The 'Perfect' Love Song?

There is no such thing as the perfect love song in it’s absolute entirety…except, maybe, to the one who wrote it. But once it’s unleashed upon the world our natural cut & paste reactions get to work snatching lines here and there to satisfy the internal root map we never cease building from birth to death. The head selects various lyrics of relevance and translates them into recognisable chunks of biographical emotion so the heart can embrace and appoint them as the standard bearers of our own experiences. Memories require a soundtrack and picture show in order to project the correct emotional depth required to transport us immediately back to a particular moment - and it’s this fine art of selective memory building that we adopt when listening to love songs. A storybook of words ready to be manipulated by whichever narratives our requirements happen to conjure up has no interest, usually, in the entire song. So, while the ‘perfect love song’ may not be exactly that to everyone - we still lift bones from it to sketch our own heart-sparks. We are, as is our nature, plundering plagiarists should the need arise. In other words, every love song is perfect for adopting and customising - but not acceptable in the form it’s creator delivers it in. Sunshine for our suburban dystopia indeed!

Morrissey Announces Six UK Dates In March

The short six date UK tour announced by Morrissey last week will begin at Nottingham FM Arena on 13th March before moving on to Bournemouth, Cardiff, Leeds and Glasgow, finishing at Birmingham on 27th March. Industry rumours insist further dates will be announced in due course..and significant gaps in Morrissey's schedule certainly seem to suggest that possibility (as might the absence of any dates in his Manchester home turf) As yet no further dates have been added and tickets for the six confirmed shows are now on sale....

Morrissey UK 2015

March 13 - Nottingham Capital FM Arena

March 14 - Bournemouth International Centre

March 18 - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena

March 20 - Leeds First Direct Arena

March 21 - Glasgow SSE Hydro

March 27 - Birmingham Barclaycard Arena

Further info at http://www.true-to-you.net/

Music Of The Year 2014

ALBUMS

Beans On Toast

The Grand Scheme Of Things

Xtra Mile Recordings

(Released Dec 1 2014)

 His greatest juxtaposition of metaphors so far.

PLAY HERE

Cult Of Youth

Final Days

Sacred Bones

(Released Nov 11 2014)

Apocalyptic rhapsodies....chirpy embitterment. 

PLAY HERE

Mogwai

Rave Tapes

Rock Action Records

(Released Jan 20 2014)

A sophisticated post-rock and electronica conjuration

PLAY HERE

Morrissey

World Peace Is None Of Your Business

Capitol/Harvest

(Released July 14 2014)

A mighty solid, cohesive and glorious piece of work

PLAY HERE

Sleaford Mods

Divide and Exit

Harbinger Sound

(Released April 28 2014)

Embittered punk/hip hop disturbers of the peace

PLAY HERE

Half Man Half Biscuit

Urge For Offal

Probe Plus

(Released Oct 20 2014)

A myriad of biting satire and joyous post-punk tunes.

PLAY HERE

Tony Wright

Thoughts 'N' All

Woodcut Records

(Released Nov 17 2014)

Awash with genuinely compelling musical carpentry

PLAY HERE

Brody Dalle

Diploid Love

Caroline Records

(Released April 28 2014)

Punchy punk rock, melodic grunge, catchy rock.

PLAY HERE

Honeyblood

Honeyblood

Fat Cat

(Released May 19 2014)

A stunning blend of grit edged rock and breezy sunshine fizz

PLAY HERE

Jamie Gilroy RIP

Jamie Gilroy, well-known nationally as the co- founder of the Wickerman Festival has sadly died in hospital after suffering severe head injuries following a shooting incident at his Dundrennan farm. Jamie was rushed to Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary on Thursday after being found badly injured but died on Friday as a result of those injuries. Police have launched an investigation  but have confirmed they aren't looking for anyone else in connection with the incident. 

Jamie's family have issued the following statement...“

It is with immense sadness that we confirm Jamie’s death.

This has come as a huge shock to us, to his many friends, and to members of the local and wider festival community in which he played such a vibrant part.

We’d like to thank everyone for their support at this very difficult time.”

Stanley Odd

The Edinburgh based hip-hop collective are now a  thoroughly established part of a musical genre procreated in the Bronx, fostered by the rest of the world, but always considered a less than commanding presence in Scotland’s musical framework where it remained largely underground. But now it’s too powerful to ignore, nurtured well it’s grew up healthy and muscular and suddenly important to everybody. Stanley Odd give it the crucial human element and with their sweeping orchestration, insightful poetics and funky vivacity they have always been the essayists of exciting chapters. As you communicate through a shared taste in street culture raise a glass to Stanley Odd and catch them at a venue of your convenience.

http://stanleyodd.com/

Kiss: Love Gun 40th Anniversary Special Edition

The theatrical, gimmick laden, cartoon glam/metal rockers legacy is a global brand that boasts more than 3,000 officially licensed products to its name which, if recent reports are to be believed, has earned the serpent tongued, flame spitting bass player Gene Simmons over $300 million. You don’t get that kind of wealth from playing live and releasing albums but from shrewdly planned licensing. Paul Stanley once excitedly blurted ‘ we’ll put our brand on pretty much anything’ and that’s pretty much what they’ve done. From the standard band merchandise stuff (badges, tshirts, hoodies etc)  to condoms, slot machines, a restaurant chain, a golf course, coffins, barbecue sauce and quite possibly the sky, your mum and the weather. Brand more important than band….their stage shows were visually jaw-dropping, a laser spinning, stage turning, pyrotechnic extravaganza, a real pantomime of exuberant, fired up sell-out crowds…Gene Simmons flying over their heads like a giant, overdressed fruit bat…as casually as you like. A Kiss show conjures an atmosphere somewhere between professional championship wrestling and an army of Sybaritic cyborgs marching across the landscape and splitting the land like an impulse...a discernable silence before the destruction, the never ending sabbatical….in a flurry of lights, stage trickery, fake blood and rehearsed exaggeration…a scripted hell, fire and damnation..If you will

This year is the 40th anniversary of their career and they are marking the occasion with a deluxe double cd special edition release of their 1977 album Love Gun. The first CD will contain the completely re-mastered album while the second CD is padded out with the much favoured ‘never before released’ rare demos, the standard interview (this time with Gene Simmons back in 77) and….wait for thissss……three never available live tracks and notes specially written by…..Joe Elliott of Def Leppard! Ooooh Kiss are a gift that just keep on giving….the Kiss Army must be urinating a tsunami in anticipation. The album is considered their best, musically….and the lyrical intellect Paul Stanley unfurls is a mesmerising delight…..be gob smacked at his poetic gifts, for example ‘no place for hiding baby, no place to run, you pull the trigger of my…love gun’ or the equally profound Plaster Caster narratives….’plaster caster, plaster caster, grab a hold of me faster plaster, and if you wanna see my love just ask her’ A cantering composition of delights…a nation sits in silent perplexity…not because of any below-par garbage oh no, they are hushed with admiration and startling wonder at his grasp of the English language. His finest hour though is the kleptomaniacs anthem ‘I Stole Your Heart’ and the biting lyrical swipe ‘I’m something different aint like the rest, how does it feel to find out your failin your test’ he taunts, (poetically), and quite clearly livid. It seemed a bit uncalled for but the woman in question must have really pissed off this literary icon or he wouldn’t write such exquisite vitriol. The acidic, backbiting rhetoric of the forward thinking essayist fills minds with a tumbling waterfall of delights and for the tiniest of moments the entire world want him to pull the trigger of their collective love gun....for he is  a pointless fucking tosser...I mean he isTh he Starchild! Aint he?? I always get those two descriptions muddled up....

http://www.kissonline.com/

Album Review: Tony Wright

Tony Wright

Thoughts 'N' All

As front-man for Terrorvision Tony Wright is the bloke with the upbeat, enthusiastic persona singing instantly likeable pop/metal songs crammed with top-drawer tunes and an infectious knees-up appeal that endeared them to mainstream affections. A cross-genre quirkiness that won them a number 2 slot in the UK singles chart with the mirth-filled tongue in cheek melee Tequila. Between lengthy Terrorvision interludes and ’other’ band projects (Laika Dog) he’s written a solo album that reveals a different side to the man you assumed you knew, a man you’d never have thought might one day turn around and be so philosophically reflective as to  sketch out the  intimacy of thought with nothing but wide open acoustic vulnerability. 

The ghosts of memories reveal their presence, a haunting manifestation of protagonists veering from  subdued reflection to outright dysphoria….Tony Wright is the versatile raconteur bringing it all to life,  slipping effortlessly from confessional narrator to finger pointing observer to name checking chronicler to introspective explorer he shakes out endless fistfuls of personal stuff and charts each in a tenderised, unobtrusive simplicity. Like the flagellating Self Portrait (Rock-a-Boogie-Merchant) uttering out it’s self dialogue with a skipping bounce, the tuneful admittance ‘I’m a lowdown, good for nothing, son of a gun weasel’ is a brilliantly vibrant guilt trip. The emphatic sentiments of Love Hold On span the songs entirety with a brooding regret and hopeful optimism like a self conscious route-map referencing the cause of every consequence that actualized such an emotional trek, 

Shallow Pool (Train Wreck) is a strung-out boozers lament while the stunningly under-produced Do You Love Me is a sublime, emotion jangling declaration of devotion…the bare bones of sincerity exposed in the pleading rhetoric of ‘do you think about me like I think about you’….is that snapshot of self doubt pasted on a million billboards for the world to gaze upon. The almost sentimental reminiscing melodrama Great Horton and the despondently likeable Little Things have a shared kaleidoscopic gravitas. There are those of us who often wondered if Tony Wright had a good solo album in him…..consider it confirmed!

https://www.facebook.com/laikatone/info

New Music: Gangs - Back To School EP

Dublin indie-rockers Gangs are set to release their debut EP Back To School on Sept 26th. Taking their musical inspirations from such iconic bands as The Jam, Stone Roses and The Who it's a sound dipped in retro 60's and continuing to the harder hitting 80's mod/rock movement...every inch forged from classic British pop/rock materials. They've only been on the go since 2012 but the momentum built around them is a metaphoric steam engine of force. The 4 track EP includes recent single 'Daisy' alongside 'Young Employment' 'Back To School' and 'Poison In Your Liffey Blood'. The band will launch their EP with a show at Dublin's Academy on Sat 27th Sept. 

Gangs Official Site

The Black Delta Movement

The Black Delta Movement plunder from genres and sub-genres to create kaleidoscopic hybrids of disjointed power-crunching post punk garage rock with searing guitars, sub-terrestrial bass thrums and occasional swathes of a cinematic electro sleaze underbelly. Developing a sound not only of their own but a reflection of their musical influences. As notable and as firmly embedded in their songs those influences may be the delivering musicianship is peerless. The unflinching backbone of The Black Delta Movement is a slew of raw melodic originality and a handful of personal influences with a nod to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brian Jones Town Massacre and Iggy Pop in equally progressive parts.

Since their formation in 2010 the Hull based four-piece have been consistently hard to ignore, their recent Ghost Dance EP was their fourth release and follows God In Exile (2010) Peach Flavoured Hand Grenade (2011) and Lavender House (2012) Impressive live performances up and down the country earned them support slots with some of music’s bigger names including Shaun Ryder, Steve Cradock, The Moons and Twisted Wheel.

Their armour is a creative hot-streak of songs, among them the jarring bluesy rock number ‘Submariner’ hacking a serrated edge of disorderly dissonance across the thorax of a stomping guitar/drums combo thudding a beat into the heart of the sound. The tempo pushing ‘Sleeping Pills’ is grit-edged rock song with bone rattling fret work and soaring lead vocal stamping, it’s presence as clearly as a black inked footnote might upon the white of paper. And the fuzzy, scratched up garage track ‘Emissary’ is a cool bastard, a slick guitar driven swagger, a riff-laden anthem with a hint of darkness below the eyes and a look of nostalgia about its person.The Black Delta Movement will never be just a passing mention or a casual listen. They will be your conversations and your soundtracks. I promise.

http://theblackdeltamovement.co.uk/

Overrated Songwriters: Jim Morrison

A series of paragraph-long articles about Overrated Songwriters (in my opinion) I begin with Jim Morrison.

The most criminally overrated songwriter in the entire history of music! All that pseudo-intellectualism…long winded paradoxical poetics and lyrical profundities abstract with depth, esoteric in their complexities! Bullshit! Jim Morrison wrote meaningless jibber jabber with no sense of comprehension because he wrote for effect rather than meaning - a pantomime of rhetoric as arrogantly grandiloquent and superficial as the man himself. It’s been well documented of how he lacked any redeeming qualities. He was egotistical, obnoxious, cruel and immature. A man who drank heavily and approached drug taking in the same manner. The Doors weren’t a good band because of him, they were a good band in spite of him! Morrison once said ‘. I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever’ That’s the self-worshipping clap-trap of a wanker! He embraced the 'rock god' persona by exaggerating his talents. He hid his lack of intellect behind a constant carousel of over-the-top behaviour and attention chasing immaturity! The Doors last public performance with Jim Morrison was at The Warehouse in New Orleans on December 12, 1970. During the show, Morrison appeared to have a  mental breakdown on stage slamming the microphone numerous times into the floor until the stage was destroyed. He then sat down on the ground and refused to perform for the remainder of the show! May I finish by saying that he was far too arrogant and big headed to ever fake his death....to voluntarily remove himself from the public eye for ever is an act he wasn't humble enough to even consider.

New Songs For September

Candy Darling

'Money'

(Sept 1st 2014)

Sleaze grinding psychedelic post punk electronica dragged through a mire of heavy Suicide, Jesus And Mary Chain, Nick Cave influence lashed to the torso of their very own idiosyncratic style. As if that wasn't thrilling enough it will be available on pink vinyl. Splendide finale!

https://www.facebook.com/CandyDarlingMusic

Damn Vandals

'Cities Of A Plastic World/Too Lazy To Die Too Stoned To Live

(Sept 22nd 2014)

Grit edged, ballsy rock & roll and in yer face. Featuring two tracks taken from the highly acclaimed recent album Rocket Out Of London for brand new double A side single by the band currently considered top of the heap. With no sign of weakening to be seen the way forward continues to be the way they shall be travelling!

http://www.damnvandals.co.uk

Reptile Youth

'Structures'

(Sept 8th 2014)

A zestful soundscape interblend of the ethereal calm and fevered agitation. Crashing drums making way for tinkling piano...brazenly vociferous to harmonious composure. Taken from recent album 'Rivers That Run For A Sea That Is Gone' it's another gem of a single from the Northern Europeans.

http://www.reptileyouth.com/

From My Archives: Interview With Le Reno Amps (2008)

Al Nero and Scott Maple ditch the heavy schedule in favour of a Q & A sesh.

Le Reno Amps have been climbing the proverbial ladder at a rather sprightly pace. With a creative spirit much bigger than any single genre of music they have brought new things to this table of ours. Things of great joy and pleasure. If you’ve a penchant for the unidentifiable then look no further than the band who make great music from a heterogeneous combination of ingredients.

The next few months look set to be busy times for the band. A new single, your third album and a number of gigs taking you through to April. As the single will be the first to arrive tell us a bit about it?

Al Nero - It’s called ‘Outlaws’ and it’ll be out on the 23rd February. Over to you, Mr Maple…

Scott Maple - Thank you Mr Nero. Yes, it’s a contusion of Bovine soundscapes, a herd of bison playing chicken with a runaway steam train. That is exactly how I feel most days.

It precedes the new album ‘ Tear It Open’ which is scheduled for release on March 23rd. I received a promo copy last week and it’s a brilliant piece of work. Do you feel more content and at ease with this one than you did with the previous two albums?

A.N - Thanks very much. Yeah definitely, it’s a funny thing making an album, what you set out to achieve rarely is how it turns out but with this one everything just seemed to fall into place, writing it, recording it, right up to deciding on the running order, we just all seemed to be on the same page.

S.M - The first album was entirely self-recorded, it was the first 12 songs we wrote as Le Reno Amps, and we were aware of our own limitations.  With the 2nd album we had great aspirations but maybe fell short of the mark in some respects.  That’s not to say we’re not proud of our previous output, it’s just as Al says - everything seemed to come together for us on this album.

Are there any particular songs on it that make you feel proud to be the creators?

A.N - Ha. It’s tough to pick particular ones cos each one has it’s quirks and merits, some came off really sweet though, Body, Gilded Road, Going Under but you know we just write the best songs we can, you invest a lot in each so it’s hard to pick… they’re all winners eh!

 S.M - Yeah, I’m proud of all the songs.  I think we managed to get a bit of ‘throat’ in all the songs, open up the choke a little.  I think we all agree that Andy’s work on ‘Body’ brought more to the table than we’d originally envisioned, adding an extra dimension to the song.

Andy Miller has quite an impressive employment history and he was onboard with you for the album. How did that go?

A.N - Yeah he’s a good lad. It went really well, we all just hit it off. He knows the studio (Chem19 in Blantyre) inside out and he’s got this great attitude, he’s really great at capturing the song as a performance then just throwing whatever you can at it no matter how weird or silly. If it works it works type of attitude which is really encouraging. 

S.M - :  Personally I think he was really lucky to get to work with us ha ha! Seriously though, when I heard ‘Love the Cup’ by Sons and Daughters I just felt that Andy would connect with us and bring what we were looking for out of our music.  I wasn’t disappointed.

You’ve already confirmed some dates you’ll play, obviously to promote the album and single. Are there any plans to continue that promotion into the summer with a few slots at the festivals?

A.N - Well the Amps never sleep! Hopefully we’ll be at a few festivals, we’ll definitely be gigging quite consistently throughout the year but right now the focus is on the album and the UK Tour which we’re all getting geared up for.

S.M - Yeah, it’s not a full-time career for us yet, so we’re definitely the hardest working band on the planet right now.  We have no festivals confirmed at this point but we’re very happy to play them.

Scotland is gifting some amazing new talent to the rest of the UK right now, and has done for years.  Do you have any particular favourites among them?

A.N -  I think De Rosa are pretty special, who else, The Elvis Suicide are brilliant fun and great guys to boot. Oh and our drummer, Jason, also plays in Cuddly Shark, Scott is actually mixing their album at the mo, it’s going to be a belter.

S.M - Too right it is!  Also the Hazey Janes are gearing up to their next release, they’re like a Scottish Musical Dynasty thanks to the fact two of them are the offspring of the brilliant Michael Marra.  Also Jesus H Foxx have really come together over the last couple of years.

What’s great about being in Le Reno Amps?

A.N - It’s genuinely a really hard working creative wee band, Scott and I write, demo, record pretty much constantly, in between gigging, promoting and sorting all the admin side of things. For me the best bit is buzzing off new songs and also getting to have a shared experience of all these things, touring, recording with Scott, Lindsey and Jase.  Good troops, good times!

S.M - It’s a huge amount of work, but we love what we do and we’re at the controls.  We get on really well together and – so far – haven’t pissed each other off.

Not that I know off anyway!!

Le Reno Amp is an anagram of Maple & Nero.  Did the internet delicacy ‘E Porn Meal’ crop up when you were juggling the surnames?

A.N - Well you’d have to ask Scott that one, cos he came up with it but if I know him well at all I’d say it definitely must have made an appearance!

S.M - Damn, I wrote down a number of anagrams but I may have missed that one. We should do a secret gig under that name. We should do a host of secret gigs under anagrams: Renal Mop, E-Male Porn, One Ampler, Roman Peel etc.

A.N - Ha yeah I’m up for that!

Have you ever played air guitar to your own songs when in the privacy of your home?

A.N - More of an air drumming man myself!

S.M - Sometimes I stand in front of my mirror with my guitar and pretend it’s a tennis racquet.  That is a really old joke, but it’s the first opportunity I’ve ever had to use it.  Thank you for that.

Anyway, to answer your question – no.

Do you think the internet enables artists to reach target audiences easier, and without spending a small fortune on marketing?  Is a bands growth now more dependent on ezine cyber inches than newspaper column inches?

A.N - I think the nationals are still very influential in reaching loads of people but yeah they’re not cheap at all, the internet is an avenue where not only can we maintain a more direct relationship with people that like our music but also in terms of garnering press, we’ve been very much embraced by many e-zines and independent fanzines and it’s nice that that can happen. I mean people like yourself are doing this cos they love music and feel compelled to write about, I’d imagine it’s over and above day-jobs etc so we really appreciate it.

S.M - I think because of some of the reasons Al cited, people are more likely to trust the opinion of a (respected) e-zine like yours.  People who want to have their ear to the ground are more likely to look on E-zines than magazines as you’re more likely to get in at the ground-floor of a new musical happening or band. I would say our target audience is more likely to be a person who reads Subba Cultcha than someone who reads…actually, we’re fucking great, everyone should love us, the world is our target market!

If you didn’t know what age you were what age would you THINK you were?

A.N - Ha, eh, generally people think I’m a bit older than I am, cause I’m so wise and stuff, ha ha. I’ll say 30.  Of course I’ m only just approaching my 19th birthday in real life ha! What about you Scott… bus pass at the ready?

S.M - Sometimes I don’t believe my age and I KNOW MY AGE!  When I look at what’s going on around me the only person I relate to is Larry David, and he’s in his 50’s!

Anyway, to answer your question - about 9!

Guys thanks for taking the time to do this.  Good luck with the single, the album and everything you do in the future. Next time you play Edinburgh let me know and I’ll be there. Be good to catch you live – and you can buy me beer and give me t-shirts and CD’s ha-ha!  Thanks again. All the best.

A.N - Ha ha ha! – thank you - good talking to you, Alan

S.M - Thanks for the support, Alan, – but why stop at beer, t-shirts and CD’s - you could come round my house, eat my tea and fuck my wife.

Would it be rude not to?

S.M: Ah hahaha NO!

Le Reno Amps are

Scott Maple - Vocals/Guitar

Al Nero - Vocals/Guitar

Lindsey Scott - Bass

Jason Sinclair - Drums

Le Reno Amps tour schedule is as follows…

MARCH

19TH - GLASGOW 13TH NOTE

20TH - ABERDEEN TUNNELS

21ST - INVERNESS HOOTENANNYS

28TH - TOTNES, THE BARREL HOUSE

30TH - PLYMOUTH, THE HIPPO

31ST - STROUD, DUKE OF YORKS

APRIL

1ST - BRIGHTON, THE HOPE

2ND - NEWPORT, WALES, LE PUB (joy presents)

4TH -  LONDON, THE SHEEP WALK ( whats cookin)

6th - BBC SESSION, VIC GALLOWAY SHOW 8PM - 10PM

13TH - MANCHESTER, RUBY LOUNGE ( with Brakes)

15TH - PRESTON, MAD FERRET ( HED)

16TH - HULL, HULL UNIVERSITY ( with Brakes)

19th - GLASGOW, KING TUTS WAH WAH HUT ( with Brakes)

New Single ‘Outlaws’ out Monday 23rd February. Digital Download.

New Album ‘Tear It Open’ out Monday 23rd March. CD/Digital Download.

www.lerenoamps.com

www.myspace.com/lerenoamps

Thanks to..Al Nero & Scott Maple.

And to Alan Souter at Armellodie Press.

Meteorites: Yann Tiersen

Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) is guest narrator on this stunning spoken word piece that reflects in beautiful poetics about street corner passion and clumsy fumblings in the darkness. It's the last track on French composer Yann Tiersen's album Infinity and shimmers with simple yet atmospheric orchestration. Dreamy and wistful, it brings out the deep Scottish brogue of Moffat's vocal intimacy snaking through the darkness and bringing voice to every frustrated heartache that was ever lost for the words needed to describe itself. The stunning video performance by Clemence Poesy brings every second of sheer emotion to life right in front of your eyes.

http://yanntiersen.bzh/
http://www.aidanmoffat.co.uk/
http://clemencepoesy.net/

Sinead O' Connor: Brand New Single & Album

The brand new single from Sinead O' Connor will be Take Me To Church and is the first track to be taken from the upcoming album I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss. Both single and album are set for release on the same date August 12th. The new song centres around the problems and issues she has spent most of her life battling.

Album Tracklist
1. How About I Be Me
2. Dense Water Deeper Down
3. Kisses Like Mine
4. Your Green Jacket
5. The Vishnu Room
6. The Voice Of My Doctor
7. Harbour
8. James Brown (With Seun Kuti)
9. 8 Good Reasons
10. Take Me to Church
11. Where Have You Been
12. Streetcars


http://www.sineadoconnor.com/

How Much Does It Cost To Book Your Favourite Band?

Thanks to booking agents Degy Entertainment you can now price the cost of getting your favourite band to play at your event (for GB pounds just half the price shown) If, like me, your budget will never in a million lifetimes stretch THAT far then stick to what you've always done....buy a ticket and go watch them play at someone else's worry and expense. Who died and made Bruce Springsteen the fucking king? $1million+ per show!! Scandalous! I am informed some of these prices may not be absolutely precise in their accuracy as different situations create different costs...but the difference between actual and what's quoted here is minimal.