And the show I was looking at?
Right there on the first pupil free day.
Having finished work, however, those constraints are no longer in place, and I've caught Richard Thompson, Eric Clapton (with Derek Trucks), Costello, and Ry Cooder with Nick Lowe over the past few years. As I transfer this article across from the old Music Pages to the new improved version I’m three weeks out from an excursion to catch Leonard Cohen.
Not as much action as I'd have liked, but still better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.
Scheduling our trip to Adelaide at the wrong end of November 2008 meant that we missed the chance to catch the Derek Trucks Band at the Adelaide Guitar Festival.
Financial constraints in the form of a possibly substantial Trustees' bill involved with the administration of my late father's estate ruled out a trip south that could have included concerts by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Jeff Beck, but those issues have been settled, and the possibilities have opened up considerably.
Most importantly, Hughesy's escape from the workforce has brought time to do what I'm most interested in doing, namely continuing to explore what's out there and to catch up on the things that have slipped by over the years.
Now, as far as catching up is concerned, it'd probably be handy if I still had all those copies of Rolling Stone, NME, Melody Maker, Zig Zag and the other assorted magazines I've bought over the years. I don't, and they'd probably take up most of the internal space in the Little House of Concrete if I did, but I do have a couple of shelves full of Uncut and Mojo, and they're probably more than enough.
Actually, having reached the point where the shelves are full, the process of culling has commenced.