Your five best gigs of the year so far

I was there.

Couldn’t stick rolo tomassi but fotl were brilliant, as usual.

Im a fan of mamiffer’s and had been waiting to see them for a long time. I thought they were good but not great, and did drag on a bit.

Tricot, Hoxton Bar & Grill
Pet Shop Boys, Royal Albert Hall
Chicks On Speed, Cafe Oto
Kamasi Washington, Way Out West
Stormzy, Way Out West

Titus Andronicus were one of my surprise faves at Porto. Especially loved all the Irish stuff natch.

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Sorry, I’m going to cheat and list six (in no order):

Wussy @ Electric Circus
Anna Von Hausswolff @ Electric Circus
Brian Wilson @ Usher Hall
Tricot @ Broadcast
Cuushe @ Birthdays
Dan Deacon @ Roundhouse

Biffy Clyro @ iDays
Massive Attack @ Dimensions Festival
Muse @ Mediolanumforum 14/05
RY X @ Siren Festival
Beyoncè @ San Siro stadium

Ignoring festivals;

Joanna Newsom @ Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Neil Young @ Leeds Arena
Kamasi Washington @ Manchester Academy
Motion City Soundtrack @ Manchester Ritz
Emmy The Great @ Band On The Wall

Five Best Gig

Slowdive @ Fourm Kentish Town, London 19th/20th December 2014
My Bloody Valentine @ Hammersmith Applo, London 13th March 2013
Menace Bench, No Joy, pinkshinyultrablast, tess park and anton newcombe @ camp and furnace, Liverpool 25th/26th September 2015
A Place To Bury Strangers @ Oslo, London 9th April 2015
Ringo Deathstarr, LSD and The Search of God @ Vitoria Warehouse, Manchester 12th March 2016

Joanna Newsom
James Holden & Camila Tirado
Jessy Lanza
Container
Ignatz & De Stervende Honden

Crows
Spring King
Adele
The 1975
DMA’s

I feel like I’ve had some amazing gigs this year but my memory is struggling to tell me what they were.

Manic Street Preachers at Leeds First Direct Arena; the Everything Must Go 20th Anniversary gig.
Editors at Sziget Festival in Budapest.
Pet Shop Boys at the Royal Opera House, London.
Public Service Broadcasting at The Refectory, University of Leeds.
Morrissey at Manchester Arena.

Joanna Newsom
Richmond Fontaine
Wilco
Fr John Misty

Meet Me in St Louis@The Dome
Toby Driver@ New River Studio
Converge@Electric Brixton
Scout Niblett@The Lexington
PJ Harvey@Field Day (despite the day being a bit of a washout)

Betunizer
Gnod
The Ex
Shellac
Melvins

That’s my pic of the sunsetting at the PJ Harvey gig at Field Day. Great end to a great day.

In no particular order…

Floating Points @ U Street Music Hall
Radiohead @ Roundhouse
Bob Mould @ Brooklyn Bowl
At The Drive In @ Roundhouse
Big Black Delta @ Black Cat

Thinking that Peter Hook and the Light @ Forum and Mogwai @ Barbican this week might change the top 5.

Deafheaven - Heaven
Johnny Foreigner - The Crown
Anna Meredith - Lattitude
Julia Holter - Oval Space
PUP - Tufnell Dome

also really enjoyed that free Metz show and Pantha du Prince at Lattitude

But still got Okkervil River, Arab Strap, Kvelertak, Julia Holter again and Diarrhea Planet & Fucked up at MIrrors still to come!

DRAKE AND FUTURE LIVE AT MADDISON SQUARE GARDEN

MY LIFE ENDED

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The sky was unbelievably apocalyptic for Peej’s set, well captured!

I think Hackney Moderat was pretty good but I was out of my tree and none of my party can remember it :grinning: not spun III very much at all though, I should revisit it.