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I love music.
I cannot get to as many gigs or festivals as I would like now days..meh I cannot get out of bed as much as I would like these days..but I do try.
I would do two-four festivals a year if I could but I usually do one a year nowdays, therefore I have an agonizing choice each year.
Gig's happen when I have someone to haul me there and back.
I love Glastonbury festival with a huge passion and I love Download festival with almost as much passion.
I'm off to DL again this year.

Who have you seen live? What festivals do you go to?

Listy poples can use LISTS here I like lists.

I will list mine in this post later.


LATER:

I have seen...

Within Temptation
Evanescence
Micheal Jackson
Stampin' ground
Iron Maiden x3
Marlyn Manson x2
Metallica
Zwan
Audioslave
Murderdolls
Ministry
Deftones
REM
Inspiral Carpets
Echo and the Bunnymen
Super Furry Animals
Radiohead (5 minutes of them..ergh)
Funeral for a Friend (rubbish lol)
Doves
Lamb x2
The Dammed
Manic Street Preachers
The Chemical Brothers
Orbital
Paul McCartney (hmm)
Scissor Sisters
James Brown
The Darkness
The Prodigy
Groove Armada
Underdown
Headspace
Hayseed Dixie x3
Buckcherry
Stone Sour
Bowling For Soup
Lamb of God
Devil driver
Unearth
Velvet Revolver
Wolfmother
Dragonforce
Megadeath
Zico Chain
Hellyeah
Linkin Park
the White Stripes (meh)
The Killers
The Undertones
Kaiser Chiefs
Basement Jaxx
Garbage
Van Morrison
Babyhead
Razorlight
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
Rodrigo y Gabriela (superb accoustic guitar)

I may have forgotten something as my memory is apalling so it may get edited, but I think that's about it to date.
I'll update it after my next festival in June.

Saw Hayseed Dixie last night at the Shepherd's Bush empire.

Strongly recommended, the song based on comedy terrorism called "Gonna set myself on fire" was genius and the monologue beforehand about how, if he was going to ram an airport, he might make sure his truck would fit through the door first was even better.

Plus if you haven't heard redneck banjo based covers of Walk this way and Ace of Spades then you haven't heard music.

I love Hayseed Dixie hehe
Seen them three times to date, man they rock. I advise taking a lot of cider and a straw hat to any gigs.

That wasn't even ever even the sodding issue...

I reserve the right to throw my toys at you from my pram for not listing your musics

Errr, I would hazard an educated guess that I've been to well over a thousand gigs since i was 15, so have seen several thousand bands live. I remember Rolf Harris at Glastonbury one year being very good.

We went with whiskey.

Or so they tell me, it's all slightly blurry.

I saw Emilie Autumn the other night. I went to see her because her poster looked pretty. She was absolutely amazing. If you don't like industrial music and harpsichords or girls dressed in late 1700s early 1800s outfits then you're not going to like this sort of thing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DZieZA4zft0

Can't we embed videos here?

Aye

Er, see the 'This Song's For You' thread...

I thought we could embed, I just wasn't sure how to do it.

Gods, I hate Emilie Autumn. And her target audience.

Ten years ago I'd have worshipped her, of course.

For those who didn't notice, I saw Merzbow the other night. And spoke to him, and everything. *swoons*

Boris tomoz, as aforementioned. Excitement.

Melt-Banana some time after that. Even more excitement.

Do I only see Japanese bands? Pretty much.

OK, not really. Hoping to see both Genghis Tron and Converge this summer. Hordes of excitement.

Converge at Rock City is going to be a bit good. Everyone, come to that!

I would do but Sheffield is, like, right there.

Me, Mr & Mrs Marsh are going to see Public Enemy in Manchester next month, with Dr Octagon and Anti Pop Consortium. This will indeed be amazing!

Scorn playing Manchester in June. FOOK YES!

Damn you, sir! They're playing with Growing aren't they? I Growing too Have the fun, mister!

As great as PE are, I have to admit I wanna go for the support acts. I thought APC had split up a long time ago. Is this a re-unification?


Cheers! All being well I'll be able to secure a vinyl copy of Smile.

The only festivals I go to nowadays is the three day Green Man Festival in the Brecon Beacons and the three-day SWN festival in Cardiff. The Green Man is utterly awesome if you like top new folk music and indie and the SFA are playing there this year. And Richard Thompson. As for gigs I've seen, too many to mention but standouts remain -

Joanna Newsome
Gruff Rhys
The Flaming Lips (bit of a religious experience first time I saw them, Soft Bulletin release, never heard them before )
Black Box Recorder
Lemon Jelly
Patti Smith
Thomas Truax
Eugene Francis Jnr
James Yorkston
It's Jo & Danny
Elaine Palmer
Emmy the Great
Steve Malkmus (mainly for his The Wire shout out which a very drunk me got stupidly excited about)
Jackie Leven
Pulp
Blur
Arcade Fire
Babybird
The Earlies (leading to my mate's great bad-ace Liverpudian impression, "Fuckin' 'ell! It's the Earlies! Fuckin' boss!" a bit too loud in one of the set's pauses.)
Julian Cope
Laura Viers
Your Heart Breaks
Silence At Sea
Divine Comedy

Yep, completely agree, PE are ace , but I am MEGA excited to see APC and especially the Dr Octagonecologyst! Kool Keith is a complete genius. APC is indeed a reform I believe. It's gonna be a fantastic evening!

Also, to Pete, I agree about The Flaming Lips, fucking brilliant live! They are probably the most happy band ever.

tonight im going to see frightened rabbit at the head of steam for 4 spuds. opinion tomorrow or tonight depending on how drunk i come back.

Head of Steam? That's not the completely excellent railway pub in Huddersfield that has bands from time to time is it? (Almost certainly not, judging by the address I mailed your send-me-games cashy letter)

Do Glastonbury and Guilfest every year. Seen James about 10 times since the reunion last year too. Always brilliant.

Turns out Boris are awesome (like I didn't know that), I don't like Growing, and trend-fans of metal are idiots. Seriously, the band rocked out massively and my friend & I were pretty much the only ones going nuts. And I was holding a limited-to-500-copies album.

I might be going to Truck festival, but, to be honest, I find the idea of camping it up in a field with the great unwashed, frankly disgusting.

I saw Carla Bozulich (Evangelista) last night. Better than Boris by a mile. Better than every gig I have been to in years. She is fantastic.

I'm going to Bearded Theory and the Big Chill this year. No Glastonbury as it was shit last year.

Just reading about her on Last.fm, she sounds really like my kind of music, I'll have to give her latest a bash. ta for the recommends.

forgot about this,

first act was piskie sits, who were pretty good, although hard to see as a main act as a small gig they are still worth a look, a bit like a scottish pavement in a way, although not as charasmatic, but theres not many as charasmatic as mr malkmus. may have overused and mispelt charismatic my drunk braincells are struggling.

second act was local band indoor fireworks, and small story I wasnt exactly rich on the night, since Ive just quit my job and my current money has to last quite a while I bought a cheap bottle of red wine to last most the night £.7.50, not bad for a pub and Ive had worse wines for similar prices. and I started drinking this when this band came on and the wine nulled the pain, by god, they are like the feeling mixed with scouting for girls with a big dollop of god rock, and half an hour later I had half a glass left, hammered. myspace, I cant listen at the moment and not sure how bad if at all he recordings are but heres the http://www.myspace.com/indoorfireworksmusic

frightened rabbit seemed pretty good aswell, but the singers voice was pretty fucked with flu but still good credit for playing on, would like to see them again when the singers voice is tip top and im not mortal as fuck. If anyones in brighton I think there playing with twilight sad sometime who are awesome as fuck and everyone should listen to that album.