Gig of the Year - 2008? (3 Viewers)

[Bunny]

Neil Young in Malahide Castle, or Glass Candy at the Button Factory

 

[minka]

mbv - electric picnic
the ex - whelans
tom waits - phoenix park

i'm sure i've forgotten something...

 

[Anthony]

I mentioned Ween already but I'll add
RATT in the Spring and Airbrake, Belfast

 

[mark]

sun kil moon
melvins/big business
built to spill
zu at atp
shellac
juana molina

 

[tombstome]

sun kil moon

zu at atp

bastard

Harvey Milk & Oxbow (Supersonic)
Ben Frost (Unsound,Poland)

 

[old]

Mine were Bon Iver at tripod (even though I'm not mad about th'album... thanks again Gugai!), Daniel Johnston, Alasdair Roberts, Stewart Lee, Cephalic Carnage and the Zombies.

 

[sleepy]

Here's my 2 cents:

melt banana in crawdaddy
torche in whelans
municipal waste in fibbers - municipal waste is gonna fuck you up! also their support band iron lung were feckin deadly
futureheads in edinburgh
metallica in marlay
waifs in whelans were surprisingly deadly
juliana hatfield in sugar club

that's all i can think of for the moment

 

[rettucs]

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart last night.

were amazing.

 

[thickaspigshit]

RageATM at some gassy place

in fact best gig of my life. Better than '96

 

[jack nance hair]

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart last night.

were amazing.

what he said

 

[Jill Hives]

Me thinks it hasn't happened yet.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Me thinks it hasn't happened yet.

VBP! VBP!

 

[Squiggle]

Me thinks it hasn't happened yet.

VBP! VBP!

I suspect Jill Hives might be slightly biased when it comes to VBP, and as for you Mr Moderns... well!

 

[coast to coast]

Animal Collective in Whelans making up for their cancellation playing many of the Merriweather Post Pavilion songs.
Deerhunter in Whelans playing all of Microcastle before it had leaked, let alone released.
MDR blowing some main act off the stage upstairs in Whelans
Dirty Projectors in Whelans (despite missing Yacht and the start cos of the Champos League semi final extra time).

Also good No Age, Ponytail, Beach House... all in Whelans!

Haha. Do other places do gigs too in the this city?

In fields:

Bruce was great on the Friday bar the encore being that paddywhackery shit and not Thunder Road.... but I was so drunk by then that I don't really remember it.
Neil Young for being neilyoungishly awesome by tearing shit up with insane guitar solos.
Kraftwerk were totally awesome.
Also Radiohead was a great fun day but the gig was the worstest Radiohead gig I've seen.

 

[TrevorReznik]

herv / youre only massive @ lower deck - january

cardopusher / scheme boy @ mcgruders - may

adebisi shank album launch @ boomboomroom - sept

el bastardo @ lower deck - october

 

[the departed]

jape tripod 18th December.

 

[bogmanfan]

Portico Quartet in Whelans
Cut Copy in the Village
Death Cab For Cutie in the Ambassador
Lambchop in Tripod

 

[sparse]

Pivot - Whelan's
Bon Iver - Primavera
RATM - outside


Shout outs to:
Sunset Rubdown - Crawdaddy
Ponytail - Whelan's
Sebadoh - Primavera
Liam Finn - Whelan's

 

[Raar - Maximum]

In a savage unlikely to ever be repeated year for gigs, these were among my faves...

Liquid Liquid – Barbican
Stereolab – Tripod
Chromatics – ALT
Yacht – Electric Picnic
The Fall – Spiegaltent
Zombie Zombie / Cap Pas Cap – Kennedys
Villagers – Twisted Pepper
Bonnie Prince Billy – Vicar Street

HOWEVER

These stood out above all else

MBV – Roundhouse (simply astonishing)
Animal Collective – Whelans

 

[La La]

i'm adding VBP to my list