best gigs you went to this year
 

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omar souleyman.

Lightning Bolt
Brian Ruryk
Honey Ride Me a Goat
Experimental Dental School
LIARS (haven't been too into their latest records but they were really good live)
Deerhoof

The Fall
Pavement
Boris
Grass Widow
Trash Kit
MV & EE (twice)

but i still have the best to come...

Vladimir Lenhart (a serbian dude playing from 4 walkmans, insane stuff)

No order, except Butcher was stand out by a long margin:

John Butcher
Dave Collett Trio
Thought Forms the week before Supernormal
Gnod (Bristol)
Faust (Supernormal)
Arditti quartet (especially the Dusapin and Schnittke) (Bath)
An Irish session I found unexpectedly
The guy who plays the kora on the streets.
Piecaitis (Bristol) (Also, here)
Fresh Milk, quite a few times (Bristol)
Spiderkitten/ Merciless Precision (Bristol)
Slab (Bristol)

Hmm. I'm sure there have been more than that.

Edit: Little Creature, Skjolbat, Non-Ferric Memories, Joined by Wire - that was a great night.

Edit 2: Don't know if it counts, but Dutty Ken DJed at some of the better nights of the year.

MUSSURUNGA aka Fuckhead performing Interzone
Scarnella (Cline, Bozulich) + Corsano
Radian
and I really enjoyed lots of local Viennese impro artists this year.

no "big" ones this year.
just were regularly in a bar/club where an open stage featured some of the strangest gigs Ive ever seen. from totally fucked up to overwhelmingly boring as an art form ?!
unfortunately they closed that thing.

hey christoph!

you know what? after my last weeks gig, Phillip Quehenberger came to me (I see him often on gigs in Bratislava) and told me I had a good sound and asked me if I wanted to play a gig in Vienna some time in the future. He said he can manage that. How cool is that?

Cool,
I think he's doing this "psychotronic nights" at the Celeste weekly on thursday now.
It would be great to see you play and If you ever need a place to stay, don't hesitate to ask.

btw,
He's quite the strange dude, isn't he?

xiu xiu
pj harvey & john parish

fuck buttons
still impressed by hallogallo so yes

can't remember things

stand outs from this year:

swans
hijokaidan
reiko kudo

YOB
Blues control
yo la tengo

can't remember

Best gigs so far this year.

Årabrot (I'm seeing them again this saturday)
Pavement
Panda Bear
Faust
Iggy and the Stooges(with James Williamson)
Flaming Lips
Motorpsycho

limiting myself extremely here, these are the ones that left me feeling ecstatic afterwards:

YOB
Shonen Knife
Incapacitants / Airway / Hijokaidan
Electric Wizard
Swans

Melt Banana
The Fall
Mouse on Mars

Merzbow
Gnod
Ashtray Navigations
Charles Hayward
Eat Skull
Grass Widow
Blues Control - First time I saw them the year before the sound was better.
US Girls - the one earlier this year. She was pretty drunk last time and kept on pressing the wrong buttons. Still a fun gig though.

My top concert of the year was Boredoms, hands down.

Autechre in Lille, by far

1) Bob Marley festival LBC February
Gregory Isaacs RIP , Tarus Riley, Mighty Diamonds, Albarosie, Barrington levy, Cocoa Teat

2) Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus March at the Dub Club

3) Don Carlos and Elijah Fari at Claremont College November

4) Groundation July Key Club

5) Wild Flag/Grass Widow spaceland november

6) reggae night IX hollywood bowl Jimmy Cliff

7 Frankie Paul and the Melodians Rhythm Lounge October

he is, yes. a bit like a child molester from the 80s.

also:

Laetitia Sadier

Dirty Projectors
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Pavement

Lightning Bolt
Boris

Next Music From Tokyo!!!
featuring:
Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs
SGT.
Susquatch
uhnellys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of3UFbX9BQ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGBFQ...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukktV...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nNeg...eature=related

BASSNECTAR HALLOWEEN!! @ first avenue
EPROM & ESKMO @ the loft
Prefuse 73 @ triple rock social club
Caribou @ 7th street
GBV @ First Ave
Dan Deacon @ U of M

No particular order although Bassnectar was probably the most fun I had all year.

I just have to say, who are all these bands that you SYG folks listen to? I mean, I listen to some obscure radio, but I can never keep up with ANY of the bands folks listen to here, it is immensely out of my range..

what is what? what sounds like who? I'm lost

Everything I listed, save for GBV, is strictly dance or dubstep.

Prefuse 73 is one of the best shows i've witnessed. Fucking amazing!!

And i'm not particularly fond of his records.

So far this year (I've been to so many amazing shows):

Bonaparte
of Montreal
Caribou
Swans
Blonde Redhead
PVT
Mount Eerie
Fuck Buttons

Sonic Youth....in NY.


Lightning Bolt saw them for 15 minutes. it was the greatest 15 minutes ever.

^ oh yah! can't forget BLonde Rdhead.


oh yeah! CLinic too! They were fucking grerat!

boris was great too!

Funny, because I was just thinking how it's very much what you'd expect from people around here, except your list. Any chance you fancy making a roots compilation for me? Can return the favour however you like.

Oh, I also forgot LCD SOUNDSYSTEM...

just google them?

I knew I had left someone out. Talk Normal were great too. I think this year I have enjoyed watching bands playing live more than any records. Shame Drunkdriver never made it to the UK, that would have been the cherry on the cake. I also really enjoyed T&B's band when they played at the Cross Kings, it seemed to me that the various elements of their sound were more clearly heard all at once, with the rockier side being taken care of by the more hypnotic part they played at the end.

A Place to Bury Strangers
Belle & Sebastian with the Vaselines
Xiu Xiu with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
UNKLE
Municipal Waste/Cynic/Sacred Reich
Trans Am
The Lincoln Center Jazz Ensemble with Wynton Marsalis
Yokozuna
Justice Yeldham with Kevin Shields (the noise girl)

Also the two gigs i played, the other bands were fantastic: Ratas del Vaticano, Los Monjo, Inservibles, Crimen and La URSS (from Spain.)

Many votes for Lightning Bolt, and I'm glad. They just ruled live. Just killed it. So many assholes unplugged cables and knocked over shit.. but it didn't ruin the show.

I'm in this video; look for me at the bottom haha:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ca9y9niBYM

Someone at the show kept yelling "WOLF EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at them. He was wearing a Godflesh shirt. Strange dude.


Hmm, I dunno, I don't think hardly anyone posted any obscure bands. A few here or there.

Shut up!!! Lightning Bolt are racists that don't like my neck of the narco-woods and won't come play here.

I'm dying to see them.