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Hi!

Fitness Anon here....

Living in Europe and being a frequent concertgoer together with my husband and friends (mostly couples) in large stadiums, I have repeatedly observed the behaviour of S and C during the TS concert both with my husband and myself and other couples. What could be seen in the last video shared by sdreamersc82 (🙏🏻) of S and C (swaying, cuddling, C snuggled up to his chest) is precisely what hundreds of couples do here in concert venues quite often.

This isn't how brothers and sisters or co-stars behave towards each other.

To me, this is almost more meaningful than the video with the kisses and hugs. This is a truly intimate gesture that only happens between SO.

Dear (returning) Fitness Anon,

You'd have to be blind not to get the message:

[ Gracias a ti, @malu1997, por aclarar las cosas 🤣😘: https://www.tumblr.com/malu1997/753285666589310976/sdreamersc82-thank-you?source=share/ Thank you, @malu1997, for literally bringing more CLARITY in here]

If I would do that, at a concert, with a 'friend' (gay, bi, straight or even Klingon), I can assure you'd hear THE ROAR from Madrid to Vladivostok.

Someone's roar. Rolled in a cape, carefully hiding a dagger.

Yeah, my lovelies. This time, They forgot to BOLT THE DOOR and it feels great. Also, the fact that it's all about C going amorous on S annoys and scares the hell out of some.

[simply-ivanka]

If Taylor Swift Had Endorsed Donald Trump

Democrats would scorn her business savvy, cap her ticket prices, and fret over her huge carbon footprint.

Wall Street Journal

By Allysia Finley

Forbes estimates Taylor Swift’s net worth at $1.3 billion. Despite her liberal leanings, the singer-songwriter has amassed her wealth the old-fashioned way: through hard work, talent and business savvy. Her endorsement of Kamala Harris last week is rich considering she owes her success to the capitalist system the vice president wants to tear down.

“The way I see it, fans view music the way they view their relationships,” Ms. Swift wrote in a 2014 piece for the Journal. “Some music is just for fun, a passing fling. . . . Some songs and albums represent seasons of our lives, like relationships that we hold dear in our memories but had their time and place in the past. However, some artists will be like finding ‘the one.’ ” She has become “the one” for hundreds of millions of fans worldwide with lyrics that chronicle relationship woes women commonly experience.

Ms. Swift took advantage of her ardent fan base in 2014 by removing her catalog from Spotify in a bid for higher royalties. “Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free,” she explained. “My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet, . . . is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”

She also criticized Apple Music for not paying artists during the streaming service’s free trial, prompting the company to change its policy. As she jeers in a hit song, “Who’s afraid of little old me?” Apparently, Big Tech companies.

Last year she reportedly raked in $200 million from streaming royalties on top of the estimated $15.8 million she grossed per performance during her recent “Eras” tour. Some fans have shelled out thousands of dollars on the resale market to see Ms. Swift perform. Americans have even traveled to Europe when they couldn’t get tickets in the U.S.

Her fan base may be more loyal and enthusiastic than Donald Trump’s. JD Vance scoffed at the idea that the star’s endorsement of Ms. Harris could influence the outcome of the election. The “billionaire celebrity,” he said, is “fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.” Maybe, but she certainly taps into the problems of young women.

Democrats hope to use Ms. Swift’s endorsement to drive them to the polls. But it isn’t difficult to imagine what the left would be saying about her had she endorsed the Republican antihero. It might go something like this:

The billionaire has gotten rich by ripping off fans, avoiding taxes and harming competitors. Time for the government to break her up. Unlike rival artists, Ms. Swift writes, performs and owns her compositions. This vertical integration allows her to charge exorbitant royalties and ticket prices.

Tickets for her “Eras” tour on average cost about $240. That’s merely the price for admission—not including food, drink or Swiftie swag. VIP passes that include memorabilia go for $899. How dare she make young women choose between paying for groceries or rent and going to a concert.

The Federal Trade Commission must cap Ms. Swift’s ticket prices at a reasonable price—say, $20—and ban her junk fees. Concertgoers shouldn’t have to pay $65 for an “I Love You It’s Ruining My Life” sweatshirt.

Her romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce also unfairly boosts their star power, letting them charge more for endorsements. As Ms. Swift writes in one song, “two is better than one.” Mr. Kelce reportedly signed a $100 million podcast deal with Amazon’s Wonderly. By breaking up the couple, the government could reduce their royalties and ticket prices.

Ms. Swift, the self-described “mastermind,” also dodges taxes on her “full income,” which includes some $125 million in real estate and a music catalog worth an estimated $600 million. “They said I was a cheat, I guess it must be true,” Ms. Swift acknowledges in her song “Florida!!!”

Under the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed billionaire’s tax, she would have to pay a 25% levy on the $1 billion increase in her fortune since 2017. But that isn’t enough. Ms. Swift should also have to pay taxes on the appreciating value of her “name, image and likeness,” which the Internal Revenue Service considers an asset.

How much is her brand worth? Easily billions. She might say, as she does in a song, that her “reputation has never been worse.” True, Miss Americana’s image took a hit after reports that her private-jet travel in 2022 emitted 576 times as much CO2 as the average American in a year. When Ms. Swift sings, “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me,” she’s correct. She and her fat-cat friends are what’s wrong with America.

Appeared in the September 16, 2024, print edition as 'If Taylor Swift Had Endorsed Donald Trump'.

[galindathrop]

Eras Tour Setlist and Surprise/Secret Songs (as of February 16, 2024)

Taylor Swift

Tim McGraw - March 17

Picture to Burn - July 14

Teardrops on My Guitar - May 5

A Place in this World - April 22

Cold as You - April 23

The Outside - February 9

Tied Together with a Smile - July 23

Stay Beautiful - November 17

Should’ve Said No - May 19

Mary’s Song

Our Song - March 24 and August 4 (Guitar Surprise song in Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour film)

I’m Only Me When I’m with You - June 30

Invisible - May 20

A Perfectly Good Heart

Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

Fearless

Fifteen - May 6

Love Story

Hey Stephen - May 14

White Horse - March 25

You Belong With Me

Breathe (feat. Colbie Callait) - June 10

Tell Me Why - August 25

You’re Not Sorry - April 21

The Way I Loved You

Forever & Always - May 13

The Best Day - May 14

Change

Jump Then Fall - April 2

Untouchable - November 25

Come In with the Rain - February 10

Superstar

The Other Side of the Door - April 28

Today Was a Fairytale - April 22

You All Over Me (feat. Maureen Morris) - June 3

Mr. Perfectly Fine - June 16

We Were Happy

That’s When (feat. Keith Urban)

Don’t You

Bye Bye Baby

If This Was a Movie - June 23

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) - Announced May 5th, 2023. Released on July 7th, 2023.

Mine - May 7

Sparks Fly - May 5

Back to December - July 15

Speak Now - April 13

Dear John - June 24

Mean - April 15

The Story of Us - June 17

Never Grow Up - July 7

Enchanted

Better than Revenge - November 12

Innocent - November 24

Haunted - June 9

Last Kiss - July 8

Long Live (added to setlist on July 7th for the release of Speak Now TV. Performed on the same koi fish guitar from the Speak Now Tour) (removed from Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour movie.)

Ours - March 31

Superman - February 9

Electric Touch (featuring Fall Out Boy) - February 8

When Emma Falls in Love - July 7

I Can See You (music video released to concertgoers on July 7 and online on July 8) - August 3

Castles Crumbling (featuring Hayley Williams) - July 28

Foolish One

Timeless - July 14

Red (Taylor’s Version)

State of Grace - March 18

Red - May 21 (Performed on Guitar instead of Piano due to rain damage from May 20), February 16

Treacherous - April 13

I Knew You Were Trouble

22

I Almost Do - June 9

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Stay Stay Stay - July 29

The Last Time (featuring Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol) - June 16

Holy Ground - May 27 and February 7

Sad Beautiful Tragic - March 31

The Lucky One - April 2

Everything Has Changed (featuring Ed Sheeran) - July 22

Starlight - July 15

Begin Again - April 23

The Moment I Knew - June 4

Come Back… Be Here - May 12

Girl at Home

Ronan

Better Man - May 19

Nothing New (featuring Phoebe Bridgers) (added to the setlist on May 5, only to be performed when Phoebe Bridgers is one of the opening acts.)

Babe

Message in a Bottle - July 23

I Bet You Think About Me (featuring Chris Stapleton) - April 30

Forever Winter

Run (featuring Ed Sheeran)

The Very First Night - November 9

All Too Well (10 Minute Version)

Eyes Open

Safe and Sound - November 25

1989 (Taylor’s Version) - Announced August 8th, 2023. Released October 27, 2023.

Welcome to New York - May 28

Blank Space

Style

Out of the Woods - May 6 and November 11 (mashup w/ Is It Over Now?)

All You Had to Do Was Stay - June 10

Shake It Off

I Wish You Would - June 2

Bad Blood

Wildest Dreams

How You Get the Girl - April 30

This Love - May 13

I Know Places - August 8

Clean - April 1 and May 28

Wonderland - April 21

You Are in Love - August 4

New Romantics - August 9

"Slut!" - November 12

Say Don't Go - November 26

Now That We Don't Talk - November 24

Suburban Legends - November 17

Is It Over Now? - November 11 (mashup w/ Out of the Woods)

Sweeter Than Fiction

Reputation

…Ready for It?

End Game (featuring Ed Sheeran and Future) - November 11

I Did Something Bad

Don’t Blame Me

Delicate

Look What You Made Me Do

So It Goes… - November 20

Gorgeous - April 29

Getaway Car (w/ Jack Antonoff) - May 26

King of My Heart - August 8

Dancing with Our Hands Tied - November 19

Dress - August 23

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - July 22

Call It What You Want - July 1

New Year’s Day - August 9

I Don’t Want to Live Forever - June 3

Lover

I Forgot That You Existed - August 24

Cruel Summer

Lover

The Man

The Archer (removed from Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour movie)

I Think He Knows - May 21

Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince

Paper Rings - June 23

Cornelia Street - August 26

Death by a Thousand Cuts - April 1 and August 5

London Boy

Soon You’ll Get Better (featuring The Chicks)

False God - May 27

You Need to Calm Down

Afterglow - August 27

Me! (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco) - November 20

It’s Nice to Have a Friend

Daylight - June 24

Beautiful Ghosts

Only the Young

All of the Girls You Loved Before - July 29

Folklore

The 1

Cardigan (removed from Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour movie)

The Last Great American Dynasty

Exile (featuring Bon Iver) - August 23

My Tears Ricochet

Mirrorball - March 17

Seven (spoken transition part of setlist) - (w/ Aaron Dessner) June 17

August

This Is Me Trying - March 18

Illicit Affairs

Invisible String

Mad Woman (w/ Aaron Dessner) - April 15

Epiphany

Betty

Peace

Hoax

The Lakes - June 2

Evermore

Willow

Champagne Problems

Gold Rush - May 12

‘Tis the Damn Season

Tolerate It

No Body, No Crime (feat. Haim) (replacing ‘Tis the Damn Season, during the shows where Haim is one of the openers) (removed from Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour movie)

Happiness

Dorothea - July 8

Coney Island (feat. the National) - April 28

Ivy (w/ Aaron Dessner) - July 1

Cowboy Like Me (w/ special guest Marcus Mumford) - March 25

Long Story Short

Marjorie

Closure

Evermore (feat. Bon Iver) - June 30

Right Where You Left Me (w/ Aaron Dessner) - July 28

It’s Time to Go

Midnights - Midnights: The Til Dawn Edition and The Late-Night Edition released on May 26.

Lavender Haze

Maroon - May 26, August 3, and August 27

Anti-Hero

Snow on the Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey) - March 24 and August 25

You’re on Your Own, Kid - April 14, August 5, August 26, February 10 (Piano Surprise song in Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour film)

Midnight Rain

Question…? - May 20

Vigilante Shit

Bejeweled

Labyrinth - November 9

Karma

Sweet Nothing - August 24

Mastermind

The Great War (w/ Aaron Dessner) - April 14

Bigger Than the Whole Sky - November 19

Paris

High Infidelity - April 29

Glitch

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve (w/ Aaron Dessner) - May 7

Dear Reader - February 7

Hits Different - June 4

Karma (featuring Ice Spice) (Added to the setlist for shows on May 26, 27, and 28. Music video released for concertgoers on May 26 and online on May 27)

You’re Losing Me (From the Vault) - February 16

Other

I Miss You, I’m Sorry (w/ Gracie Abrams) - July 1

[strangenewfriends]

"WHAT IS GOING on here? Why are idiot fans throwing stuff during live shows? It’s reached a crisis point in the past couple weeks—a disturbing and loathsome epidemic of fan aggression against performers. On Wednesday, Kelsea Ballerini got hit in the face when a concertgoer threw a bracelet at her—just the latest case of a female artist assaulted in the middle of a show. Why is this happening, and how do we stop it? 

Ballerini was in Boise, Idaho, doing her country-pop hit “If You Go Down (I’m Goin’ Too),” when the bracelet came out of nowhere and hit her face, right near her left eye. She left the stage, but then returned to finish her show. “Can we talk about what just happened?” she said, in admirably clear terms. “Don’t throw things, you know? I just always want shows of mine—every show, for every artist—but I’m in control of this one. I just want it to be a safe place for everyone. Can you help me do that tonight?”

It’s not an isolated case. Bebe Rexha needed three stitches after she got hit by a thrown iPhone at a NYC rooftop show on June 18, and posted a photo of her frighteningly bruised and bandaged face. The alleged assailant, a 27-year-old man, told police, “I was trying to see if I could hit her with the phone at the end of the show because it would be funny.” He also helpfully explained, “It’s a TikTok trend.” Oh. 

Two days later, Ava Max was assaulted by a man who crashed the stage at an L.A. show and slapped her in the face. She posted, “He slapped me so hard that he scratched the inside of my eye.” A couple days later, in London’s Hyde Park, Pink got interrupted mid-song by someone throwing a bag of their dead mother’s ashes. A true pro, Pink asked, “Is this your mom?” Then she put down the bag and said, “I don’t know how I feel about this.” 

It can’t be overstated how much this sucks. Miley Cyrus recently declared she doesn’t feel safe doing arena shows anymore. As she explained, “There’s no connection. There’s no safety.”

Ballerini posted an update to her Instagram Story on Thursday, saying, “hi. i’m fine. someone threw a bracelet, it hit me in the eye, and it more so just scared me than hurt me. we all have triggers and layers of fears way deeper than what is shown, and that’s why i walked offstage to calm down and make sure myself, band and crew, and the crowd all felt safe.”

How did we get here? These are important artists with things to say and music to make. It’s not their job to explain why idiots shouldn’t throw things at them onstage. But it’s simpler than that—they’re human beings. What these incidents have in common is a bizarre lack of respect, a main-character neediness for attention, a child’s ignorance of boundaries. This isn’t fan enthusiasm going overboard—this is hostility disguised as fandom. 

So: it’s weird that this needs to be said, but don’t throw things at the artist, mmmmkay? No matter how soft and fluffy it seems. A cute li’l stuffed animal turns into a weapon if it hits somebody, as happened to Lady Gaga in Toronto last fall. A bracelet can do serious damage. Somebody threw a lollipop at David Bowie in 2004, in Norway, and almost blinded him. A lollipop. Nobody wants concerts to turn into airport-security hellholes with body-cavity searches. Your elderly loved ones do not need the aggravation of amending their wills to say, “BTW, after I die, if it ever seems like a cool idea to bombard a hard-working music legend with the remains of my incinerated corpse, switch to decaf and think again.”

Why now? So much of it comes down to the pandemic. People got out of practice at going to shows, so they forgot how to be audiences. Or else they just started their concertgoing years now, without having learned from being part of an experienced audience. But in 18 months of isolation, the whole fan culture around live music shut down—the traditions, the habits, the manners, the codes of honor, the spirit of “act like you’ve been there before.” It was a disastrous loss for music and the community around it. When live music returned, some fans were desperate to get back into the action, but without remembering the details of how to handle themselves in an IRL crowd. That’s how you get a grown adult boasting he threw a piece of metal at a celebrity to join a “TikTok trend.”

But this wave of fan aggression evokes those horror stories from the Seventies, like the notorious 1971 incident when a London concertgoer pushed Frank Zappa off the stage, putting him in a wheelchair and nearly breaking his neck. Or when “some stupid with a flare gun” burned down the Montreux Casino, inspiring Deep Purple to write “Smoke on the Water.” (Respect to the late great Funky Claude, who ran back into the burning building to pull kids out.) Over time, audiences gradually learned how to be cool in a concert crowd, until the coronvirus. So there’s a lot of Some Stupid going around.

There’s always been a certain etiquette for live music. It’s taken a beating in the social-media age, as more people treat the live show as a backdrop to stage click-chasing viral stunts.

But it’s unquestionably gotten worse post-pandemic. Last summer, Kid Cudi walked out on the Rolling Loud festival in Miami. “I will fucking leave,” he warned the crowd. “If I get hit with one more fucking thing—if I see one more fucking thing on this fucking stage, I’m leaving. Don’t fuck with me.” Someone then hit him with a water bottle—and bragged about it on Twitter, because of course he did.  

Tyler the Creator issued a public plea last year for concertgoers to stop throwing things. “I don’t understand the logic of throwing your shit up here,” Tyler ranted mid-show. “Not only for safety reasons, but bro, I don’t want your shit. I don’t want it. Like, I’m not even being funny. Every show someone throws something up here, and I don’t understand the logic. Why do you think I want your shit? Then if I slip and break my foot? Stop throwing that fucking shit up here, bro!” He went on to say, “Fucking dick-fuck.”

But that message was evidently too subtle for some folks. Steve Lacy stopped a New Orleans show in October when somebody hit him in the leg with a camera. Lacy said, “Don’t throw shit on my fucking stage,” then smashed the camera and left. Rosalia got hit in the face with a bouquet of roses, in San Diego. “Please don’t throw things on the stage,” she tweeted (in Spanish). “And if you’re such motomamis that you throw them anyway, throw them on the opposite side from where I am.” Harry Styles, whose live vibe is the essence of generosity and openness, has gotten his boundaries invaded by Skittles-tossers and chicken-nugget-hurlers. Nobody could blame him for being less than okay with it. 

There’s always been a tradition of acts who encourage fans to throw their bras, panties, or flowers. That’s just consensual show-biz. A Tom Jones concert wasn’t complete without tipsy ladies pelting him with their hotel room keys. When a fan threw a bat onstage, Ozzy Osbourne assumed it was a rubber toy, so he playfully took a bite—then became the first rock star ever rushed to the ER for rabies shots after a dose of batflesh. Punk rockers often thrived on the dust-ups. At the Sex Pistols’ famous final gig, Greil Marcus reported that the band got hit with “ice, cups, shoes, coins, pins and probably rocks.” Johnny Rotten complained, “There’s not enough presents. You’ll have to throw up better things that.” Immediately, someone threw a rolled-up umbrella. Johnny replied, “That’ll do.”

But during the pandemic, for many fans, their primary source of human contact was social media, where there is no perk for non-asshole behavior and nothing but rewards for finding novel ways to be a dick. There are so many incentives to create a viral moment, so it seems acceptable to interrupt a show to make strangers notice you. Throwing your phone at something to get its attention—you wouldn’t do that to a squirrel, much less a human, so why would anyone do it to an artist they’ve paid money to see? But social-media culture breeds a new kind of fan mentality defined by parasocial resentment, where fandoms feel so possessive about their faves, they get outraged when their fave doesn’t live up to their demands. It takes a toll on simple human empathy. Our whole culture picked up so many toxic habits it will take years to unlearn.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Almost exactly two years ago, I saw a symbolic return for live music when Madison Square Garden reopened with a super-emotional Foo Fighters show. It felt like all of us in the room were figuring out from scratch how to be fans again. I described it at the time as an “invitation to start remembering how to celebrate together.” Needless to say, the return of live music turned out to be a lot messier than that—lots of stops and starts, lots of conflict and controversy, lots of fear and grief and anger. 

But this is the first summer when it’s felt like live shows are really back. My music summer began a month ago with Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour. I saw The Cure and Dead & Company on back-to-back nights, two tribal gatherings that felt like the most uplifting kind of communal devotion. In the past couple weeks, I’ve seen loads of brilliant punk rock (Protomartyr, Wednesday, the Dolly Spartans, the So So Glos, Bar Italia), comeback gigs from old-school heroes (The Feelies, Love and Rockets), and a Beatles tribute band, the Fab Faux (damn fine “Martha My Dear”). It’s time travel, hitting so many different eras of my life as a music fan—past, present, and future. I’ve been trading stories with friends having similar epiphanies this month at Joni Mitchell or DJ Premier or LCD Soundsystem. We were all hungrier for this than we even realized. 

The mass rapture of the live show—it’s a fragile temporary community that comes together for a night. Whether it’s in a sleazy bar or a basement or a stadium, it’s a place we go so we can experience those raptures in the dark with strangers, to be part of a story that doesn’t happen when we’re listening by ourselves. But those moments don’t happen without a certain level of mutual trust and respect. And they can’t even begin when the performer can’t trust the audience. We’re all in the crowd for the same reason—to create that space where this rapture can happen. But it’s not something the artists or the industry can conjure up on our behalf. It’s on us to be an audience that the performer can believe in. That’s really where the music begins."

[livingwithmyimaginaryfriend]

A Letter to Bring Me The Horizon

Dear Oliver Sykes, Lee Malia, Matt Kean, and Mat Nicholls 

First, I’d like to say welcome to Indonesia for the fourth time. It’s been a while since you guys performed in November last year, but the show was canceled due to safety concerns. Honestly, I felt sad that I wasn't there but thank God I was safe from massive chaos. 

I remember that night I couldn’t sleep because of the Bring Me The Horizon concert. Then all of a sudden, I saw the news that something happened including technical problems. Concertgoers went from enthusiast to ballistic. They decided to loot the stage, and also outside the venue. Seeing the anarchy made me petrified, mortified, and speechless. When they sang Drown altogether they moved me. I remember imagining that I felt bad for them, I mean you guys after the show was canceled (which means the stage was looted by Concertgoers).          

Let's talk about Nex Fest. I thought it was a rumor that you guys will come back to Jakarta in 2024, but it turned out to be true. I was surprised. I desperately want to see you guys on 25 August in Pantai Karnaval Ancol, but sadly I can’t afford to buy a ticket because it’s freaking overpriced. It made my bank account empty if I bought a pricey ticket.  Plus, I don’t have a friend who joined me to see your show. 

Lastly, your music is so inspirational to me. Actually, I grew up with ADHD just like you, Oliver. I found your songwriting really relatable, but I was confused to pick which one is my favorite Bring Me The Horizon song. I’d say Avalanche is the answer. That’s The Spirit is my favorite album of all time. I enjoy listening to Post Human: NeX GeN as well.  

That’s all. Hopefully you guys enjoy the show in Jakarta and don’t mess it up. Also, I wish I could watch you guys perform, so I can sing at the top of my lungs.  And last but not least, I hope that I have a chance to meet you. I love you so much. Cheers. 

Sincerely,

Fida

[dreamings-free]

Pollstar Staff | 11/1/24

Following a massively successful year with record-setting box office tallies and Taylor Swift’s highest-grossing tour of all time  — what’s next for the live biz in 2024? Pollstar’s editorial staff offers predictions.

Live Growth Spurt May Slow The live industry saw unprecedented growth in 2023 with a massive 46% growth YoY for the Top 100 Tours, according to Pollstar Boxoffice reports. 2024 should be another strong year — but perhaps not a great one. Though the U.S. economy showed promising signs with GDP increasing 4.9% in Q3, the total household debt spiked to $17.29 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, though inflation continues to outpace salaries. Consumers may think twice before clicking the checkout box and adding another credit card charge, which may decrease ticket sales following live’s record-setting year.  – Oscar Aréliz

Reunions, Farewells & Mega-Fests It’s hard to put the genie back in the bottle, so the industry as a whole will get creative to continue the upward momentum of recent years. Expect more seemingly unlikely reunions, farewells that may not actually be final (cough, cough), and additional legs of tours that seemed like one-time affairs. Also, don’t be surprised if the mega-festival trend (When We Were Young, Power Trip, etc), continues to gather steam to the point of becoming a whole new category of yearly event.  – Ryan Borba

Ticketing: Same As It Ever Was With mounting public pressure, grandstanding politicians and supreme supernova demigoddess Taylor Swift aligning for the cause of ticketing reform, in the coming year one can expect little to change. That’s because tickets are money, whether artists, their teams, promoters, venues or ticketers keep prices low, outsmart bots, include all-in pricing, shut out the secondary or sell on the side, capitalists always gonna capitalize. – Andy Gensler

Sphere’s Innovations Break Out Many of the innovations that make Sphere so groundbreaking are likely to start trickling out to the world. Don’t expect to see 16K LED screens that stretch around concertgoers at your local arena any time soon, but it’s not a stretch that the beamforming sound system Holoplot created for Sphere becomes scalable enough for broader expansions and artists who already embrace innovation are likely to make bids at recreating Sphere’s already legendary immersive experience at other venues (as best they can). – J.R. Lind

More Protest Songs More artists will pen anti-war songs, including showing support for innocent civilians in various conflicts. We’ll also hear other politically-minded songs, such as tunes concerning women’s rights — along with more live events booked to benefit those in need and support causes near and dear to artists’ hearts, like 2022’s Love Rising Nashville organized in support of the LGBTQ+ community. Plus, it’s an election year. – Sarah Pittman

Indies Go Back To The Future Independent operators may remain fiercely competitive but, with the establishment of trade groups NIVA and NITO, a greater spirit of collaboration has emerged in the wake of COVID. In some cases, onetime rivals – including clubs and promoters – are teaming to share resources to lift all boats, while Brian Becker’s LiveCo brought together five indie promoters to expand existing partnerships with entertainment platforms to create new, innovative projects. Expect this trend to continue.  – Deborah Speer

Cloning Technology Arrives Insomniac Events founder/CEO Pasquale Rotella manages to find a scientific breakthrough getting one step closer to cloning himself by 2030. This opens doors for agents and promoters to attend all their events at once, and for artists to play multiple shows at the same time. – Ariel King

[friendlyneighbourhoodwhiskeyaunt]

I'm afraid I have additional thoughts. I will not keep them to myself.

You could of course go the classic route and place the modern AU in the US, where people seem to do their shopping at all hours of the day in attires others might find strange. If that is the case, you could easily imagine Kylo in bunny Vader slippers, a tank top about to snap, and the world's most miraculous pyjama bottoms clinging on for dear life. Hux could, of course, be perfectly prim and proper and dressed up like a HOA President for the richest and "accidentally" exclusively white neighbourhood, I'm thinking someone who didn't even need to google how to tie his sweater's arms just so around his neck.

However, and this may be my own familiarity with the nonstop stores as a concertgoer and notorious late worker both: a 24/7 convenience store run when everything else is already closed. We are past midnight, the few public transport lines still running only come every 90 minutes and smell like spilled alcohol, the streets are mostly empty. Kylo is going to his airbnb from a concert or a club, looking to buy a pre-bed snack and something cheap for breakfast (instant ramen, a box of eggs, some milk), while Hux was doing unpaid overtime at his office job and looks like the world's most pathetic meow meow, suit crumpled and tie askew and half asleep on his feet, but awake enough to sneer at all the mesh and eyeliner. (There was the suit guy judging tiktok thirsttrapper looking dude in a lift pic going around, think the 1 am version of that.) They could, of course, by plot convenience pure coincidence walk towards the same apartment block. Hux is paranoid he's being followed and will be mugged by the gruftie. Maybe he confronts Kylo with all the frustration of the day when he tries to walk into the building after him. Maybe they start shouting at each other. Maybe a neighbour yells at them to keep it down and fuck themselves. Maybe they get an idea.

[krispyweiss]

Southern Culture on the Skids at Rumba Cafe, Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 9, 2023

Bespectacled drummer Dave Hartman is standing in a darkened corner of the stage, holding it down on a small kit and offering occasional backgrounds, but otherwise leaving the antics to his bandmates.

Standing the middle is guitarist/vocalist Rick Miller, in a jeans jacket and ball cap, sharing the emcee and vocal duties with bassist Mary Huff, she of big red hair and funky, heartshaped sunglasses. Huff puts on a show within a show, primping, leading clap- and sing-alongs and generally acting as Southern Culture on the Skids’ hype woman while Hartman remains steady and Miller cuts loose for 95 minutes.

It’s Oct. 9 at a sold-out, rammed-full Rumba Cafe in Columbus, Ohio, and SCOTS are doing what they’ve done for 40 years - churning out self-depreciating numbers such as “Liquored up and Lacquered Down,” “Daddy was a Preacher but Mama was a Go-Go Girl” and “Dirt Track Date” in a delicious admixture of hilarious lyrics and serious musicianship, showcased on instrumentals such as “Meximelt,” where Miller handles lead and rhythm, leaving no holes in SCOTS’ sound, even as he lifts his axe high and digs into a lowdown solo.

The band did its own changeover following a well-received punkabilly set from Ohio-based quartet the Whiskey Daredevils and immediately showed its love for Link Wray on the instrumental “Skullbucket.”

From there, it was classic SCOTS as the band dedicated “My House Has Wheels” to a concertgoer from Detroit, whom it met years ago during a strike against that city’s Free Press; performed “House of Bamboo” in celebration of Columbus’ long-closed Kahiki restaurant; and nodded to its North Carolina roots with “Too Much Pork for Just One Fork” and “Banana Puddin’.”

Yum.

Combining a love of rockabilly, surf music and straight rock ‘n’ roll with equal parts irreverence and earnestness, Southern Culture on the Skids is the rare band that can make such antics as inviting fans on stage to dance and toss fried chicken into the audience on “8 Piece Box” and delivering a no-jokes version of “Dear Mr. Fantasy” that finds Miller kneeling on stage coaxing Hendrixian notes and feedback from his guitar feel entirely congruent.

Grade card: Southern Culture on the Skids at Rumba Cafe - 10/9/23 - B+

10/10/23

[plantedwrites]

F K J Fluff prompts for Piers, please?

Here you are, my dear! I had a lot of fun coming up with these ideas so I hope you enjoy it :)

Character- Piers

Type- Fluff

Word count- 607

F- Fight

I was tired—both mentally and physically. Once again, to the shock of literally no one, Piers had jeopardized his health. “All I’m asking is that you think about your wellbeing for once in your life,” I huffed and squeezed my nose, exasperated by the same argument. Rolling his eyes and pulling his long locks into a messy bun atop his head, Piers released a frustrated sigh, “s’not a big deal, I’m fine.” After charging so far down this hole he dug into, only one person made him see reason, Marnie. Gently grabbing his hand, I led him to the couch, “If you were to get sick now, your body wouldn’t be able to take it due to exhaustion and malnutrition,” I said, “ What would Marnie do if she lost you?” I knew it was a killing blow, but he needed to see reason for her sake. Then, he slumped against the couch fully, all remaining fumes of energy leaving his body. “She’d have you,” he murmured, pulling me close, “If anything happened to me, I know without a doubt she’d have you to look out for her.” Signing, I snuggled closer, “You need to slow down and take care of yourself, Piers; we both need you.”

K- Kiss

The crowd was buzzing with excitement and anticipation. You could almost feel the electricity linking everyone together. Because of how packed the stadium was, forcing your way to the stage was reasonably tricky. It wasn’t until you spotted the familiar and obnoxious voice of one favourite Team Yell member that you knew you made it to the right spot. In a matter of seconds, he had spotted you in the crowd and helped to hoist you over the bars separating general admission from front row spectators, ruffling your hair the moment he set you down. Moments later, the lights dimmed, smoke filled the stage and the familiar stance of the dark-type gym leader and the man you loved shuffled onto the stage, the band in tow. You could see his eyes rapidly scanning the crowd as he called out to the concertgoers in the crowd. He was searching for something, someone specific, it appeared. Grinning to yourself, you called out to him already knowing he was searching for you, and you only. Eager eyes met yours, and the corner of his mouth twitched into a grin. Throwing a kiss your way, the crowd cheered louder. 

J- Jealousy 

It wasn’t often that you and Piers travelled to Hammerlock. The city was too loud and too bright for both of you. Raihan insisted that everyone get together for lunch, claiming he missed everyone when we all knew he secretly wanted a new photo to post on his pokegram. Under normal circumstances, I’d consider Raihan attractive, I mean, anyone could see that, but my heart belonged to a quiet musician with zigzazoon hair. It didn’t take long for people to break into smaller groups to catch up, and I soon found myself chatting with Raihan across the room alone. “Y’know,” he purred, leaning closer to me, “Piers has been eyeing you up this whole time. How’d you like to rile him up with me?” Intrigued with his words, I played along, “And why would I want to do that?” “Because we both know that jealous sex is great sex. I’d be doing you a favour.” Glancing at my boyfriend, I saw slight hints that he was riled up. Crossed arms and glaring, tunning out whatever poor Milo was happily chatting about. Sending a subtle nod to Raihan, I let him know that this game of his was gonna be fun.

[pneumosia]

THE YONA PFP IM SXREAMINF SHES SO CUTE

embracing my other alias (after centuries ….) she is so cute i need to squish her.

[theswarmanthology]

Summer, 20, Somewhere in Canada (not polar bear territory)

"I don't tend to talk much in fandom spaces but the people are very kind. I quietly reblogged pictures of the guys and had a Lola themed blog. Although in the My Chemical Romance fandom I only have about 2 mutuals being an MCR fan as helped me make friends in other areas. I love comic books, especially Gerard's. I liked Gerard's comics before I even considered myself a fan of the band, so talking about The Umbrella Academy, TTLOTFK, and Gerard's run of Doom Patrol. I was able to make comic friends through the My Chemical Romance fandom, and meet some pretty important comic people along the way! I was in a workshop run by comic book badass Shelly Bond. And lo, even with comic book nerds from across the world, we had My Chem fans crediting their love of the medium to Gerard! England, America, all over! And that was just online, on my first day at my new university, the amount of people I saw wearing tour merch was insane. We were like this little club all shyly waving to each other in a weird sort of camaraderie."

Fast Facts: How long have you been a fan?: 5-8 years Did you get to see MCR live before this tour?: No, this tour was my first time seeing MCR How many shows on this tour did you attend in total?: 1 Favorite album: Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge Show experience out of 10: 10 Did you cry at your show?: Yes

Which date of the tour did you attend? 09/05/22, Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Night 2

When did you get your tickets for your show? Was it a struggle, or were they easy to grab? Me going to see My Chem was a bit of an impulse buy. My friend group at the time were all heavy concertgoers and I had only ever been to one. I wasn't entirely sold on the idea of going to a cramped, hot arena paying large sums of money to have my ears ring for the next two weeks. (I also got Covid from one Mr. Styles' show so I was hesitant on going on that alone). But I thought of my older brother, the one who introduced me to the band, who saw them on their World Contamination tour. He described it as being pure magic, the height of his otherwise tumultuous teenagehood. After asking him for the umpteenth time what it was like to see them live I went on Ticketmaster and bought the first tickets I could get. Nosebleed seats for sure, and set me back a fair chunk of change but being an unemployed student at the time you get what you get.

Did you attend with anyone else? Solo. Well, for the subway ride to the venue and back so I could avoid any track-pushing or shanking I want with my dear friend J and his coworker V. We worked at Hot Topic- go figure. We were doing our makeup on the ride there, listening to the songs, getting excited when we saw other concert goers, and getting REALLY excited when we made it to the arena, seeing all the beautiful costumes people were wearing. There were families with kids in corpse paint, elderly folks wearing battle jackets, and in front of us were two people dressed as sexy nuns handing out crackers with a chirpy "Body of Christ?". Being the most lukewarm Catholic you can imagine I got a real kick out of this, and a snack! But for the actual show, I was alone, next to a couple who were on a date that seemed to be going piss poor. The lady sat next to me had her ears covered the whole time and the two folks in front of me were recording and were very miffed at my singing. I wasn't going to let these squares squander my fun so I broke a fire safety rule and took to the aisle to headbang and scream my little heart out.

What did you wear? A red bralette that I found behind my washing machine, my bootiest of booty shorts, and a big lolloping knock-off skeleton onesie that got VERY hot very quickly. I was able to tie the onesie around my waist once the novelty of my little homage wore off, and was actually quite comfortable! I definitely preferred wearing PJ's and my ratty old converse than wearing an outfit I couldn't move around in. It was, and still is, drenched in the smell of the venue, which sentimentality aside is not very good. At least I have a keepsake?

Where were your seats? When I first bought the tickets they were the nosiest-of-nosebleed seats, and I was fine with that! But as I passed through the gates security told me to go to Fan Check. This shocked me originally since for once I had no tricks (booze) up my sleeve for this concert. Instead of giving me a talking-to, they actually moved my tickets to be VERY close to the stage, free of charge! They said they wanted the nice seats to fill up so I can an excellent view of the band, and of one Mr. Ray Toro, who was giving our side special attention that night. I feel like a fainting, swooning old noblewoman just thinking about it.

What was your favorite song(s) from the setlist they played at your show? Cemetery Drive. I wish I had something more romantic to say about it but I worry it's too soul-bearing. I cried. The girl next to me cried. It was catharisis.

What song were you most hoping to hear? Did you get to hear it? I was hoping for Demolition Lovers (which was a long shot) but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Considering my mental state at the time before going maybe it was for the best, I think that song should be saved for snowy evenings on transit when you feel a hot ball of lead in your stomach that's somewhere between heartache and anger. I don't think the bad-date couple needed to see me like that.

What was your favorite moment from the show? Gerard calling us all hippies making the entire arena smell like weed. Now, I did not partake in the weedsmoking nor will I be a snitch on the people who were. All I can say is, isn't it impressive how someone on my side was able to sneak in a full-sized bong? Where do you even hide that thing? Also, I was waving my phone flashlight in tandem with someone across the stadium, we were making circles, waving, and doing little dances during the intermission. I go on instagram- and what do I see but an old friend of mine posting us doing it! It was him! After all these years reuniting at the My Chemical Romance tour! My heart is warm thinking about it. I've missed him- we were high school troublemakers together. Listening to My Chem while stealing shopping carts and being pushed around town to being all-grown up and seeing them live. F, if you're reading this, thank you.

What was the most unexpected moment from the show? The use of not one, but TWO bullets songs. I could practically hear J and V from across the stadium shriek with pure, Dionysian glee. Not to say that I wasn't as well.

Did you snag any merch? What pieces? I got the BoyZone tee! Unfortunately, so did half the student body at my university in which the first day was the day after the concert. I tried to lightheartedly tell someone. "One of us is going to have to change!" they did not laugh. I'm only still a little embarrassed by it.

Many fans describe seeing MCR live as feeling like coming home. Did you experience anything like that at your show? It felt strange. I haven't felt that feeling since I was a young kid. The first time I heard an MCR song was on my hand-me-down laptop given to me by the older brother I mentioned earlier. Being a little kid I only really cared about playing Animal Jam but I would to it to the tune of the only song he left for me on it. Teenagers. Explicit version. I would listen to it CONSTANTLY. I didn't know how to download music so that was all I had. That was until my very Christian father heard the naughty naughty swear words and deleted the song and replaced it with the clean version. It's a decade later, and now I can listen to songs with bad words whenever I want, DAD. My Chemical Romance will always remind me of my brother, showing me cool clothing stores and cool T.V. shows and letting me learn to skateboard in our driveway on his board. Seeing MCR, that strange feeling, was like staying up late on a school night, eating Doritos and being passed down the sacred knowledge that is cool older brother music. It was coming home to the special moments he and I had, that he made an effort despite being an angsty, always angry teen. He always had time for his sister and making sure she grew up to like good rock music. My Chemical Romance is a big brother and seeing them live is sneaking out to a show, knowing that your parents are going to kill you when you get home.

If you could change one thing about your show experience, what would it be? I came to the show with a little pouch of crystals and my rosary. I was giving out crystals to friends-of-friends but there was a girl sat next to me who was the only one dancing with me. I wanted to give her my rosary but she left before I could. I think of her now and then.

Has your perspective or opinion about the band changed since seeing them on this tour? If so, in what way? Yes. I don't mean this in a parasocial way but it was strange seeing them as PEOPLE. IN PERSON. Not that I hold celebrities to a higher regard than other people that is, in my humble opinion, cringe as hell. But the way they were smiling at people, dancing, having a good time- it definitely has a different feel than watching through a screen. Ray's hair looks even better in person, if you can believe it.

What advice would you give to people seeing My Chemical Romance in the future? Dance! Headbang! Sing! If you're too scared to dance, I was too. But I can tell you first hand that if you dance, people will dance with you! Shimmy an shriek to your hearts content. Who cares what anyone thinks? You know who's a bigger loser than being the only one dancing? Being so lame you think it's funny to laugh at people who are. And if MCR ever comes back and if you're in Toronto and you're too scared to dance, look for me, I'll dance with you!

Thanks, Summer! They can be found on Tumblr at @dandified-doe.

[x--daughters-of-darkness--x]

HALESTORM's LZZY HALE On Coronavirus Pandemic: 'Stay Home, And We'll Get Through This The Way Our Species Has For Billions Of Years'

HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale has penned an open letter to fellow musicians and concertgoers, urging them to stay home and avoid public gatherings.

A number of artists have seen their concert dates drop off as they're either canceled or postponed in the wake of the global spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

With countries like Italy going on lockdown to try and contain spread of the virus, festivals and movie premieres are also being postponed or canceled across the globe.

On Sunday, Hale took to her Instagram to scold those not observing the self-quarantine and putting the elderly and patients with pre-existing conditions at risk of death.

She wrote: "Dear fellow musicians and concert goers: I understand your need for live music, I understand your need to perform on stage. I'm with you, I have that same primal need, especially in these tough and confusing times. But... It is extremely irresponsible to promote or participate in large gatherings at this time.

"The whole 'you can't scare us' mentality is ridiculous. The virus is not a terrorist, and it will not be discouraged or impressed by your bravery. This is a pandemic. And by encouraging or attending large gatherings of people you are contributing to the deaths of people who do not have healthy immune systems to fight it. This is someones grand parent, someones child, someones sibling, someones mom, dad, or someones friend. Be thankful if your only hardship in this whole thing is that you're bored, or have to pinch pennies for a while until this blows over. Because there are people right now that you don't know, and even some that you do know that are fighting to remain healthy and LIVE through all of this.

"Don't be part of the problem. Go lick your toilet seat if you want to prove how 'unafraid' you are of viruses...then go be creative, write a song, write a book, practice your instrument, perform via insta live, discover new music, learn a new skill, watch movies, play card games etc. We are extremely fortunate to live in the age of the internet, where we are able to be social, connect, encourage each other, and keep the ball somewhat rolling until things settle down.

"It's important to remember that we are ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! We must act as one human race by putting aside our pride, our egos, our frivolous wants, and petty differences.

"Respect your fellow human. Stay Home, and we'll get through this the way our species has for billions of years. And look forward to when we reach the end of this crisis... OH WHAT A PARTY IT WILL BE!

"See you all on the other side!"

There have been more than 169,000 confirmed cases and more than 6,000 deaths so far, putting public health systems and emergency services under immense pressure.

There is no known cure yet for the flu-like virus, which originated in China.

In Italy, which has one of the oldest populations in the world, one hundred percent of the people who have died have been over 60, and the vast majority over 80.

According to the Centers For Disease Control And Protection (CDC), coronavirus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person — between people who are in close contact with one another (within about six feet), and through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.

[galindathrop]

Eras Tour Setlist and Surprise/Secret Songs (as of November 4, 2024)

Taylor Swift

Tim McGraw - March 17, March 9 (Mashup w/ Cowboy Like Me), October 18 (Mashup w/ Timeless)

Picture to Burn - July 14

Teardrops on My Guitar - May 5, February 18, July 23 (Mashup w/ The Last Time)

A Place in this World - April 22

Cold as You - April 23, November 1 (Mashup w/ Exile)

The Outside - February 9

Tied Together with a Smile - July 23

Stay Beautiful - November 17

Should’ve Said No - May 19, February 24 (Mashup w/ You're Not Sorry), October 19 (Mashup w/ I Did Something Bad)

Mary’s Song - July 6 (Mashup w/ So High School and Everything Has Changed)

Our Song - March 24, August 4, May 30 (Mashup w/ Jump Then Fall), October 25 (Mashup w/ Call It What You Want)

I’m Only Me When I’m with You - June 30

Invisible - May 20

A Perfectly Good Heart - July 10 (Mashup w/ Closure)

Crazier - June 8 (Mashup w/ All of the Girls You Loved Before)

Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

Fearless

Fifteen - May 6, March 7 (Mashup w/ You're On Your Own, Kid), and June 2 (Mashup w/ You’re on Your Own, Kid)

Love Story

Hey Stephen - May 14, May 11, July 18 (Mashup w/ Speak Now)

White Horse - March 25, February 23 (Mashup w/ Coney Island, w/ Sabrina Carpenter), October 19 (Mashup w/ Loml)

You Belong With Me

Breathe (feat. Colbie Callait) - June 10

Tell Me Why - August 25, March 4 (Mashup w/ Foolish One)

You’re Not Sorry - April 21, February 24 (Mashup w/ Should've Said No)

The Way I Loved You - May 24 (Mashup w/ Come Back… Be Here and The Other Side of the Door)

Forever & Always - May 13, February 26 (Mashup w/ Maroon)

The Best Day - May 14

Change - August 19 (Mashup w/ Long Live)

Jump Then Fall - April 2 and May 30 (Mashup w/ Our Song)

Untouchable - November 25,  July 4 (Mashup w/ Guilty as Sin?)

Come In with the Rain - February 10

Superstar - July 17 (Mashup w/ Invisible String)

The Other Side of the Door - April 28 and February 17 (Mashup w/ Getaway Car and August) May 24 (Mashup w/ Come Back… Be Here and The Way I Loved You)

Today Was a Fairytale - April 22, August 3 (Mashup w/ I Think He Knows)

You All Over Me (feat. Maureen Morris) - June 3

Mr. Perfectly Fine - June 16, July 14 (Mashup w/ Red)

We Were Happy - July 23 (Mashup w/ Happiness)

That’s When (feat. Keith Urban)

Don’t You - July 28 (Mashup w/ Loml)

Bye Bye Baby

If This Was a Movie - June 23

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)

Mine - May 7, March 2 (Mashup w/ Starlight), and June 13 (Mashup w/ I Can See You)

Sparks Fly - May 5, March 8 (Mashup w/ Gold Rush) and May 29 (Mashup w/ I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can))

Back to December - July 15

Speak Now - April 13, July 18 (Mashup w/ Hey Stephen)

Dear John - June 24, August 16 (Mashup w/ Sad Beautiful Tragic)

Mean - April 15 and June 22 (Mashup w/ thanK you aIMee)

The Story of Us - June 17, March 3 (Mashup w/ Long Story Short)

Never Grow Up - July 7, July 10 (Mashup w/ Robin)

Enchanted

Better than Revenge - November 12

Innocent - November 24

Haunted - June 9, February 25 (Mashup w/ Exile), June 9 (Mashup w/ Exile), October 25 (Mashup w/ The Black Dog)

Last Kiss - July 8, July 9 (Mashup w/ Sad Beautiful Tragic)

Long Live (added to 2023 setlist following release of Speak Now - Taylor's Version) (2023 setlist) - May 25 (Mashup w/ You’re On Your Own, Kid), August 19 (Mashup w/ Change)

Ours - March 31, June 29 (Mashup w/ This Love)

Superman - February 9

Electric Touch (featuring Fall Out Boy) - February 8

When Emma Falls in Love - July 7

I Can See You (music video released to concertgoers on July 7 and online on July 8) - August 3, August 2 (Mashup w/ I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can))

Castles Crumbling (featuring Hayley Williams) - July 28 and June 22 (w/ Hayley Williams)

Foolish One - March 4 (Mashup w/ Tell Me Why)

Timeless - July 14, October 18 (Mashup w/ Tim McGraw)

Red (Taylor’s Version)

State of Grace - March 18, June 28 (Mashup w/ You’re on Your Own, Kid)

Red - May 21 (Performed on Guitar instead of Piano due to rain damage from May 20), February 16, June 15 (Mashup w/ The Manuscript), July 14 (Mashup w/ Mr. Perfectly Fine), August 2 (Mashup w/ Maroon)

Treacherous - April 13 and May 12 (Mashup w/ The Alchemy)

I Knew You Were Trouble

All Too Well

22

I Almost Do - June 9, July 13 (Mashup w/ The Moment I Knew)

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Stay Stay Stay - July 29, July 19 (Mashup w/ Paper Rings)

The Last Time (featuring Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol) - June 16, July 23 (Mashup w/ Teardrops On My Guitar)

Holy Ground - May 27, February 7, July 6 (Mashup w/ Sweeter Than Fiction), November 1 (Mashup w/ The Albatross)

Sad Beautiful Tragic - March 31, July 9 (Mashup w/ Last Kiss), August 16 (Mashup w/ Dear John)

The Lucky One - April 2, June 30 (Mashup w/ Clara Bow)

Everything Has Changed (featuring Ed Sheeran) - July 22, June 3 (Mashup w/ Glitch), July 6 (Mashup w/ So High School and Mary’s Song), August 15 (Mashup w/ End Game and Thinking Out Loud)

Starlight - July 15, March 2 (Mashup w/ Mine)

Begin Again - April 23 and May 12 (Mashup w/ Paris)

The Moment I Knew - June 4, July 13 (Mashup w/ I Almost Do)

Come Back… Be Here - May 12, February 18 (Mashup w/ Daylight), May 24 (Mashup w/ The Way I Loved You and The Other Side of the Door), and June 21 (Mashup w/ The Black Dog and Maroon),

Girl at Home

Ronan

Better Man - May 19, July 19 (Mashup w/ It’s Time To Go)

Nothing New (featuring Phoebe Bridgers) (Added to Setlist on May 5 to May 28, 2023) - July 24 (Mashup w/ Dear Reader)

Babe - March 4 (Mashup w/ Death By A Thousand Cuts)

Message in a Bottle - July 23 and May 19 (Mashup w/ How You Get The Girl and New Romantics)

I Bet You Think About Me (featuring Chris Stapleton) - April 30

Forever Winter

Run (featuring Ed Sheeran) - July 24 (Mashup w/ The Last Great American Dynasty)

The Very First Night - November 9

All Too Well (10 Minute Version)

Eyes Open - February 8

Safe and Sound - November 25

1989 (Taylor’s Version)

Welcome to New York - May 28, May 18 (Mashup w/ Say Don't Go and Clean), October 26 (Mashup w/ Hits Different)

Blank Space

Style

Out of the Woods - May 6, November 11 (Mashup w/ Is It Over Now?), May 10 (Mashup w/ Is It Over Now?), June 23 (Mashup w/ Is It Over Now? and Clean), July 14 (Mashup w/ Getaway Car), October 20 (Mashup w/ All You Had To Do Was Stay), October 26 (w/ Sabrina Carpenter) (Mashup w/ Espresso and Please Please Please)

All You Had to Do Was Stay - June 10, July 9 (Mashup w/ Right Where You Left Me), October 20 (Mashup w/ Out of the Woods)

Shake It Off

I Wish You Would - June 2, February 25 (Mashup w/ Is It Over Now?)

Bad Blood

Wildest Dreams

How You Get the Girl - April 30, February 23, May 19 (Mashup w/ Message In A Bottle and New Romantics), October 27 (Mashup w/ Clean)

This Love - May 13, March 4 (Mashup w/ Call It What You Want), June 29 (Mashup w/ Ours), November 2 (Mashup w/ The Prophecy)

I Know Places - August 8 and June 7 (Mashup w/ Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve)

Clean - April 1, May 28, March 3 (Mashup w/ Evermore), May 18 (Mashup w/ Say Don't Go and Welcome to New York), June 23 (Mashup w/ Is It Over Now? and Out of the Woods), October 27 (Mashup w/ How You Get The Girl)

Wonderland - April 21, July 13 (Mashup w/ The 1)

You Are in Love - August 4, July 5 (Mashup w/ Cowboy with Me), July 27 (Mashup w/ Fresh Out The Slammer)

New Romantics - August 9 and May 19 (Mashup w/ Message In A Bottle and How You Get The Girl)

"Slut!" - November 12, March 8 (Mashup w/ False God), July 17 (Mashup w/ False God)

Say Don't Go - November 26 and May 18 (Mashup w/ Welcome to New York and Clean)

Now That We Don't Talk - November 24 and May 25 (Mashup w/The Tortured Poets Department)

Suburban Legends - November 17, August 1 (Mashup w/ New Years Day)

Is It Over Now? - November 11 (mashup w/ Out of the Woods), February 25 (Mashup w/ I Wish You Would), May 10 (Mashup w/ Out of the Woods), and June 23 (Mashup w/ Out of the Woods and Clean)

Sweeter Than Fiction - July 6 (Mashup w/ Holy Ground)

Reputation

…Ready for It?

End Game (featuring Ed Sheeran and Future) - November 11, August 15 (Mashup w/ Everything Has Changed and Thinking Out Loud)

I Did Something Bad - August 17, October 19 (Mashup w/ Should've Said No)

Don’t Blame Me

Delicate

Look What You Made Me Do

So It Goes… - November 20

Gorgeous - April 29 and May 17 (Mashup w/ I Think He Knows)

Getaway Car - May 26 (w/ Jack Antonoff), February 17 (Mashup with August and The Other Side Of The Door), June 8 (Mashup w/ The Bolter), July 14 (Mashup w/ Out of the Woods), August 20 (w/ Jack Antoff) (Mashup w/ Death By A Thousand Cuts)

King of My Heart - August 8, May 30, August 15 (Mashup w/ The Alchemy)

Dancing with Our Hands Tied - November 19, June 29 (Mashup w/ The Albatross)

Dress - August 23, March 2 (Mashup w/ I Don't Wanna Live Forever), July 5 (Mashup w/ Imgonnagetyouback), October 27 (Mashup w/ Afterglow)

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - July 22 and June 18 (Mashup w/ I Forgot That You Existed)

Call It What You Want - July 1, March 4 (Mashup w/ This Love), July 27 (Mashup w/ Ivy), October 25 (Mashup w/ Our Song)

New Year’s Day - August 9, February 24 (Mashup w/ Peace), August 1 (Mashup w/ Suburban Legends)

I Don’t Wanna Live Forever - June 3, March 2 (Mashup w/ Dress), July 28 (Mashup w/ Imgonnagetyouback)

This is What You Came For - June 14 (Mashup w/ Gold Rush)

Lover

I Forgot That You Existed - August 24 and June 18 (Mashup w/ This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things)

Cruel Summer

Lover

The Man

The Archer (2023 Setlist) - July 4 (Mashup w/ Question…?), August 19 (Mashup w/ You’re On Your Own Kid)

I Think He Knows - May 21, May 17 (Mashup w/ Gorgeous), August 3 (Mashup w/ Today Was A Fairytale)

Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince

Paper Rings - June 23, July 19 (Mashup w/ Stay Stay Stay)

Cornelia Street - August 26 and June 13 (Mashup w/ Maroon), November 3 (Mashup w/ The Bolter)

Death by a Thousand Cuts - April 1, August 5,  March 7 (Mashup w/ Babe), June 21 (Mashup w/ Hits Different), August 20 (w/ Jack Antoff) (Mashup w/ Getaway Car), November 3 (Mashup w/ The Great War)

London Boy - August 16

Soon You’ll Get Better (featuring The Chicks)

False God - May 27, March 8 (Mashup w/ "Slut!"), July 17 (Mashup w/ "Slut!")

You Need to Calm Down

Afterglow - August 27, October 27 (Mashup w/ Dress)

Me! (feat. Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco) - November 20

It’s Nice to Have a Friend - June 9 (Mashup w/ Dorthea)

Daylight - June 24, February 18 (Mashup w/ Come Back... Be Here), June 7 (Mashup w/ ‘Tis the Damn Season), October 18 (Mashup w/ This Is Me Trying)

Beautiful Ghosts

Only the Young

All of the Girls You Loved Before - July 29 and June 8 (Mashup w/ Crazier)

Folklore

The 1 (2023 Setlist) - July 13 (Mashup w/ Wonderland)

Cardigan

The Last Great American Dynasty (2023 Setlist) - July 24 (Mashup w/ Run)

Exile (featuring Bon Iver) - August 23, February 25 (Mashup w/ Haunted), June 9 (Mashup w/ Haunted), August 3 (Mashup w/ The Black Dog), November 1 (Mashup w/ Cold As You)

My Tears Ricochet

Mirrorball - March 17, March 9 (Mashup w/ Epiphany), August 1 (Mashup w/ Clara Bow), October 20 (Mashup w/ Guilty as Sin?)

Seven (spoken transition part of setlist) - June 17 (w/ Aaron Dessner)

August - February 17 (Mashup w/ Getaway Car and The Other Side Of The Door)

This Is Me Trying - March 18, February 17, July 18 (Mashup w/ Labyrinth), October 18 (Mashup w/ Daylight)

Illicit Affairs

Invisible String (2023 Setlist) - July 17 (Mashup w/ Superstar)

Mad Woman - April 15 (w/ Aaron Dessner)

Epiphany - March 9 (Mashup w/ Mirrorball)

Betty

Peace - February 24 (Mashup w/ New Years Day)

Hoax - June 28 (Mashup w/ Sweet Nothing)

The Lakes - June 2 and June 18 (Mashup w/ I Hate It Here)

Evermore

Willow

Champagne Problems

Gold Rush - May 12, March 8 (Mashup w/ Sparks Fly), amd June 14 (Mashup w/ This is What You Came For)

‘Tis the Damn Season (2023 Setlist) - June 7 (Mashup w/ Daylight)

Tolerate It (2023 Setlist)

No Body, No Crime (feat. Haim) (Added to Setlist on July 28 to August 9, 2023) - June 15 (Mashup w/ Carolina)

Happiness - July 23 (Mashup w/ We Were Happy)

Dorothea - July 8 and June 9 (Mashup w/ It’s Nice to Have a Friend)

Coney Island (feat. the National) - April 28, February 23 (Mashup w/ White Horse, w/ Sabrina Carpenter), August 17 (Mashup w/ My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys)

Ivy - July 1 (w/ Aaron Dessner), February 26 (Mashup w/ Would've, Could've, Should've), July 27 (Mashup w/ Call It What You Want)

Cowboy Like Me - March 25 (w/ Marcus Mumford), March 9 (Mashup w/ Tim McGraw), July 5 (Mashup w/ You Are In Love), November 2 (Mashup w/ Maroon)

Long Story Short - March 3 (Mashup w/ The Story of Us) and June 2 (Mashup w/ The Prophecy)

Marjorie

Closure - July 10 (Mashup w/ A Perfectly Good Heart)

Evermore (feat. Bon Iver) - June 30, March 3 (Mashup w/ Clean)

Right Where You Left Me - July 28 (w/ Aaron Dessner), July 9 (Mashup w/ All You Had To Do Was Stay)

It’s Time to Go - July 19 (Mashup w/ Better Man)

Midnights

Lavender Haze

Maroon - May 26, August 3, August 27, February 26 (Mashup w/ Forever and Always), May 11, June 13 (Mashup w/ Cornelia Street), June 21 (Mashup w/ The Black Dog and Come Back… Be Here), August 2 (Mashup w/ Red), November 2 (Mashup w/ Cowboy Like Me)

Anti-Hero

Snow on the Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey) - March 24, August 25 and May 29 (I Look in People’s Windows)

You’re on Your Own, Kid - April 14, August 5, August 26, February 10, and May 25 (Mashup w/ Long Live), June 2 (Mashup w/ Fifteen), June 28, August 19 (Mashup w/ The Archer)

Midnight Rain

Question…? - May 20, July 4 (Mashup w/ The Archer)

Vigilante Shit

Bejeweled

Labyrinth - November 9, July 18 (Mashup w/ This Is Me Trying)

Karma

Sweet Nothing - August 24, June 28 (Mashup w/ Hoax)

Mastermind

The Great War (w/ Aaron Dessner) - April 14, June 14 (Mashup w/ You’re Losing Me), November 3 (Mashup w/ Death By a Thousand Cuts)

Bigger Than the Whole Sky - November 19

Paris - May 9 and May 12 (Mashup w/ Begin Again)

High Infidelity - April 29 and May 24 (Mashup w/ Fresh Out Of the Slammer)

Glitch - June 3 (Mashup w/ Everything Has Changed)

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve - May 7 (w/ Aaron Dessner), February 26 (Mashup w/ Ivy), and June 7 (Mashup w/ I Know Places)

Dear Reader - February 7, July 24 (Mashup w/ Nothing New)

Hits Different - June 4, June 21 (Mashup w/ Death By a Thousand Cuts), October 26 (Mashup w/ Welcome to New York)

Karma (featuring Ice Spice) (Added to Setlist on May 26 to May 28, 2023)

You’re Losing Me (From the Vault) - February 16 and June 14 (Mashup w/ The Great War)

The Tortured Poets Department

Fortnight (featuring Post Malone)

The Tortured Poets Department - May 25 (Mashup w/ Now That We Don’t Talk)

My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys - May 10, August 17 (Mashup w/ Coney Island)

Down Bad

So Long, London - August 20

But Daddy I Love Him

Fresh Out the Slammer - May 24 (Mashup w/ High Infidelity), July 27 (Mashup w/ You Are In Love)

Florida!!! (featuring Florence and the Machine) (Added to Setlist from August 20 to October 20)

Guilty as Sin? - May 18, July 4 (Mashup w/ Untouchable), October 20 (Mashup w/ Mirrorball)

Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) - May 29 (Mashup w/ Sparks Fly), August 2 (Mashup w/ I Can See You)

Loml - May 9, July 28 (Mashup w/ Don’t You), October 19 (Mashup w/ White Horse)

I Can Do It with a Broken Heart

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

The Alchemy - May 12 (Mashup w/ Treacherous), August 15 (Mashup w/ King Of My Heart)

Clara Bow - June 30 (Mashup w/ The Lucky One), August 1 (Mashup w/ Mirrorball)

The Black Dog - June 21 (Mashup w/ Come Back… Be Here and Maroon), August 3 (Mashup w/ Exile), October 25 (Mashup w/ Haunted)

Imgonnagetyouback - July 5 (Mashup w/ Dress), July 28 (Mashup w/ I Don’t Wanna Live Forever)

The Albatross - June 29 (Mashup w/ Dancing With Our Hands Tied), November 1 (Mashup w/ Holy Ground)

Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus - June 3

How Did It End? - May 19

So High School - July 6 (Mashup w/ Mary’s Song and Everything Has Changed)

I Hate It Here - June 18 (Mashup w/ The Lakes)

thanK you AIMee - June 22 (Mashup w/ Mean)

I Look in People's Windows - May 29 (Mashup w/ Snow on the Beach)

The Prophecy - June 2 (Mashup w/ Long Story Short), November 2 (Mashup w/ This Love)

Cassandra

Peter - May 17

The Bolter - June 8 (Mashup w/ Getaway Car), November 3 (Mashup w/ Cornelia Street)

Robin - July 10 (Mashup w/ Never Grow Up)

The Manuscript - June 15 (Mashup w/ Red)

Other

I Miss You, I'm Sorry (w/ Gracie Abrams) - July 1

Carolina - June 15 (Mashup w/ No Body, No Crime)

Us (w/ Gracie Abrams) - June 23

Thinking Out Loud (w/ Ed Sheerhan) - August 15 (Mashup w/ Everything Has Changed and End Game)

Espresso (w/ Sabrina Carpenter) - October 26 (Mashup w/ Please Please Please and Is It Over Now)

Please Please Please (w/ Sabrina Carpenter) - October 26 (Mashup w/ Espresso and Is It Over Now)

[jicasas]

The act of seeing people has been a driving factor in my life ever since I saw “In & Of Itself” (no, I will not shut up about it), and yesterday’s @emeraldcitymusic program featuring the music of the late George Crumb and with the 15-second snippets they were afforded in Instagram stories really painted a picture about his music. I made a judgement with what I knew and, admittedly, attended with a bit of trepidation. I’ve seen his music shared in memes and posted in music classrooms usually jokingly, and it wasn’t until I experienced his music in its entirety that I realised how much I judge in a short amount of time, and how much I can be wrong. It showed me how my life experience colours how I see things, like the amused suspicion I had when a dear friend hauls a massive mug all the way from across the country just because one evening we joked about the movie “Office Space” and, funny enough, the fact the joke they were resonating with was the Jump to Conclusions mat seemed so fitting for what I was leaning internally (dear goodness, thank you so much, @violininkristin, I’m already using it 😹). I think it’s experiences like these that expand my appreciation for things I already love (like music) and make me trust in the artistic guidance behind crafting these ECM programs that keep me coming back. I come to have fun and see amazing musicians play and sure I get to see friends, but I’m realising I’m also learning so much, in a way, and that’s pretty damn cool. Also, I mistook one of the performers for a concertgoer because they already changed out of their suit (I am so sorry, John). 🤦🎻 (It was great to learn we were in Rochester at around the same time and could talk garbage plates, though. 🍽) So excited for the next one; y’all should come check ECM out!! They’re back in April…💚 #emeraldcitymusic #ecmlove #georgecrumb #chambermusic #heymattirelayedyourmessagetojaythecellist March 26, 2022 at 02:43PM https://instagr.am/p/CblSJjIPX2y/

[cowboyhorsegirl]

The next time Steve sees that jacket, it’s stretched tight over Tony’s broadening shoulders. Steve hadn’t even noticed until now, but as they wait with Nat and Bucky for the gates at Fenway to open up, the slow changes in his physique that have been building up over the past few months are obvious.

As is, apparently, Steve’s fascination with how Tony’s new muscles look wrapped up in Steve’s leather. 

“If I’d known how hot you are for Tony in crop tops, I’d have warned him before giving him one of my band tees,” Natasha teases, finally tearing Steve’s eyes away from Tony to shoot a glare at her. 

“I was wondering about that!” Bucky laughs. “Something tells me dear old mum and dad weren’t buying you fishnets and skinny jeans for Christmas last year.”

“Natasha took me shopping. She said she’d never live it down if she let me go to my first concert wearing ‘business casual,’” Tony explains as a blush blooms over his cheeks.

Whatever Steve was about to say back was lost as the entrances open and the crowd drives them forward. As they enter the stadium, Steve glances over at Tony, only momentarily distracted by the long lines of his legs in ripped black jeans that look as though they’ve been spray painted on his body before noticing the slight crease between his eyebrows and the way his lovely, wide eyes dart around nervously any time another rowdy concertgoer accidentally shoves into him.

Steve takes his hand and pulls him in to press a kiss against his lips. “Don’t worry. I know you’ll love this,” he murmurs close, the words sure but soft, only for Tony.

The tension melts off of him and he offers Steve a shy, sweet smile just as Guns N’ Roses take the stage. It doesn’t take long for Steve’s reassurance to ring true; barely 20 minutes later and Tony is screaming along to Paradise City, eyes squeezed shut and arms slung over Nat and Bucky’s shoulders. Steve thinks that he’s never looked more gorgeous than he does right now, when he’s enjoying himself too much to care what the world might think of him.

By the time they’re leaving the venue, Tony is talking at a mile a minute planning their next concert.

“-couldn’t believe it when Axl just threw himself into the crowd, could you?? I can’t wait to see them again, you guys HAVE to let me fly you all out to Malibu when they come to LA!”

Steve nudges Natasha aside to get closer to Tony; it’s not subtle, but he can’t bring himself to be bothered when Tony is exuding this wild and free energy he’s never revealed before. “And what would daddy think of that?”

Tony turns on him with a mischievous glint in his eyes that catches Steve off guard with how it lights his face up.

“Who cares?”

thinking about punk rocker steve with tattoos and piercings and leather jackets and falling in love with the quiet stark boy in his polos and oxfords and eyes so deep he feels like he’s drowning