First Avenue is (finally!) booking concerts again, starting with an old favorite Thursday s Dinosaur Jr. announcement marked the start of post-pandemic bookings, also including a new Palace Theatre show with the Purity Ring confirmed Friday. March 12, 2021 9:24am Text size Copy shortlink:
A concert announcement by Dinosaur Jr. is nothing out of the ordinary at First Avenue, but on Thursday it generated an extraordinary amount of excitement.
The Sept. 14 date with J. Mascis and his crew was the Minneapolis live music hub s first new booking to be announced in 2021. As in: It s not a postponement from 2020. It won t be a limited-capacity show with reserved tables. It s an honest-to-goodness, brand new tour date booked with the idea that fans will be able to stand elbow-to-elbow, just like they did back when COVID-19 probably would ve been mistaken for an industrial band that played the Entry back in 1988.
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If you re one of those people who won t be completely over the pandemic until you re crammed into a crowd of thousands of sweaty people spilling beer over each other while some band performs onstage any band at this point! then the most realistic target to set your sights on is September. That s when America s biggest festival, Bonnaroo (a bellwether for the touring industry), has been rescheduled. Locally, that s when First Avenue staff says it s booking its biggest swath of shows, including outdoor gigs. We may see other sporadic outdoor concerts before then, including big bashes like July s Twin Cities Summer Jam or August s We Fest. Indoor gigs could also return by then with modified, vaccine-related safety protocols. But September seems like the soonest that things will get back to normal, and then we can all go crazy again.