I was really hoping for this… 90’s alternative rock nerd boy just scored two tickets to see Belly in October. Now I just need Throwing Muses to announce North American shows and my 2025 musical life will be complete. I want to see both halves of Throwing Muses this year.
I did not see Belly when they were together in the 90’s and I did not see them when they got back together a few years ago and I did not see them when they played in my freakin’ back yard (Lowell, MA) last year. This will correct this gross oversite on my musical obsession bingo card. I saw Tanya Donelly shortly after Belly split, and once more years later with Jen, and once with Throwing Muses back in 1989, but I’ve never seen Belly.
I’m trying to remember all of the Muses related shows I’ve seen…
- Opening for REM at Great Woods in ’89
- At the Hatch Shell in Boston (a free show) in… ’95? I think. It was before Limbo came out
- At an in-store mini set at Newbury Comics in Harvard Square on the day Limbo came out in ’96
- At the Middle East on the day that Limbo came out in ’96 (yes, I saw them twice on the same day)
- Tanya at The Paradise… either just before or just after her first solo LP came out
- Kristin Hersh at The Paradise playing solo acoustic around the time Strange Angels came out… I think.
- Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave at The Middle East on August 11, 2006
- Kristin Hersh at Hy N Dry Studio on May 27, 2007 with Jen
- Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly (separately and briefly together) on October 6, 2007 at The Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA
Damn… that list is a whole lot shorter than I thought it would be. I’m pretty sure that’s it though. Hopefully this year we’ll be adding two more shows to it. Hopefully… if Throwing Muses would just announce a nice Boston show to go along with their already announced European shows.
Happy concert tickets day, everyone.
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