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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Deanobeast on 16 Nov 2005, 16:17
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I've just come back from clap your hands say yeah in an underground bar and it was totally freaking awsome. hockeynight were supporting and they were superb too.
Soo Where have you been and what did you see?
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Holy shitrods, I am seeing Tin Hat Trio on Dec. 3rd. UNFA!
Also, Secret Cheifs 3 in January. UNFASQUARED!
I'll see what else comes up...
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i am seeing the stars in december in toronto, so that is exciting. anyone know who is opening for them?
i have seen some good shows this year, still not a lot, but it's hard for me to get out to them.
the faint
bright eyes
sigur ros
fond of tigers
the pink mountaintops
dredg
blood brothers...
and more, but i just don't remember at this time.
the faint were INCREDIBLE live. go see them! now! and sigur ros i don't have to say anything about, they were beautiful. blood brothers i posted about, fucking intense. fond of tigers i was really stoned in the downtown eastside in vancouver, and it was an experience. check them out. experimental jazz/ post-rock.
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I would say the biggest show I've been to was seeing The Cure, Interpol, Rapture, and Cursive at the Curiosa Festival in August 2004.
The smallest show I've ever been to was also the last show I went to, to see Ris Paul Ric (ex-member of Q and not U's solo deal) where there were a max of 50 people, it was kind of sad.
Some of my favorite concerts were mewithoutYou, Against Me!, and Q and not U (twice!) who were my favorite band.
I hope this doesn't seem like name dropping because I could see that becoming a problem for this thread.
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Best concert I've been to would either be one of the two Bad Plus shows I've been to, Patti Smith touring Trampin', or Eels on the Eels With Strings tour.
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Best show was definitely the Darren Hanlon gig(s) I went to earlier this year. The man is a born entertainer.
Just this morning I discovered that Broken Social Scene are going to be in Australia next February. By amazing coincidence, just this morning I also bought a ticket to go and see Broken Social Scene in Australia next February!
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The Arcade Fire with Wolf Parade and Bell Orchestre. That show was a massive piece of sex. Two of my favorite indie bands playing incredibly, plus Bell Orchestre just being awsome.
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You say you love me, love me again
But if you love me- where have you been?
You say you need me more than anyone else
Well go to hell, where have you been?
Sorry, had to get that out of my system heh. Anywhoooo, i hope the best shows for me are yet to come, but i saw hot hot heat last thursday in buffalo and that was a pretty awesome show eh.
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Some of my favorite concerts were mewithoutYou, Against Me!, and Q and not U (twice!) who were my favorite band.
Q and not U put on an excellent live show, do they not?? I saw them once this past summer and kick myself for having missed their farewell shows here in my/their fair city.
Medications, a newer Dischord band, also put on quite the live show. I recommend their album and EP as well.
As for me, the best shows I out of the dozens I've seen this year (in addition to the two mentioned above) were Rilo Kiley, 13 & God, Rainer Maria, Thievery Corporation, and a fun little band out of Nashville called De Novo Dahl. Worst shows? Architecture in Helsinki (left before it was over) and Destroyer's opening set for The New Pornographers.
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Awesome shows I've been to this year:
The Weakerthans/Constantines (!)
The Shins
Controller.Controller
Thunderbirds Are Now!/Constantines
You Say Party! We Say Die!
And a bunch of local shows interspersed.
Shows I missed because I am not 19: New Pornographers, Fiery Furnaces, Four Tet, Spoon, and others.
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I'm seeing From First to Last, Haste the Day, He is Legend, and Dead Reckless is December, I'm so excited! :D
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I'm seeing Alice Cooper supported by Twisted Sister and Viking Skull...this evening!
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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In a couple of weeks I see the cat empire.
FREAKING WICKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Shows I missed because I am not 19: ... Four Tet ...
Man, I missed Four Tet and Manitoba because a) I'm 17, and b) I only got into that kinda stuff literally the week after the show.
Just under four months until I can actually get into places, woo!
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I saw TMBG (They Might Be Giants) when I was younger at Bumpershoot, a Seattle festival of...stuff. I can't remember much, but that was my first show.
My second and only other show was a few months ago, a bunch of crappy bands followed by Bif Naked. I'm not a big Bif Naked fan, but it was free.
I've had to chance to go to cheap punk shows in my very own neighborhood twice, but I was hanging with my best friend both times and he has horrible taste in music. Maybe I should fix that...
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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 (http://www.azizisbored.com) 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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First: Warped Tour '96, Northampton MA (and I make no apologies, that concert exposed me directly and indirectly to almost half of the music I listen to now)
Most frequent: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, five times (when you live in Boston this does not take much effort); the Hold Steady, three times; Dragstrip Courage, three times
Best: The Hold Steady and Love As Laughter, at TT the Bears in Cambridge MA
Most out of the way: Old Time Relijun, at Trin-Port, Toronto, ON (500 miles away from home); actually I saw a couple hardcore bands in Anaheim, CA a couple years ago but I don't remember them really.
Hell week: Thunderbirds Are Now, the Hold Steady, Constantines, at Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge MA on Saturday; Death From Above 1979, Queens of the Stone Age, nine inch nails, at TD Banknorth Garden, Boston MA the following Tuesday; Mewithoutyou, Dredg, the Blood Brothers, Coheed and Cambria, at the Palladium, Worcester MA the following Friday
I could try to remember all of them, but I just got out of work and my brain is fried.
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Tragic; You're seeing Zombina and the Skeletones? Remidn me to kill you or move to wherever you live.
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Alice Cooper / Cheap Trick
crazy show
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Some bands seen this year:
Bane
Burdocks
Comeback Kid
Contrived
Controller.Controller
Death From Above 1979
Femme Generation
For the Mathematics
Jill Barber
Maroon 5
Moth and Rust
North of America
Our Lady Peace
Risky Business
Sharp Like Knives
Silverstein
Sleeper Set Sail
SNFU
Spitalfield
Strung Out
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
The Constantines
The Letter Unfolds
The Reason
The Rolling Stones
The Tragically Hip
The Turn-It-Ups
The Weakerthans
Uncut
Wintersleep
and some other Haifax bands.
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God I wish Arcade fire or Wolf Parade would come down under...
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God I wish for all ages gigs. And that Perth bands would stop going east.
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A chronological list of all the concerts I've been to in my entire life:
-N'Sync *seppuku*
-Charlie Daniels Band
-Weird Al Yankovic
-Jimmy Buffett
-Kenny Wheeler. lolz@jazz trumpet music that put half the fucking audience to sleep
-Ethersleep (my friend's *cough terrible cough* band)
-The Kramers, Arturo Gatti, Sky Bleeds Red, Ambulance! Ambulance!, and some other Livermore, CA local bands that I forgot about.
Yeah, I know. N'Sync. I still wish I'd never seen it.
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Tragic; You're seeing Zombina and the Skeletones? Remidn me to kill you or move to wherever you live.
erm.
they're local i think, so..
at least.. they always play at my friend's venue bar place.
so yeah.
we see them a lot?
please don't kill me..?
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Zombina and the Skeletones are great.
I'm afraid I must inform you that Alice Cooper and Twisted Sister was more awesome than all the shows you guys went to. Except that other guy who saw Alice. Even though Viking Skull pulled out, which made me sad.
Highlights: Each band played insane drum solos. Twisted Sister did some great rants, one where they name-dropped all the heavy metal bands that had lasted as long as them, then called the modern generation of metal/rock bands 'spineless fucking pussies' and another where they were going on about people complaining about them swearing.
"This one's for you...dad...It's called BURN IN HELL!"
Alice Cooper was just too fucking awesome for words. Showmanship? You ain't fucking seen showmanship. Swords, snakes, chucking fake diamond necklaces to the crowd, guillotines, Paris Hilton having her throat torn out by her dog, Alice Cooper being re-animated as a Frankenstein monster in a white suit after having his head chopped off, and numerous other pieces of insanity featured. Great self-piss taking as well (such as when he performed 'I'm Eighteen with a crutch as a prop. Starting off leaning on it, then sword-fighting and playing air guitar).
Alice is the man.
And it's Motorhead + In Flames + (I'm pretty sure) Girlschool next week. Which will just be great.
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Some bands seen this year:
North of America
I take it that you've seen them rather recently, and because I'm a total North of America whore: How are their new songs? I heard that they played a few new ones on the last tour in Canada.
Also, have you seen The Holy Shroud live and if so, how are they?
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I haven't been to nearly enough shows this year.
I saw Pete Yorn at a free show in Chicago...I almost went to Architecture in Helsinki the same day, but then I decided I'd rather see a free show with my friends than pay to see a show by myself.
I saw the Avett Brothers twice this year, once in Chicago, once in Milwaukee. I missed seeing them on their third trip into this area, but I'll be back when they return in February.
I almost saw the Decemberists, but I had to work :(
Hopefully the upcoming year will provide more opportunities.
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I've been in deepest darkest cornwall for the last few years soo the bands coming my way have been pretty sparse. Now i'm in cardiff with car so are there any gigs yah'all suggest? preferably ones in england...
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I haven't seen too many live shows, sadly.
My first concert, at 13, was Megadeth.
My next one had Bush and Moist playing with some local talent, in a local-radio-sponsored concert. I was about 16.
Then I went to Edgefest when I was about 19. Saw too many bands to remember. Green Day was the most notable.
The most recent, major concert I attended was Radiohead, in Vancouver in 2001.
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Uncut
Wintersleep
I'm going to assume you saw the band I can't stop yammering about Sylvie, then? They went on tour with Uncut and Wintersleep.
Also, who opened for the Stones when you went?
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Death Cab for Cutie and Stars
Jet and Sloan
Metallica.
Show I barely missed tickets for:
Mars Volta and Snoop Dogg. That made me a sad panda.
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Mars Volta and Snoop Dogg. That made me a sad panda.
Wait... were they... was that the same show? Snoop Dogg AND the Mars Volta at the same time? Why don't they just have a drug lab open house or something and save the artists the travel time?
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Wait... were they... was that the same show? Snoop Dogg AND the Mars Volta at the same time? Why don't they just have a drug lab open house or something and save the artists the travel time?
Yes. It was the same show. ha. I'd like to see some behind the scenes footage from that tour. I nearly cried for days when it sold out.
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BEATALLICA!!!
and kevin devine recently...
and some german bands you won't know
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Some bands seen this year:
North of America
I take it that you've seen them rather recently, and because I'm a total North of America whore: How are their new songs? I heard that they played a few new ones on the last tour in Canada.
Also, have you seen The Holy Shroud live and if so, how are they?
I must admit that at the time of that show, I was not too familiar with NoA's songs yet and wouldn't have been able to distinguish between new and old. Everything they played sounded great though. I haven't seen the Holy Shroud.
Uncut
Wintersleep
I'm going to assume you saw the band I can't stop yammering about Sylvie, then? They went on tour with Uncut and Wintersleep.
Also, who opened for the Stones when you went?
Nope, I saw Uncut when they opened for DFA1979 and Wintersleep twice at completely seperate shows. Sylvie did play here like 2 weeks ago, I didn't go though.
Maroon 5, OLP and the Tragically Hip opened for the Stones, plus some shitty French band.
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That sucks, man. The Stones have been getting everyone from Beck to Wilco to open for them. Also, you shoulda seen the band I keep championing; however, I'm glad that Uncut was part of the likely dynamite DFA1979 show.
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hmm whatever, I don't even like the Stones that much, I only went to the show because I was able to get in for free. It was really fun and the Stones were tight, I wouldn't have payed $100+ for it though.
and I was curious about Sylvie, since I do like Despistado, but I had other plans that night.
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I'm going to be seeing Les Misérables sometime soon. In London. Muahaha.
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Quite a few local bands this year.
Might be going to a festival next year tho. Which would be awesome.
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I can sum up Motorhead live in one sentence:
"Hello, we are Motorhead, and we play rock and fucking roll"
10 million bajillion grinning metal skulls out of \m/
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I'd give my left hand, 60 dollars and a goat to see fucking Motorhead. Or Alice Cooper, for that fucking matter.
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Both groups are undeniably among the most awesome shit I've seen live. Motorhead have awesome stage presence
"*sigh* looks like it's that time of the night again boys and girls" (starts playing Ace of Spades as the crowd goes insane)
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i saw the sons and daughters a while back and hte show was awesome, they are fucking awesome live. the thing that made the show even more awesome was that i got my older brothers ID and so it was an 18+ show. this is emtremely cool cuz i made some friends from Harvard.
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The only show I regret missing as much as Gigantour was the one my friend went to a year and a half ago. Iron Maiden with Dio and Motorhead opening. That show would have fucking ROCKED.
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Some I have seen this year:
Children Of Bodom
Aavikko
YUP
CMX
Ismo Alanko Säätiö
MC5
Zen Café
Amon Tobin
Kuusumun Profeetta (Moon Fog Prophet)
Turo's Hevi Gee
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The Arcade Fire with Wolf Parade and Bell Orchestre. That show was a massive piece of sex. Two of my favorite indie bands playing incredibly, plus Bell Orchestre just being awsome.
Yup that's mine as well. I mean it seems obvious to say it but Arcade Fire is just one of the most amazing live bands I've ever seen.
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The only show I regret missing as much as Gigantour was the one my friend went to a year and a half ago. Iron Maiden with Dio and Motorhead opening. That show would have fucking ROCKED.
I'm still shooting myself over missing a ton of concerts; Les Claypool/Gabby La La, Gabby La La again, The Aquabats, GWAR, DeVotchKa, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Although that show? Yeah, it fucking takes the cake.
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To be fair, I wasn't really into any of those bands at the time.
Claypool is playing here in a few weeks, but tickets are like 60 fucking dollars. Fuck that noise.
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Seriously? Damn, the ones here were a good 15, and even that's slightly pricy for me.
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I think it's because he's playing in a pretty big venue. But yeah, I like Primus and all, but no way am I paying that much.
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in the past 15 months i have seen the following shows:
--the weakerthans with Murder by Death and Lucero
--rilo kiley with now it's overhead and tilly and the wall
--green day with new found glory and hot rod circuit (shut up, i love green day)
--the queers with some shitty shitty bands whose names i forgot
--the presidents of the united states of america with a shitty baltimore area bar band
--the decemberists with some woman who was dull as shit.
--rilo kiley with the brunettes and some band with a dude from superchuink in it who bored me
--They Might Be Giants at a free show in philly, I missed the openers.
--rilo kiley with mike runion and the elected
--they might be giants at a free show in NJ with JOAN JETT, AMAZING.
--the presidents of the united states of america with Pleaseeasaur who may have been insane
--the decemberists with cass mccombs or whatever his name is. he bored me, so i drank too much.
--bright eyes with feist and the magic numbers
This was actually a pretty slow year for shows as i was unemployed, bu rest-assured I saw many a local show since I always get roped into being the merch girl or watching the doors.
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Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley in the Glasgow Uni Union Debating chambers was awesome and then The Arcade Fire and Final Fantasy played a few months after that and owned the previous show. Im going to see Statistics tomorrow,hopefully.
The best show of the year however,I can already call. The basement show I am putting on on New Years Eve will rock the casbah.
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1349. so very entertaining. couldn't stop smiling. *ungrim*
gorgoroth. didn't stay.
400 blows. year future. well.. i was asleep on the floor at the side. they were that good.
the locust, sheer genius. drumming was.. :0
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In the last few months:
Adequate 7 (Alright)
Captain Everything (Very Good)
Voodoo Glow Skulls with Sonic Boom Six (Good)
Streetlight Manifesto (Great)
Melt Banana (Great)
The Business with The Kings of Nuthin', Freaks Union, Neck and The Dead Pets (Fucking Amazing)
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Heh. I saw this one Luxembourgish country cover band playing at the U.S. Embassy's 4th of July picnic. It was HILARIOUS! You have not lived until you've seen 4 guys with heavy Luxembourgish accents singing Alan Jackson. The best part about it was that they're actually really good at what they do.
And they were really nice, too, I asked if I could play with them on the drums for "Tequila Sunrise" by the Eagles and they were like, "Hey, sure, sit yourself right down on that there drum throne." FUN ^__^
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In the past year I have see.
Corb Lund, who was brilliant, but the annoying indie rock girl and her acoustic guitar who opened was exceedingly bad.
Therion, opened by Soulscar, both of whom did an awesome job in a shitty venue.
Strapping Young Lad. As my fourth tim seeing them ,it's still \m/
Missed Gigantour, SOunds of the Underground, Gwar and Clutch :(
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Excluding some local shows the last show I saw was Iron Maiden with nevolution. I do love Maiden and all, but nevolution was better. Well, maybe not in terms of songwriting, but I was really dissapointed with Maidens live performance.
Moral of the story; Check out nevoulution, you can download their EP here http://www.thenevolution.com/
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I've only ever been to one show, and that was Therion. Completely rocked my socks! :)
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acid mothers temple
godspeed you black emperor!
super furry animals in Wales
animal collective
of montreal
mount eerie
thanksgiving
philip glass
pg six
kamikaze hearts
the decemberists
aashish khan
tripti mukherjee
the books
blood brothers
bright eyes (barf)
alkaline trio
get up kids
appleseed cast
blink 182
bad religion
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Some of my favorite concerts were mewithoutYou, Against Me!, and Q and not U (twice!) who were my favorite band.
Q and not U put on an excellent live show, do they not?? I saw them once this past summer and kick myself for having missed their farewell shows here in my/their fair city.
Possiblly the best 2 shows I went to this year. Sucks you had to miss it :(
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a life once lost x4
it dies today x3
unearth x3
if hope dies x2
as i lay dying x2
all that remains x2
bury your dead
the black dahlia murder
the classic struggle
lamb of god
symphony in peril
throwdown
winter solstice
trivium
the red death
every time i die
the dillinger escape plan
the acacia strain
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I've not been, overall, to very many GOOD gigs. I've been to a LOT of gigs where I basically just went to get pissed and mosh, or where I went for just one band on the billing (examples: Going to see Trivium just for 3 Inches of Blood, Pitchshifter and Minus just for SikTh, the awful Dillinger Escape Plan and Poison the Well just for the awesome Ephel Duath, and so forth).
By the overall list, I look like some retarded core kiddie. I'll star the ones I either went for or liked/thought were respectable:
3 Inches of Blood *
80's Match-Box B-Line Disaster
Alice Cooper*
Apocalyptica*
Ariel-X* (I loved them, but everyone else thinks they're awful. Either it's the fact I was stoned off my face, or I just have superior taste to everyone I know. I mean, none of my friends even liked the fucking Inbreds!)
Atreyu
Awkward Silence
The Black Maria
The Bled*
Breed 77
Brigade
Bullet For My Valentine
Caliban*
Chimaira
Cradle of Filth*
Day of the Fight
Degrassi
The Dillinger Escape Plan
DragonForce*
Ephel Duath*
Fallen
Four Man Riot*
Girlschool*
Hatebreed* (Retarded hardcore can be fun live. I don't actually play Hatebreed at home or even really know any of their songs. Same goes for Caliban and The Bled. Alcohol probably helped in all these occasions as well)
Hell Is For Heroes
Hentai Babies
Heterodox*
Hondo Maclean
I-(defi)*
In Flames x2 * (first time, they were shite the second time, I hate their new material.)
The Inbreds*
Infrasound*
Inspector Offensive
Kids Near Water
Lacuna Coil*
Mastodon*
Mendeed
Minus
Mista Mushroom
Motorhead*
My Chemical Romance* (It was my first gig too, no lie. It WAS before they got big though.)
Overlord*
Pennies Dropped
Pitchshifter
Poison the Well
Profane*
Queen Adreena*
Rammstein*
Roadsidehopescene
Screaming Phoenix*
Sentenced to Rebirth*
SikTh*
Slayer*
Slipknot
Stiff Little Fingers*
Still Remains
Sucioperro
Syrafex*
System of a Down* (no shame. SOAD are part of my childhood)
Terra Deforma
Trivium
Twisted Sister*
UK Subs*
Vallen Brosa
Vectis 23
We Will Be Pilots (actually the worst band in the universe)
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last night i saw malkmus. man can entertain. second only to mclusky in terms of banter.
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There were some really really good shows this year in the Bay Area, but no live event matched the bliss May at the SF Independent, when we were treated to Boredoms, Melt Banana, and Erasure performing all within the space of seven days. I can die happy.
Other great shows:
-Junior Boys/Russian Futurists/Caribou @ Bottom of the Hill
-M83 @ Bimbo's 365
-Arcade Fire @ Great American Music Hall / Coachella / Warfield
Gotta say, was not an Arcade Fire fan at all, but their live shows have most definitely convinced me
-Phoenix @ Great American Music Hall
-Olivia Tremor Control @ Great American Music Hall
-The Fucking Champs @ Bottom of the Hill
-Mixel Pixel @ Bottom of the Hill
-Guitar Wolf @ Bottom of the Hill
Just a few weeks before Basswolf died, no less.
-Daedelus @ Hemlock
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Some of my favorite shows:
In Flight Safety
Billy Talent
Alexisonfire
Dropkick Murphys
Rude Mechanicals
Tiger Army
Social Distortion
Flogging Molly
Bad Religion
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this year i got to see:
fear factory
static-x
perfect circle
john butler trio
beastie boys
chemical bros
SOAD
the music
hatebreed
slipknot
powderfinger
grinspoon
regurgitator
dallas crane
spiderbait
i love festivals! so great for seeing lots of bands
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I have seen an assload of shows. In the past mostly basement or small club punk/hardcore gigs, lately more high profile stuff. Here are some rad bands I've seen this year.
3 Inches of Blood
Aborted
All Those Opposed
Behemoth
Black Sabbath
Cephalic Carnage
Corrosion of Conformity
Cryptopsy
Danzig
Darkbuster
Deathamphetamine
Doosh Bags
Dropkick Murphys (disappointing every time I see them)
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
King Diamond
Mastodon
Megadeth
Motörhead (best show ever? probably)
Napalm Death (I love ND, but I wasn't expecting much from them. Big mistake, they absolutely fucking destroyed.)
Nile
Obituary
Strapping Young Lad
Suffocation (Oh. My. Fucking. God!)
Toxic Narcotic
Vader
Varukers
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Damn, I have yet to see a disappointing DKM show. Maybe they save the good ones for us massholes.
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Damn, I have yet to see a disappointing DKM show. Maybe they save the good ones for us massholes.
I live in Massachusetts and have for my entire life. My problems with the current incarnation of DKM are as follows: "Do or Die" is their best album, hands down, nothing else is as good, and they don't play enough off of it, last time I saw them they didn't even play "Never Alone" which is a fucking sin. Also, they're a band who do GREAT covers, especially of Oi songs, and I've yet to see them play a single one ("Wild Rover" doesn't count). The Irish thing is a gimmick, they aren't the Pogues and they never will be. 14 year old girls and streetpunk... like, what? Finally, seeing Al Barr sing for DKM just reminds me that the Bruisers are not around anymore, and since the Bruisers are one of the sickest bands ever, it breaks my heart.
I must state that I like the Dropkick Murphys, and I find their shows entertaining, but they never rise to my expectations, they always play to the lowest common denominator.
Quick note to ExiledSmarmy: do you go to any other MA punk shows? For example, bands I mentioned such as Darkbuster and Toxic Narcotic blow the doors off of every place they play. Also Slapshot, but they don't play live more than 2 or 3 times a year, tops.
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black dahlia murder
cattle decapitation x2
billy talent
greenday(small gig, 2k people, before american idiot)
gutrot
disgorge
sugarcult(back when they were good)
cephalic carnage
between the buried and me
into the moat
spitalfield
mae
and..
a couple local grind/metal/punk bands
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Best live show I've ever seen was iron Maiden...purely because of the spectacle. However Howard's Alias were amazing, UK Subs always manage to get the crowd going, Stiff Little Fingers were awesome. Status Quo and Susie Quatro were average and apparently whilst my mother was pregnant with me she went to see Pink Floyd. I think that explains a few things.
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I'd kill to see Stiff Little Fingers of the UK Subs.