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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The Top Thirty Gigs That Five Of Us Could Think Of Off The Top Of Our Heads

1. New Order Reading 98
2. Pixies Sheffield Octagon 89
3. JSBX at SBE 98
4. Beastie Boys Astoria 94.
5. Primal Scream Hammersmith 97ish
6. My Bloody Valentine, Trent Poly 88 or 89, not sure
7. New Order, Reading 89
8. Pixies, Rock City 89
9. Spiritualized, Royal Albert Hall 98? (the live album one)
10. Brian Wilson, ICC 02
11. QOTSA, Columbiahalle 03
12. Moldy Peaches, Knaack 03
13. Phoenix, Columbia Fritz 04
14. Prince - Lovesexy tour, Wembley Arena
15. White Stripes, Tuffnell Park
16. Franz Ferdinand, the Garage
17. Dexy's reunion, RFH
18. Brian Wilson, RFH
19. Bob Dylan - Athens amphitheatre (encore only, the rest was shit)
20. White Stripes, The Social, Nottingham
21. Stereo Mcs, The Social, Nottingham
22. Underworld, Phoenix Festival 94
23. Basement Jaxx, Rock City
24. Carter / PWEI / Frank & Walters, Birmingham Hummingbird (it was my first
proper gig)
25. Transvision vamp (just because)
26. faith no more - sheffield arena
27. Prince showcase, Barbican lecture theatre
28. Field Music, Water Rats
29. Antony + the Johnsons, Shepherd's Bush Empire
30. New Order, Hyde park, 2005

2 comments:

Mark said...

hmm, that's a terribly 'white' list isn't it. Sorry. I could drop in the odd Wu Tang entry to appear more hip, but I've never seen anyone rubbusher - in fact I could do a top ten worst Wu Tang gigs

Mark said...

'rubbisher' I meant, obv