Pulp, twice, but they’ve only been in my country twice. 17 years apart.
Nekrogoblikon - seen them 5 times but I skipped them last time they were in town, the new singer just isn’t the same. Former/founding singer did the clean and growl vocals, now they split it with a new singer doing the growls and the goblin mascot doing the clean vocals.
Weird Al.
Only like 4-5 times so far, but I have tickets for this summer’s tour stop near meGoing to shows is a hobby of mine, I go to a lot of shows. But there is only one artist who I will never miss when he comes to town and it’s Weird Al.
I cannot express strongly enough to anyone reading this who has never seen Al: do it! It’s an elaborate comedy show, you don’t have to know a single song to enjoy it. It’s always drop-dead hilarious and worth twice whatever you pay for it.
Perhaps with the notable exception of his “Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tours” (there have been two so far, iirc) which are definitely more for the hardcore fans, though still funny as hell.
We’ve seen him a few times now and the breadth of his work absolutely amazes me. We’ve seen his well known show where he reprises his music videos twice. A few years ago we saw him when he toured with a full orchestra, and most recently we saw him do an “unplugged” concert which was just him and his band playing acoustically and only doing his original songs, no parodies. I’d honestly forgotten how many original songs he’s written.
Most seen is probably Bloc Party at about 10 times (though most of those were over a decade ago) or more recently Everything Everything who I’ve seen about the same number of times now.
Chemical Brothers is probably my favourite live show, seen them live 6 times now. NIN also put on a great show, going to my 3rd and 4th times next week
Oh I’ve seen Sigur Ros 4 times and that’s always a great show too
Neko Case, who is also a member of the New Pornographers. I have seen both her solo act and TNP probably about 10-15 times.
Billy Idol! I’m not sure how many times I’ve seen him, at least 8 but probably more like 10-11. Two of those times I got meet-and-greet tickets so I’ve got two pics of me and my husband with Billy and Steve Stevens :)
Super Furry Animals. Probably seen them about 15 times if not a little more. This includes solo tours since they started doing there own thing near the end of SFA sadly. Still hoping they get back together but it doesn’t look very good. I wanna say the last time I saw them was a really random tour they did a few years after thinking they were split up. I think that was around 2016?
I would have to say Rammstein, I’ve seen them twice (or once depending on how you count it, it was two days in a row the same show)
Alabama 3. I saw them lots of times in little pub venues and playing non-main stages at festivals in the mid to late 90’s.
Blew my mind when I went to live in the US in 1999, put the TV on, and one of their tracks turned out to be the opening theme tune to this relatively new show called The Sopranos.
Haendel’s Messiah. I have seen it live a dozen times, never fails to impress.
Food House
epic queer hyperpop duo featuring the offspring of tony hawk
saw em live in seattle on the 8th and it was genuinely the bestest time i’ve ever had at a live music event EVER
I haven’t been to a show in over 25 years, but I saw Yes three times, Elton John three times, Prince twice, but Pink Floyd only once, all at the peaks of their popularity in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Starve from Melbourne. Been to almost every show
Dead Kennedys.
I’ve seen them live zero times because they broke up in 1986 and never ever got back together.
Boarda of Canada. Never live. But I dislike that kind of thing, crowds, driving etc, so no biggie.
