Tuesday 27 July 2010

Gigs.

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Imagine if someone asked you to name all the bands that you'd seen play live...how would you get on?

Not easy, huh? And yes, a pain in the backside to write down.


This is my list, so far, of stuff I can remember...

RYAN ADAMS / AFGHAN WHIGS / LILY ALLEN / ANNETTE BERLIN / ARCADE FIRE / ARCTIC MONKEYS / ART BRUT / ASH / BADLY DRAWN BOY / BAND OF HORSES / BEACH HOUSE / BEASTIE BOYS / BECK / THE BE GOOD TANYAS / THE BEES / BELLE & SEBASTIAN / BELLY / BEN & JASON / BEN FOLDS FIVE / THE BETA BAND / BJORK / BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB / BLOC PARTY / THE BLUETONES / BLUR / BON IVER / BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY / THE BOO RADLEYS / BRAKES / THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE / BRITISH SEA POWER / BROKEN BELLS / BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE / IAN BROWN / THE CARDIGANS / JOHNNY CASH / CAT POWER / NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS / CHARLATANS / CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH / CLEM SNIDE / CLOR / COLDPLAY / COLD WAR KIDS / THE CORAL / ELVIS COSTELLO / THE CURE / EVAN DANDO / DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE / DEPECHE MODE / DEUS / DINOSAUR JR / DOVES / NICOLAI DUNGER / ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN / EDITORS / ELASTICA / ELBOW / ELECTRIC SIX / ENVELOPES / THE FADES / FIELD MUSIC / THE FLAMING LIPS / FLEET FOXES / FRANZ FERDINAND / FRIENDLY FIRES / GARLIC / GIANT SAND / GLASVEGAS / GOLDFRAPP / GOLDRUSH / GOMEZ / JOSE GONZALEZ / GRAND DRIVE / GRANDADDY / GRANT LEE BUFFALO / THE GRIS -GRIS / NEIL HALSTEAD / ED HARCOURT / BEN HARPER / PJ HARVEY / RICHARD HAWLEY / GEMMA HAYES / HOLE / HOT CHIP / JANE'S ADDICTION / THE JAYHAWKS / NORAH JONES / KAISER CHIEFS / NIK KERSHAW / THE KILLERS / KINGS OF LEON / THE KOREANS / LADY GAGA / LAMBCHOP / LEMONHEADS / THE LIBERTINES / LONGPIGS / LOWER DENS / LOWGOLD / MADDER ROSE / THE MAGIC NUMBERS / STEPHEN MALKMUS / MANIC STREET PREACHERS / LAURA MARLING / MAXIMO PARK / ERIN MCKEOWN / MERCURY REV / MGMT / MIDLAKE / MOGWAI / MOJAVE 3 / MORRISSEY / MY MORNING JACKET / THE NATIONAL / NEW ORDER / NINE INCH NAILS / OASIS / BETH ORTON / PAVEMENT / PERNICE BROTHERS / PET SHOP BOYS / PHOENIX / PIXIES / THE POLYPHONIC SPREE / PORTISHEAD / PRESTON SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY / THE PRETENDERS / PULP / RADIOHEAD / LOU REED / R.E.M / JONATHAN RICHMAN / ROGUE WAVE / JOSH ROUSE / ROYKSOPP / SAINT ETIENNE / SEASICK STEVE / SHACK / THE SHINS / SIGUR ROS / SIMPLE KID / THE SLEEPY JACKSON / SMASHING PUMPKINS / ELLIOTT SMITH / SNOW PATROL / SONIC YOUTH / SPARKLEHORSE / THE SPECIALS / REGINA SPEKTOR / THE SPINTO BAND / STAINED GLASS HEROES / SUEDE / SUPER FURRY ANIMALS / SUPERGRASS / TAPES N' TAPES / TEENAGE FANCLUB / TINDERSTICKS / TRAVIS / TV ON THE RADIO / JEFF TWEEDY / VAMPIRE WEEKEND / THE VERVE / MARTHA WAINWRIGHT / RUFUS WAINWRIGHT / M.WARD / GILLIAN WELCH / THE WHO / WILCO / KATHRYN WILLIAMS / LUCINDA WILLIAMS / BRIAN WILSON / AMY WINEHOUSE / WISKEY BISCUIT / YEAH YEAH YEAHS / YO LA TENGO / NEIL YOUNG / ZZ TOP.


Click on the title of the post to see me at one of those gigs...(!)


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3 comments:

  1. I kneel before you. Humbled.

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  2. Is it at the very end of the song that you can be seen?

    So what's your favorite gig then ...

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  3. Favourite gig?

    Probably Flaming Lips at the Forum, just after "Yoshimi..." album came out. Just for the pure fun content - I've never danced and smiled non-stop through an entire gig before or since.

    And the clip, well, I'm definitely in there somewhere (2nd row I reckon).

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