If you know any of the dates for the shows that do not have them, drop me an e-mail at kung.fu@fuse.net.
	date	bands	venue	notes	web links
1	10/30/1987	REM, dB's	Millet Hall (Miami, OH)	My first concert.  My dad would only let me go if he could drive me there, so drive me there he did.  My friend jim got to go backstage and meet the band.  He was able to get me mike mills' autograph to make up for the fact that I had to leave right after the show.	setlist
2	2/23/1988	Rush, Tommy Shaw	Riverfront Coliseum	Years of live prog rock yearning, finally coming to fruition.	setlist
3	4/22/1988	10,000 maniacs, Tracy Chapman	Bogart's	Natalie Merchant stood just a few feet away from me during Tracy Chapman's set.	setlist
4	5/26/1988	The Bears	Bogart's	Great energy and stage presence, and I'm not sure a	setlist
				band has ever had two guitarists this damn good.
5	1988 (fall)	The Church, Tom Verlaine	UK Student Center Ballroom	People threw milky way candy bars up on stage when they played "under the milky way tonight".
6	1989-1991	Royal Crescent Mob	Bogart's/Wrocklage	Saw them at least 3 times at Bogart's and one time at the wrocklage in lexington.  These guys knew how to put on a show.  The New Years Eve shows at Bogarts were nothing short of legendary.
7	1989	Hoodoo Gurus	UK Student Center Ballroom
9	3/16/1989	The Fixx, Bangles	MTV Spring Break Daytona	Hosted by Ken Ober of "remote control" fame.	ticket stub
10	3/18/1989	Cheap Trick, Vixen	MTV Spring Break Daytona	Hosted by Ken Ober of "remote control" fame.
11	3/22/1989	Violent Femmes, Victoria Williams	UK Student Center Ballroom
12	4/3/1989	Violent Femmes	Bowling Green State Univ.	Drove up with a friend and stayed in some dorm room. Someone pulled the fire alarm at some ungodly hour so we just went home.
13	8/29/1989	The Cure, Shelleyann Orphan	Richfield Coliseum (Cleveland)	Drove up and back the same night.  A brutal trip but oh	setlist
				so worth it.
14	9/1/1989	Love and Rockets, Pixies	Riverfront Coliseum	Bought a "Death to the Pixies" shirt.	sample setlist
	10/16/1989	Red Hot Chili Peppers	UK Student Center Ballroom
15	11/5/1989	REM, Pylon	Rupp Arena (Lexington)	Pylon played while standing on some sort of raised cylinders on the stage.  REM was great and even played a cover of television's "See No Evil".	setlist
16	3/4/1990	The Sugarcubes, The Primitives	Bogart's	97x gave away keychains.
17	3/25/1990	Jesus and Mary Chain, The Veldt	UK Student Center Ballroom	Nine Inch Nails was supposed to open but were replaced by The Veldt.
18	4/2/1990	Peter Murphy, House of Love	Bogart's
19	5/17/1990	Cowboy Junkies	Bogart's	The first and only time I ever went to a Bogart's show where there were tables and chairs set up on the floor.
20	6/25/1990	Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb	Riverbend		usenet
21	1990 (fall)	fIREHOSE	Shorty's Underground	Strange dank club with no windows.
22	1990 (fall)	Blake Babies	Lynagh's (Lexington)		usenet
23	1991 (spring)	Book of Love	Lexington	Some little club downtown that I've never been to before or since.
25	6/9/1991	Fugazi	Wrocklage (Lexington)		Fugazi Live Series
24	7/27/1991	Morrissey, Phranc	Riverbend		setlist
26	11/27/1991	Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam,	Cincinnati Gardens
		Smashing Pumpkins
27	1992	Juliana Hatfield	Lynagh's (Lexington)
28	1992	Smashing Orange	Wrocklage (Lexington)
29	1992	Alice Donut	Bogart's
29	2/16/1992	Ice-T, Body Count	Bogart's
30	5/4/1992	Beastie Boys, fIREHOSE, Basehead	Bogart's		review (featuring me!)
31	5/30/1992	The Cure, Cranes	The Omni (Atlanta)		setlist
32	10/6/1992	Sonic Youth	Bogart's		sample setlist
33	10/10/1992	They Might Be Giants	Bogart's
34	1/29/1993	Ned's Atomic Dustbin	Bogart's	Got free tickets from WRFL.
35	5/4/1993	Belly, Velocity Girl	Bogart's	Got my ticket stub signed by tanya donnelly for a friend of mine who had exams and couldn't go.	usenet
36	5/25/1993	Swirlies	Sudsy Malone's	My first time ever at sudsy's.  Got there at 9pm not knowing any better and had to wait forever for the Swirlies.  Before the show the drummer asked me where a grocery store was so I pointed him towards Krogers.  After the show got a 7" signed by the whole band.	usenet review
37	1993	unrest, versus	Sudsy Malone's	place was packed beyond belief.  unrest and versus were brilliant.
38	10/3/1993	Fudge Tunnel, Pain Teens	Wrocklage (Lexington)	Imagine being pummeled by a hammer made of pure	usenet
				sound and it might aproximate this show.
39	10/6/1993	Velocity Girl, Tsunami	Lynagh's (Lexington)	Talked to Archie after the show about his stint in the Lilys.	usenet
				Tried to talk to Sarah but she was suitably elusive.
40	10/29/1993	Pegboy	Wrocklage (Lexington)	Saw them a few times.  This is the only one I know
				for sure.
41	11/3/1993	Verve, Acetone	Bogart's	Only about 100 people there. Missed most or all of acetone (the main reason I went) but caught The Verve (just "Verve" at that time).
42	1994	Karl Hendricks Trio	Sudsy Malone's
43	1994	New Bomb Turks	Sudsy Malone's
44	5/8/1994	Pavement, Guided By Voices, 3D's	Southgate House	my first time at the Southgate House.	poster
45	6/17/1994	Grifters, Dambuilders, SF Seals	Sudsy Malone's	The Dambuilders knocked my socks off.  Went out and
				bought their CD the very next day.
46	9/20/1994	Jesus Lizard, Poster Children,	Louisville Gardens Theater
		Girls Against Boys, Mule
47	10/2/1994	Pavement, Polvo, Lazy	Kellogg Club		poster
48	11/11/1994	Superchunk, Butterglory	Kellogg Club		usenet
49	11/25/1994	The Cramps, Gas Huffer	Academy (NYC)	Smoked clove cigarettes while Lux climbed the PAs and
				tried his darnest to get his pants to fall off.  Fortunately, he was unsuccessful
50	2/16/1995	Matthew Sweet	Bogart's		setlist
51	2/25/1995	Goober and the Peas	Sudsy Malone's	In an alchohol fueled frenzy I tried to grab some hay off the stage and throw it but ended up grabbing the microphone cord, sending the mic crashing to the stage with a thud.  The band dealt with this rather well (must happen all the time) and even signed a poster for me after the show.
52	4/26/1995	Archers of Loaf, Sistern	Sudsy Malone's	Loudest…show…ever.  Leaning up against the right speaker didn't help much.
53	5/27/1995	Grifters, Evergreen	Sudsy Malone's
54	6/6/1995	Bailter Space, Crybaby Killer	Sudsy Malone's
55	7/18/1995	Lollapolooza (Pavement, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Coolio, Moby, Geraldine Fibbers, Braniac, Coctails)	Riverbend	David Yow arrested for getting naked.	SY setlist
				First concert with my wife-to-be.
56	8/29/1995	Elton John	Riverbend
57	10/13/1995	Yo La Tengo	Sudsy Malone's
58	2/10/1996	Man or Astroman	Wrocklage (Lexington)	My last show at the Wrocklage...crazy.  They had all sorts of strange retro movies going on in the background.	kernel article
59	2/22/1996	Air Miami, Spectrum	Sudsy Malone's	One guy played the whole show sitting down and Pete kept complaining about too much bass in the monitors..."too bassy, too bassy".
60	3/22/1996	Wedding Present, Butterglory, Remy Zero	Double Door (Chicago)	Amazing show.  The wedding present had two drummers, one being the drummer from butterglory.  Spent the night in some nasty hotel with an all night dance party going on in the lobby.
61	10/26/1996	Stereolab, DJ Spooky, UI	Phoenix Hill Tavern (Louisville)	Missed Stereolab in Cincinnati earlier in the year because I didn't have tickets.  This show more than made up for that mishap.  The place was all done up in Halloween decorations making for an interesting backdrop.	sample setlist
62	5/4/1997	Pavement	Bogart's	Fun fun show.  They played "conduit for sale" (I'm tryin, I'm tryin) which made me very happy.
63	5/29/1997	Yo La Tengo, Magnetic Fields, Ass Ponys	Sudsy Malone's	tried talking to ira but I was really drunk.  he was quite gracious, though, and nodded appreciatively at my fawning.	setlist
64	6/5/1997	Matthew Sweet	Bogart's	Not quite as good as the previous show.	sample setlist
65	2/26/1998	Superchunk, Neutral Milk Hotel	Sudsy Malone's	Last time I saw Superchunk.  Some guy started talking to me about poetry, so I told him Dylan Thomas was a hack.
66	5/13/1998	Sonic Youth, The Ex	Bogart's	One of the most lackluster sets I've seen from sonic	setlist
				youth.  Not even "death valley 69" could save this show.
67	6/12/1998	The B 52's, Pretenders	Riverbend
68	11/13/1998	Jonathan Richman	Southgate House	First Jonathan show.  What a guy!  I've determined that it's impossible not to have fun at a JR show.
69	3/2/1999	Versus, Mark Robinson	Crocodile Café (Seattle)	Was in seattle for a conference and happened to catch this show. Ate dinner at the café (a few tables from Versus and Mark) and then saw them rock out.  Mmark played solo acoustic but was joined by James for a couple of tunes.
70	3/11/1999	Billy Joel	Riverfront Coliseum
71	4/24/1999	Adrian Belew, John Strohm	earth day at sawyer point	Joined by rest of "The Bears" for a couple of tunes.	citybeat
72	10/22/1999	Jonathan Richman	Southgate House
73	12/6/1999	Stereolab, Papa M, Brokeback	Metro (Chicago)		sample setlist
74	3/29/2000	Yo La Tengo, Quickspace	Headliners (Louisville)	People kept talking during the softer songs.  After trying unsuccessfully to get them to keep it down, Ira and co. decided to play "Attack on Love".
75	4/22/2000	Bob Mould	Earth Day at Sawyer Point	Someone kept requesting "Diane", so Bob kindly informed him that it wasn't his song.  he did play "celebrated summer", though.	setlist
76	6/6/2000	Stereolab	Southgate House		setlist
77	8/4/2000	Yes	Riverbend	"Heart of the Sunrise".....live....'nuff said.	setlist
78	9/24/2000	Macha	Southgate House	The bass shook my soul and the hammer dulcimer awakened my mind.  Quite a mysitcal experience.	citybeat
79	10/25/2000	Versus, Mark Robinson	Southgate House
80	6/12/2001	True Love Always	Southgate House	Kleenex Girl Wonder was supposed to be there but never showed up
81	6/28/2001	Rebecca Gates (Spinanes)	Southgate House	Just Rebecca, a drummer and a Mac laptop.  She even played "Kid in Candy".  I told her after the show that I was amazed she could play that riff and sing at the same time.
82	9/24/2001	Sunshine Fix, Four Corners	Southgate House
83	3/23/2002	True Love Always	Southgate House	Great bunch of guys playing great songs.
84	6/26/2002	Jonathan Richman	Southgate House		citybeat
85	10/5/2002	The Bears, Brian Lovely	Southgate House	Won tix from 97x.  These guys were just as exciting to watch as they were over a decade ago.	citybeat
86	1/17/2003	Interpol, Calla, Mallory	Southgate House	The local opener, mallory, were actually better than Interpol.
87	2/13/2003	Apples in Stereo, Oranger	Southgate House	Someone bought me one drink too many and I had to leave work "sick" the next day.	citybeat
88	4/12/2003	Yo La Tengo, Portastatic	Southgate House	Finally got to see Portastatic.  Fortunately they were worth the price of admission alone as Yo La Tengo was quite uninspiring.  "Double Dare" was great as usual, but everything else was just ok.	enquirer story
89	5/4/2003	+/-, Readymaid	Southgate House
90	6/28/2003	The Fall, TV On the Radio	Empty Bottle (Chicago)	First time seeing The Fall.  Drove up to chicago as I wasn't sure when I'd get a chance to see them again.  TV On the Radio was aimless and boring.  It's a shame as I've enjoyed what I've heard of them since. The Fall completely ruled.	setlist & photos
91	10/8/2003	Grandaddy, Starlight Mints, Phaser	Southgate House
92	1/2/2004	Forget Cassettes	Shake It in-store	Full on rock in a record store…beautiful	pics from sudsy's
93	1/17/2004	Songs:ohia	Southgate House	Great, intimate set	review
94	4/20/2004	The Fall, Shesus	Southgate House	Mark E. Smith was recovering from a broken hip so he spent most of the show sitting down.	setlist
95	4/21/2004	Tobin Sprout	Southgate House		poster and setlist
96	5/18/2004	Sloan	20th century theatre	Kind of like seeing a friend's band at a house party…just a real jovial atmosphere	pics & setlist
97	7/12/2004	Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Reputation	Radio Down		citybeat
98	8/3/2004	Curiousa Festival (The Cure, Interpol, The Rapture, Mogwai, Cooper Temple Clause, Thusday, Auf Der Maur, Muse)	Riverbend	Second best of The Cure shows I've seen (1989 was slightly better only because there was more of Disintigration).  All of the other bands were just OK but Muse was awesome.	review & setlist
99	10/2/2004	Grandmaster Flash	Southgate House	Unbelievable one and a half hour show with just the grandmaster himself and two turntables.	press release
100	10/23/2004	Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players	Alchemize	A guy, his wife and their daughter on drums performing in front of a slide show.  About infinity times more fun than it sounds!
101	11/8/2004	Jem	20th Century Theatre	Got to meet Jem, get the setlist signed and get a picture taken (thanks to someone smart enough to bring a polaroid)
102	11/18/2004	Luna, Palomar	Southgate House	Great guitar work.  "Chinatown" was chill-inducing.	citybeat
103	11/19/2004	Arcade Fire, Shuttlecock	Southgate House	Very much like the religious revival it was touted to be.	cinweekly
104	11/28/2004	Muse, The Exit	Promo West (Columbus)	These guys were destined to play the arena.  They've got such a big sound and unparalleled musicianship.	article
105	12/7/2004	Juliana Hatfield, Gentleman Caller	Alchemize	Just Juliana and her guitar.  Very mellow and subdued atmosphere.
106	2/24/2005	True Love Always,+/-, Eggs, Unrest	Black Cat (DC)	First night of the Teenbeat 20th celebration. Unrest sounded just as good as they did in their heyday.	review & mp3s
107	2/25/2005	Holland, Hot Pursuit, Aden, Flin Flon, Versus	Black Cat (DC)	Second night of the Teenbeat 20th celebration.  Versus played "The Stars Are Insane" all the way through.	review & mp3s
108	2/28/2005	Kasabian	Madison Theater (Covington)	Won tix by signing up to a mailing list. Kasabian was alright.
109	4/23/2005	Cake, Gomez	Madison Theater (Covington)
110	4/30/2005	Coachella: Coldplay, Bauhaus, Wilco, Keane, Snow Patrol, The Raveonettes, M83, Razorlight	Empire Polo Fields (Indio CA)	Two days of pure bliss.  Wilco and Bauhaus were the highlights.	review
111	5/1/2005	Coachella: Nine Inch Nails, New Order, Gang of Four, Arcade Fire, M.I.A. British Sea Power, Fiery Furnaces, Jem, Sloan, The Futureheads	Empire Polo Fields (Indio CA)	New Order played "Bizarre Love Triangle", New Order played "Bizarre Love Triangle", New Order played "Bizarre Love Triangle"!  Oh yea, there were some other bands there too, I think.
112	5/17/2005	Rilo Kiley, Neva Dinova	Southgate House		pictures
113	5/29/2005	Amusment Parks on Fire	Southgate House
114	2/26/2006	Of Montreal, Marbles	Southgate House	Kevin came out in a wedding dress and declared "I want to marry all of you!".	blog
115	6/23/2006	Desdemona Festival: Apples in Stereo, Ghostface Killah	Sawyer Point Park	A music festival in cincinnati, and a good one at that!  Sparsely attended, but those who did got a real treat.	review
116	6/24/2006	Desdemona Festival: The Spectacular Fantastic, Forget Cassettes, Enon, Mates of State, Stellastar, Annie	Sawyer Point Park		review
117	6/25/2006	Desdemona Festival: Rogue Wave, The Stills, We Are Scientists, Fiery Furnaces, Radio 4, The Walkmen	Sawyer Point Park		review
118	8/16/2006	The Church, Rob Dickenson	20th Century Theatre	Talked to Rob about his cousin, the one and only Bruce Dickenson of Iron Maiden fame.	setlist
119	9/8/2006	Touch and Go Fest: GVSB, Ted Leo, !!!	The Hideout (Chicago)		review
120	9/9/2006	Touch and Go Fest: The New Year, Uzeda, Pegboy, Didjits, Man or Astroman, Scratch Acid, Big Black, Shellac	The Hideout (Chicago)	The New Year was absolutely amazing, worth the price of admission (and the trip to Chicago) alone.
121	11/21/2006	Morrissey, Kristeen Young	Aragon Theatre (Chicago)	Morrissey is one suave dude.  Played lots of smiths covers.	setlist & review
122	3/30/2007	Aqueduct, Youth Group	Southgate House	Talked to the guys from Aqueduct, super nice!	citybeat preview
123	4/27/2007	Coachella: Silversun Pickups, Digitalism, Jesus and Mary Chain, Faithless, Sonic Youth, DJ Shadow, Bjork	empire polo fields, indio CA	despite a whole slew of mishaps, I managed to have a pretty damn good time.	review
124	8/26/2007	America	Taste of Blue Ash	Couldn't see a whole lot, but got to jam to the glorious sounds of 70's AM radio
125	9/6/2007	Spectrum, Lab Partners	Southgate House	Just Sonic and the guy from Fuxa playing a couple of synths.  Very odd show.	citybeat preview
126	11/6/2007	They Might Be Giants, Oppenheimer	Southgate House	One big ball of super-awesomeness.  They even had horns and a huge bass drum for "Whistling in the Dark".	setlist & review
127	11/8/2007	Robyn Hitchcock, Sean Nelson	Southgate House	Sean was very witty and entertaining.  Robyn was as excellent as I expected he would be.	setlist & review
128	1/31/2008	Sharon Jones and the Dap-kings	Bogart's	Unbelievable.  Sharon and the kings brought the funk for one of the best shows I've ever witnessed at Bogart's and possibly anywhere.	citybeat preview
129	3/23/2008	Stephen Malkmus, John Vanderslice	Southgate House	My friend Brian and I were both rockin' out in our black Members Only jackets. Awesome display of 70's rock prowess.
130	3/28/2008	British Sea Power, The 1900s	Phoenix Hill Tavern (Louisville)	Got there early and ended up getting in before the closed the door, so it was just us and the opening band hanging out for a while.  Both BSP and the 1900s were amazing.
131	10/16/2008	The Breeders	Fountain Square	A free show that was part of an Obama rally.  Took the kids but they weren't too into it so we left early.
132	10/24/2008	Jonathan Richman	Southgate House	Great, intimate show.  They even had the balcony closed off.
133	10/1/2009	KMFDM	Bogart's	Probably the first true "industrial" show I've been to.  The place was rocking, and they ended with "Godlike"!
134	3/13/2010	Muse, Silversun Pickups	The Palace (Detroit)	Got tickets on the side, but pretty close to the stage.  Definitely more of an "arena" show than the last time we saw them.
135	6/3/2010	This Will Destroy You, The Life and Times	Southgate House	TWDY did nothing for me (loud and formless), but TLaT were great, and even signed the LP I bought from them.
136	6/4/2010	Camera Obscura, Paper Airplane, Love Language, The Trouble With Boys	Fountain Square	Great free show at a packed Fountain Square.
137	9/25/2010	Tom Tom Club	Grammers	I wasn't expecting much, but man did they ever bring it.  The musicianship and the energy were on par with the best I've seen, and they really seemed to be having fun.
138	10/2/2010	Scrawl, Fairmount Girls	MOTR	Great to finally see Scrawl after listening to them for years.  They sounded as good as they ever did on record.
139	10/11/2010	Muse, Metric	US Bank Arena	Another great Muse show, but this time from the fourth row!
140	10/22/2010	LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip	Eagles Club (Milwaukee)	The club was freezing because the windows were open.  I asked one of the staff if we could close it and he said "no", because that was the only ventilation in the place.  Environment aside, the show was amazing and the place was packed.
141	11/11/2010	Grant Hart	UK Student Center	How can a legend like Grant Hart play for free to a room of 10 people?  Despite this, he was amazing, and touched pretty much every part of his catalog, including a request from me ("Admiral of the Sea").
142	4/5/2011	Rush	KFC Yum! Center (Louisville)	Geddy's voice is definitely showing its age, but the music and the visuals were great.
143	5/6/2011	The Sky Drops	The Comet	Only got to hear one song (due to being at Cirque de Soliel earlier), but they sounded fantastic.  Talked to Rob afterwards about Smashing Orange.
144	5/16/2011	Elvis Costello & the Imposters	Taft Theatre	Elvis brought the Spinning Songbook back for this tour, and it was a blast.
145	5/29/2011	"Weird Al" Yankovic	PNC Pavilion	Took the kids to their first real show, and Weird Al did not disappoint.
146	8/21/2011	KMFDM	The Mad Hatter	Pretty much like the last show, except a much smaller club.
147	10/16/2011	Matthew Sweet, Miles Zuniga	20th Century Theater	Matthew sounded great as always, except towards the end where he seemed to be losing steam.
148	10/17/2011	Rival Schools, Balance and Composure	The Mad Hatter	Rival Schools was so damn good, even as a three piece (Ian left a couple weeks before).  They ended he show with a cover of "How Soon Is Now", which Walter had originally done with Quicksand.