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Gigs in 2011
I'm interested to find out who are the big gig goers on this site.
I went to 199 last year.
134 in London
2 in Glasgow
SxSW Festival in Austin, Texas
1 in Amsterdam
8 in Coventry
5 in Brighton
4 in Birmingham
3 in Notingham
Also saw gigs in Bristol, Cambridge, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Southampton, Portsmouth, Northampton, Leamington
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Couldn't find that last one to get to the double ton?
Not much point me posting really cos I probably only managed just about a tenth of your total, all in Notts or Derby.
So ignore me, I'm bored
I went to about 60, I think,
plus I went to Primavera, Field Day and ATP:TNBC too.
Not quite as many as 2010 (when I also went to SXSW), but not a bad average.
Bloody hell, I'm not going thru last year's diary...
...to suss that out. Probably went to circa 100, including Latitude and Bestival. Aside from London, saw gigs in Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton, Edinburgh and Berlin.
Probably about 60 last year
as I'm slowing down compared to a few years ago. I can't quite manage the three-in-a-rows like I used to.
2
probably about 10
199 - thats mental
around 15
if festivals count as one gig, not lots of individual gigs...
34, with festivals included as 1.
that'll be well over 100 bands. still, not much compared to 199 gigs. what bands did you like most? what music gives you that much enthusiasm?
Here's the list
1. 04/01/2011 – Teeth Of The Sea @ Madam JoJo’s
2. 15/01/2011 – Blindness @ Brixton Windmill
3. 18/01/2011 – Boxer Rebellion @ The Lexington
4. 19/01/2011 – K-X-P/Eat Lights Become Lights @ The Lexington
5. 21/01/2011 – Four Dead In Ohio @ The Garage
6. 30/01/2011 – Little Caesar @ Camden Underworld
7. 02/02/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ The Boileroom, Guildford
8. 03/02/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ Heaven
9. 05/02/2011 – Esben & The With/Spotlight Kid @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
10. 08/02/2011 – The Tamborines @ The Old Blue Last
11. 09/02/2011 – Miles Hunt & Erica Nockalls @ The Boileroom, Guildford
12. 10/02/2011 – The Pockets @ Ginglik
13. 12/02/2011 – Dolittle @ The Fighting Cocks, Kingston Upon Thames
14. 16/02/2011 – Blindness @ The Buffalo Bar
15. 17/02/2011 – Crystal Head/Bleech @ The Square, Harlow
16. 18/02/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ Tooting Tram & Social
17. 22/02/2011 – Dead Confederate @ The Jericho, Oxford
18. 23/02/2011 – The Black Angels @ Rough Trade East
19. 23/02/2011 – Josh T Pearson @ The Slaughtered Lamb
20. 24/02/2011 – The Black Angels @ Heaven
21. 25/02/2011 – Mogwai/Twilight Sad @ Brixton Academy
22. 26/02/2011 – Eat Lights Become Lights @ The Drop
23. 28/02/2011 – The Tamborines @ The Drop
24. 03/03/2011 – Four Dead In Ohio @ XOYO
25. 05/03/2011 – The Wonder Stuff @ Cambridge Corn Exchange
26. 07/03/2011 – Ringo Deathstarr/Spc Eco @ The Luminaire
27. 10/03/2011 – Boxer Rebellion @ Heaven
28. 12/03/2011 – Blancmange @ Concorde 2, Brighton
29. 15/03/2011 – Boxer Rebellion @ Latitude (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
30. 16/03/2011 – A Place To Bury Strangers @ Swan Dive (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
31. 16/03/2011 – Still Corners @ French Legation (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
32. 16/03/2011 – A Place To Bury Strangers/Woodsman @ Cheer Up Charlies (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
33. 16/03/2011 – Josh T Pearson @ Central Presbytarian Church (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
34. 16/03/2011 – Woodsman @ Soho (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
35. 16/03/2011 – Shit & Shine @ Habana Bar (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
36. 17/03/2011 – Bad Girlfriend @ Piano Club 1808 (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
37. 17/03/2011 – Boxer Rebellion @ Antoine’s (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
38. 17/03/2011 – The Black Angels/The Joy Formidable @ Mellow Johnny’s (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
39. 18/03/2011 – The Joy Formidable/Dum Dum Girls @ Waterloo Records (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
40. 18/03/2011 – Elephant Stone @ Cheapo Records (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
41. 18/03/2011 – A Place To Bury Strangers @ Annie’s West (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
42. 19/03/2011 – Twilight Sad @ Homeslice Pizza (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
43. 19/03/2011 – A Place To Bury Strangers @ Rumbler Lounge (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
44. 19/03/2011 – The Black Angels @ Jo’s Place (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
45. 20/03/2011 – Ringo Deathstarr @ Cheer Up Charlies (SxSW, Austin, Texas)
46. 23/03/2011 – Teeth Of The Sea @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
47. 24/03/2011 – Warrior Soul @ The Purple Turtle, Camden
48. 25/03/2011 – The Feral Text/Evi Vine @ The Lexington
49. 26/03/2011 – Editors @ Royal Albert Hall
50. 03/04/2011 – Bleech @ Bull & Gate
51. 03/04/2011 – Kyuss @ The Forum
52. 05/04/2011 – Crystal Head @ Purple Turtle
53. 10/04/2011 – Bo Ningen @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
54. 12/04/2011 – Kings X @ Electric Ballroom
55. 15/04/2011 – The Tamborines @ The Lexington
56. 21/04/2011 – Puressence/Exit Calm @ The Ritz, Manchester
57. 22/04/2011 – Hold Kiss Kill @ The Victoria, Mile End
58. 23/04/2011 – Bleech @ Nambucca
59. 26/04/2011 – The Tamborines @ Madam JoJo’s
60. 27/04/2011 – The Tamborines/Zeroset @ Buffalo Bar
61. 01/05/2011 – Jesus Deluxe/Toba Caldera @ Inspire, Coventry
62. 05/05/2011 – Horn & The Hunt @ Bull & Gate
63. 06/05/2011 – 93millionmilesfromthesun @ The George Tavern
64. 07/05/2011 – Evi Vine @ Union Chapel
65. 10/05/2011 – The Joy Formidable/Spotlight Kid @ Koko’s
66. 11/05/2011 – Josh T Pearson @ Union Chapel
67. 12/05/2011 – Koolaid Electric Company @ The Lexington
68. 13/05/2011 – The Fauns @ Hoxton Underbelly
69. 14/05/2011 – Blindness @ Cowley Club, Brighton
70. 16/05/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
71. 17/05/2011 – Guile/The Yams @ The Rainbow, Birmingham
72. 19/05/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ The Roadmenders, Northampton
73. 20/05/2011 – The Pockets @ The Albany, Coventry
74. 21/05/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ Haymakers, Cambridge
75. 23/05/2011 – Evi Vine @ The Troubador
76. 24/05/2011 – Blindness @ The Enterprise
77. 25/05/2011 – The Duke Spirit/The Computers @ King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
78. 28/05/2011 – Heavy Soul @ Guild Hall, Coventry
79. 30/05/2011 – Evi Vine/Slow Revolt @ Druid’s Arms, Brighton
80. 31/05/2011 – Bleech @ The Fighting Cocks, Kingston-Upon-Thames
81. 02/06/2011 – The Duke Spirit/The Computers @ Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
82. 03/06/2011 – Four Dead In Ohio @ Camden Barfly
83. 04/06/2011 – Tenebrous Liar @ Buffalo Bar
84. 04/06/2011 – Blindness @ Roadtrip
85. 06/06/2011 – The Winchell Riots/Creatures Of Love @ Old Blue Last
86. 09/06/2011 – Spotlight Kid @ Buffalo Bar
87. 09/06/2011 – Sons & Daughters @ The Lexington
88. 10/06/2011 – Vessels/Teeth Of The Sea @ The Lexington
89. 11/06/2011 – The Winchell Riots @ Oxford Academy
90. 13/06/2011 – The Raveonettes @ Islington Academy
91. 15/06/2011 – Amplifier @ XOYO
92. 18/06/2011 – Exit Calm @ Club 60, Sheffield
93. 19/06/2011 – Crystal Head @ Purple Turtle
94. 24/06/2011 – Blindness @ Buffalo Bar
95. 25/06/2011 – Cinderella @ Shepherds Bush Empire
96. 28/06/2011 – Combichrist/Mortiis @ Talking Heads, Southampton
97. 30/06/2011 – Still Corners @ The Drop
98. 01/07/2011 – Toba Caldera @ The George Tavern
99. 02/07/2011 – Hold Kiss Kill @ Notting Hill Arts
100. 05/07/2011 – Bleech/Monsters Build Mean Robots @ Native Tongue
101. 07/07/2011 – Austra @ Cargo
102. 08/07/2011 – Crystal Head/Bleech @ Bull & Gate
103. 09/07/2011 – Jesus Deluxe @ Ricoh Arena, Coventry
104. 10/07/2011 – Bo Ningen/Teeth Of The Sea/Koolaid Electric Co/Hold Kiss Kill @ Corsica Studios
105. 12/07/2011 – The Joy Formidable @ Rough Trade East
106. 13/07/2011 – Genuflex @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
107. 14/07/2011 – Two Skies @ Bull & Gate
108. 16/07/2011 – Hold Kiss Kill/Spotlight Kid/The Palpitations @ Dave Kennedy’s House BBQ
109. 21/07/2011 – Creatures Of Love @ Dalston Jazz Bar
110. 23/07/2011 – Suzerain/Guile @ Islington (Bar) Academy
111. 24/07/2011 – Maximo Park/Gary Numan @ Ben & Jerry’s Festival, Clapham Common
112. 26/07/2011 – Shit & Shine @ Madam JoJo’s
113. 27/07/2011 – The Bellrays @ The Borderline
114. 28/07/2011 – Jesus Deluxe @ The Exchange, Leamington
115. 31/07/2011 – Moby/Silver Apples @ The Roundhouse
116. 02/08/2011 – Ringo Deathstarr @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
117. 03/08/2011 – Blindness @ Camden Barfly
118. 04/08/2011 – The Music @ Brixton Academy
119. 05/08/2011 – Epic 45/Spc Eco @ The Wilmington Arms
120. 06/08/2011 – The Datsuns/Four Dead In Ohio @ The Borderline
121. 07/08/2011 – Two Skies/Toba Caldera @ Northern Monkey, Leeds
122. 09/08/2011 – Spotlight Kid/Toba Caldera @ Soul Cellar, Southampton
123. 11/08/2011 – The Palpitations @ 93feet East
124. 11/08/2011 – Spotlight Kid @ The Wilmington Arms
125. 16/08/2011 – Richard Warren/Tenebrous Liar @ The Social
126. 19/08/2011 – Bleech @ The Garage
127. 20/08/2011 – Mourning Becomes Electra/The Pockets @ Escape, Coventry
128. 23/08/2011 – Evi Vine @ Ronnie Scott’s
129. 24/08/2011 – Rebekah Delgado @ The Wheelbarrow
130. 30/08/2011 – Bo Ningen @ Shacklewell Arms
131. 31/08/2011 – Creatures Of Love/Falullah @ Old Queens Head
132. 01/09/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ Tufnell Park Dome
133. 05/09/2011 – Health @ The Louisiana, Bristol
134. 06/09/2011 – The Black Angels @ Academy 3, Manchester
135. 07/09/2011 – Eat Lights Become Lights @ Electricity Showrooms, Hoxton
136. 09/09/2011 – The Fauns/Blindness @ Nambucca
137. 11/09/2011 – The Pockets @ The Flapper, Birmingham
138. 15/09/2011 – Architects Of Grace @ The Bowery
139. 16/09/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ Rough Trade East
140. 16/09/2011 – Hold Kiss Kill @ Buffalo Bar
141. 19/09/2011 – The Black Angels @ Scala
142. 20/09/2011 – Guile @ The Bowery
143. 22/09/2011 – Warrior Soul @ Camden Underworld
144. 23/09/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ The Paradiso, Amsterdam
145. 24/09/2011 – Josh T Pearson/Richard Warren/Tenebrous Liar @ The Junction 2, Cambridge
146. 27/09/2011 – Eat Lights Become Lights @ Cargo
147. 28/09/2011 – Hold Kiss Kill @ Bull & Gate
148. 29/09/2011 – Boxer Rebellion @ Shepherds Bush Empire
149. 30/09/2011 – 93millionmilesfromthesun @ Mama Liz’s Voodoo Lounge, Stamford
150. 01/10/2011 – Claytown Troupe @ Islington Academy
151. 01/10/2011 – Blindness @ Roadtrip
152. 04/10/2011 – Exit Calm @ The Lexington
153. 07/10/2011 – Four Dead In Ohio @ Boogaloo
154. 08/10/2011 – Crystal Head @ Nambucca
155. 10/10/2011 – Still Corners @ Café Oto
156. 11/10/2011 – Still Corners @ Rough Trade East
157. 12/10/2011 – The Duke Spirit @ Camden Barfly
158. 13/10/2011 – Richard Warren/Tenebrous Liar @ Inspire, Coventry
159. 14/10/2011 – New Model Army @ The Roadmenders, Northampton
160. 15/10/2011 – Jesus Deluxe @ The Exchange, Leamington
161. 18/10/2011 – Elephant Stone/Koolaid Electric Company @ The Lexington
162. 20/10/2011 – Spotlight Kid @ The Hope, Brighton
163. 21/10/2011 – Spotlight Kid @ Hoxton Underbelly
164. 22/10/2011 – Spotlight Kid @ The Flapper, Birmingham
165. 23/10/2011 – 93millionmilesfromthesun @ Academy 3, Birmingham
166. 24/10/2011 – White Hills @ Corsica Studios
167. 27/10/2011 – Two Skies @ Roadtrip
168. 28/10/2011 – Silver Apples @ Coalition, Brighton
169. 28/10/2011 – Blindness @ Nambucca
170. 29/10/2011 – Toba Caldera @ The Cricketers, Southampton
171. 01/11/2011 – Blindness @ The Lexington
172. 02/11/2011 – The Early Years @ CAMP
173. 06/11/2011 – Evi Vine @ Notting Hill Arts
174. 08/11/2011 – KT Tunstall @ Union Chapel
175. 09/11/2011 – Bleech @ Power’s Bar
176. 14/11/2011 – Bo Ningen @ The Lexington
177. 17/11/2011 – Dum Dum Girls/Veronica Falls @ ULU
178. 21/11/2011 – Twilight Sad @ The Borderline
179. 23/11/2011 – Pure Reason Revolution @ Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
180. 24/11/2011 – Monster Magnet @ The Garage, Glasgow
181. 25/11/2011 – Crystal Head @ Purple Turtle
182. 26/11/2011 – Josh T Pearson/Richard Warren @ Barbican Hall
183. 27/11/2011 – The Telescopes/Hold Kiss Kill @ Corsica Studios
184. 28/11/2011 – Pinkmountaintops @ The Lexington
185. 30/11/2011 – Pure Reason Revolution @ Heaven
186. 01/12/2011 – Josh T Pearson @ Rough Trade East
187. 02/12/2011 – Richard Warren/Jesus Deluxe @ Taylor Johns, Coventry
188. 03/12/2011 – King Kurt @ Camden Underworld
189. 06/12/2011 – Kyte @ Buffalo Bar
190. 07/12/2011 – The Tamborines @ Buffalo Bar
191. 08/12/2011 – Amplifier @ Colchester Arts
192. 09/12/2011 – Amplifier @ Islington Academy
193. 10/12/2011 – Blindness @ 12 Bar
194. 15/12/2011 – Exit Calm @ Buffalo Bar
195. 16/12/2011 – The Wonder Stuff @ Shepherds Bush Empire
196. 17/12/2011 – Dolittle @ The Fighting Cocks, Kingston-Upon-Thames
197. 28/12/2011 – Teeth Of The Sea @ The Lexington
198. 30/12/2011 – Mourning Becomes Electra @ Inspire, Coventry
199. 31/12/2011 – Fabulous Feedback Band @ The Cauliflower, llford
Best gig - Monster Magnet in Glasgow
Ahhh… you’ve counted the SXSW shows as separate gigs.
Which is kind of fair enough
SXSW is different from something like ATP & not really that different from going to see a band in somewhere like Old Street or Camden & then going off to another gig in the same area after.
Used to average 60+ myself, but probably down to 20 or so now (^This to Silentcommand)
I went to...
...two of the same gigs as you :)
soulm8s
You could have tried to see a few more good things in all of that.
15
199 averages more than one every other day.
I salute you.
Well done
200.
Unlucky
201
You must be loaded!
199 gigs, average of a tenner each? Possibly more given the amount in london. Then all the travel, must be getting on for 4 or 5k in total.
Last Fm suggests I went to 14 plus ATP, but they were a good 14. Most I've ever managed in a year is prob about 40, 14 is about average these days, all part of living in a small town in middle of nowhere.
Impressive
But did you do anything else last year apart from go to gigs?
I probably averaged one every couple of weeks, plus Primavera and Green Man. Not a particularly busy year.
My life pretty much revolves around music.
I do meet up with non gig going friends to catch up from time to time tho'.
I've really slacked
looking at my last fm, I went to 12 gigs and Primavera and Yes Way
I think I read more books last year than went to gigs
2 (including reading festival)
i didn't have the time, effort, money, or friends that liked the same music as me, and its horribly inconvenient as i don't live in a city. i already have 6 booked for 2012 though which is better.
I have 104 friends.
According to Facebook...
...I also have 104 friends! Man alive, today is all about degrees of separation for me.
Going through last.fm and counting festivals as single events
51 in 2011
134 in 2010
I've really slacked off.
Mine have fallen since I became a town councillor, and joined 3 sub-committees
However, counting each day of as a festival as one, and including concerts & WHPs I went to 197. I had a forced period of absence June - Aug while my Dad was ill. Of those 197 about 25 were essentially dance events, but all with live acts.
Locations:
Mostly Manchester & Salford, but also :
Liverpool 5
Sheffield 14
London 6
Coventry 1
Leeds 6
Festivals 25 days
1- Mogwai in Seoul
Mostly because I'm trying to save money, and as I didn't live in London it was always a pain in the arse to get there and back at night. There's a few decent looking gigs coming up here in Seoul though, although Beirut is playing when I'm on holiday in Taiwan :(