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The Most Weird Venues For Live Shows & Concerts

Sometimes the venues aren’t what you expect. Here are some of the most unusual venues artist have performed in. 

The opportunity to perform music in front of a sea of ragging fans is sometimes the driving force behind what gets some artist up in the morning but, sometimes that sea of excited individuals that know every single word to your song won’t be signing it back to you from their seats in a stadium or from the well-trimmed acres of grass that you find at Coachella. 

The first one on the list is from the days of black and white television. In south Manchester, May 7, 1964 there was a moving performance headlined by Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe in a decommissioned railway station platform.

Sister Rosetta Tarpe

The idea stemmed from Jonnie Hamp. He claimed that the idea was inspired from an old set that a previous show had done that included trains. 

Another unusual location that happens to be in Manchester too was performed out of by The Joy Formidables. It was a small intimate gig that was located at Victoria’s baths in south Manchester. Only 150 of their fans were given the opportunity to bathe in their glory. At the time of the performance Victoria baths was a semi-restored Edwardian swimming bath. 

Next are The Grateful Dead, the name in itself for a band was a bit unusual but it took on a new level of irony when they performed three shows at the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. This couldn’t have been an easy sell to their record company seeing that the logistics of getting over there to perform wouldn’t be easy, but the Grateful Dead’s loving fan base, rightfully named the “deadheads” enthusiastically made their way to Egypt for the performance of a lifetime. 

Last on the list was on January 30th 1969. The Beatles performed on top of the Apple Corps building. It was one of the most memorable performances that they ever gave. Believe it or not this wasn’t even their first choice. They had discussed going to the Sahara Desert or to an amphitheater. Safe to say this was the better choice. 

Overall two things are very clear. One, music is something that has the ability to cross all kinds of borders. From language to continents. Second, regardless of the concert venue where a die-hard fan’s band plays play they will always be there. Pyramid of Giza or not. 


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