Bands are just like buses

For 11 years I have waited to watch Blink 182 and after their show in Nottingham was cancelled last year and rescheduled for this, it will hopefully be worth the wait, but what has made me even more excited about this is that they have announced that the All American Rejects will be their special guests (a nicer way of saying "support band").

I saw All American Rejects live in Nottingham in late 2009 and loved it, it's one of the few gigs I've been to where I haven't been completely and totally bored by the mid-way point. I haven't actually been to that many gigs during my life and it's always something I want to do more of, but then any time I go I remember how quickly they become quite boring, and some that I was extremely excited about were disappointing.

Off the top of my head the aforementioned All American Rejects gig in 2009 was the first I ever went to. I had seen people sing live but only small time bands that aren't even well known where they come from, let alone on a national or international setting, making All American Rejects my first proper venture into watching music live.

Since then I have seen Rammstein, Canterbury and Bowling for Soup live, the latter of which was dreadful and I even left before the end. The Rammstein one was good but was also a bit of a disappointment in the sense that I had heard that seeming them live was epic.......a bit of an exaggeration. Finally, Canterbury, who I saw in November 2010, one of my favourite bands. They were awesome that night and even hung around with the fans after it had all finished.

There aren't many artists that I haven't already seen (or got tickets for) that I would be interested in seeing to be honest. Simple Plan are in the UK soon so might go and watch them, whereas I would also love to see 2Cellos, 30 Seconds to Mars, Sum 41 and Lene Marlin at some point, but they don't visit the UK on a regular basis, so might be a bit stuck with those ones.

Also, it doesn't help that Lincoln is virtually in the middle of nowhere, meaning no-one big (at the time of them coming) will come here.....or at least no-one that I want to see.