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pat101:
This is in no real order.

1.) Arcade Fire w/ Bell Orchestre and Wolf Parade at the Burton Cummings Theatre.
I think this was my first truly GREAT show, I had been to several before this but nothing quite as mind-blowing. I had floor seats, lost my brother and friend, and totally didn't care. I was in love with the Arcade Fire album and was totally blown away by their live performance. It was all in all a delightful night (even if I did end up getting dumped after the concert, I really didn't care)

2.) Intonation Festival 2005 in Chicago. My first major festival and it really was great, I saw a TON of great performances Tortoise, Les Savy Fav, Broken Social Scene, Go! Team, Hold Steady, Decemberists, DFA1979 and well a TON more. I had a great time in a city I had never been to before, I enjoyed it so much I made sure I came back for the Pitchfork festival next year.

3.) Pitchfork Festival 2006 in Chicago. Hotter, more people, and MORE bands I loved than the year before. On top of that I made the trip this year with two of my best friends, my brother and my girlfriend. It was divine.

4.) Wilco in Winnipeg at the Burton Cummings Theatre. PROBABLY my all-time favorite single show, Wilco being one of my all-time favorite bands and the show being on Canada Day no less. They put on a better show then I could have ever dreamed of. It was heavenly

5.) Hold Steady In Winnipeg at the West-End Cultural Centre. A very small venue at perhaps half capacity still made for a dynamite show, I got drunk with my friends and screamed along to every word, what more could one ask for?

Just wait I'll actually think about it and totally change my mind.

elcapitan:
In no particular order:

- Tool, at the Canberra Theatre in 2002
- Machine Gun Fellatio, at the Fez Club in Sheffield in 2003. The crowd consisted of about thirty regulars, five Aussies down the front going nuts, and a very drunk guy at the back who kept yelling "FELLATIO!" Memorable.
- Roots Manuva, ANU Bar, 2005.
- Paul van Dyk, at the Opera House in Bournemouth, 2003
- The Herd, ANU Bar, 2006.

TrueNeutral:

--- Quote from: La Creme on 16 Oct 2006, 21:11 ---I'll talk about 'em over time, the great concerts are all pretty good long stories as well:

--Eels - No Strings Attached Tour opening show at the Roxie--

-------The Eels tour previous to this one was the Eels with strings tour, to which old folks flocked like flies to shit. This simile is kinda silly here, seeing as Eels w/Strings was Pluto-far from shit. Point is, E in a suit, a string quartet, 3 or 4 songs out of 30 with any electric instrument, all sums up to friendly for the parents of kids who got their parents into the Eels via "Daisies" or "Blinking Lights".
--------So when E, The Chet, some new drummer (I love the turmoil since Butch has been gone, almost makes up for him leaving), and Big Al from the last tour in a "Security" shirt with no instrument walked on stage in black bomber pilot suits with big facial hair, you could feel a slight tremor shift throught the crowd. Starting with the first ear-shattering crush of the first 4 minutes of improvisational sludge and ending after the second song, "Old Shit/New Shit", every single person over the age of 30 seemed to have filed out to the entrance area, or out of the club altogether. (by the way, for any Eels fans, you know all those little sounds in "Old Shit" that are really buried in the wall of sound? Your ears splitting made those sounds live. The band didn't even need to make em.) The excellent noisefest continued on for a good hour and a half, with lots of great features, like a cover of "Jesus Gonna Be Here" with the king mother fucking Chet singing, and a 15-minute "Not Ready Yet" that totally broke down in the middle in a rad way, and that fast, punky version of "I Like Birds" they've done a lot since the Souljacker touring that never stops being awesome .
-------Afterwards, in the car, talking to my mom and brother and friends who came, but not hearing much, I discovered that the conversations my mom had after leaving for the entry room all centered around people saying these things: "The sound man fucked up, they didn't mean to be this loud." and "I love the Eels but I don't know about this 'new direction' they're going in." I love old people trying to make excuses for how goddamned old they are.

--- End quote ---

New direction? Haha. HAHA. Souljacker, anyone?

I FUCKING MISSED THEIR NO STRINGS ATTACHED SHOWS IN HOLLAND. FUCK YOU, COLLEGE. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU.

Oddly enough, the best shows I've ever seen are all local bands that nobody will ever hear of.

Flat Tyres (whose bassist rivals Les Claypool), JoJo & The Marschmellows, some band whose name I cannot recall who played funky rock versions of soul and jazz music, and some other cover band whose name I cannot remember because I was too drunk, but their singer had recently left and they invited people on stage to sing the songs; and I got to sing Pearl Jam's "Alive" and people actually loved it! They actually said that when they get a new singer I should come by and do guest vocals; BUT THEN I FORGOT WHO THEY WERE.

AlexAttack:
1)The Queers- nov 2005 Marquee in Sydney. They played nearly two hours and pretty much didnt stop inbetween, maybe twice.

2)The Queers-nov 2005 Oxford Tavern in Wollongong. Same tour but in a tiny pub. Awesome show but for totally different reasons because there were about 30 people there. We shouted requests and they actually played them. I love shows where i know every word to every song.

3)A.F.I- UNSW Roundhouse. I stayed around after my last class at uni drinking at the bar until they came on. Say what you like about them but they put on a great show. Also it was really cool that they played heaps of old stuff, not sure that the younger fans quite knew they used to be hardcore.

4)Chixdiggit- late 2005 Excelsior Hotel in Sydney. Another great pop punk band. Hung out with the guys in the band after the show. I liked that they didnt act like big rockstar jerks like the idiots in Dropkick Murpheys. I mean who asks for papers, rolls a joint at the table and then leaves?? wanker.

5)Spearhead 2002 Enmore Theatre in Sydney. The whole place was jumping. I dont even like hip hop but the band was so cool. Their bass player is offically the hippest dude ever.

elcapitan:
Oh man, Spearhead rock. I saw them play at the ANU just under three weeks ago, and they were awesome. My best mate and I went and had a chat to the bassist and drummer after the show - great guys, and incredibly talented musicians.

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