week of concerts looks like this:

Thursday June 12th – Lykke Li and El Perro Del Mar – Sugar Club

Friday June 13th – The Dodos – Crawdaddy

Leonard Cohen – IMMA, Kilmainham

Saturday June 14th – Fleet Foxes and Beach House – Whelan’s

Dan Deacon, Jape, Deerhunter, White Williams, High Places – Vicar St.

Sunday June 15th – Baby Dee and Bonnie Prince Billy – Vicar St.

Monday June 16th – Prince – Croke Park

Iggy and The Stooges – IMMA, Kilmainham

Tuesday June 17th – Working For A Nuclear Free City – Crawdaddy

That’s six consecutive nights. And I haven’t even looked at the prices yet…

UPDATE: So Prince was cancelled, Lykke Li sold out (but I still managed to get a ticket the day before), the offer of a ticket to Leonard Cohen was too good to pass up so The Dodos got the chop, I managed to combine Fleet Foxes and the Future Days extravangza by hopping in a taxi down to Vicar St. at 22.45, Bonnie Prince Billy had to be sacrificed (I have heard mixed reports about that performance anyway), and I won tickets to see The Stooges at the last minute. Whew.