Year in Review: Gigs
As with last year, I think it's smooth sailing the rest of the year for gigs - no plans, so I think I can go ahead and post this.
The total - 281 performances, up from 246 last year, or one every 1.3 days. The difference in numbers is pretty much directly attributable to one additional large festival: Iceland Airwaves, bring the festival total to four: SXSW, Coachella, Iceland Airwaves, All Tomorrow's Parties.
Best performance of the year? Daft Punk, for the second year in a row, followed by Spiritualized Acoustic Mainlines
Non-local band seen the most this year? Thurston Moore in 5 different configurations: twice solo, once as Thurston Moore Soundz, once with Sonic Youth and once with Glenn Branca
Bands I missed that I'm upset about: Grinderman et al at the April ATP, Stars, the Shellac residency
Loudest band: Sunnn O))) + A Place to Bury Strangers (tie)
Worst band: Tiesto
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<3 Svanvít!
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
A Northern Chorus
A Place to Bury Strangers
Acid Mothers Guru Guru
Ad Frank (4 times)
Against Me!
Air
Akron Family
Amiina
Amy Winehouse
Andrew Bird (3 times)
Annuals
Aphex Twin
Au Revoire Simone
Bang Camaro
Bark Haze
Benni Hemm Hemm
Bird featuring Mark Burgess of the Chameleons
Bjork
Black Helicopter
Black Mountain
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blonde Redhead (3 times)
Bob Log III
Boris
Boy in Static (3 times)
Boys in a Band
Brightblack Morning Light
British Sea Power
Broken River Prophet
Broken Social Scene PLays Kevin Drew
Calla
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Caspian (twice)
Cassette
Celebration
Charlene
Chop Chop (twice)
Christian Scott
Chrome Hoof
Clem Snide
Cloud Cult
Computer Club
Cornelius
Crowded House
CSS
Daft Punk
Damo Suzuki
Danny Sadownick
December Sound
Deerhunter
Def Leppard
Dirty on Purpose
Dirty Projectors
Division Day
DJ Sport Casual
DJ Total Eclipse
Do Make Say Think
Dred Foole
Drop the Lime
Duke Spirit
Earth Defense Force
Editors
Eliza
Energy
Evangelicals
Explosions in the Sky (twice)
Film School
For a Minor Reflection
Foreigner
Freezepop (6 times)
Frightened Rabbit
Frost
Fuck Buttons
Fujiya & Miyagi (twice)
Giant Drag
Gillian Welch
Girl Talk (twice)
Glenn Branca
Gruff Rhys (twice)
Gus Gus
Guy Licata
Hafdis Huld
Haircut Party
Hallelujah the Hills
Happy Mondays
Har Mar Superstar
Harry and the Potters
Headlights
Heavy Vegetable
Heavy Trash
High on Fire
Holy Fuck
Hot Chip
Jah Shaka Soundsystem
Jarvis Cocker (twice)
Jenny Wilson
Jesu
John Cooper Clarke
Jose Gonzalez
Julian Cope
Junior Boys
Kaiser Chiefs
Karacter
Kevin Michaels
Kings of Leon
Konono No. 1
Ladyhawk
Lali Puna
LCD Soundsystem (twice)
Les Savy Fav
Lifestyle
Lights on a Highway
Loney, Dear (three times)
Low (twice)
Magick Markers
Magnolia Electric Co.
Mando Diao
Many Moore
Mark Eitzel
Matt & Kim (twice)
MC Chris (twice)
Menomena
Mental Overdrive
Mission of Burma
Mondo Generator
Mono (twice)
Monotract
Morrissey
Motion Boys
Ms. John Soda
MSTRKRFT
MV/EE and the Bummer Road (twice)
My Dick (thrice)
Naflakusk
Northern State
Of Montreal (twice)
Oh No! Oh My! (twice)
Okkervil River
OM
Pagoda
Perla
Peter, Bjorn and John (twice)
Pinback (twice)
Playmakers
Polystar
Pony Up
Portishead
Procon
Provacateur
Psychic Paramount
Ra Ra Riot
Radio 4
Rage Against
RDJ2
Regina Spektor
Retro Stefson
Rob Crow (twice)
Robyn Hitchcock
Seanna Carmody
Sebadoh
Shit Disco
Silver Apples
Silversun Pickups
Singapore Sling
Sleepyhead
Sloan
Sondre Lerche
Sonic Boom
Sonic Youth
Soosh
Soulwax Night Verions
Sound Pool
Sparklehorse
Speck Mountain
Spectrum
Spiritualized Acoustic Mainlines
Styx
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Sunn O))) (twice)
Teenagers
The Apples in Stereo
The Arcade Fire (twice)
The Arctic Monkeys
The Bon Savants
The Comas
The December Sound
The Decembrists
The Druids
The Gas Giants
The GZA/Genius
The Heads
The Horrors
The Jade Shader
The Jesus and Mary Chain (w/annie from Giant Drag)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (w/Hope Sandoval)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (w/Scarlett Johansen)
The Lemonheads
The Long Blondes
The Medecine Line
The Mountain Goats (twice)
The Ms
The Mystic Underground
The New Pornographers (twice)
The Oolahs
The Panda Band
The Pipettes (twice)
The Police
The Ponys
The Prototypes
The Rapture
The Texas Governor (twice)
The Twilight Sad
The Walkmen
The You Know Whats
Thomas Dolby
Thurston Moore (twice)
Thurston Moore Songz with Special Guests
Tied & Tickle Trio
Tiesto
Til We’re Blue or Destroy (three times)
Tilly and the Wall
To Bad Catholics
Tokyo Police Club
Tony Verdoerosa
Trans Am (twice)
Trentmöller
Turbonegro
Twilight Sad
Ulrich Scnauss
Vic Thrill
VJ Jonny Wilson
Vox Humana
Voxtrot (twice)
Wilco
Willie Nelson
Yo La Tengo (twice)
The total - 281 performances, up from 246 last year, or one every 1.3 days. The difference in numbers is pretty much directly attributable to one additional large festival: Iceland Airwaves, bring the festival total to four: SXSW, Coachella, Iceland Airwaves, All Tomorrow's Parties.
Best performance of the year? Daft Punk, for the second year in a row, followed by Spiritualized Acoustic Mainlines
Non-local band seen the most this year? Thurston Moore in 5 different configurations: twice solo, once as Thurston Moore Soundz, once with Sonic Youth and once with Glenn Branca
Bands I missed that I'm upset about: Grinderman et al at the April ATP, Stars, the Shellac residency
Loudest band: Sunnn O))) + A Place to Bury Strangers (tie)
Worst band: Tiesto
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<3 Svanvít!
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
A Northern Chorus
A Place to Bury Strangers
Acid Mothers Guru Guru
Ad Frank (4 times)
Against Me!
Air
Akron Family
Amiina
Amy Winehouse
Andrew Bird (3 times)
Annuals
Aphex Twin
Au Revoire Simone
Bang Camaro
Bark Haze
Benni Hemm Hemm
Bird featuring Mark Burgess of the Chameleons
Bjork
Black Helicopter
Black Mountain
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blonde Redhead (3 times)
Bob Log III
Boris
Boy in Static (3 times)
Boys in a Band
Brightblack Morning Light
British Sea Power
Broken River Prophet
Broken Social Scene PLays Kevin Drew
Calla
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Caspian (twice)
Cassette
Celebration
Charlene
Chop Chop (twice)
Christian Scott
Chrome Hoof
Clem Snide
Cloud Cult
Computer Club
Cornelius
Crowded House
CSS
Daft Punk
Damo Suzuki
Danny Sadownick
December Sound
Deerhunter
Def Leppard
Dirty on Purpose
Dirty Projectors
Division Day
DJ Sport Casual
DJ Total Eclipse
Do Make Say Think
Dred Foole
Drop the Lime
Duke Spirit
Earth Defense Force
Editors
Eliza
Energy
Evangelicals
Explosions in the Sky (twice)
Film School
For a Minor Reflection
Foreigner
Freezepop (6 times)
Frightened Rabbit
Frost
Fuck Buttons
Fujiya & Miyagi (twice)
Giant Drag
Gillian Welch
Girl Talk (twice)
Glenn Branca
Gruff Rhys (twice)
Gus Gus
Guy Licata
Hafdis Huld
Haircut Party
Hallelujah the Hills
Happy Mondays
Har Mar Superstar
Harry and the Potters
Headlights
Heavy Vegetable
Heavy Trash
High on Fire
Holy Fuck
Hot Chip
Jah Shaka Soundsystem
Jarvis Cocker (twice)
Jenny Wilson
Jesu
John Cooper Clarke
Jose Gonzalez
Julian Cope
Junior Boys
Kaiser Chiefs
Karacter
Kevin Michaels
Kings of Leon
Konono No. 1
Ladyhawk
Lali Puna
LCD Soundsystem (twice)
Les Savy Fav
Lifestyle
Lights on a Highway
Loney, Dear (three times)
Low (twice)
Magick Markers
Magnolia Electric Co.
Mando Diao
Many Moore
Mark Eitzel
Matt & Kim (twice)
MC Chris (twice)
Menomena
Mental Overdrive
Mission of Burma
Mondo Generator
Mono (twice)
Monotract
Morrissey
Motion Boys
Ms. John Soda
MSTRKRFT
MV/EE and the Bummer Road (twice)
My Dick (thrice)
Naflakusk
Northern State
Of Montreal (twice)
Oh No! Oh My! (twice)
Okkervil River
OM
Pagoda
Perla
Peter, Bjorn and John (twice)
Pinback (twice)
Playmakers
Polystar
Pony Up
Portishead
Procon
Provacateur
Psychic Paramount
Ra Ra Riot
Radio 4
Rage Against
RDJ2
Regina Spektor
Retro Stefson
Rob Crow (twice)
Robyn Hitchcock
Seanna Carmody
Sebadoh
Shit Disco
Silver Apples
Silversun Pickups
Singapore Sling
Sleepyhead
Sloan
Sondre Lerche
Sonic Boom
Sonic Youth
Soosh
Soulwax Night Verions
Sound Pool
Sparklehorse
Speck Mountain
Spectrum
Spiritualized Acoustic Mainlines
Styx
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Sunn O))) (twice)
Teenagers
The Apples in Stereo
The Arcade Fire (twice)
The Arctic Monkeys
The Bon Savants
The Comas
The December Sound
The Decembrists
The Druids
The Gas Giants
The GZA/Genius
The Heads
The Horrors
The Jade Shader
The Jesus and Mary Chain (w/annie from Giant Drag)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (w/Hope Sandoval)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (w/Scarlett Johansen)
The Lemonheads
The Long Blondes
The Medecine Line
The Mountain Goats (twice)
The Ms
The Mystic Underground
The New Pornographers (twice)
The Oolahs
The Panda Band
The Pipettes (twice)
The Police
The Ponys
The Prototypes
The Rapture
The Texas Governor (twice)
The Twilight Sad
The Walkmen
The You Know Whats
Thomas Dolby
Thurston Moore (twice)
Thurston Moore Songz with Special Guests
Tied & Tickle Trio
Tiesto
Til We’re Blue or Destroy (three times)
Tilly and the Wall
To Bad Catholics
Tokyo Police Club
Tony Verdoerosa
Trans Am (twice)
Trentmöller
Turbonegro
Twilight Sad
Ulrich Scnauss
Vic Thrill
VJ Jonny Wilson
Vox Humana
Voxtrot (twice)
Wilco
Willie Nelson
Yo La Tengo (twice)