Gigs of the Year

Well here is my top 10, a few pop concerts in there You may include festivals too

1. Madonna - Millenium Stadium, Cardiff
2. Depeche Mode - Point, Dublin
3. Radiohead & Beck - Marley Park, Dublin
4. Pet Shop Boys - Electric Picnic Festival
5. Ryan Adams - The Sage, Gateshead
6. Massive Attack - Electric Picnic Festival
7. Goldfrapp & Hot Chip - Ulster Hall, Belfast
8. Babyshambles - Spring & Airbrake, Belfast
9. Morrissey - Carling Academy, Glasgow
10. Rufus Wainwright - Electric Picnic Festival

Other great shows were Kanye West - Point, Dublin. Bloc Party, New Order, Groove Armada, Super Furry Animals & Basement Jaxx at Electric Picnic. The Charlatans - Ulster Hall, Belfast. Divine Comedy & Duke Special - Mandela Hall, Belfast.

1. Killing Joke - Download Festival
2. Depeche Mode - The Point, Dublin
3. Echo and the Bunnymen - Andersontown Leisure Centre
4. Dragonforce - Mandella Hall
5. Nine Black Alps - Spring and Airbrake
6. The Cult - Ulster Hall
7. The Answer - Spring and Airbrake
8. Snow Patrol - Ulster Hall
9. The Prodigy - Download Festival
10. Pharrell Williams - Oxegen Festival

pearl jam - london astoria (april) alice in chains - london astoria (july) pearl jam - the point, dublin (august) pearl jam - leeds festival (august) new order - wembley arena (october) slayer - leeds festival (august) red hot chili peppers - twice at MEN Arena (june) foo fighters - cricket ground (june)

that was the elite group of the gigs i went to

next gig is bloc party on valentines day

Have to say I'm with you on Pearl Jam, Jack - saw them here in November with Kings of Leon as support, fcuking amazing show. Marker in the sand is a top tune live! CTB

1. Apocalyptic fountains of spunk, my house, every day of the week.

Better than fucking Pearl Jam, anyhows.

Shug wrote: 1 New Order - Wembley Arena 2 New Order - Barcelona 3 New Order - MENA 4 New Order - Glasgow 5 New Order - Blackpool 6 New Order - Madrid 7 New Order - Bournemouth 8 New Order - Wolverhampton 9 Charlatans - Leicester De Montfort 10 New Order - Liverpool.

No NO bias there Shug LOL! My fave gigs of 2006

1. New Order - Wembley Arena Friday 27th October 20062. Depeche Mode & Goldfrapp - O2 Wireless Festival Hyde Park Sunday 26th June 20063. Depeche Mode - Manchester MEN Arena Thursday 30th March 20064. New Order - BIC Bournemouth Monday 9th October 20065. New Order - Summer Pops Liverpool Saturday 8th July 20066. John Foxx & Louis Gordon - The Scala London Thursday 27th July 20067. Digital, Re:Order & David Potts - 'Blue Saturday' ULU London Saturday 28th October 20068. Re:Order - The Good Ship Kilburn London Friday 8th December 2006

Cheers!

the ones ive enjoyed the most for various reasons, editors - millenium sq leeds radiohead - v festival stranglers - manchester new order - blackpool morrissey - blackburn havent included a couple of cracking re-order gigs

Doctor Clayhead wrote:

1. Apocalyptic fountains of spunk, my house, every day of the week.

Better than fucking Pearl Jam, anyhows.

Morrissey:

Apollo Palladium Bridgewater Hall Salford Glasgow- (from what i can remember) V Leeds Ally Pally Halifax Wembley

Everyone else

The Cure @ Royal Albert Hall Gary Numan @ Manc Academy Muse @ MEN Arena Pet Shop Boys @ Electric Picnic Editors @ Manc Academy Kloot first night @ Hop and Grape Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family @ D: Percussion Foo Fighters @ IOW Festival Inspiral Carpets @ Sheffield Leadmill Kaiser Chiefs @ Leeds Fest

Special mention for the five Re: Order songs I saw at Good Ship last week. I think the Witchwood gig was excellent as well, but i honestly cant remember.

Athens Newcastle Wembley Wolverhampton Blackpool Bournemouth Blue Saturday Liverpool Digital at the Cartoon Oasish at the Beacon Court

Uncle Liam wrote:

Doctor Clayhead wrote:

1. Apocalyptic fountains of spunk, my house, every day of the week.

Better than fucking Pearl Jam, anyhows.

Morrissey:

Apollo Palladium Bridgewater Hall Salford Glasgow- (from what i can remember) V Leeds Ally Pally Halifax Wembley

Everyone else

The Cure @ Royal Albert Hall Gary Numan @ Manc Academy Muse @ MEN Arena Pet Shop Boys @ Electric Picnic Editors @ Manc Academy Kloot first night @ Hop and Grape Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family @ D: Percussion Foo Fighters @ IOW Festival Inspiral Carpets @ Sheffield Leadmill Kaiser Chiefs @ Leeds Fest

Special mention for the five Re: Order songs I saw at Good Ship last week. I think the Witchwood gig was excellent as well, but i honestly cant remember.

that cure gig sounded fantastic liam.was also an artical in a mag about it the other week.a one off gig i wish i'd seen

The Cure gig was fantastic. MP3s of the gig are easily available on th'interweb as well, so judge for yourself...

Doctor Clayhead wrote:

1. Apocalyptic fountains of spunk, my house, every day of the week.

Better than fucking Pearl Jam, anyhows.

Each to their own I guess

Although it must be said that there isn't a lot seperating 'apocalyptic fountains of spunk' from a sodding Cure gig...except that perhaps the spunk fountains might have a chance of producing something resembling a tune. CTB

1 Wembley 2 Newcastle 3 MEN Arena 4 Glasgow 5 Blackpool 6 Wolves 7 Bournemouth 8 Madonna - Wembley 9 Shebeen - Copenhagen 10 Liverpool

Wolves Wembley Bournemouth NOOLday

cos that's the only gigs I went to all year. f*ing tragic aint it.

in no set order

sigur ros @ summercase belle & sebastien @ summercase HOTS @ birmingham barfly massive attack @ e picnic manchester v cancer wolframpton ymss @ truck forward russia @ cardiff barfly santa dog/ mistys big adventure @ huntspilton festival pj harvey @ e picnic

biggest disappointment radiohead/ beck @ edinburgh

Biggest Disappointments:

Radiohead @ V Every New Order gig I went to

Spotnick wrote: I've only seen 3 concerts in 2006.. so it's easy.

How do you guys manage to go to 10 is out of my mind. I guess I'd have to live in England.

I tried to get tickets for the Arcade Fire last week in Montreal, but tickets sold out in 5 minutes for the 5 nights.

So.

1 - New Order, Wembley Arena 2 - New Order, Wolverhampton 3 - Blue Saturday / NewOrderOnline Day

;)

10 is easy. I have worked out i have seen over 100 bands this year. A lot of them multiple times.

other disappointemnts

dinosaur jr (freakscene was good, the rest....) mogwai (dull dull dull)

can i add the wedding present in to my top ten - the one with the powercut.

not sure which to take out yet

Uncle Liam wrote:

Spotnick wrote: I've only seen 3 concerts in 2006.. so it's easy.

How do you guys manage to go to 10 is out of my mind. I guess I'd have to live in England.

I tried to get tickets for the Arcade Fire last week in Montreal, but tickets sold out in 5 minutes for the 5 nights.

So.

1 - New Order, Wembley Arena 2 - New Order, Wolverhampton 3 - Blue Saturday / NewOrderOnline Day

;)

10 is easy. I have worked out i have seen over 100 bands this year. A lot of them multiple times.

pretty sure nicos is referring to ten new order gigs, not ten gigs. 10 gigs you can do in a month easy.

15 Morrissey gigs was a piece of piss.

So was the eight kloot gigs i did. Which was was a very small year for touring for them.

now factor in how easy it would have been to have done them if you lived in canada.

think about it liam!

Okay, well I've been to 30+ gigs this year, and so out of them, the best would have to be:

1. New Order - Athens
2. 808 State (Live) - Bloom Festival
3. Toy - Big Chill Festival
4. New Order - Newcastle
5. New Order - Barcelona
6. A Guy Called Gerald - Shoreditch, London
7. Toolshed - Hoxton, London
8. Long Range - Big Chill Festival
9. Bent - Big Chill Festival
10. New Order - Glasgow (Wed)

Wembley Wolves Glasgow 1st night Nool day:Reorder Glasgow 2nd night

and thats every one I was at.

hibster wrote: dinosaur jr (freakscene was good, the rest....)

i was SOOOOOOO gutted that i missed them play again this year

in may it was because of my gcses, and this time it was because my mum wouldnt let me go to london in a schoolweek cos of my mock A levels

and i fckin love them as well. and to make it worse, rick has seen them and he takes the piss all the time

CTB wrote: Have to say I'm with you on Pearl Jam, Jack - saw them here in November with Kings of Leon as support, fcuking amazing show. Marker in the sand is a top tune live! CTB

i forgot to mention the twilight singers & mark lanegan (at leeds festival and at manchester academy) cos those were awesome

also the lemonheads were CLASS.

the melvins the other week were FUCKING LOUD!