Best gigs of 2010

[Olivedal 1904]

Other music forums I visit tend to be filled with lists about everything. What better way is there to pep up for EOTR than to list our favorite live music experiences so far this year?

My top ten:

Dinosaur Jr Sentrum Scene, Oslo

Pavement Way Out West, Gothenburg

Built to Spill Sentrum Scene, Oslo

Sleepy Sun Way Out West

Band of Horses Trädgårn, Gothenburg

The National Way Out West

The XX Brewhouse, Gothenburg

Beach House Pustervik, Gothenburg

Panda Bear Way Out West

Shearwater Way Out West

Just outside the list: Grand Archives, Håkan Hellström, Shearwater.

I'm sure that a few of the concerts at EOTR will make the list, I just don't know which ones. It's gonna be exciting to find out though, just two weeks left.

What is your favorite gigs of the year?

[Fat_Buddha]

Simone Felice supported by the sublime Jeb Loy Nicolls and the excellent Deer Park last week in Cardiff. An unbelievable 6 quid……how the hell can a line up like that be so cheap?

[shoebox]

All of the following have been fantastic.

Memory Tapes @ The Social, London

Grizzly Bear & Beach House @ The Roundhouse, London

Pavement @ Brixton Academy, London

Broken Social Scene @ Heaven, London

Dan Mangan @ The Lexington, London

The Wonder Stuff @ The Forum, Tunbridge Wells

Jens Lekman @ The Union Chapel, London

[wackojackohighcliffe]

Hold Steady at the HMV Forum was the best gig I've ever been to. I saw Modest Mouse at the end of last year (electric ballroom) and it was one of their good gigs, so I hope they play to that standard on friday.

[ljsawyer]

I haven't been to many this year, but Sleepy Sun @ Bush Hall was by far the best.

[geofelgie]

Top of the list for me is Jonsi at Latitude,

The National, David Ford, The Kissaway Trail and John Grant also make it from the same festival.

Plus

The Damned @ Croydon fest

Keane @ Bedgebury Pinetum

Turin Brakes @ Concorde 2

Danny and the Champions of the World at Cornbury

[Corporal Clegg]

Festival stuff apart(Thom Yorke at Glastonbury by the way):-

Field Music-Audio Brighton

Grizzly Bear+Beach House - Corn Exchange Brighton

Acid Mothers Temple - Engine Rooms Brighton

Deerhunter - Concorde 2 Brighton

Laura Veirs - Hanbury Ballroom Brighton

Massive Attack - Brighton Dome

Charlatans - Roundhouse(Some Friendly gig)

Woodpidgeon - Hanbury Ballroom

so far so good and there's loads of stuff coming up in the next few months

[Elfy]

Non-fezzie gigs.....

Todd Rundgren doing A Wizard A True Star at Hammersmith Apollo

Youthmovies last ever London gig at the Borderline

The Leisure Society and The Real Tuesday Weld at Union Chapel (and it was FREE!! )

Vivian Girls with Sky Larkin, Hundred in the Hands and that bloke out of Frightened Rabbit, some bandstand in East London, also FREE!!!!

Shearwater at the Railway

Simone Felice at the Railway

If I had to choose one, it would be between Todd and Shearwater, which is actually cheating by choosing two

Fezzie gigs.....

Glastonbury - Flaming Lips, Muse, Villagers (at the Crow's Nest), Mountain Man (also at the Crow's Nest).

Latitude - Lupen Crook, The Antlers, Villagers (again!), The Middle East, Frank Turner.

More to come in the next few months

[theampersanddevil]

Ballboy - Glasgow

Turin Brakes - Glasgow

Leftfield - Rockness

Rage Against the Machine - London

[MattL80]

Mark Lanegan at the Union Chapel.

Rage against the machine at Finsbury Park

Shearwater at the Railway

Black Rebel Motorcycle club at Southampton Uni,

Goldheart Assembly at UCL.

Glastonbury; Orbital, Flaming Lips, Midlake and Laura Marling are the ones that stand out.

[Elfy]

Shearwater at the Railway

[MattL80]

Of course the company was top quality at that gig

[M.G.Frogworthy]

Ask me again at the end of the year and I'll say the 'Frank Zappa Tribute Concert at the Roundhouse in November supported by The Mighty Boosh Band'

[wockey]

Last Sunday's Beirut gig in Edinburgh. Packed to the rafters,Zac Condon's voice was exactly the same as on the albums. And to top it off,watching the band stand around waiting to play their next song while the crowd showed their appreciation for sheer genius after a singalong Sunday Smile.

Not much of todays stuff will stand the test of time but I will be playing Beirut for many a year

[fogged]

The xx + These New Puritans - Cockpit, Leeds

Thee Silver Mt Zion - TJ's, Leeds

Owen Pallett - Deaf Institute, Manchester

Rufus Wainwright - Colston Hall, Bristol

Liars - Dot to Dot Festival Manchester

Dirty Projectors doing The Getty Address with Alarm Will Sound - Barbican, London

The National - Latitude

Belle & Sebastian - Latitude Festival

The Flaming Lips - Green Man Festival

Joanna Newsom - Green Man Festival

[riverlodge]

i have three that approach hall of fame kind of status:

jonsi @ latitude

national @ latitude

grizzly bear @ roundhouse

edit: not quite in there but close, yeasayer @ heaven. also good at latitude and looking forward to them again in the autumn. did i say i was a fan?

Edited August 27, 2010 by riverlodge

[jol33n]

Best festival gigs:

1/ Pixies @ PrimaveraSound _ Barcelona

2/ The Horrors @ SOS4.8 _ Murcia

3/ Pavement @ PrimaveraSound _ Barcelona

4/ Alice in Chains @ BBK Live _ Bilbao

5/ Les Savy Fav @ PrimaveraSound _ Barcelona

Best concerts:

1/ Shearwater @ Madrid

2/ Chris Isaak @ Madrid

3/ Vermilion Sands @ Madrid

And I'm just realizing I've seen almost no gigs, just been to 4/5 festivals

[seadragon]

Tallest Man on Earth – Bush Hall (hands down one of the top 3 gigs I’ve ever been to, never mind just this year)

Grizzly Bear/Beach House - Roundhouse

Owen Pallett – Koko

Good Shoes/Is Tropical - Dingwalls

Angus & Julia Stone – Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Woodpigeon/Laura Gibson – Union Chapel

Blitzen Trapper/The Dutchess and the Duke – Borderline

Dr Dog – Cargo

Micah P Hinson – Union Chapel

Pixies – Troxy

Pete Doherty/Devendra Banhart – Hop Farm Festival (not much else was good about this festival)

Chris Garneau – Cafe Oto

Isbells – Slaughtered Lamb

Megafaun/Dry the River – Slaughtered Lamb (such a shame that they’re not playing at EotR)

Avi Buffalo - Cargo

The Libertines – The Forum

Now really looking forward to EotR!

[Elfy]

It was nice to have Thor's No 1 fan introduce me to him though

[Infinite Jest]

Pixies at Troxy

Arcade Fire at Hackney Empire

Jeff Tweedy at Union Chapel (I got to interact with Jeff! Sure, it was Jeff taking the piss out of me and everyone laughing, but still...)

Patti Smith at Hyde Park

Pixies at Primavera

New Pornographers at Primavera

The Clean at Primavera

Duke and the King at Union Chapel

The National at Royal Albert Hall

Dick Dale at the Luminaire

Ray Davies at Hop Farm Festival

LCD Soundsystem at Brixton Academy

Pavement and the Clean at Brixton Academy

[seadragon]

Ray Davies at Hop Farm Festival

[MattL80]

Yes! I forgot about him in my mention of the Hop Farm, he was great. Such a shame the whole of the rest of the festival was so awful.

[seadragon]

What was so bad about it?

[Infinite Jest]

^

Exactly this. It was really badly organised - I didn't bother trying to get a beer, the queues were far too long. Water, at least, could be had from a tap for free if you queued for a while. Toilets were OK if you were a guy, because there were urinals (but they were carefully hidden so that the guys would instead queue up for the cubicles, meaning the queues were long).

Too crowded near the main stage, and plenty of muppets who had brought chairs, and were damn well going to sit in them right near the stage, no matter how crowded it was.

I did find some good food, and I give the organisers credit for having plenty of medics around. I also didn't get caught in the rush leaving because I left early because Dylan sucked so much.

God, that was meant to be a few words and turned into a rant.

[MattL80]

Blimey. Sounds bad. Think I'll stick to Glastonbury and EOTR.