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muffy:
The last time I saw Le Tigre a mate and I were having 'scene wars' in jest, which kind of made the fact that everyone else there was doing it for real seem more entertaining...but they were awesome live..
Other amazing gigs:
Cursive (UCSLC) - everyone in the audience wanted to be there, and I swear most of them left the gig as immensely overjoyed by the best gig in the world as I did
Bright Eyes w/ The Faint (Somerset House) - I seem to remember a debate on here after the gig as to how ruined Conor was during that, but the whole atmosphere along with having two of my ultimate favourite bands made it magical...
Tilly and The Wall - on valentines day, it was their first gig outside of the US and I have never seen a band look so elated that people knew their songs. And the all important rhythm section!
Mansun w/ King Adora - for being my first ever gig, and feeling that excitement that only comes when the songs you define yourself by in your bedroom are suddenly made real and then the band turn out to be nice guys too and music suddenly becomes the most important thing in the world
Mayday/Orenda Fink - for being disastrous, in the sense that I put the gig on and hardly anyone came, but for being awseome in that I had my own saddle creek gig which was so much more special than I'd hoped.
Until the band came back to mine and my alcoholic housemate tried to start on them for being american. Oh, the shame...
Will:
Darkest Hour does put on a hell of a show...it seemed to me when I saw them that they were just having the time of their lives, and enjoying themselves...it was cool. They even gave a kid a free t-shirt for coming on stage and air-guitaring wth them. Seems like a good group of dudes
Jeridus:
1) Moneen at the Opera House in Toronto. The Junction, Black Lungs, Our Mercury, and Cancerbats opened, and Moneen played a set that was nearly two hours long. (I ended up missing my train home, and wandered around the city until the next GO train, at 6 AM the next day).
2) Alexisonfire, Moneen, Bedouin Soundclash at the Kool Haus in Toronto. Saw 'em two years ago, on the coldest December day imaginable.
3) Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, Protest the Hero at the old Capital Music Hall in Ottawa. It was just a ridiculously sweet set.
4) The Flatliners, at 1848 Pub at the University of Ottawa. They played a long free set, to a crowd of about 20 people ('cause no one could figure out where they were playing). I'd seen Strike Anywhere and Ignite that same night for free, too.
5) The Matches, The Format, and Motion City Sountrack at the Phoenix in Toronto. The Matches were super intense, The Format were nice and mellow, and Motion City was downright great.
... Ooh, also... Lagwagon in Toronto with the Lawrence Arms and A Wilhelm Scream... that was a sweet show
pat101:
My cousin actually is good buddies with the guys from Moneen and worked sound for them when they were just starting off, says they always put on a great show haven't managed to catch one yet though.
KharBevNor:
1) Finntroll @ Wacken 2006
There are some things it feels like you've waited forever to experience, and for me, this was one of them. Without a doubt one of the most intense, enjoyable and life-affirming experiences of my entire life. It was 1 AM, everyone was completely pissed (me very much so). I was crowd-surfing during Slaget Vid Blodsalv, and up there, on top of the crowd, two horns raised, singing along as the guitars slammed down and then that great scream...My heart nearly burst with joy.
2) Ministry @ Wacken 2006
And here's another one. This was just brilliant. They had no keyboards, so tracks like Psalm 69 turned into complete monsters. I was rocking out with this group of people I'd met there around the middle of the crowd, and I think the highlight was during 'Thieves', as the whole crowd pumped their fists and chanted along to the sample..."KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!...YOU WILL NOT KILL!"
3) In Flames w/ Lacuna Coil, Machine Head and Caliban @ London Astoria Dec 2004
Yeah, fucking poserish gig. And you know what? I don't care. This was the first time I'd really had the opportunity to see any band I truly loved (at the time, In Flames and Lacuna Coil) live, and I am not ashamed to admit that I started crying with joy during In Flames set. No, seriously. It was the first time I realised how good live music could really be.
4) Motorhead w/ In Flames and Girlschool @ Southampton Guildhall Mar 2006
So. Fucking. Loud. SO. FUCKING. LOUD.
5) OverLord w/Syrafex @ The Royal Squadron, Ryde Jan 2005
Tiny local gig with two bands no one here will probably have heard of. The last bloom of any sort of decent underground music scene on the Isle of Wight before emo-pop and metalcore got their icy, joyless, artistically void grip on everything forever. Many great things occured: I'm pretty sure it was OverLords last ever gig (on the Island at least) and so they blazed up with all the great tracks they never normally played live: The Pit, Pissing in the Wind, Katrina Was a Beautiful Angel, Nice Girls Adore Hardcore, Storming the Winter Palace and, of course, their cover of 'Sound of the Underground'. Mad Mike (I'm not sure anyone knew his last name) was so stoned he forgot a key drum change and so the slow part in the middle of Storming the Winter Palace lasted for approximately six minutes (the song is normally four minutes long). In fact, it was this gig itself which killed the scene, because the Squadron got raided by the police halfway through (the bands didn't even stop playing. In fact, Darren stopped what he was doing, shouted, "Here come the rozzers, skip to the next song!" and started a huge mosh pit to 'the pit', allowing all the underage kids who shouldn't have been there (maybe half the club), to jump in the pit, thus saving them from the ire of the constabulary. Didn't matter however, because the pigs found out that the clubs cctv cameras weren't actually connected to anything and they lost their liscense to hold live music events about a month later.
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