concertman

Show date: 2 Sept. 2026 Venue: Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall Setlist This was an opera reimagining of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

Show date: 9 June 2026 Venue: Eventim Apollo Setlist Opening Act: Natalie Jane Hill This isn't usually the kind of show I would go to.

Thoughts 💭 I saw a YouTube video titled "Gen X aren't burnt out, they're done."

Thoughts 📆 Woke up and started my day thinking it was Friday.

Thoughts The heat and lack of rain is getting ridiculous.

Today's Jam It's just that kind of day 😁

Thoughts ⛏️One of the things I find the most frustrating is watching someone use the wrong tool for the task.

Thoughts ⛏️Back into playing a little Minecraft Links Today's Jam

Links This is absolutely epic.

Thoughts 🥵 The heat is more than annoying at this point.

Thoughts ⚽️ I've never been a big fan of the USMNT (I'm a full on supporter of the USWNT!).

Thoughts 🪚 Spent a fair amount of time doing woodworking over the weekend.

Links 📖 Created a new tool for my own personal use today https://readings.concertman.uk.

Thoughts 🌡️ Heatwaves in UK just hit differently than the heatwaves I grew up with in Kansas.

Thoughts Yeah it's been a while.

Thoughts 🎸 Finally spent some more time over the weekend working on my hand built guitar.

Thoughts 👷‍♂️ Lots of work to do.

Thoughts 🤢 IBS sucks.

Thoughts 🧺 My home office is a mess.

Thoughts 😵‍💫 It's been a few days.

Thoughts 🫩 Last week was brutal.

Show date: 28 March 2026 Venue: The Royal Albert Hall Setlist The last time I saw Garbage live had to have been around 2001-2002 at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City.

Show date: 28 March 2026 Venue: The Royal Albert Hall Setlist Honestly, there was only one song I wanted to hear Placebo play and they didn't play it.

Thoughts 🚀 Really cool watching the Artemis launch last night.

Thoughts 🧠 I'm at the point (actually way past it) that I don't care what most people think about anything.

Today's Jam It's a ska day!

Today's Jam 🎶🧌 I've falling down the rabbit whole on YouTube of Gwar covering covering different pop songs.

Thoughts 🧠 Didn't do much thinking last week.

Thoughts 🎤 Updated my concert listing page today.

Thoughts 🎸 I really want to get back into my guitar building but since my woodworking shop is open air, it's still just been too wet/cold 😞 Links 🔗 https://blog.fsck.com/2026/03/09/superpowers-5/ I'm really appreciating Jesse's sharing around how he's usi…

Thoughts 🦷 So turns out the tooth pain was an infection.

Thoughts 🦷 Tooth pain is never fun.

Thoughts We've finally had some non-rainy days!!!

Thoughts Not much in the way of thinking today.

TIL Ghostscript can make PDFs really tiny!

I'm just opening a new document at the start of my day (at least when I sit down at my computer) and updating it throughout the day as I think about new things to share.

I've done my music recap for the year so now it's time for my reading overview.

It's that time of the year.

Yeah, looks like it's been a few weeks since posting the latest.

A busy, but also not, week?

Weeknotes are popular on the indie web.

Usually after I haven't posted in a while I start with something that acknowledges the fact with some kind of statement saying I'm going to try and do more posting.

Show date: 27 June 2025 Venue: Royal Albert Hall Setlist This was everything I want from a show.

Show date: 18 June 2025 Venue: O2 Arena Setlist This show might just have proven that I'm now too old to be on the floor in a show that might turn into a mosh pit (is that term still used?).

Show date: 28 May 2025 Venue: Southbank Centre, Royal Festival Hall Setlist My main experience with The Swell Season was seeing the movie Once.

Show date: 6 June 2025 Venue: Victoria Park HUNNY HUNNY was good.

General And two months later I finally post something new.

Killer rock track.

If you just got a ton of my old posts showing up in your RSS reader then I apologise.

There's not much to choose from for January.