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top 5 shows
The Eyeball Kid:
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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.
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Wow. You go to my uni, though we have quite different musical tastes.
I've seen waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy too many local shows. Top 5, iI guess.
1. Fiery Furnaces - the Gaelic Club, 2005- WOW. Total blending of all their songs. Complete magnificence, with Eleanor Friedberger as the centre of the universe. so much better then the second time i saw them
2. The Hold Steady, St Jerome's Laneway Festival (The Basement) - March 2006. I couldn't hear the lyrics, which are the best part on record, but the band was so loud and ROCK AND ROLL that i was just yelling and moshing and grabbing Craig Finn's hand. and i'd got laid the night before
3. The Grates- Spectrum, the Annandale (twice), Come Together Festival, The Metro, The Enmore (last Saturday) - 2005 - 2006: Can't pick just one. Not the most sophisticated band, but the nicest and most energetic. Metro was probably the best 'cause Panda Band supported and that meant I got to sing along to Eyelashes, which is always good. Grates shows always end with me sweaty, happy, and in love with them all over again.... *insert name dropping shit about hanging out with them heaps of times*. First time I saw them i ended up trapped in a lift with 15 people, so that might be the best... but last weekend i got to make fun of the dude from the Vines...
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Homebake, 2004. My first Australian show and i was 5 FEET FROM NICK CAVE. Amazing stuff. He was great last year at Luna Park too.. .just epic epic music, with Warren Ellis sawing away like a madman
5. Architecture in Helsinki, New Buffallo and Sparrow Hill- The Kirk, 2004: I can hardly remember this gig- it was back when AiH were just a live band. Everybody was packed into an old church, and all the music was just... gentle and happy and fun. Just a real good memory. I miss AiH giging around Sydney and wish they'd come back
Runners up: White Stripes, last year's BDO, Belle & Sebestian, REM...
alonelyargonaut:
in no order
Dave Matthews-Alpine Valley
Of Montreal-the Blind Pig
Beirut-some random place in Urbana
Mike Doughty-The Magic Stick
Elf Power-Mac's Bar
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 17 Oct 2006, 03:42 ---all tomorrow's parties 2002, camber sands
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You missed out the best part, Shellac playing first all three days. God that made me happy.
For another four:
Submission Hold at the Occii, Amsterdam. I went there purely to see them play, and it was so completely worth it.
Guapo, Birds of Delay, Circle, Ultralyd, Like A Kind of Matador and Jazzfinger at the Holy Trinity Church, Leeds. With the exception of Uktralyd all of the bands were incredible, playing at their very best. And that venue, well, it makes anything sound better.
La Quiete, Oxes, Playing Enemy, Daitro, Eaves, Tantrum, Funeral Diner, Analema and more at Summerslam festival, Saarlouis. Das skramzball, screamo Italiano!, the claw... so much boozy fun.
Driven Down, Snowblood, Indicator, The Devils, Stand, Charlie Don't Surf, Buzzkill and more at Skipton Town Hall. I'm completely cheating by lumping all the Skipton gigs together but there was no way I could choose between them and it was hard enough deciding to go for one of them over all the other classic moments from UKHC a few years ago like Imbalance's last gig or the first Send More Paramedics show. These gigs were incredible, the way hardcore should be. Diverse line-ups, kids (and I mean kids) going crazy for the music but not in a macho way, no posing, no fashion, just a pure DIY ethic and some of the best hardcore ever made. Almost all of the bands that played them have split up now, and the scene's just not what it once was.
Thrillho:
1. Blink 182, Nottingham Ice Arena, December 2003 - Their last UK gig to date. I never expected this gig to be at all good. Everything I'd seen of Blink's live stuff had been terrible. On the night...they completely blew me away. They went from a terrible punk group to a completely competent act. Not just competent, brilliant. They did a glorious medley of older songs they didn't have time to play in full (like 'Dumpweed' and 'Man Overboard'), their between song banter was actually really funny, the stuff from Untitled was soaring, and best of all was 'Dammit,' the set closer. A stunning show.
2. Audiogene, Mid-2003, some church in the Nottinghamshire suburbs - One of their final gigs before they broke up (having STILL not delivered their third album, meaning they essentially signed off with the double A-side single 'California Dreams/Come On,' their two most accomplished songs ever) there were barely 100 people in the entire place, and they've never been better.
3. Nick Cave, February this year, Nottingham Royal Centre - One of Nick Cave's 'solo' dates, backed only by three Bad Seeds on drums, bass, and the ever-brilliant Warren Ellis on violin. With this tiny band and a piano in front of him, Nick Cave made more noise than anyone I've seen live outside of Muse. It was astonishing. Warren Ellis' distorted violin was brilliant. He played so many of his great songs ('Tupelo,' 'The Mercy Ceat,' 'Abattoir Blues,' 'Babe, You Turn Me On,' 'God Is In The House,' 'Oh My Lord,' 'Stagger Lee,' 'Hiding All Away..') and a few less obvious ones. The ones he completely swapped round and messed up were even better. The version of 'Henry Lee' was epic, loud, and mind-fucking. Great stuff, even if I ended up waiting for ages to have to see him.
4. Oasis, Sheffield, February this year - Outside of the profuse vomiting I experienced from travel sickness, this was a great gig. They may not be what they used to be, but they played almost all of my favourite songs. 'Bring It On Down' had me spunking in my pants (almost literally; I went with my girlfriend at the time, and...well, moving on) 'Champagne Supernova' was brilliant, 'Mucky Fingers' was top-notch and 'Rock 'n' Roll Star' sounded as good as it did twelve years ago...the only thing I missed was 'Gas Panic!'. I know they aren't really that band any more, but I miss the prog-indie wig-out they used to end it with.
5. Snooke, Waller And Friends, August this year, Ellesmere College hall - A thrown-together group of mates playing old songs of their own (from the Exalt group, and Adam's solo sogns), a handful of covers and some they've never played before on acoustic instruments(Redefined songs, Somewhere Beyond The Star). It was a brilliant performance. I'd go through the songs but none of you would know any of them.
soak:
--- Quote from: soak on 16 Oct 2006, 19:24 ---1. Broken Social Scene - unfathomably awesome, a wall of sound
2. The Cure - Robert Smith kicks ass
3. Sigur Ros + Amiina - if you've been you know
4. The Shins - just nailed every song and the opening band was the Brunettes!
5. Tortoise - like nothing else, this is why I miss livid
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Shit I forgot
Kraftwerk - Two and half hours worth of mesmerizing bleeps and samples sandwiched between a glostick raver and a guy who look like he should be administering an illegal Cayman Islands banking corporation. All I can remember is how exhasted and exhillarated I was at the end, a very weird combination.
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