[NOT ATTENDED: June 7, 2018] The Decemberists at The Mann Center
Boy were we excited that The Decemberists were coming back around to tour their new album. Even though we have seen them a few times now, we can always make room for them.
I love the acoustics of The Mann enter–it’s a beautiful location. But it is such a pain in the butt for us to get to. If it’s the only place a band is playing I’ll get tickets, but otherwise, I’d just as soon not travel that far.
Well, they were playing The Mann Center and I bought tickets. And then a few days later they announced another show at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ. Well, that is 100 times easier to get to, so I said we’d give up on The Mann show for the Count Basie.
Easy peasy.
Except that I could not sell these Decemberists tickets. The Mann Center has a strict no resale policy, so you can’t do that Ticketmaster resell business. Then I tried CashorTrade and even StubHub and there were no takers. I even went lowball by the end. The one bad thing about print tickets is you can’t wait til the last minute.
We could have still gone to the show but we had another commitment that night by then and it was still a hassle to get there. Plus we had the Basie show, so we accepted the loss bitterly.
I noticed an IM on Facebook a couple of days after the show that someone was interested, but obviously that was too late.
[NOT ATTENDED: June 12, 2018] The Decemberists at The Count Basie Theatre
The night of the Count Basie show, we received a notice that Colin Meloy’s voice was shot and the show would be cancelled. This show and one other (not The Mann Center) shows were cancelled. And there was no immediate plans to reschedule. So at least this money was fully refunded.
The band seemed to promise that they’d come back. But now they have made touring plans further afield. They are touring the West (and then teasing us here in NJ by coming back in a few weeks to play a show in Brooklyn. And they are coming East again in October to play Massachusetts.
Then in November they’re off to Europe.
I see a few blank days on the itinerary between the last show in October and the first show in November. I sure hope they reschedule somewhere near here for us!
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