Only One US Date?

I just saw that Throwing Muses has announced some new shows for later this year. I got all excited… and then I saw that there is exactly one US date in the bunch. November 8th in New York. Everything else is Europe and Australia and so on.

I guess we’re going to New York in November then, eh?

In related, Throwing Muses-adjacent news, Belly is going to play a free show at Salisbury Beach on my brother’s birthday next month! Buffalo Tom is the headliner. I want to go! We already have Belly tickets for October at The Paradise (right?) in Boston, but now I want to go to both shows.

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I assume the show will be here, but I don’t know. There’s a venue down the street a ways too, maybe it will be there?

You can barely see a little tiny piece of the stage on the right side of the picture

The question is, will my ears be able to take it? My hearing has been pretty fucked up for a month now. Some days it seems to be getting better, but then there is a day like yesterday where it is clearly not better. I don’t know. Sometimes loud sounds hurt and sometimes bass frequencies are distorted, pitch shifted (huh?), and painful. I don’t know how concert volume will affect me, but I will get myself some kick ass ear plugs and find out.

I want to be a guy who goes out and hears live music again. I also want to be the old guy who stays home and goes to bed early though so I am pretty conflicted. Right now I am fully on live music’s bandwagon.