In honor of our new design, I’m posting a hopefully-comprehensive if rather sad list of every band, artist and/or comedian I’ve ever seen live (not including theatrical appearances – that would be an entirely separate and altogether too-geeky list). Without further ado, the music/comedy list – an asterisk indicates multiple shows for each artist in a particular city:
| Artist | City(ies) | Notes | ||
| The Aislers Set | San Francisco* | |||
| The Auteurs | London | |||
| Bill Bailey | London | |||
| Ballboy | Philadelphia, San Francisco* | Under-rated | ||
| The Beautiful South | San Francisco | |||
| Andrew Bird | Philadelphia | |||
| Board of Education | Philadelphia | |||
| Saul Broudy | Schwenksville | Philadelphia Folk Festival (PFF) | ||
| Mark Burgess | New York | |||
| Neko Case | Philadelphia | |||
| Cast | Chelmsford | V96 | ||
| Melanie Chisholm | San Francisco | Yes, that one | ||
| Closet Queen | London | Obviously a cover band | ||
| Leonard Cohen | Philadelphia | |||
| Harry Connick, Jr. | St. Louis | |||
| Shemekia Copeland | Philadelphia | |||
| Crowded House | Philadelphia*, Washington, DC | Fantastic live | ||
| The Cure | St. Louis | |||
| Terrence Trent D’Arby | St. Louis | Opened for Duran Duran | ||
| David Devant and his Spirit Wife | London*, Manchester*, Oxford | With their Spectral Roadies, of course; I’ve probably seen them more than 50 times | ||
| The Dead Milkmen | St. Louis | |||
| The Divine Comedy | Berkeley, Bristol, Brooklyn, New York, San Francisco* | Can you tell which band is my favorite? | ||
| Duran Duran | St. Louis | They know why you are there | ||
| Elastica | Chelmsford | V96 | ||
| Liam Finn | Philadelphia* | Both solo & w/E.J. Barnes | ||
| Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit | Philadelphia | Support from James Mathé and Caitlin Rose | ||
| Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams | Schwenksville | PFF | ||
| God Street Wine | New Haven | |||
| Goldfrapp | San Francisco | |||
| Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci | Chelmsford | V96 | ||
| John Wesley Harding | Camden, Philadelphia*, Sellersville | Solo and as part of the Cabinet of Wonders with Eugene Mirman, Jonatha Brooke, Chris Mills, Ken Kalfus, David Morse; at XPoNential Festival w/The English UK, Megan Reilly, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby |
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| Herman’s Hermits | St. Louis | |||
| Hoots & Hellmouth | Schwenksville, Philadelphia* | PFF, also in Philadelphia w/Birdie Busch. | ||
| Whitney Houston | St. Louis | It was the 80s | ||
| Lee Hurst | London | At the Comedy Store with Alan Davies | ||
| Indigo Girls | Philadelphia | |||
| Eddie Izzard | London, San Francisco | |||
| James | Bloomington, Philadelphia | Amazing live | ||
| Joan as Police Woman | Philadelphia | |||
| Kansas | St. Louis | |||
| King Missile | St. Louis | |||
| The Ladybug Transistor | Brooklyn, San Francisco*, Washington, DC | They often seem to open for bands I like | ||
| Sondre Lerche | Philadelphia | |||
| Bobby Long | Philadelphia | |||
| Los Campesinos! | Austin | With The Smith Westerns, Girls | ||
| The Lucksmiths | Brooklyn, New York, San Francisco*, Washington, DC | Love, love love | ||
| Manic Street Preachers | San Francisco | |||
| John McCusker | San Francisco | |||
| Audra McDonald | New York | |||
| Don McLean | St. Louis | It was free | ||
| Donna McPhail | London | At a random comedy club | ||
| The Mike Flowers Pops | London | |||
| The Monkees | St. Louis | See ‘Whitney Houston‘ | ||
| The Moody Blues | London, St. Louis* | |||
| Morrissey | Chicago | Love The Smiths, hated him live | ||
| My Life Story | London*, Manchester, Wolverhampton | Yes, even Wolverhampton | ||
| Gary Numan | Chelmsford | V96 | ||
| Ardal O’Hanlon | London | He was the ‘surprise guest’ | ||
| Okkervil River | Philadelphia | |||
| Ooh Baby Ooh | London | 3-piece a capella group; opened for DD&HSW | ||
| Parker & Lily | New York | |||
| Mandy Patinkin | St. Louis | Met him afterward and he did his Inigo Montoya bit for us | ||
| Peter, Paul & Mary | St. Louis* | |||
| Pulp | Chelmsford | V96 | ||
| Kate Rusby | San Francisco | |||
| Pete Seeger | Philadelphia | Linus’ first ‘real’ concert; Tao RodrÃguez-Seeger and Guy Davis also shared the bill | ||
| Sigur Rós | San Francisco | |||
| The Smiles | London* | |||
| The Soupdragons | Bloomington | |||
| Stereolab | Chelmsford | V96 | ||
| Still Flyin’ | Washington, DC | |||
| Supergrass | Chelmsford | V96 | ||
| The Tallboys | Seattle | |||
| They Might Be Giants | Boston, Cambridge* | |||
| Tom Tom Club | Bloomington | |||
| VHS or Beta | New York | I hated this band | ||
| Rufus Wainwright | Philadelphia | with Lucy Wainwright Roche | ||
| M. Ward | Philadelphia | |||
| Waterson: Carthy | Philadelphia | Norma Waterson was absent; Tim van Eyken came instead | ||
| The Wedding Present/Cinerama | New York*, Philadelphia, San Francisco* | |||
| Mike West | New Orleans | with Myshkin | ||
| The Wiggles | Philadelphia | See ‘Pete Seeger‘ | ||
| Robbie Williams | San Francisco | |||
| ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic | Eureka | A surprisingly good show for a theme park | ||
| Pete Yorn | Philadelphia |
