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How often do you see live music?

#Poll #EvanPoll

  • Weekly or more (1%, 8 votes)
  • About monthly (11%, 54 votes)
  • About quarterly (22%, 109 votes)
  • Annually or less (64%, 308 votes)
479 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

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once all the COVID stuff is over, I'll move from semi-annually back to monthly. 🤣
I see it on TV all the time 😂
I mean, I used to a few times a year, but Pandemic.
The results are sad 😭

Now I want to see the same poll for live theatre.

I chose quarterly. I don't usually seek out live music per se, but sometimes I'm involved in events because of my involvement in the theatre scene or my participation as an MC. Plus sometimes I go to see my friends playing. I have a strong preference for small, indie events featuring local artists. There aren't many superstar musicians or singers I would pay to see.
@mark if you do a live theatre poll I will boost.
Deal! :ablobcatheartsqueeze: https://tech.lgbt/@mark/109604651965569337
Including or excepting church services?
@avertexofmyown@smkellat in general, I'd rather not answer these. Judge for yourself!
Pre-pandemic, weekly or more, mostly from the stage, participating. Now, well, annually or less, there aren't COVID-safe shows to go to.
I went quite a lot in my youth. Maybe this is a short person thing, but I just don't enjoy it much, anymore. Three hours of passive aggression to get bitten by mosquitoes and hear a lower fidelity version than is on the album isn't quite for me, I guess.
I guess that question is as of today, not pre-COVID-19?
the difference between live music and the way most people experience music through those little things in their ears is one of the more underappreciated cultural/social losses of the last couple of decades.

Admittedly, my wife is a professional classical musician, so I may be somewhat biased. (That also makes me more aware of opportunities to experience live music.)
couple of times a week, support yer local acts 👍

Loads cheaper and interesting that way
I want to do more but Ticketmaster is awful
mostly DJs tho
I really need a version of this for before COVID and after COVID.
Since covid? None.
Qualified Annually or Less (*covid)
me and my husband made it a goal in 2022 to see at least one live concert per month. We did it, it was a truly awesome year. Can’t wait to do more of it in 2023.
This is such an interesting question, because, with two musicians in the house, it depends radically on what counts as "live music".

I mean, if two of my offspring jamming with LMMS and a glockenspiel in the living room counts, then it's pretty often, but if it has to be professionals on a stage with a crowd of people somewhere, then it's been awhile.
How do you see music? Synesthesia?
In fact on my way to see some live music now... It works out to be just about once a week, though some weeks there's nothing and other weeks there's a lot. Partner's a working musician, so are most of our friends.
it used to be almost weekly pre-Covid. Now it's rare. It's perhaps the thing I miss the most. There's just nothing like the sound of live acoustic music without any amplification. My soul is scrawny without it.
used to be quarterly or so before pandemic and a kid 🫠
My response of “quarterly” includes middle school parades and concerts. That’s all for the foreseeable future. Stupid pandemic.
I used to go to a lot of open mic events. Not since covid.
Wow, surprising results.

This might be because the fediverse skews older, and older people maybe don't go to see live music as much as young people.

A lot of commenters called out a big change in habit around the pandemic, which makes sense. I guess few of us are making do with outdoor events or masked indoor events.

Anyway, I'm about quarterly. I get to do some outdoor events in the three easy seasons here, some indoor, and we have Igloofest https://igloofest.ca/en in Montreal in the winter.
Over the course of the last 15 years or so, I went from one extreme (multiple times per week) to the other (annual or less). A number of things led to this, but I will say in more recent times the pandemic has been a factor.
might find a bunch of are making do with masked outdoor events or staying home instead. Ain't going anywhere near a poorly ventilated indoor venue.
I'd love to see that broken down a bit by the style of music people listen to. I'm a lifelong classical music fan, and I know next to nothing about the experience of a rock or pop concert.

But there are so many great local classical music options, even in the COVID era, even in a small town like the Albany, NY area. I really wish I knew how to share that with more people.
I personally hate seeing live acts. the crowds, the cost, blergh.
@chris_mahan what about seeing friends or family play in smaller venues?
Even that. I have a few friends who play in venues. I went to see one, one time, five years ago. It was dreadful (not the playing) the overwhelm from being in a crowded, busy, loud place. I couldn't wait to get out.
I have rarely been a live music person, even in my er, youth. 😀 As an introvert I just dislike crowds so much. 😀 I go to non-classical occasionally, but small venues only, or if there's preferred parking so it's easy to leave without getting stuck in the scrum. 😀 I did used to go to the SF Symphony and Opera a while ago, but parking and reserved seats made that OK.
I think I am on about decadely with my two latest intentional events. And looking back, the musical experiences at both were nothing compared to listening to their albums.
I missed the survey but we’ve basically been seeing things indoors with a “n95 mask goes on before you go in and stays on til after you leave” and that’s worked well
I haven't been to a rock show since March 13, 2020. Not worth getting covid. Before that, I went 2-10 per month.
It was a lifestyle. Now it's hermit style for the indefinite future. 🙁
The pandemic's definitely made a big difference for us.

We love going to see live music, but it's super rare to get any bands we like playing in our town. So it always involves travelling, time off work etc.

Since the pandemic started, we're really picking and choosing carefully, because we're reluctant to spend time in indoor spaces with crowds. We mask, but practically no-one else does.

I do miss it, but we're still going to see the bands that are most important to us.
I'm very happy to have returned to weeklyish live music now that my kids are old enough to enjoy being baby sat and my personal risk of severe COVID has stabilized.

It's so invigorating and since I resumed playing music during lockdown my enjoyment of watching musicians has evolved.
I would have been in the weekly column as recently as 2019, but the main habit that I've lost with the pandemic is commuting.

Also, two of our three main local indie clubs have been itinerant since the pandemic, one for pandemic reasons (rent) and the other for restoration of the bridge they "lived" under. But construction is finished now, so things are looking up:

https://www.lausanne.ch/apps/actualites/index.php?actu_id=65860
pre pandemic, I was maybe once a month. None since 2019, though.
Going to see more shows and going out dancing more are both part of my ambitions for this coming year. Also, Patti is DJing at the SAT Dome at the end of January, we should go out dancing!
this is the saddest vector in my life post-kids and certainly mid-pandemic. 📉😭