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For the sake of fairness; most full-on/worst/whatever gig you made your girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever go to.

Melt Banana.

She was confused and annoyed.

Took a girl to see Mogwai once. She didnt actually hate it as much as I expected (thought she didnt seem too enthusiastic at any point). I even bought her some Mogwai earplugs and she didnt need them.

They always play a shit venue in Birmingham though. If she'd gone to the first Mogwai gig I attended she would have came out crying.

I took this girl to see the reformed Don Caballero earlier this past year

Still have the pics of it- the few shots of her watching them are priceless

She thought Damon was a real jerk. "What an asshole- he doesn't even look you in the eye when he's talking to you- he's that full of himself..."

I told her a Death Cab for Cutie/Postal Service fan would love them...

Am I evil?

I took a friend to Pan Sonic once. His unprotected ears hurt a lot, and he said the bass thumps were causing worrying chest pains during the gig.

I took another friend to Storm & Stress and he thought it was a comedy act.

Luckily, my wife enjoys all the same music that I do, so there's no real hassle there

Fleshies.

I don't understand...who wouldn't want to see No Moniker's junk?

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Yes...that was sarcasm.

In 1982, when I was in college (yes, that's right, I'm an old man), this girl I was enamored of asked me if I was going to see the Circle Jerks, who were playing on campus that weekend. I said yes, and she asked if she could tag along. I was thrilled but puzzled, because it hardly seemed like her thing. Come the night of the show, I appear at her place and she's wearing some adorably wrong-headed Zest-soap colored "new wave" outfit, and lets me know she heard that this was a "new wave" show, and since she liked Figures On A Beach (god-awful synth pop band from Detroit who made A Flock Of Seagulls sound like the Dwarves), this would a fun show to dance to.

Oh, dear ... the Crucifucks opened the show, and after Doc Dart poked a hole in his cheek with a knife, she turned white as a sheet. By the time the Circle Jerks had finished (who were fun, though hardly revelatory), the poor girl looked like a virgin who had been brutally sodomized by bikers for several hours. So ended the Romance Of The Century.

About a year later, I was dating a friend of hers and took her to see the Clash (in the post-Mick Jones era). She dumped me after the show. Can you spot a pattern here?

I am taking my ex (a modest mouse/postal service etc fan) to a festival featuring the following bands:THE RESIDENTS / CHICKS ON SPEED / PAN SONIC / SUNN 0))) / BLACK DICE / OOIOO / GANG GANG DANCE / KEVIN DRUMM / DEAD C / SIR RICHARD BISHOP / GROWING / TAJ MAHALIA / CELL / CHRIS ABRAHAMS / ANTHONY PATERAS / LOOP ORCHESTRA / PIMMON / PASSENGER OF SHIT / PUMICE / THE BUSKER / MASOCHRIST / SCOTT HORSCROFT UNSEMBLE / THE VON CRAPP FAMILY / SPLINTER ORCHESTRA / THE LORD / DEREB DESALEGN / GREG MALCOLM / ANAL ERECTION / REVEREND KRISS HADES / CAVEMAN SKULL / CALEB.K / LEGS LE BROCK / THE BUMHEAD ORCHESTRA conducted by MAESTRO TEX PERKINS

She'll have a blast.

Where is that festival?

Australia.


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