Drjohnrock

3/1/2025 - Robyn Hitchcock - Southgate House Revival, Newport Kentucky

Drjohnrock

3/1/2025 - Robyn Hitchcock - Southgate House Revival, Newport Kentucky

4/1/2025 - Al Stewart (Livingston Taylor) - Memorial Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio

This was a good date night concert for me and Mrs. Drjohnrock.

Buckeye Randy

Congrats on making some shows!

I'm not on usual pace this year. I do have tix for three upcoming shows over the next six weeks. The Bouncing Souls, Amyl and The Sniffers and Alice Cooper.

Plenty on 'maybe' list with Angel, Cheap Trick, Screeching Weasel, Foxy Shazam and Southern Culture On The Skids leading the way.

Did you see the Sex Pistols are touring with Frank Turnes on vocals? That's probably too weird to pass up.

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Drjohnrock

I read a short article that had the tour dates listed. Won’t be able to make it to any of them. I don’t know if I would go see the band without Lydon. The other three original members will be there, so it’s a personal judgment call. I mean, if Foghat can still draw with just the original drummer…

Buckeye Randy

Yeah...a few years ago I saw one of the early gigs with the new Foghat lineup. My expectations were as high as a trip hazard, but they really were good. My opinion was reinforced when Foghat started supplementing playing at rib festivals with being an opener at some stadium shows last year. Their drummer Roger Earl is the weak link, lose him and they've got a chance!

Pistols without Lydon. I'm not going to prematurely judge based on Frank Turner replacing Johnny. I'll go to the show and they will playing one of my favorite albums. If it sucks, it sucks...if it's great then I win.

Sparks just announced North American dates. I've seen them twice and both are totally memorable. This will be their first time in Cleveland since '82..yes, I was there!

Fri. Sept. 5 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
Mon. Sept. 8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kewswick Theatre
Tue. Sept. 9 - Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
Thu. Sept. 11 - Boston, MA @ Berklee Performance Center
Fri. Sept. 12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
Sun. Sept. 14 - Columbus, OH @ The Athenaeum Theatre
Mon. Sept. 15 - Cleveland, OH @ TempleLive at Cleveland Masonic
Wed. Sept. 17 - Toronto, On @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Sat. Sept. 20 - St. Paul, MN @ Fitzgerald Theater
Tue. Sept. 23 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
Wed. Sept. 24 - Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
Fri. Sept. 26 - Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
Sat. Sept. 27 - San Francisco, CA @ Golden Gate Theatre
Mon. Sept. 29 - El Cajon, CA @ The Magnolia
Tue. Sept. 30 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre

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Drjohnrock

3/1/2025 - Robyn Hitchcock - Southgate House Revival, Newport Kentucky

4/1/2025 - Al Stewart (Livingston Taylor) - Memorial Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio

6/21/2025 - Taj Mahal (Kyshona) - Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, Ohio


Taj was great, and Kyshona was a very interesting opening act.

SweetHeartHolly

June 6, 2025-Sawyer Brown at the Newport Speedway in Newport, TN

God bless you and each past and present band member always!!!

Holly

P.S. All things considered, I give the guys an A+. Yeah, they are a lot older now, but even with a thunderstorm being the big threat that it was, they all handled the night like the pros that they have always been since 1984.

Drjohnrock

3/1/2025 - Robyn Hitchcock - Southgate House Revival, Newport Kentucky

4/1/2025 - Al Stewart (Livingston Taylor) - Memorial Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio

6/21/2025 - Taj Mahal (Kyshona) - Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, Ohio

7/12/2025 - Johnny Dowd - Belmont Biliards, Dayton, Ohio

7/14/2025 - The Mekons (Johnny Dowd) - City Winery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Two new shows added to the list: my favorite solo artist, Johnny Dowd, with a solo set in Dayton, and supporting the great Mekons in Pittsburgh. From the back end of a pool hall to a yuppie venue in two days--progress, of a sort.

Vandal X

4/11/2025 Kraftwerk
5/2/2025 LSD And The Search For God
5/4/2025 Famous Mammals
5/5/2025 The Jesus Lizard, I Speak Machine
5/23/2025 FACS, Eye Flys, Pinko, Wipes, Violenteer, Something Is Waiting, Virga, Blacklighter
5/24/2025 Young Widows, Naw, Kowloon Walled City, Watches, In Lieu, Plot, Fotocrime, The Cell Phones, Bridesmaid, Upright Forms, Vincas, Fashion Week, Moon Pussy, Pillcutter
5/25/2025 Pissed Jeans, Buildings, Big'n, Suckling, Conan Neutron& the Secret Friends, Lung, Tonguecutter, Unstable Shapes
5/26/2025 Uniform, Deaf Club, Elephant Rifle, Mr. Phylzzz, Vile Bees, Gaytheist, powertakeoff, Mr Clit and the Pink Cigarettes, Miricle Blood, Spit Takes
6/1/2025 Elephant Rifle, Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, Portal To The God Damn Blood Dimension, Manchild, Beach Master, Sorcerers Sword
6/3/2025 Ministry, My Like With The Thrill Kill Kult, Die Krupps
6/11/2025 Shewasabutterflyimjustamoth, Slutbomb, starsdontmeananything, Arrythmia
8/16/2025 Hazards Cure, Furrlow, Pussy Valore, Soothsayer, Reeking Slug, Beach Noise

upcoming

9/14/2025 Conan, Mares Of Thrace, Lowcaster
9/15/2025 Unwound, Street Eaters
9/20/2025 Vorlust, Scrap Metal, Brume, Beach Master, Disastroid, Eleusis

Buckeye Randy

Average year for me as far as number....

Artists and openers of note in 2025...

Bouncing Souls (H20, Sheer Mag)
Amyl and The Sniffers
Alice Cooper
Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter
Pat Travers Band
The Offspring (Jimmy Eat World)

Upcoming (tix bought)

Sparks
Elvis Costello
Sex Pistols w/Frank Turner
April Wine & Molly Hatchet

Lots of maybes as well, I'll end up at one or two of these.

Richard Lloyd
James
The Darkness
The Courettes
Southern Culture On The Skids
X & Los Lobos
Anthony Gomes

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