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Here’s a list of some of the live events I’ve seen this year:
Laura Marling at the Union Chapel
Lianne Le Havas at the Roundhouse
Nick Cave at Alexandra Palace
Billy Eilish live in LA
Pretty much every game the Boston Red Sox played this year
Every game Tottenham Hotspur have played this year
Barbershop Chronicles at the National Theatre
Twelfth Night at the National Theatre
A Midsummer’s Night Dream at the Bridge Theatre
A Streetcard Named Desire at the Young Vic
Hamilton at the Richard Rogers Theatre, NYC
Bruce Nauman at the Tate Modern
Andy Warhol at the Tate Modern
That would be a pretty good list of events any year, but of course, 2020 was an exception. I managed to see all these things whilst locked down, in my living room, because of Covid.
Some of these events I would have gone to anyway - I’d bought tickets to go to Bille Eilish in London with my daughter, and would probably have gone to at least one of the other gigs and a couple of Spurs games. But many of them I wouldn’t... Keep reading on How to Measure Ghosts
Here’s a list of some of the live events I’ve seen this year:
That would be a pretty good list of events any year, but of course, 2020 was an exception. I managed to see all these things whilst locked down, in my living room, because of Covid.
Some of these events I would have gone to anyway - I’d bought tickets to go to Bille Eilish in London with my daughter, and would probably have gone to at least one of the other gigs and a couple of Spurs games. But many of them I wouldn’t... Keep reading on How to Measure Ghosts