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Best gigs of 2011 that you saw
I spent a fair bit of time last week going through all the shows that I saw this past year and cobbled together a 'best of' that is certainly omitting some great shows. Click on the photo to check it out.
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Bill Orcutt Gnod Bit of a let down: Pink Reason Psychedelic Horseshit |
SY/Wild Flag/Kurt Vile. Possibly SY's last American gig/last non-festival gig, etc.
Erase Errata/Talk Normal. Their first East Coast gig in four years. Saw Wild Flag four times, total. Lee Ranaldo Band's first two gigs of ever. Quite tremendous. Patrick and I saw way more shows in preceding years than in 2011, for a variety of reasons. |
Red Hot Chili Peppers in stockholm.
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Blonde Redhead and Melt Banana. 'twas the most fun I've had.
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1. Swans - Barby, Tel Aviv
2. Sun Ra Arkestra - Barby, Tel Aviv / Outer Space 3. Pharoah Sanders - ATP, Minehead, UK 4. The Ex + Getatchew Mekuria & Guests - ATP, Minehead, UK 5. The Fall - Barby, Tel Aviv 6. Trivial Cuts - Zimmer - Tel Aviv 7. No Age - ATP, Minehead, UK 8. Wild Flag - ATP, Minehead, UK 9. Rhys Chatham G3 - Levontin 7, Tel Aviv 10. Nisennenmondai - ATP, Minehead, UK 11. Sthephen O'Malley - Levontin 7, Tel Aviv 12. Jane's Addiction - Gani Hataruha, Tel Aviv 13. John Cale - ATP, Minehead, UK 14. Bob Dylan - Ramat Gan Stadium 15. Battles - ATP, Minehead, UK 16. Laetitia Sadier - Levontin 7, Tel Aviv 17. Blonde Redhead - Gani Hataruha, Tel Aviv 18. Dead Rider - ATP, Minehead, UK 19. Marnie Stern - ATP, Minehead, UK 20. Silver Apples - ATP, Minehead, UK |
kode9 djing at dour festival was by far the best thing i've seen all year. by far. and that's saying a lot considering i've seen great live bands such as mogwai, godspeed you black emperor, battles, chokebore, atari teenage riot, duchess says, public enemy, etc, this year. kode9 was close to perfection.
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1) Horace Andy
2) Ragga Muffins Festival feat israel Vibes, Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus, Cornell Campbell, Don Carlos, Marcia Griffiths, Freddie McGreggor 3) Reggae Night at the Hollywood Bowl Tuff Gong night feat Ziggy Marley, the Original I-Threes Reunion (Marcia Griffiths, Judy Mowat and Rita Marley), Wailing Souls, The Mighty Diamonds, Ras Michael 4) The Rastafarians reunion mixed by Scientist 5) Midnite 6) Sister Carol 7) Steel Pulse "Nah pop no style, I strictly rootz.." |
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glad you caught him on that tour, he has cancelled twice on me in the past, and that show was vibzin mos def!! |
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Chokebore reformed?! |
Fucking hell. I think I broke my own record for number of gigs I went to this year. Averaged at 3 a week. Erasure/ Sophie-Ellis Bextor were amazing, The Fall won over all. I think that in this moment right now Hobo Sonn was the best local gig, though Deepkiss 720 came close. Supernormal was good, but mostly because I played for a very long time indeed.
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is that something he does regularly? he was supposed to play here on a sly and robbie tour about three years ago and..... everyone else was there |
2mex,awol one, abstract rude @ calgary,ab
ikonika @ calgary,ab (outdoor show when it was -38 outside) lee ranaldo,zola jesus@ calgary,ab wild flag twice @ calgary,ab top cat@ calgary,ab stand high patrol,soom t & disrupt,OBF @ marseille kultur shock@ lyon also many canadian rap shows that would have been really awesome if more than ten people came, and plenty of awesome but mostly anonymous cuban bands i loved enjoyable but not that great: slayer, prince, toxic holocaust, onyx,jacky murda, benny page bad: man man,deer tick |
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i only saw them once, but they were on a bill that was unfairly weighted against them (Bailter Space, Cosmic Psychos). i've seen a fair amount of reunited bands that have great live shows (in fact, more good than not). polvo stooges (both w/ Rock Action and Williamson) mission of burma thinking fellers union local 282 come gbv scratch acid jesus lizard sleep pavement scientists dinosaur jr PiL abunai! the only ones i can think of that gave ok/meh performances: pixies slint my bloody valentine chapterhouse |
Sonic Youth - New Years Eve show (they started playing after midnight so technically it counts)
Shellac - New Years Day show Sunburned x2 @ OTO Thurston x2 - Performing Psychic Hearts + Union Chapel Sic Alps / Father Murphy - Ipswich The Doomed Bird Of Providence x2 - Ipswich + The John Peel Centre in Stowmarket No ATP for me in 2011 :( |
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Not necessarily but I see you also were caught up in that failed Sly and Robbie tour from 2008.. it happened to me in 2005 and 2009 as well.. I think he just has a bad agent and plays shows with bad promoters who don't understand the complexities of making travel arrangements for international artists yo With reggae shows ALWAYS know the promoter and if it is not somebody legit and consistent don't bother, there are sure to be cancellations. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GMtmrs6QGI This song was a favourite back in the day and it still is. What were they like live? |
Bardo Pond
Barn Owl Godflesh Secret Chiefs 3 Zu |
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Being utterly awesome. She still puts out the odd tune, and supported Erasure this year. It was one of those shows where you go 'oh yeah, I know fucking loads of her songs'. Really good band behind her as well. |
I'm drawing a blank. I didn't see too many bands. 2010 was a more active year in terms of show-going.
The Men, Swans (underwhelming), Wire, PJ Harvey, Shellac... a lot of local dancehall/soundsystem parties in Crown Heights. |
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the tour wasn't failed, horace andy was the only person who wasn't there i looked it up and i guess it was 2007, and it's worth noting i don't live in the USA(i think he played the united states dates but not 100% sure) |
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I meant the Horace Andy part of the tour failed as Sly and Robbie most definitely showed up and brought it :) |
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they only reformed for the Matador 21 thing...did a warm-up show in Boston a few days before, did Vegas, and then did two more shows this Spring...one in NYC and one in Cambridge the night before as a warmup. i saw 3 of the 4. all utterly awesome. |
saw basically nothing embarassed to say. just drink in bars and clubs. saw kurt vile, that was pretty great.
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Nokie Edwards
El Supernaut Both were very very great! |
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that was really wonderful. took some time before it got to me, but I loved it. together with Total Control, they were the surprises of that ATP. |
Sonic Youth
Spectrum TFUL 282 The Stooges Hot Snakes Nisennenmondai Pharoah Sanders Khaira Arby Sebadoh |
Haven't seen much this year.
Was thrilled by the Hives; I hope their next album eventually gets released so they can tour... No TFUL282; please, don't mention them, it hurts, I'm in France... |
Mark Mcguire, just for the circumstances surrounding the day and the fact the music and atmosphere was the perfect conclusion to that day.
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Not a lot playing in Tiny Town, but these were pretty good
Amiri Baraka Eric Freidlander solo Michael Formanek with Tim Berne and Craig Taborn Indian VJ Iyer solo Kartik Seshadri/Arup Chattopadhyay Yob 2x secondary list Return to Forever Melt Banana |
Primordial Undermind
Cruise Familiy Eric & Vanessa Arn Mäuse Emeralds Mäuse Cruise Family Heatsick Cam Deas & Eric Arn ---------- I hope to enjoy some ot these I'm going to see tonight: http://www.last.fm/event/3119808+12j...org?setlang=en |
I saw that one yesterday for the first time, might go as well.
apart of mats, what are the other worthwhile acts? |
Mostly, I have only heard names as well. From what I have gathered, I should enjoy Martin Siewert (from Trapist), Burkhard Stangl und hopefully a few more.
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Mike Watt
Richard Dawson Warm Digits Rhys Chatham |
probably melt banana or akai ko-en
I need to listen to more non-asian music |
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