#42

Just checked and I only managed two - Algiers which was great and Fontaines DC which was more a mates meet up than anything else, and they were terrible.

Lost track of what I had tickets for/whether they’re being rearranged. Pretty sure someone’s making some money from people like me not following up for refunds etc. Hopefully some of my lost cash is reaching the bands, he says hopefully/naively

#43

Italia 90 @ The Chameleon Nottingham was my gig of the year by default

#44

Yeah. I haven’t clicked with as many bands and albums as usual.

My usual listening habits were to check out new releases and get acquainted or to re-familiarise with music of bands that I was to see live soon. The latter was a bigger part of my habit and discovered do many great new bands that way.

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#45

Struggling to get my head round the fact I’ve seen two of my favourite bands this year (LC! and Sleater-Kinney). Both those gigs were in the same month? What?

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#46

Managed a few before lockdown and covid. Favourites were the following:

Moses Boyd @ Patterns
Jon Hopkins @ Brighton Dome
William Doyle @ The Hope and Ruin
Black Country New Road @ The Windmill, Brixton
Fatamouta Diawara @ Chalk
Algiers @ Chalk

#47

Both of them genuinely feel like they happened years ago to me as well.

#48

Think ive only seen Slipknot in Cardiff (great fun), Supergrass in Frome (great fun, great pasty), and Falling Stacks in Bristol (great fun, regret not getting an ice cream sundae)

#49

Think I only saw Slipknot and Big Thief. The former was good, the latter was great.

#50

Only went to 4 gigs and they were all bangers to be fair.

Carly Rae Jepsen - Victoria Warehouse
Sleater Kinney - Barrowlands
Big Theif - Old Fruitmarket
Jon Hopkins - Usher Hall

Just want to second this for the Carly Rae Jepsen gig. Scottish gig goers have a bit of a chip on their shoulder because bands regularly refer to them as being their favourite crowds, when in reality you can sometimes end up surrounded by total Powerclowns, even at gigs you’d least expect like some utter knob telling Carrie Brownstein to get on with it earlier this year when she was in in the middle of a fairly emotional speech. (She launched straight into Modern Girl right after this and it made me well up a bit.)

Anyway, was nice to go to Manchester and be surrounded by people just having a blast, saying excuse me to get past. Same with Robyn last April in London. Both me and my girlfriend recognised it instantly and it was great.

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#51

That Robyn crowd WAS very nice, you’re right!

London crowds get a bad rep for having a lot of talkers, but I’ve only ever had that at a gig where they were giving away about half the tickets for free. I have only been to London for a handful of things, but the majority have had really nice crowds (maybe affected by them all being quickly sold out shows where the artist isn’t doing other UK dates).

I think Manchester has the same gig arsehole element you’ve mentioned at some things as well. There’s small but really obnoxious crowd who think that getting off their nut and being rowdy is a point of pride and how real hard men should always enjoy live music.

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#52

Live Is Life.

(Sorry)

#53

That’s a stark bollock naked emperor indeed. Not so much as a wrist watch.

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#54

I meant to put Fightmilk in Bristol as one of my gig regrets! I would have gone with @Joke2000 and maybe some others, and it would have been aces

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#55

We will be back at some point when all of this ends I hope and it’d be very lovely to meet you both please

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#56

never really got Black Midi either, i considered going to that gig purely because it was in such a small venue despite how well they were doing, and to see if they could win me round, but wasn’t too bothered when it sold out (kind of dislike sold out gigs anyway). it’s like there’s a decent math-rock band underneath but ruined by an annoying singer and a heap of irritating affectation. can’t really understand the hype, it might just be that they managed to appeal beyond the usual niche circle of math rock geeks i guess.

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#57

Saw Black Midi last year at Rough Trade East. Didn’t see the appeal. They’re ok but not much more.

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#58
  1. Heather Woods Broderick - Werkhaus, London
  2. Mikal Cronin - Hope & Ruin, Brighton
  3. Pop Crimes (tribute to Rowland S Howard) - Royal Festival Hall
  4. Algiers - Village Underground
  5. The Orchids - 100 Club
  6. Erased Tapes Showcase - Kings Place
  7. Honey Harper - Rough Trade East instore
#59

Was that the 80s band, The Orchids?

#60

Yep! I have their Unholy Soul album on cassette from way back. I used to listen to a lot of Sarah stuff.

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#61

Damn. Didn’t realise that gig happened. I saw them at The Luminaire maybe 15 years ago. Great band.

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