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Live Bands! Where have you been?

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lastclearchance:
I've been trying to compile a list of all the shows I've seen, before I start forgetting more than a couple. Also, it's a handy way to procrastinate, especially when I go all OCD about it (e.g. using university access of online newspaper archives to check the lineup of radio station festivals from seven years ago).

One of the better shows I have been to this year was the 9/25/05 Brooklyn Responds hurricane benefit show at Southpaw in Brooklyn. I got there late so I "only" got to see They Might Be Giants, The Wrens, Matt & Ira of Nada Surf (the band minus the bassist, really), and Sam Champion (see why I put only in quotes?).

TMBG were not particularly amazing but it was pretty sweet to see them live at least once. I'm not a huge fan but I think they've got some good records. I only wish they'd played "Ana Ng." "James K. Polk" was pretty sweet though.

The Wrens were fantastic. Thanks to this show I made my friend send me The Meadowlands and I am going to buy it soon. Kevin Whelan told this great little story about seeing TMBG on MTV and wanting to start a band, and how great it was to play onstage after them, and then Charles Bissel made some great offhand comment about the perils of being older than your heroes.

Nada Surf were also great. I had been underwhelmed by what I'd heard of Let Go, so even though I had found "Concrete Bed" catchy I didn't have high expectations for The Weight Is a Gift. Like the Wrens, Nada Surf sold me on their album at this show. Matt was on acoustic guitar and vocals and Ira was just drumming with his hands on a miked hollow box that he was sitting on.

I think this is the point during the night when Aziz Ansari did standup. He'd been scheduled to go on earlier but got held up on the way. He was hilarious as always.

After the three great acts and then the comedy interlude, Sam Champion were markedly underwhelming, in comparison both to the other bands and to the other time I'd seen Sam Champion, at the Bowery opening for The Hold Steady. So I took off only a few songs into their set. They're not a bad band by any means, but at that point I wasn't interested.

I was one of the last to leave actually; there was a mass exodus after TMBG, and a smaller echo after The Wrens; an acquaintance at the show (who works at the Knitting Factory and seems to know half the people who work at venues) said she was told that the two bands, the biggest on the bill, played halfway through instead of at the end because "they're old. [ed: relatively speaking of course] They want to go home to their families." For which I certainly don't blame them. It was just interesting to see the CYHSY/National effect in action at another show.

a pack of wolves:
Tomorrow night is Melt-Banana, Khanate and Reth. It's been about four years since I last saw Melt-Banana, so this should be nothing short of incredible. Khanate ought to be pretty damn fine too, and I haven't seen Reth since my mate Paul joined on bass so they ought to be even better than before. Then on saturday it's the almighty Narcosis, along with some other excellent bands which I think includes the jaw-dropping Like A Kind of Matador. Gonna be a bit of a good weekend I think.

peep101:
Haven't seen anything other than incredibly shit local swedish bands lately.

Best I've ever seen would have to be before I moved to Sweden:

Sparklehorse with Neutral Milk Hotel supporting
Brian Wilson presents SMiLE
The White Stripes (several times but best after White Blood Cells came out)
My Morning Jacket
New Order

Hopefully going to see Efterklang in two weeks and maybe some grime MCs and DJs in Stockholm.

SpacemanSpiff:
Awesome live shows I've been to this year (in no particular order):

Electric Eel Shock. Who rock with their cocks out. Literally.
The Flying Luttenbachers, who were breathtakingly awesome
Sigur Rós
Aereogramme
Nine Inch Nails
Motörhead
Coheed & Cambria, who were good but only played for a fucking hour. And I drove two hours to Cologne, just for that. Thanks, guys.
These Arms Are Snakes
Turbostaat, for the third time, because they're awesome.
Oma Hans, for the second time because they're awesome and because it's their last tour, ever.

Coming up:
Dredg
Melt Banana
The Locust

I expect all three to be awesome. Bands that did not impress me as much are not listed.

tragic:
good bands i've seen this year (in some vague date order):
mastodon,
napalm death,
american headcharge,
meshuggah,
in flames,
lamb of god,
black sabbath,
killswitch engage,
slayer,
every time i die,
system of a down
darkest hour,
opeth,
dragonforce.

went to manchester to see melt banana last week and when we got there they'd sold out.
*major sadness*

gigs coming up:
gorgoroth + 1349 in manchester
the locust in birmingham (guess who gets in free because its being engineered by her friends..)
lamb of god + the agony scene in manchester
+ probably zombina and the skeletones at some point. (because its amusing and i don't have to pay.)

i won't go into the amount of awful bands i've seen. +_+

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