Tonight and Sunday, The Rolling Stones are playing in Regina. Say what? Rolling Stones? Regina? They are expecting about 30-40,000 per show, which [if true...sales may be exaggerated] makes it the biggest show of its kind ever staged here. Almost everyone I know is going, has tickets, has people coming in to see it, and the city bars and restaurants will be wild. The beer will flow, the old boys will shake what they have left, and all will be fine.
I won't be there, and while the event casts a shadow you can't ignore, I'm happy to say that I don't really care to be there. Once you've been to a Planxty show live in the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, the Stones in Taylor Field [in 8°C weather] just won't do. I might just put on "Planxty—Live 2004," turn it up loud, and imagine the sea of Irish rugby colours that invaded the Usher Hall back in 1981 when Planxty played to over 3,000 wildly enthusiastic fans. Now, that was a concert.
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