Gig of The Year [So Far]

CiaranK

Coming up the closing of a year that seen many great gigs here...

So what was your top gig(s) of 2012 so far?

lordgoat

Still loads of gigs left this year.

CiaranK

lordgoat wrote: »

Still loads of gigs left this year.

Yeah thats true, some cracking ones coming up too. We'll say best so far for now then

homeless student

stone roses, deadmau5 and kanye west/jay z

sabrewulf

Just checked my calendar... can't believe I was only at 12 gigs this year.
Very good ones in there, but the one that stood out was

Rammstein
 

Pudsy33

Watch the throne by a distance

frantic190

Bon Iver was something special!

Skill Magill

Blown away at this gig

paddymayoman

homeless student wrote: »

stone roses, deadmau5 and kanye west/jay z

Was deadmau-five any good?

Rothko

Japandroids at the Workman's Club. However, I do have one more gig coming up before the end of the year.

davywalsh7

Kasabian @ Ibiza rocks or if its only Irish gigs then would have to be muse @ the O2. Amazing!

handsomecake

watch the throne was incredible .

it was that good that i was willing to put up with the wall to wall degenerates that attended it.

davywalsh7

handsomecake wrote: »

watch the throne was incredible .

it was that good that i was willing to put up with the wall to wall degenerates that attended it.

Raging I missed that gig. Say it was incredible!

Squelchy

Rammstein.

0utandAbout

Black Keys was probably my fav

But Father John Misty would be a surprise second!! Great gig!!

karaokeman

Standouts so far would be;

1) Leonard Cohen at Kilmainham
2) Muse at the O2
3) Stone Roses at Phoenix Park

steve_r

Didn't get to very many this year so this list is pretty short and sweet!

1. Radiohead @ Optimus - Cause I'd never seen them before and they are a very special band
2. Bon Iver @ O2 - Cause it was a great gig, even if I was down the back and got lost coming back from the bar.:o
3. Joe Pug @ The Sugar club - a real wholehearted performance by a singer I love, he's not big here (or anywhere really) but seemed like he was really happy to be here.

old gregg

Lamb of God - Academy, Dublin
Devin Townsend - Roundhouse, London
Rammstein - Point, Dublin

dvck

My top 5 until now:

1- Radiohead @ Optimus Alive (Portugal)
2- Beach House @ Vicar Street
3- Bon Iver @ The O2
4- Bombay Bicycle Club @ Olympia Theatre
5- Gomez @ The Academy

Looking forward to The XX @ Olympia Theatre

McChubbin

Rammstein. Hands down the best gig of the decade for me. The production value, the stage presence, the pyrotechnics, the raw intensity of the band's performance-everything came together in one night of perfect mayhem.
Definately at the top of my "must see again at nearest opportunity" list.

After that, KoRN in the Olympia in April. The opening act was a load of bulls'hit dubstep featuring a horrible mangling of System of a Down's "Chop Suey" that almost made my ears bleed. Fortunately, I got there late so I was only waiting 5 minutes before Korn graced the stage. Seeing that iconic mike stand go up sent shivers down my spine. Then, coming towards the end, the entire pit got down on the ground. Jonathan growled "Aaaaaaarrrrrre....yooou....RRRRREEEAAAAAADDDDDDY?!?!?!" and the whole place went absolutely bat**** crazy as they lauched into a blistering remdition of "Blind". Nearly got crushed in the moshpit from all the slamdancing.

Lastly, Tenacious D in The O2 was my most recent gig. Great audience participation and a varied setlist of new and old stuff. I was close enough to actually touch Jack's hand and it was glorious. Sweaty, but glorious. XD
Only downside was that they didn't play Master Exploder.

Davyhal

Best gig this year that I was at had to have been The Black Keys at the O2.

If we are including festivals, some brilliant sets at Forbidden Fruit as well by Wilco, Grimes, Little Green Cars, and above all else, Booka Shade. The standard of music at Electric Picnic was very weak in comparison

blastman

Rammstein at the Point was far and away the best gig of the year for me. Other highlights were Gary Numan at the Button Factory (I'd waited a loooonnng time to hear Are 'Friends' Electric live) and Dan Baird & Homemade Sin at Whelan's (it was probably too loud and the crowd was definitely too small, but they rocked the house down).

cometogether

Has to be the Stone Roses

corm500

1. Bruce at the RDS
2. Tom Petty at the O2
3. Paul Simon at the O2

JJ

It can only be...

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!

RayCon

Haven't been to many this year - for whatever reason ... but my favourite was :

Opeth / Anathema - Vicar St, 14th Nov.

Lumbo

Swedish House Mafia




















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Easy Rod

1. Wu Lyf - Whelans
2. The Cure - EP
3. Maccabees - Birmingham Academy
4. Muse - 02
5. New Order - Benicassim

I feel like i've forgotten loads as well, it's been my most prolific year for music.

Dub Ste

Bruce 2nd night at the RDS
The Saw Doctors 24th Nov at the Olympia.

Miguel_Sanchez

Off the top of my head:

Dirty Three (Button Factory)
Mumblin' Deaf Ro (NCH)
Bonnie Prince Billy (Vicar St.)
Chromatics (Primavera)
Yo La Tengo (Primavera)
Jack White (02)

BronsonTB

Anthrax - Great vibe, great set...Joey rocked the place...

Korvanica

Paul Kalkbrenner (I am disappointed he wasn't mentioned earlier in this thread. for shame)
Deadmau5

Jedwardian

Another vote for Rammstein here. I loved every minute of that gig from the entrance through the crowd leading into Sonne and finishing with Pussy.

Gonzovision

Modeselektor
Animal Collective
Fr. John Misty
Bon Iver
Grimes

aka accounts 2010

Best year I've had gig/festival wise in a long time:

Top 5 Gigs:
1. Muse @ O2 Dublin
2. Foo Fighters @ Tennents Vital
3. Stone Roses @ Phoenix Park
4. Snow Patrol @ O2 Dublin (also excellent at PP)
5. James Morrison @ Ulster Hall Belfast

Top 3 UK Gigs;
1. Stone Roses @ Heaton Park
2. SHM @ Milton Keynes Bowl
3. Thin Lizzy @ Apollo London

Top 3 Festivals:
1. Electric Picnic
2. Indiependence
3. Forbidden Fruit

jossnjuice

JJ wrote: »

It can only be...

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!

this. /thread.

green day rule

Blink-182!

Furious-Red

Bruce or the Foo's
Indiependence for festival of the year (its the only one i went to )

stick-dan

Bruce is up there but Watch the Throne was just unreal! Pure class.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

Been a good year for gigs. I'm including festival appearances, they def count.

Worthy contenders go to M83 at Body&Soul, Roots Manuva at EP, Japandroids at Workmen and Santigold at Button Factory. No 2 was Errors at Grand Social, such a class band, hope they come back.

No 1 is easily The Throne. What a show.

Linguo

For us, Muse & Metronomy were the highlights!

delbertgrady

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, O2
Sparks, The Button Factory

bogmanfan

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Sugar Club back in January. Superb.

Cheese Princess

Keane at the Olympia.

tattykitty

Another vote for Rammstein here - truly awesome. Probably one of the best gigs I've ever been to.

Machine Head @ Olympia were brilliant too (so glad I wore earplugs though!).

iDann

Lady Gaga Born This Way Ball @ Aviva Stadium ! Hands down the best concert ever!

CiaranK

Just thinking back over the year of gigs, there has been some great ones

The first 'Great' gig of 2012 was Van Morrison in the O2 in Feb. The atmosphere was unbelievable and Van was on top form. He was also on form in Marlay Park but that wasn't quite as magical as the O2 gig.

Skipping on to the summer which had some cracking shows

First really fun one of the summer was the Happy Mondays in the Olympia in May. All the crowd were up for a great time and it was great to see the original Mondays back together again.

A fantastic night of trad in Vicar Street for Andy Irvines 70th birthday gig. Top class musicians were there that night including, Paul Brady, Donal Lunny, Liam O'Flynn, Paddy Glackin, Mozaik, Johnny Moynihan etc.

Stone Roses was a nostalgia filled night in the Pheonix Park, complete opposite crowd as to what was to come the following night. Mick Jones and The Wailers added to the evening immensely.

Paul Simon was another magical gig in the O2, Graceland band are some of the best musicians out there.

My Gigs of the year had to be the double shot of Springsteen in the RDS. Bruce and the E Street Band killing it two nights in a row, enough said.

Many more gigs this year worth noting:

John Cale
Rodriguez
Ronan O'Snodaigh's amazing series of 5 gigs in Whelans
Tom Jones
CW Stoneking
The Straits
Liam O'Maonlai
Damien Dempsey
Declan Sinnott
and a few more along the way that I'm forgetting

languagenerd

Didn't get to as many this year as I usually do, but the top one was definitely Billy Talent in the Academy (Dublin) in August. Was brilliant seeing them in such a small venue, the setlist was almost perfect and I met two of them afterwards Yeah, I'm probably too old for that fangirl stuff but whatever :P

Wish I'd gone to the Foos in Belfast, stupidly held out for a Dublin date and then didn't have money later in the summer to get tickets (which were probably sold out by then anyway)

Blink 182 were pretty good in June (esp cause the support acts were All American Rejects and Four Year Strong) and I really enjoyed The Milk at the Trinity Ball (didn't know who they were beforehand, but their 3am set was so much fun!). Also, Snow Patrol in January. That show got a load of criticism, but I had fun...

EDIT: Can't believe I forgot about New Found Glory in Feb - that was an amazing show (even if I had to endure the Blackout and Let.live first).

Davyhal

languagenerd wrote: »

Didn't get to as many this year as I usually do, but the top one was definitely Billy Talent in the Academy (Dublin) in August. Was brilliant seeing them in such a small venue, the setlist was almost perfect and I met two of them afterwards Yeah, I'm probably too old for that fangirl stuff but whatever :P

Wish I'd gone to the Foos in Belfast, stupidly held out for a Dublin date and then didn't have money later in the summer to get tickets (which were probably sold out by then anyway)

Blink 182 were pretty good in June (esp cause the support acts were All American Rejects and Four Year Strong) and I really enjoyed The Milk at the Trinity Ball (didn't know who they were beforehand, but their 3am set was so much fun!). Also, Snow Patrol in January. That show got a load of criticism, but I had fun...

EDIT: Can't believe I forgot about New Found Glory in Feb - that was an amazing show (even if I had to endure the Blackout and Let.live first).

Blink-182 was good, and All-American Rejects were a far better support than Twin Atlantic (who they had 2 years ago), but Blink were better 2 years ago I must say. Was a little bit disappointed :-( (Weird, Down by Blink-182 just came on my iPod as I typed this!)

I had forgotten that the Snow Patrol gig was in 2012, that gig was amazing! Wouldn't have been an overly huge fan before (got the ticket as a present), but my God, they blew my mind that night. Went to see them in Phoenix Park again because the January gig won me over. I change my vote from Black Keys to Snow Patrol's January gig for my gig of the year!