Noticing your crumpled gig ticket set me wondering - has anyone else made a scrapbook of old tickets? When renovating our attic space a few years ago, in our "Room of Doom" I found my old gig tickets stored in a box for the past 20 years.
What to do with these old tickets? Because I had deliberately kept them through many house moves, I felt they needed to be archived in some way. So I set about compiling some scrapbooks, inserting the ticket with photo corners, and writing about the gig, my companions, and any memorable events on the day. I have continued writing this scrapbook even though I stopped collecting the tickets when they became boringly digital. Now, however, I can add photos, festival line-up lists, even wristbands. These books have become something similar to an old photo album, bringing back lovely memories, even when the gig may have been terrible!
Hi Orla, thank you for your great comment. I haven't made a scrapbook but like you have a box of old tickets that I don't quite know what to do with. it's like they are proof that it really happened...that if they left I wouldn't be quite sure it actually occurred. I love what you are doing - we can sometimes place importance only on the old ones, when they were - like the most recent gig - just the last one we went to once. Thanks for commenting
I too have recently read "Mayflies", and I really enjoyed it. The story kind of blindsided me, and I'm still thinking about the characters.
I wasn't at that gig, but I would have read about it in the music press and wished I was there.
When we were still at school, gigs and festivals were not allowed by my Mum, because "there might be drugs". She was deaf to our protestations that we would not be indulging....
Thank you Orla, v lovely of you to say. I'm really looking forward to the tv version of Mayflies having enjoyed the book.And I had a similar experience with the old man and festivals, so I pretended I was staying at a friend's house and we hitched to our first festival, Elephant Fayre. Quite the eyeopener!
Brilliant! Crikey brought back memories! Write that book!!
I just might one day!
Noticing your crumpled gig ticket set me wondering - has anyone else made a scrapbook of old tickets? When renovating our attic space a few years ago, in our "Room of Doom" I found my old gig tickets stored in a box for the past 20 years.
What to do with these old tickets? Because I had deliberately kept them through many house moves, I felt they needed to be archived in some way. So I set about compiling some scrapbooks, inserting the ticket with photo corners, and writing about the gig, my companions, and any memorable events on the day. I have continued writing this scrapbook even though I stopped collecting the tickets when they became boringly digital. Now, however, I can add photos, festival line-up lists, even wristbands. These books have become something similar to an old photo album, bringing back lovely memories, even when the gig may have been terrible!
Hi Orla, thank you for your great comment. I haven't made a scrapbook but like you have a box of old tickets that I don't quite know what to do with. it's like they are proof that it really happened...that if they left I wouldn't be quite sure it actually occurred. I love what you are doing - we can sometimes place importance only on the old ones, when they were - like the most recent gig - just the last one we went to once. Thanks for commenting
Mark, what a lovely piece of writing!
I too have recently read "Mayflies", and I really enjoyed it. The story kind of blindsided me, and I'm still thinking about the characters.
I wasn't at that gig, but I would have read about it in the music press and wished I was there.
When we were still at school, gigs and festivals were not allowed by my Mum, because "there might be drugs". She was deaf to our protestations that we would not be indulging....
Thank you Orla, v lovely of you to say. I'm really looking forward to the tv version of Mayflies having enjoyed the book.And I had a similar experience with the old man and festivals, so I pretended I was staying at a friend's house and we hitched to our first festival, Elephant Fayre. Quite the eyeopener!
Brilliant 🤣