Favourite gigs on 2009

[Snoopy]

Well whats been everyones favourites this year

 

1. Doves - Ulster Hall, Belfast

2. Manic Street Preachers - Ulster Hall, Belfast

3. The Prodigy - Odyssey, Belfast

4. Pet Shop Boys - Echo Arena, Liverpool

5. Depeche Mode - SECC, Glasgow

6. Leonard Cohen - Odyssey, Belfast

7. White Lies - Mandela Hall, Belfast

8. Morrissey - Waterfront, Belfast

9. Bob Dylan - o2, Dublin

10. U2 - Croke Park, Dublin

 

Other decent shows

 

Massive Attack - Manchester Apollo

The Specials - St Georges Market, Belfast

Tinariwen - Mandela Hall, Belfast

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - St Georges Market, Belfast

Orbital - Tripod, Dublin

Karine Polwart - The Black Box, Belfast

Franz Ferdinand - Mandela Hall, Belfast

 

Festivals

 

Blur - Glastonbury

Neil Young - Glastonbury

Bruce Springsteen - Glastonbury

Boy Least Likely To - End of the Road

Okkervil River - End of the Road

[liverbobs]

Paul Weller -Bradford St.Georges Hall - 6th December

[Brownie]

Pet Shop Boys? So close to a neg....

[Snoopy]

PSB always put on a decent show Brownie, fine band.

[Caramac]

Saw Metallica at Sheffield Arena in Feb 09.......it was ace, they almost blew the roof of the place.

[Tom araya]

AC/DC 02 dublin. faith no more olympia dublin. wasp button factory dublin.

[Guest ShoePiss]

This looks more like a list of every show you went to rather than your favourite gig of 2009.

 

Anyway my favourite of last year would have been the double header of Franz Ferdinand and Cold War Kids. $20 to see the both of them plus another support group. Value and brilliance.

[Snoopy]

This looks more like a list of every show you went to rather than your favourite gig of 2009.

 

Not at all, went to a couple of stinkers. Beth Orton & Richard Hawley were pretty awful gigs

[DJM]

Depeche Mode - SECC, Glasgow

 

That was my number 1. Great to see them here at last. Was at the Dublin show two nights before and they were just as good

 

Off to London in Feb for th O2 gig - rumoured to be their last ever UK show :angry:

[The Golden Eel]

Animal Collective in the Stiff Kitten in April

[Red Dawn]

Wilco in Vicar Street. Greatest gig I was ever at.

[Thants]

As stated in this thread (although with time passing the top 5 has changed)

http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/forum/gf-general-forum/84602-gigs-i-have-been-recently-thread.html

 

1. Spiritualized (Ladies & Gentlemen) - Barbican Centre Dec - Brought tears to my eyes

2. The Walkmen - C2 Brighton February - Stunning, simply stunning

3. We Were Promised Jetpacks - ICA London July - Outplayed the headliners, as expected. Best gig of the 3 times I saw them this year.

Review: We Were Promised Jetpacks and The Twilight Sad @ ICA - Londonist

4. The Antlers - The Hope December - I was sent somewhere else for an hour, somewhere fucking impressive.

5. The Wave Machines - Freebutt Brighton November - The best of the 4 times I saw them this year. They fucking went for it. They're getting big in France, such a shame they're not getting similar audiences here.

 

Other gigs on the other thread.

[Snoopy]

4. The Antlers - The Hope December - I was sent somewhere else for an hour, somewhere fucking impressive.

 

Had a few listens to their album, couldn't really get into it to be honest.

[El Rojo]

As stated in this thread (although with time passing the top 5 has changed)

http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/forum/gf-general-forum/84602-gigs-i-have-been-recently-thread.html

 

1. Spiritualized (Ladies & Gentlemen) - Barbican Centre Dec - Brought tears to my eyes

2. The Walkmen - C2 Brighton February - Stunning, simply stunning

3. We Were Promised Jetpacks - ICA London July - Outplayed the headliners, as expected. Best gig of the 3 times I saw them this year.

Review: We Were Promised Jetpacks and The Twilight Sad @ ICA - Londonist

4. The Antlers - The Hope December - I was sent somewhere else for an hour, somewhere fucking impressive.

5. The Wave Machines - Freebutt Brighton November - The best of the 4 times I saw them this year. They fucking went for it. They're getting big in France, such a shame they're not getting similar audiences here.

 

Other gigs on the other thread.

 

The Walkmen are an astonishingly good band. You & Me is still my favourite album of recent years. I saw them at the Electric Picnic last year and they were just immense.