Win Tickets ($120): Johnny Marr, James @ Crystal Ballroom | Rock, Indie Pop
We are giving you another chance to WIN a pair of tickets to Johnny Marr, James @ Crystal Ballroom on September 22. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed September 16.
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Johnny Marr
James
September 22, 2024
Doors 6PM, Show 730PM | ADV $55 -$65 | $60-$70 Doors | All Ages
More info: crystalballroompdx.com
Crystal Ballroom
1332 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209
At the beginning of 2023, Johnny Marr had all sorts of plans, but marking anniversaries hadn’t figured among them. Fresh from a succession of rapturously received shows with The Killers, Johnny had already started to gather songs for his fifth album – a successor to 2022’s acclaimed double LP Fever Dreams Pts 1-4. It was his manager who pointed out that he had now been a solo artist for ten years, a stretch of time comfortably in excess of his tenures in The Smiths, Electronic, The The, The Pretenders, Modest Mouse or The Cribs. And although, Marr’s storied life in music isn’t short of milestones – 2010 Inspiration Award at the Ivor Novellos, an Oscar nomination for his work with Hans Zimmer on Inception; and, lest we forget, an NME Godlike Genius Award in 2013 – he hadn’t stopped to consider that the passing of an entire decade might be significant.
The full measure of this extraordinarily fertile period is captured on Spirit Power: The Best Of Johnny Marr, a major new collection curated by Marr encompassing songs from his four top ten solo albums, a scattering of stand-alone singles and two incendiary new cuts, Somewhere and The Answer. Spirit Power presents a composite portrait of an artist with no less a complete ideology than the celebrated co-travellers who inspired him along the way. It’s a body of work that mirrors Marr’s unquenchable life force, his love of melody and the urge to resist what he calls the “strummy, age-appropriate transition into mid-tempo middle age.” He elaborates: “It’s a conversation I have from time to time with [Pet Shop Boys’] Chris Lowe, about how much harder it is to write songs that you want to listen to in the daytime. It’s easier to do something that’s perceived as cool if it’s a bit moody. But, for me, the mission with these records was to make songs that you could listen to on the way to school, on the way to the gym, on the way back from work – you know, in the way that you had with, say, Blondie.”
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Marr is a legend – would love an opportunity to catch him again!
This would be great for me and my wife to catch!
Absolute music legend. I need these tickets to take my wife out for a night of good music and drinks.
I have the night off, I’d love to see this performance.
This would be a dream gig! Both of Manchesters greatest!
Two absolute legends, would love to see ’em!
Good band, venue equals a good time
Johnny Marr is so underrated…and incredible live. Caught him a few years back. absolutely brilliant!
Johnny Marr is daddy. Would love tickets to this show!!!!
Would love to see the great Johnny Mahr and James. Thank you for considering my request.
well funny story. it isn’t what I came back to its what my campmates came back to. At Crystal Ballroom I had the bright idea not to poop all weekend. assuming the portopotties was going to awful idea. so I loaded up on anti-diarrhea pills.
we showed up early Thursday. it worked great till Saturday night. so it hit me during the secret set in the shed. I ran back to site to try to take more anti poop pills. I took a pill and tried to hold it back. NO GO So I was in south Dakota camped against the fence. It was an emergency! so I grabbed a grocery bag and some TP out of the car, leaned against the fence. dropped pants and gave that grocery bag its weight limit. While I was doing this it was the secret set so I thought it was home free. no one will know, But One of my boys poped out of his tent to figure out who or what was going down on our site. Hes like Candace is that you? Im like leave me alone bro im on a secret poop mission. so I finish up, put tp in bag. realize I need to get rid of poop bag. Well im at the fence so I figure id throw over, right? Well I fling this bag of shit over the fence.
So this bag of shit got caught in a tree right above the fence line. so when the wind blew right we caught a wiff of my feces rest of weekend. I cant go to a concert or show without someone in my crew bringing up “keyword” Secret Poop Mission.
Johnny Marr!!!!! James!!!! Great lineup. I would love to win tickets to a show on September 22 which is usually a crummy day for me. It would put a huge smile on my face.
Would love tickets to this show!
Omg! Please pick me
love to go
Would be awesome to hear live big smiths fan
Johnny Marr has been able to make every band he has played with a step above where they would be without him.