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Originally Posted by Derek
In my experience, most local bands are terrible.
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Your experience is wrong. I can understand people not being interested in local bands in middle-of-nowhere, public transport-less provinces, but Glasgow is not such a place. If you don't like the drone scene, try the folk scene; if you don't like the folk scene, try the jazz scene; if you don't like the jazz scene, try the classical scene; if you don't like the classical scene, try the noise scene; if you don't like the noise scene, try the sound-art scene; if you don't like the sound-art scene, try the shit pseudo-klezmer bollocks or jazz-funk scenes.
That should keep you busy for two years, by which time you'll be a lot less attached to 'a great performance' and more interested in just watching for the sake of it.
I'm not picking on you per se, by the way - I was a complete Nazi for all of my teens and much of my 20s. I know plenty of people simply aren't that arsed by live music - and that's fair enough - but in any given city (this doesn't apply to towns so much) there's always a shitload going on. Get out there and see it rather than assuming it's all shit.
Edit: but yeah, 18+ thing is utter bollocks. Though I've never actually seen anyone turned away for not being of age at a gig. Maybe laws are tighter now.