2017 gig of the year

spindex

The year is almost over and I have no gigs on the horizon so I'll set the ball rolling with a countdown of my top 5 gigs of 2017

5) U2 in croker, 3rd time seeing them and by far the best.
4) Radiohead in the 3, wasn't gone on the set list but still a great show.
3) Guns n Roses at slane, finally got to see the band that turned me onto music. Great setlist.
2) Therapy ? In Cyprus avenue Cork. It was an acoustic gig so I wasn't sure if they could pull it off. They proved they could big time.
1) Eddy Vedder at the marquee Cork. I wouldn't be much of a pearl jam fan but I was blown away by this gig.

ILikeBoats

1- Eddie Vedder in 3arena, it was actually the best gig I was at in my entire life
2- GNR in Slane
3- Coldplay in Croker, just for the show alone

Rigor Mortis

LCD Soundsystem - Olympia
Touts - Electric Picnic
Public Service Broadcasting - EP
Alice Cooper - Olympia
Iron Maiden - Point

bONUS GIG
Declan McKenna - EP

stoksyXL

Depeche Mode.

And runner up, Sleigh Bells in Whelans. They tore the place a new arsehole!

PTH2009

had an unreal year for gigs this year, went too 8 in total and all had there moments and was very hard picking out a top 5 and esp a top 3

top 5
5- Guns N Roses- London Stadium
4- Aerosmith- 3Arena
3- Queen and Adam Lambert- 3arena
2- U2- Croke Park
1- Metallica- Glasgow

so far for 2018 I have Christy Moore (Theatre Royal), Tears for Fears (3arena), Foo Fighters(Manchester), Billy Joel (Aviva Stadium) and hoping too add a Pearl Jam and the Shane Macgowan thing to it too. it's an expensive live but I work for it I earn it and I enjoy it

Oilbeefhooked!

For me........
5)GnR Slane
4)Depeche Mode 3 Arena and Hannover HDI Stadium
3) Band of Horses Vicar St
2)The National Vicar St
1)Eddie Vedder 3 Arena

corm500

1- Alice Cooper -Olympia
2- Doobie Brothers - 3arena

Username exists

1. London Grammar The Olympia
2. Radiohead 3Arena
3. The War on Drugs Barrowlands Glasgow

rednik

1 Queen with Adam Lambert
2 Guns n Roses
3 Aerosmith
4 Iron Maiden
5 Black Sabbath

Mushy

Eddie Vedder at the Marquee

exilec

1 . Foo fighters glastonbury
2.The National Vicar st
3. Nick cave Manchester
4.Eddie Vedder Cork
5. QOTSA Dublin

Greg81

1. Eddie Vedder - 3 Arena
2. Metallica - Manchester Arena
3. System of a Down - O2 Arena Prague
4. Green Day - Manchester Arena
5. G'n'R - Slane

Good year. 14 gigs if I am counting this right Super happy.

heebusjeebus

1. LCD Soundsystem (The Olympia)
2. The National (Vicars Street)
3. Touts (Other Voices, IMRO)
4. Phoenix (Electric Picnic)

TheIrishGrover

1: Eddie Vedder - Dublin
2: Killers - John Peel Tent, Glasto
3: The National - Dublin
4: Elbow - Olympia

Had ticket for GnR but couldn't make it due to work. And worst concert was Hanz Zimmer due to hipster douchebags talking through the show. All they wanted to hear was the Inception sountdrack and started complaining when he didn't play it until the encore. Morons

Thundercats Ho

Standalone:
Radiohead - The Point

Festival:
Carseat Headrest - EP

Smaller:
Lankum - Cleeres

RazorT

1. Eddie Vedder (3 Arena)  - what a privilege, one of my favorite gigs of all time. That version of Jeremy will live long in the memory.
2. Band of Horses (Vicar Street) - They play with such sheer joy and enthusiasm.
3. Leprous (Voodoo Lounge) - Unreal live experience - a band of fire right now. 
4. GnR (Slane)  - awesome
5. Deftones (Vicar Street) Chino's vocals are a force of nature.

aka accounts 2010

Top 5 Outdoor Gigs:
Foo Fighters - Glastonbury
Guns N Roses - Slane Castle
U2 - Croke Park
Stone Roses - Wembley Stadium
Coldplay - Croke Park

Top 5 Indoor Gigs:
Killers - 3Arena
Kasabian - Olympia
Kings of Leon - 3Arena
RHCP - 3Arena
Royal Blood - 3Arena

PTH2009

aka accounts 2010 wrote: »

Top 5 Outdoor Gigs:
Foo Fighters - Glastonbury
Guns N Roses - Slane Castle
U2 - Croke Park
Stone Roses - Wembley Stadium
Coldplay - Croke Park

Top 5 Indoor Gigs:
Killers - 3Arena
Kasabian - Olympia
Kings of Leon - 3Arena
RHCP - 3Arena
Royal Blood - 3Arena

and i thought i went to gigs

fair play man

aka accounts 2010

PTH2009 wrote: »

and i thought i went to gigs

fair play man

:D Ah Cheers! :D Just saw your list back along the thread, damn tasty list if I don't say so myself!!

2017 was a great year - can't see 2018 matching it (but it's early yet):D:D

eldest200

Coldplay was the best for me these are the gigs I went to this year

Coldplay Croke Park
Jackson Browne Vicar Street
U2 Croke Park
Black Sabbath 3Arena
Muse Belfast
Green Day Belsonic
Jake Cleamons Belfast
Gary Tallent Belfast
Guns n Roses Slane (work)

maximoose

1)Bon Iver- Cork Opera House - by far favourite gig of the year
2)Radiohead - 3 Arena
3) Vulfpeck - Vicar St
4) Perfume Genius - Tivoli
5) Mew - London Shepherds Bush

Festival Highlight - Public Service Broadcasting at EP. Can't wait to see them in Jan

Decuc500

1. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Olympia
2. BNQT – Button Factory
3. The National – Vicar Street
4. Sun Kil Moon – Vicar Street
5. Drive-By Truckers/Eyelids – Vicar Street

henryporter

1) RTJ Olympia
2) Radiohead 3 Arena
3) Laurie Anderson NCH

Ferris_Bueller

1) LCD Soundsystem - Olympia Theatre
2) Arcade Fire - Primavera
3) Duran Duran - Electric Picnic

sally cinnamon89

LCD - Olympia
Vulfpeck - Vicar St
FJM - Electric Picnic
Lemon Twigs - Workmans
Homeshake - Sugar Club

invicta

Jason Isbell at The Olympia,
Sturgill Simpson and John Prine at Vickers St,
and looking forward to Josh Ritter at Cork Opera Hse. next Monday night

Sandwell

Top 10:

Pet Shop Boys - Bord Gáis
Susanne Sundfor - Sugar Club
St Vincent - Olympia
Angel Olsen - Vicar St
Depeche Mode - 3 Arena
Leftfield/Laurent Garnier - Metropolis
Dopplereffekt - Hugh Lane
Kehlani - Academy
Wolf Alice - Olympia
Kraftwerk - Bord Gáis

A vintage year all said.

phunkadelic

LCD Soundsystem -Olympia
The National - Vicar St
War On Drugs - Barrowlands

All 3 of them playing here next year, but in much bigger outdoor venues, so I'm glad I caught them in proper venues.

Honourable mentions:
The Horrors - Tivoli
Hamilton Leithauser + ROSTAM - Workmans
QotSA - Point
Eddie Vedder - Point
Mac DeMarco - Vicar st

delbertgrady

2017 was a great year for concerts for me, although I didn't go to anything for the first five months. All my concerts were in the six month period between June and November. I can't reduce my year to five votes, so I'm doing a fairly eclectic top ten, and some "honourable mentions" that are worth including. The list of ten isn't necessarily in strict order, but I do think The Stone Roses was my outright favourite of the year, so it's at the top.

The Stone Roses, SSE Arena
Depeche Mode, 3Arena
Queen + Adam Lambert, 3Arena
Steely Dan, 3Arena
Phil Collins, Aviva Stadium
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Olympia
Eddie Vedder, 3Arena
Belle and Sebastian, Iveagh Gardens
U2, Croke Park
Regina Spektor, Bord Gais Energy Theatre

Bubbling under:
The National, Vicar Street
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Vicar Street

Guilty pleasure of the year: Bananarama, SSE Arena

Unique art pop performance: St. Vincent, Olympia
I can't really judge this as a conventional gig, insofar as it's one woman on stage with backing tracks and a very "theatrical" production. It's so different from a normal concert, I wasn't sure where it would fall in my top ten, so I'm mentioning it separately. Make no mistake, though: it was excellent.

Getting to see The Stone Roses indoors was incredible. Depeche Mode were as good as I've ever seen them, and on the back of their best album in twenty years, it was a very strong setlist. Queen + Adam Lambert was a terrific, full on "show" and a really enjoyable night. Phil Collins was an unlikely triumph, in that effectively an old man hobbled onto the stage and sat down for the whole show and it was still great. It's also probably the best sound I've ever heard at an outdoor show. The Steely Dan show was phenomenal. Donald Fagen is a funny guy. Belle and Sebastian did a great, career spanning set.

My three concert highlights of the year:
Jason Isbell's rendition of Tom Petty's American Girl: quite honestly one of the greatest things I've ever seen on a stage.
Depeche Mode doing Everything Counts, complete with 101 style audience singalong.
The string quartet/crowd singing Jeremy at the Eddie Vedder show.

Turnipman

Doobies at the 3 Arena for me. I went mainly to see/hear Donald Fagan and the Dan. But the Doobies were out of this world!

dasdog

Been a great year but these three were the standouts.

1. Aphex Twin, Forbidden Fruit
2. Mulatu Astake, Sugar Club
3. Black Sabbath, 3Arena

And Peter Hook (Academy) was great last weekend. Two and a half hours of New Order and Joy Division.

Dagenham Dave

Eddie Vedder, 3 Arena
Bob Dylan, 3 Arena
The National, Vicar Street
Ryan Adams, Ulster Hall
Future Islands, Iveagh Gardens

Vladimir Poontang

Guns N Roses Slane - Epic

Fuzzy_Dunlop

1: Eddie Vedder - 3 Arena
2: The National - Vicar Street
3: LCD Soundsytem - Olympia

Arghus

Tried to make a - a-hem - concerted effort to go to more gigs this year. Not living in Dublin means the options locally can be fairly limited, but I still managed to make it to twenty or so this year. Ones that stick out:

Deftones, Vicar Street: Great setlist, great atmosphere in the crowd. Felt properly exhilarated coming out of it, which is what you want after every gig of that type.

Melt Banana, Roisin Dubh, Galway: Just for the sheer sonic force of it - without a doubt the loudest gig I was ever at. The sound of the guitar bypassed your ears completely and went into the deepest part of your skull; I was sem-deaf for three to four days afterwards. Completely worth it.

St. Vincent, The Olympia: Wasn't blown away by some of it at the time, but - in retrospect - I'm glad I was there to see what she was attempting to do, particularly in the second half of the show. A unique experience.

Arnocorps. The Loft, Galway: San Francisco based hardcore punk band whose entire output is based on the films of Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's as ridiculous as it sounds and just as much fun. This was the best craic I had at a gig all year, hands down - and probably top five of all time. Everything just worked perfectly: the band didn't take the stage until about midnight and by then people were extremely hyped and it was just ludicrous transcendent bedlam for ninety minutes once they did arrive.

Biggest let down was Aphex Twin at Forbidden Fruit. I was expecting big things, but left feeling very underwhelmed.

SoundOfSilence

1. LCD - Olympia
2. Kasabian - Olympia
3. Jagwar Ma - Ep
4. Coldplay - Croker
5. London grammar - Olympia

bodhrandude

1. Aphex Twin - Forbidden Fruit
2. Bonobo - Body & Soul festival
3. AIR - Beatyard Festival
4. Bill Bailey - Electric Picnic
5. Duran Duran - Electric Picnic
6. Tinfoil - Fuinneamh Festival
7. Lee Scratch Perry - Roisin Dubh, Galway

Wooderson

Nice to see couple of refs to Isbell’s show on here. A gig that got zilch chat on boards otherwise.

Good year for the Olympia. Couldve had a top 5 from there alone. Run the Jewels/Ryan Adams/Elbow/Isbell and two of the three LCDSS gigs.

Three fest shows that stand out: Radiohead and Ryley Walker at Glasters.

Duran Duran at the Pick.

phelixoflaherty

Yorkston, thorne Kahn in Galway.
Support not Seamus Fogarty wasn't bad either.

First Up

Showing my age with Jackson Browne at Vicar St.

delbertgrady

Wooderson wrote: »

Nice to see couple of refs to Isbell’s show on here. A gig that got zilch chat on boards otherwise.

Another thing worth mentioning about that show was the pin drop quiet audience during Tift Merritt's set. I've never witnessed an audience be so respectful to a support act. I think even she was stunned at the courtesy and reception she got. I know she has a profile of her own, but even so. A great example of an audience who were there for music above all else. A truly remarkable evening.

Jgordo

Eddie vedder at the 3 arena. Like someone else said, best concert of my life. Almost like a religious experience!! I'm still thinking about it. Roll on the PJ tour next year.

Wooderson

delbertgrady wrote: »

Another thing worth mentioning about that show was the pin drop quiet audience during Tift Merritt's set. I've never witnessed an audience be so respectful to a support act. I think even she was stunned at the courtesy and reception she got. I know she has a profile of her own, but even so. A great example of an audience who were there for music above all else. A truly remarkable evening.

Yep. She was touched by it.

MadYaker

Radiohead at Glastonbury in my number 1. I go to feck all gigs compared to some of ye!

scruff monkey

1. LCD in Olympia, so loud my trousers were vibrating and was sent home sweatin, hard to bate.
2. Mix of acts at picnic, esp Young Fathers (not my type of music but holy god they were great), Duran (cheddar has never been this flavoursome of fun)

Turnipman

Worst gig of the year? That daft American bird who opened for Jools Holland in the 3 Arena in October. Can anyone remember her name?

Wooderson

Turnipman wrote: »

Worst gig of the year? That daft American bird who opened for Jools Holland in the 3 Arena in October. Can anyone remember her name?

You had me a Jools Holland. What a **** sandwich.

delbertgrady

Turnipman wrote: »

Worst gig of the year?

Kamasi Washington in the National Concert Hall. This should have been a real gem, but it was marred by appalling sound. They had two kits on stage and it was the worst drum sound I've ever witnessed, including outdoor shows.

Turnipman

Wooderson wrote: »

You had me a Jools Holland. What a **** sandwich.

:-)

I was there only because I had free tickets plus a lift each way!

Mrs Shuttleworth

Definitely St Vincent at the Olympia in October. Still thinking about it.

Aerosmith also played a blinder at the 3Arena in June.

Edit: And Black Sabbath in January.

kennyu272

U2 - Croke Park
The National - Vicar St
Depeche Mode - 3Arena
Fangclub - Electric Picnic
Elbow - Glastonbury