NYC Show Obsessive

  Bill: Ghost Venue: Madison Square Garden , New York, NY Date: 7/22/25 Tickets $102.50 + 28.45 fee bought resale gifted 8:15 pm Ghost Active: 2006 ( Linköping ,   Östergötland , Sweden) Latest Release:  Skeletá (Loma Vista, 2025) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs Setlist AllMusic Wiki YouTube The last time I saw Ghost they were opening for Iron Maiden in 2016.  Singer Tobias Forge noted the bands' NYC debut was 2011 in the short lived (at least for Rock bands) Basement at Webster Hall (actually The Studio).  They've come a long way to headlining.  I had a friend in town and picked this show to see and got some good seats in section 108.  Unfortunately, there are no photos or clips from this vantage point because they band was doing the sporadic Yondr bags.  In the past decade I've only had the Yondr experience twice for the Misfits in Jersey and Bob Dylan at the Beacon. As for the show, there was no opener, so Ghost went on pretty fast ...

  Bill: X/Jon Spencer Venue: Town Hall , New York, NY Date: 10/3/24 Ticket: $75 for 5th Row on Stubhub 9:20PM X Active: 1977 (Los Angeles, CA) Latest Release: Smoke and Fiction (Fat Possum, 2024) Bandcamp   Facebook   Instagram   Discogs   AllMusic   Setlist   Wiki   YouTube 8:15pm Jon Spencer Active: 1985 (New York, NY) Affiliations:  Boss Hog ,  Five Dollar Priest ,  Gibson Bros ,  Heavy Trash ,  Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers ,  Pussy Galore (2) ,  Shithaus ,  Spencer Dickinson ,  The Honeymoon Killers (2) ,  The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Latest Release: Sick of Being Sick! (Bronze Rat/Shove, 2024) Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Discogs AllMusic Setlist Wiki YouTube I had a last minute arrangement to see X with my friend Danny who got a single ticket in the 6th row.  Lo and behold the 3 $95 dollar tickets that were sitting unsold a row directly in front of him dropped 20 bucks afte...