where I've been to,
and where I'm going....

By night (and whenever I have free time really) I'm a freelance music journalist. And I hope you can tell from the gigs list below that I'm also a gig enthusiast. While I will never go to as many gigs as my 'mate' and professional hero Steve Lamacq was able to in 1 year (200 gigs?!?!?), I endeavour to go to as many as possible, depending on tour schedules (as DC has come up in the world of gigging, as you can see by the names who have stopped in town) and money (as I travel to England when possible to see bands, and up and down the East Coast if a favourite band isn't stopping in DC).

If you are interested in having me cover a gig (if you are a band or a label or PR representing a band), email me (remove the "NOSPAM"). Please keep in mind that I cannot attend every single gig I am offered (due to time and money constraints) and cannot reply to every email I receive, but I do read everything I'm sent.

2012
    July 2012

  • Coldplay (? supporting) - 08.07.12 - Verizon Center, Washington, DC - ?

    May 2012

  • the Great Escape - 10-12.05.12 - Brighton, England - ?
  • Bear in Heaven (? supporting) - 01.05.12 - Black Cat, Washington, DC - ?

    April 2012

  • 'allo Darlin' (the Wave Pictures supporting) - 26.04.12 - Black Cat, Washington, DC - ?
  • Chairlift (Nite Jewel supporting) - 21.04.12 - U Street Music Hall, Washington, DC - ?
  • Howler (? supporting) - 13.04.12 - Red Palace, Washington, DC - ?
  • the Ting Tings (? supporting) - 12.04.12 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC - ?

    March 2012

  • First Aid Kit (? supporting) - 30.03.12 - Black Cat, Washington, DC
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (? supporting) - 28.03.12 - Warner Theatre, Washington, DC - ?
  • Metronomy (Friends supporting) - 27.03.12 - Rock 'n' Roll Hotel, Washington, DC - ?
  • the Joy Formidable (A Place to Bury Strangers and Exitmusic supporting) - 26.03.12 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
  • Housse de Racket (? supporting) - 25.03.12 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC - ?
  • Band of Skulls (We Are Augustines supporting) - 24.03.12 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC - ?
  • the Postelles (? supporting) - 23.03.12 - U Street Music Hall, Washington, DC
  • South by Southwest - 13-18.03.12 - Austin, TX
  • Fanfarlo (? supporting) - 07.03.12 - U Street Music Hall, Washington, DC - ?
  • Bombay Bicycle Club (the Darcys and Lucy Rose supporting) - 07.03.12 - Rock 'n' Roll Hotel, Washington, DC - ?

    February 2012

  • Javelin (? supporting) - 25.02.12 - Red Palace, Washington, DC - ?
  • the Twilight Sad (Forest Fire and Micah P. Hinson supporting) - 23.02.12 - Rock 'n' Roll Hotel, Washington, DC - ?
  • Mona (? supporting) - 18.02.12 - Rock 'n' Roll Hotel, Washington, DC - ?
  • Slow Club (Air Waves supporting) - 14.02.12 - DC9, Washington, DC - ?
  • the Kills (Jeff the Brotherhood and Hunters supporting) - 02.02.12 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC - ?
  • the Asteroids Galaxy Tour (Vacationer and Ed the Metaphysical supporting) - 01.02.12 - Rock 'n' Roll Hotel, Washington, DC - ?

2011

2010 2009 2008
  • David Byrne - 09.11.08 - Warner Theatre, Washington, DC - review here
  • Lykke Li (Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson supporting) - 19.10.08 - Black Cat, Washington, DC
  • Rembrandts / Gin Blossoms - 21.09.08 - Celebrate Gaithersburg fete, Gaithersburg, MD - Gazette (community newspaper) article
  • We are Scientists (Apache Beat and Oxford Collapse supporting) - 02.08.08 - Black Cat, Washington, DC - review here
2007
  • Morrissey (Girl in a Coma supporting) - 02.11.07 - DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
  • Patrick Wolf (Bishi supporting) - 01.10.07 - Black Cat, Washington, DC - review here
  • Dirty Pretty Things (Hot Club de Paris supporting) - 22.04.07 - Shepherds Bush Empire, London, England - review here
  • Rod Stewart - 26.01.07 - Verizon Center, Washington, DC - review here
2006
  • Dirty Pretty Things - 03,04.12.06 - Brixton Academy, London, England - trip canceled due to illness
  • Dirty Pretty Things - 26.11.06 - Birmingham Academy, Birmingham, England - trip canceled due to illness
  • Morrissey (KRISTEEN YOUNG supporting) - 14.05.06 - Oxford Circus London Palladium, London, England - review here
  • Morrissey (Tiger Army and KRISTEEN YOUNG supporting) - 08.05.06 - Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, England - review here
  • Morrissey (Sons and Daughters and KRISTEEN YOUNG supporting) - 07.05.06 - Manchester Opera House, Manchester, England - review here
  • Morrissey (Sons and Daughters and KRISTEEN YOUNG supporting) - 06.05.06 - Carling Manchester Apollo, Manchester, England - review here

2005

    no gigs this year due to illness

2004

  • Morrissey (Damien Dempsey supporting) - 29.09.04 - DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC - review here

2003

  • Duran Duran - 09.11.03 - Warner Theater, Washington, DC - review here

2002

  • Huey Lewis and the News - 11.08.02 - Wolf Trap Filene Center, Vienna, VA

2001

2000

  • 'N Sync (Pink supporting) - 05.07.00 - RFK Stadium, Washington, DC

1999

  • B*Witched mall concert - 29.10.99 - Montgomery Mall, Bethesda, MD
  • Backstreet Boys - 19.09.99 - MCI Center, Washington, DC
  • J. Geils Band (Toots and the Maytals supporting) - 05.07.99
  • Orgy / Sugar Ray - 07.05.99 - MTV Campus Invasion '99, McKeldin Mall, College Park, MD
  • 'N Sync (B*Witched supporting) - 19.03.99 - MCI Center, Washington, DC

1998

  • Backstreet Boys (Aaron Carter supporting) - 04.09.98 - Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

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