I’ve booked for Richard Thompson on the 8th of August.
Thought the date rang a bell, its my wedding anniversary.
Days been bad enough but this just adds?
What to do?
ATM help
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You seriously need to ask?
I’ve read your post twice and fail to see the problem. Surely a truly great, special and memorable day got has even better, because it’s the anniversary of your wedding too.
Er, this isn’t clear. Did you just book one RT ticket and are you still married?
Er yes and yes.
Ooh….. I see your problem.
Sorry man – I sympathise as I have a really bad memory for all sorts of significant dates at the best of times. I think you have no option but to write the gig off and plan a lovely treat for your Mrs instead –
However, surely someone on here will take your ticket off you?
“Sorry darling, I booked a RT ticket for our anniversary day; didn’t look at the date until it was too late! Let me make it up to you by whisking you away on a romantic weekend trip to a nice spot – where would you like us to go?”
It’s no good. Would you forgive someone who could have got you a ticket for Richard Thompson but didn’t? That’s several steps worse than having an affair with her sister.
Speaking as someone who’s seen Thompson once – unvoluntarily at a festival – my answer is Hell Yes! I’d thank him for not subjecting me to that kind of torture… 😀
“My dear as a special anniversary treat I didn’t buy you a RT ticket…” would work with my GLW. She has seen RT a couple of times and oddly enough it is the audience she cant stand.
She would be delighted for me to leave with a bottle of wine and Jane Austen adaptation.
Off to Edinburgh in 10 days for our 22nd wedding anniversary. Thought we would get pissed and see crap comedians at the Fringe. Maybe eat in the Princes Street MacDonalds where we had our after marriage evening meal.
How long have you been married? And is she an RT fan?
We have Squeeze playing here in Singapore on my wedding anniversary in May. I didn’t buy a ticket.
Some things are actually more important than music…….
Like a bit of slap and tickle?
Well, you’re not likely to get any of that after an evening of tortured earnestness with the Balmoraled one.
Thankfully, Mrs H is also a Squeeze fan, and their Sydney show is close to her birthday, so we’re there with bells on, along with number one son who has been infected/indoctrinated from a very young age…
Tricky one, but, always taking into account that she’s interested in the “Si Tu Dois Partir” hit-maker, I’d take the mistress.
That way everyone’s happy.
I have a similar dilemma. Want to go and see Brix and the Extricated and they’re playing the Ruby Lounge in Manchester, first gig here since MES died. Trouble is its on the same day as our wedding anniversary. Tentative were met with the response “You must do what you think is right…”
Psi Ops.
Ditch the wife, there’ll be another one along in a, well, eventually, well, maybe.
Mind you, Hubes, you took her to Cropredy last summer, so she must be pretty tolerant. Or deaf.
On a more serious note, Ferocious Dog were playing Brum on my birthday this year and she hate’s ’em. I didn’t tell her. I didn’t go. We had a decent takeaway instead.
I am more worried that my daughter is due to sprog when I am at Bearded Theory. And if she runs over, when I am at All Points East at Victoria Park.
You’re not going to the gig. Even if she insists, she won’t mean it. Go to the next RT gig. Don’t even tell her you’ve bought the ticket.
Wives who give a shit about wedding anniversaries? How quaint. It’s like Fawlty Towers.
Right, now that I’m sober and can resist the urge to make the same joke about a gig being more important than a wife again …
Can you buy the ticket retrospectively? In other words, is the transgression that you bought the ticket without thinking about the double booking, although a plea to delay or bring forward anniversary celebrations to accommodate a one off event would be met sympathetically? In which case, problem solved. If the problem is that you must, on no account, on pain of death, even consider anything other than anniversary celebrations on one specific day and no other, then … wow … good luck with that!
Otherwise, there are other RT trio festival gigs over several weekends this summer, and come to that you have said yourself that the electric trio format, which I love, doesn’t do much for you, so maybe not such a great loss.
My wife is from Muswell Hill so she saw the early days of Fairport.
We did about 12 years of Cropredy together and only went last year as it was the 50th.
This gig is the warmup for the festival gigs so should be more intimate. Which is why I want to go.
We did have an early celebration last year so we could go to Cropredy, so I think a holiday away are a later day could be feasible.
Hopefully RT will not be dipping into his vast compendium of songs about dysfunctional relationships, betrayal and divorce.
Just that Janet Jackson song then.
and the mummy one.
Oh and the one about intelligence.
I used to like Good old Richie, now he drones on and on. I’m getting rid of my entire RT collection. Fairport Convention, they stay.
Im joining you Baron in the Afterword heretics faction.
Bet you buy ’em back, Barry. I sort of got bored with him round about Kit Bag, same old songs in the same old style. Only bothered with the still excellent acoustic format for about 10 years, live and the recent set of recordings. Last years Cropredy set, OK, it was with his 90s band (not Fairport, except most of them were/are as well), but it got me wondering and I sent a few loose pounds to discogs, getting Electric and Still. The former is, to be fair, a routine retread of his usual tunes and timbre, but Still is probably one of his better records since, say, Amnesia. Of course it all sounds familiar, but there is just enough quirk and melody to stand up above the parapet of same old same old.
So, no pressure, RT, you’d better deliver in July at Towersey. (And it isn’t my anniversary, either)
How could you get rid of Amnesia and Daring Adventures for God’s sake? Baron have you lost your marbles?
It depends how much you like not being in the doghouse. Or at the far end of the scale, how much you like being married.
Well ’tis sorted. Seeing Thompson tomorrow then going away for the weekend.
How was he at Towersey @retropath2 ?
It isn’t for another few weeks, 24/8/18
Oh it’s just that you said July above.