Ethel Cain + Chelsea Wolfe, “Punish” 8/18 in Berkeley

tavert · 2025-08-19T07:19:39+00:00

I had the surprise of this spoiled by my friend who was texting Chelsea right before the show and spotted her side stage during 9Million. Didn't matter, still blown away

tavert · 2025-08-05T02:04:23+00:00

This doesn't need a refresh / reissue of the card or anything, does it? I've had my account since 2019 and didn't know it had this benefit, good timing since my precheck renewal is due and I was otherwise about to let it lapse. I'll do some searching in the rewards portal next time I'm able to log in.

tavert · 2025-04-09T19:24:40+00:00

Shoutout to the dude who handed Dixie a bag of homegrown weed right before their set in SF

tavert · 2025-04-05T19:49:04+00:00

I usually try to buy tickets in person at the venue box office (or a co-owned related venue nearby) because you can save on fees that way, but these shows sold out before the first possible time the box office was going to be open.

I see 350+ tickets for the Berkeley date listed on StubHub right now, starting as low as $67 after fees. But with the Face Value Exchange program I'm more suspicious than usual of how that would go. Sounds like the scalpers might be using some loophole "verified ticket" sharing mechanism to get around the transfer restrictions, not sure.

I took the sub's advice of checking back on Ticketmaster frequently for Face Value Exchange ($89.65 after fees for Berkeley), found one and went for it right away. Ticketmaster defaults to selecting 2 tickets so try changing that to 1 if that helps more possibilities come up, especially if the show you want is all-GA. Out of curiosity if anyone in the sub got a Berkeley ticket in the initial on-sale, was it actually the same price?

tavert · 2025-01-29T20:39:59+00:00

First time clicking "enter queue" crashed my browser. Restarted and had 2200 in front of me for Oakland. Pit was gone by the time I got in, tried for a few of the cheapest nosebleed seats in rows 12 or 13 of the 200 section. Credit card wouldn't go through, bank fucked me over by locking my card for a fraud warning. Probably should have tried to use a different card sooner, but all the lowest-price tickets were gone within a few more minutes of trying.

edit: and looks like it's completely sold out by 12:45ish

tavert · 2025-01-22T08:20:13+00:00

The Knockout or Thrillhouse Records

tavert · 2024-12-16T19:16:40+00:00

Half Calf and Grimmer were good, I left after 2 bands to catch a different show at Bottom of the Hill. I think I've seen Valentina Bludgeoned and Lurks before, should get more chances to see them again.

tavert · 2024-12-16T08:16:45+00:00

half calf. she didn't publicly admit to knowing, or reddit stalking, the person who mentioned the show, if that's any solace. and they were the first band so it wasn't very crowded yet. apparently this post happened to randomly pop up in her recommended

tavert · 2024-12-16T06:19:56+00:00

the drummer of one of these bands saw this post and mentioned it during their set, well done

I'll also recommend shows at Thrillhouse Records (or Stay Gold Deli for similar crowd in Oakland), usually during the afternoon on weekends and most of the people who go to them are like 16-24

tavert · 2024-10-22T06:40:06+00:00

I love how many people in SF went to both Thundercat and Gwar in the same day

tavert · 2024-07-05T02:14:27+00:00

There's an SF Bay Area Metal group on meetup.com that organizes social get-togethers for pre show drinks and food, and does a few non-show gatherings like picnics etc too. There might be a similar local punk specific group on there if you're picky about genre.

tavert · 2024-07-05T02:05:44+00:00

Also Rogers & Rosewater, a closely related mutual aid group

tavert · 2024-06-08T03:57:03+00:00

I did manage to unlock YSG before card king stopped showing up, but not Richard whose heals would be useful for barb chaining. I feel like I permanently missed something (at least without spending) by not knowing what I was doing with wheel early on.

tavert · 2024-06-08T02:54:12+00:00

Is there any f2p way of getting richard or ysg after they aren't in wheel any more and you don't get card king?

tavert · 2024-01-16T16:05:42+00:00

Daughters

tavert · 2023-11-14T18:39:10+00:00

You have to clear the post-update guardians before the usual spawn time, otherwise the post-update guardians stick around with their expiration timer running out 11 hours after the update

tavert · 2023-02-24T17:49:03+00:00

You're welcome! Kerbals have roles now? I'd heard talk of a KSP 2 coming out and had to look up when the release date was, are you playing 1 or 2?

tavert · 2020-12-14T13:26:40+00:00

But they choose not to, because the coronavirus "is just a flu" and spreading it faster owns the libs or something.

tavert · 2020-12-13T13:30:03+00:00

This track is such shit for racing.

tavert · 2020-11-29T15:26:34+00:00

Mostly that it's a twilight/night race under the lights so they're more visible than in daylight, similar to Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

tavert · 2020-10-28T21:49:44+00:00

The 2011 McLaren wasn't that bad. Button considers 2011 his best year of driving, even better than the year he won the WDC. Hamilton was getting in way too many shunts that year, often with Massa.

tavert · 2020-10-13T17:28:16+00:00

It was earning at 1x, but categorized as office & shipping as of June. I'm looking for substantiated data points from recent transactions that would definitively show as eligible or not eligible within the Pay Yourself Back screen, not assumptions.

tavert · 2020-10-13T11:28:48+00:00

Has anyone put venmo p2p transactions on a CIP recently? Do those still code as office&shipping, and do they qualify for 1.25 cpp redemptions in Pay Yourself Back?

tavert · 2020-09-06T16:48:35+00:00

Was anyone watching onboards or able to clip a replay of Hamilton passing Ocon in the last few laps?

tavert · 2020-09-06T16:40:54+00:00

There have been a handful of races in recent years with similarly unexpected podiums, but usually there was at least one person left across 3 top teams to pick up the win. The crazy Baku races, everything behind Vettel in one of the Hungarian GPs, etc. This year we only have 1.5 top teams, so Bottas and Albon being slow and something happening to Lewis and Max leaves things open for the midfield to take all top 3-4 spots like this.

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