No Dead Can Dance For Us

It took me a week to get over the disappointment and embarrassment, but I think I’m OK now: we had tickets to see the Dead Can Dance concert at the Paramount Theater last week. I love this group. I bought these tickets six month earlier in March, as soon as they went on sale. The September show finally comes around, and what happens?

I forget about the date, and we miss the concert. I’m such an idiot.

Don’t ask me how it happened, it just happened. Call it a brain fart, since I’ve taken a bite from the big burrito of stupidity.

In any event, I am comforted by the fact that earlier I purchased a two-CD set of the highlights of their European reunion tour. It’s a snazzy little package put out by a company called The Show, who produces official live concert recordings. CD’s of some of the US dates are already for sale, although the Paramount shows are not included, for some reason.


It doesn’t beat going to a live concert, but it will have to do for now. Maybe Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry will enjoy touring so much, that they will come around again. One can only hope.

Incidentally, The Show also has CD’s from the current Pixies reunion tour. This is one concert we didn’t miss when they came to the Greek Theater last year. The Pixies rock, needless to say. They rocked before, and they still rock now.