Year in Review: Gigs
Okay, I'm *pretty* sure that I'm not seeing any more bands for the rest of the year, so here we go: my complete list of bands and artists I've seen this year. The total: 246 performances - or one band every 1.4 days. Figure an average of half hour per performance and we have 5 full days of music. I have no idea how I pulled this off, though the FIVE FESTIVALS helped - SXSW, Coachella, All Tomorrow's Parties, Touch & Go and Brainwaves.
Non-local band seen the most? Mogwai, at four times, in four cities.
Best performance of the year? Daft Punk, hands down.
Bands I missed that I'm upset about: Flipper, Nurse with Wound, The Editors, The Pet Shop Boys
Loudest band: Iggy & The Stooges
!!!
Aaron Dilloway
Acid Mothers Temple
Ad Frank (6 times)
AD Miles
Adam Franklin & SIANSpheric as Swervedriver (all 5 minutes of it)
Afrirampo
Age Rings
Ajda the Turkish Queen (twice)
Alexander Tucker
Amanita
Amusement Parks on Fire
Animal Collective
Annie
Annuals
Antarctica
The Apes
Appamatox (Twice)
Art Brut (Twice)
Asobi Seksu
Asia
Awesome Color
Bad Jamie
Bardo Pond
Bark Haze
Beastie Boys
Beirut
Belle and Sebastian
Big Black
Bloc Party
Blood Stereo
Bobby Tinsdale
Boothnavy
Boy in Static (Four times)
Boy Least Likely To
Brightblack Morning Light (Twice)
The Brunettes
Calexico
Calla (Twice)
Carina Round
Caspian
Cassette (Twice)
Certainly, Sir
Charlambadies
The Charlatans
Charlene (Twice)
Chop Chop (Four times)
Clap Your Hands Say Eh (Twice)
Clayton Scoble
Coco Rosie
Colette
Colin Potter
Commodore Vic Bad Boyfriend
Common
Cyanide Valentine (Three times)
Daft Punk
The Daily Pravda (twice)
Damone
Dashboard Confessional (Ryan's Fault)
The Dead C.
Death Vessel
December Sound (Twice)
Depeche Mode
Devandra Banhart
The Didjits
Dinosaur Jr (twice)
Dirty on Purpose
Duke Spirit
The Eagles of Death Metal
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Elevator Drops
Energy
Enon
Eugene Mirman (Three Times)
The Ex
Film School (Twice)
Final Fantasy
Fluttr Effect
Forward Russia
Fursaxa
Garvey J (Twice)
Gene Dante & The Future Starlets
Girls Against Boys
The Glass Set
Gordon Merrick & Liz Enthusiasm
Grief
Hair Police
The Happy Flowers
Helms
His Name is Alive (Twice)
Holy Fuck
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness (Twice)
Iggy & The Stooges
Invert
Irr.App.(Ext.)
Islaja
Jennifer O'Connor
Joey Beltram
John Benjamin
John Powhida
Jon & Kat of The Ex and the Mekons
Jose Gonzalez
Karacter
Killdozer
Lady Sovereign (twice)
Ladytron (twice)
Liars
Life Partners
Lifestyle (8 times)
Logan 5 and the Runners
Louis Vega
Low
Lyrics Born
Magic Numbers
Magik Markers
Magonna
Mark Kozelek
Mary Timony
Massive Attack
Matisyahu
Matt Gustaffson & EYE
Metric
Michael MacDonald
Minus the Bear
Mogwai (Four times)
The Mon-Orchid
Monotract
Mosquitos
Mouse on Mars
My Cat is an Aien
Negative Approach
Neil Hamburger
The New Blockaders & The Haters
The New Pornographers
The New Year
Nightmare of You
No Neck Blues Band
Nouvelle Vague
Oppenheimer (Twice)
Oxbow
Peaches
Pegboy
Peter Moore
Phoenix
The Pills
Pinback (twice)
Plesiasaur
Porsches on the Autobahn
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Prurient
PW Long
Quasi
Rachels
Radiohead
Rob Dickensen
Robert Pollard
Sally Crewe Lifestyle
Sally Tims
Sam Roberts
Sarah Rabdau
Scratch Acid
Seam
Serena Maneesh
Seu Jorge
She Wants Revenge (twice)
Shellac
Shipping News
Sigur Ros
Six Organs of Admittance
The Slits
Sonic Youth (twice)
Spinto Band
The Squids
St Etienne
Stars
stellastar*
Steven Stapleton
Steely Dan
The Stills
Submarines
Sun City Girls
Sun O)))
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Super System
Tara Jane O'Neil
Tarantula AD
Tarpis Tula
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (Twice)
The Texas Governor
Thighpaulsandra
Three Mile Pilot
Tim & Andy of Silkworm
Torche
The Tralalas
The Twilight Singers
The Twilight Singers & Mark Lanegan
TV On The Radio
Uzeda
Vega 4
Victory At Sea
Volcano The Bear
Voxtrot (Twice)
The Walkmen
We Are Scientists
The Wedding Present
Westward Trail
White Out & Nels Kiine
Wndy & Carl
Wolf Eyes
Wolf Parade
Wolfmother (Twice)
Wooden Wand
Zero 7
Note: I am using the iTunes alphabetizing convention here, because I am lazy. This is not an endorsement of this alphabetizing convention.
Non-local band seen the most? Mogwai, at four times, in four cities.
Best performance of the year? Daft Punk, hands down.
Bands I missed that I'm upset about: Flipper, Nurse with Wound, The Editors, The Pet Shop Boys
Loudest band: Iggy & The Stooges
!!!
Aaron Dilloway
Acid Mothers Temple
Ad Frank (6 times)
AD Miles
Adam Franklin & SIANSpheric as Swervedriver (all 5 minutes of it)
Afrirampo
Age Rings
Ajda the Turkish Queen (twice)
Alexander Tucker
Amanita
Amusement Parks on Fire
Animal Collective
Annie
Annuals
Antarctica
The Apes
Appamatox (Twice)
Art Brut (Twice)
Asobi Seksu
Asia
Awesome Color
Bad Jamie
Bardo Pond
Bark Haze
Beastie Boys
Beirut
Belle and Sebastian
Big Black
Bloc Party
Blood Stereo
Bobby Tinsdale
Boothnavy
Boy in Static (Four times)
Boy Least Likely To
Brightblack Morning Light (Twice)
The Brunettes
Calexico
Calla (Twice)
Carina Round
Caspian
Cassette (Twice)
Certainly, Sir
Charlambadies
The Charlatans
Charlene (Twice)
Chop Chop (Four times)
Clap Your Hands Say Eh (Twice)
Clayton Scoble
Coco Rosie
Colette
Colin Potter
Commodore Vic Bad Boyfriend
Common
Cyanide Valentine (Three times)
Daft Punk
The Daily Pravda (twice)
Damone
Dashboard Confessional (Ryan's Fault)
The Dead C.
Death Vessel
December Sound (Twice)
Depeche Mode
Devandra Banhart
The Didjits
Dinosaur Jr (twice)
Dirty on Purpose
Duke Spirit
The Eagles of Death Metal
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Elevator Drops
Energy
Enon
Eugene Mirman (Three Times)
The Ex
Film School (Twice)
Final Fantasy
Fluttr Effect
Forward Russia
Fursaxa
Garvey J (Twice)
Gene Dante & The Future Starlets
Girls Against Boys
The Glass Set
Gordon Merrick & Liz Enthusiasm
Grief
Hair Police
The Happy Flowers
Helms
His Name is Alive (Twice)
Holy Fuck
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness (Twice)
Iggy & The Stooges
Invert
Irr.App.(Ext.)
Islaja
Jennifer O'Connor
Joey Beltram
John Benjamin
John Powhida
Jon & Kat of The Ex and the Mekons
Jose Gonzalez
Karacter
Killdozer
Lady Sovereign (twice)
Ladytron (twice)
Liars
Life Partners
Lifestyle (8 times)
Logan 5 and the Runners
Louis Vega
Low
Lyrics Born
Magic Numbers
Magik Markers
Magonna
Mark Kozelek
Mary Timony
Massive Attack
Matisyahu
Matt Gustaffson & EYE
Metric
Michael MacDonald
Minus the Bear
Mogwai (Four times)
The Mon-Orchid
Monotract
Mosquitos
Mouse on Mars
My Cat is an Aien
Negative Approach
Neil Hamburger
The New Blockaders & The Haters
The New Pornographers
The New Year
Nightmare of You
No Neck Blues Band
Nouvelle Vague
Oppenheimer (Twice)
Oxbow
Peaches
Pegboy
Peter Moore
Phoenix
The Pills
Pinback (twice)
Plesiasaur
Porsches on the Autobahn
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Prurient
PW Long
Quasi
Rachels
Radiohead
Rob Dickensen
Robert Pollard
Sally Crewe Lifestyle
Sally Tims
Sam Roberts
Sarah Rabdau
Scratch Acid
Seam
Serena Maneesh
Seu Jorge
She Wants Revenge (twice)
Shellac
Shipping News
Sigur Ros
Six Organs of Admittance
The Slits
Sonic Youth (twice)
Spinto Band
The Squids
St Etienne
Stars
stellastar*
Steven Stapleton
Steely Dan
The Stills
Submarines
Sun City Girls
Sun O)))
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Super System
Tara Jane O'Neil
Tarantula AD
Tarpis Tula
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (Twice)
The Texas Governor
Thighpaulsandra
Three Mile Pilot
Tim & Andy of Silkworm
Torche
The Tralalas
The Twilight Singers
The Twilight Singers & Mark Lanegan
TV On The Radio
Uzeda
Vega 4
Victory At Sea
Volcano The Bear
Voxtrot (Twice)
The Walkmen
We Are Scientists
The Wedding Present
Westward Trail
White Out & Nels Kiine
Wndy & Carl
Wolf Eyes
Wolf Parade
Wolfmother (Twice)
Wooden Wand
Zero 7
Note: I am using the iTunes alphabetizing convention here, because I am lazy. This is not an endorsement of this alphabetizing convention.