Gigs of the year 2019

PTH2009

So what was/were your Gigs of the year for 2019 ??

Been to many gigs this year with a good few crossed of the bucket list. Top 5 in no particular order

Metallica Slane
Eddie Vedder 3arena
Foo Fighters RDS
Neil Young Nowlan Park (Bob Dylan was himself but decent)
Liam Gallagher IP park

Honorable mentions to Robert Plant Saving Grace Theate Royal and Volbeat in the Olympia

2020 very quite show far for me

piplip87

1. Foo Fighters
2. Billy Corgan
3. Eddie Vedder
4. Liam Gallagher
5. Manic Street Preecher (Supporting Bon Jovi. Bon was ****e but the other half was happy)

May tip my hat to pink. Again went with herself but she put on an amazing show.

rubadub

The Chats -in the academy.

The Nal

I'm sure I'm missing a few but top of my head no particular order

Kikagaku Moyo at End of the Road.
Idles at Glastonbury.
Snapped Ankles in Berlin
Oh Sees in The Button Factory.
Acid Mothers Temple at Glastonbury.
Sleaford Mods in The Academy.

Wasn't a vintage year for gigs really. Roll on 2020.

delbertgrady

A great year. Some really superb shows. I was hoping to come up with a Top Ten, but found it difficult to edit it down, so I'm running with these...

a-ha, 3Arena and SSE Arena
The Cure, Malahide Castle
Eagles, 3Arena
Foo Fighters, RDS Arena
Elton John, 3Arena
King Crimson, Royal Albert Hall
Jenny Lewis, The Academy
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Olympia
Public Service Broadcasting, Olympia
Steely Dan/Steve Winwood, 3Arena
Tears For Fears, INEC Killarney
Sharon Van Etten, Vicar Street
Eddie Vedder, 3Arena

fafy

A few highlights for me:

Jarvis Cocker - Electric Picnic
Michael Kiwanuka - Electric Picnic
Robot Rock - Electric Picnic
Cathy Davy - Electric Picnic
Talos - Electric Picnic
Johnny Marr - Electric Picnic

Neil Young - Nowlan Park
Damien Rice - Cork Opera House
Feist - Cork Opera House
Bell X1 - Union Chapel
Tears For Fears - 3Arena
Robert Plant - Saving Grace - Everyman Cork

+very honourable mention for Paul Noonan solo gig, in Tracton

bodhrandude

Kruder & Dorfmeister (B&S Festival)
Confidence Man (B&S)
Sleaford Mods (B&S)
Orbital (ATN)
Patti Smith (ATN)
Kiasmos (ATN)
Josh Wink (ATN)
Yankari (ATN)
Jarvis Cocker (EP)
Amelie Lens (EP)
Scary Eire (EP)
Kneecap (EP)
Four Tet (EP)
Johnny Marr (EP)
Richard Ashcroft (EP)

Sorry was only at three festivals this year so all my gigs are based from them.

fafy

bodhrandude wrote: »

Sorry was only at three festivals this year so all my gigs are based from them.

No need for an apology, a gig... is a gig !

4Ad

Twilight Sad -Button Factory
Murder Capital -All Together Now

ongarite

Weyes Blood - Button Factory
Aldous Harding - Vicar Street

weldoninhio

The Cure - Malahide Castle
Liam Gallagher - 3Arena
Pat McManus Band - Michael Collins Bar.

sally cinnamon89

Girlband at Vicar Street!! Best live band in the country.

Also Big Thief in Vicar Street was special

hetuzozaho

Kojaque, Kean Kavanagh et all at all together now. Best live band in the country

Wooderson

The Good The Bad & The Queen - ATN
Vampire Weekend - Glastonbury
Kikagaku Moyo - Workmans
The Comet is Coming - Glastonbury
Oh Sees - Button Fac
Johnny Marr - EP
Kvelertak - Olympia


As mentioned upthread not the biggest of years for me. Few gems tho. TGTB&TQ a big standout.

lc180

Vampire Weekend in Trinity was a delight.

Ferris_Bueller

1. The Cure - Malahide Castle
2. New Order - Trinity College
3. The Wailers - All Together Now

Fleetwood Mac a shout for the most disappointing due to the venue.

ILIKEFOOD

New Order- Trinity
John Grant - ATN
Sinead O'Connor - Vicar St.
Madness - Dun Laoghaire

must try harder to get some new music into me next year.

Walt Grace

John Mayer - 3 Arena
Liam Gallagher - 3 Arena

Both fantastic!

Sabre0001

Some highlights for me:
Brass Against @ Button Factory
Metallica @ Slane
Ghost @ Slane and standalone show in 3Arena
Disturbed (in Prague)
And the nostalgia trips of Bowling for Soup (Academy), and Alien Ant Farm with P.O.D. (Button Factory)

SFC1895

New Order - Brussels was the standout for me, with a notable mention to Ride in Workmans. Fontaines and Gruff Rhys over the next week are both bound to feature in my gigs of the year though.

bodhrandude

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

1. The Cure - Malahide Castle
2. New Order - Trinity College
3. The Wailers - All Together Now

Fleetwood Mac a shout for the most disappointing due to the venue.

Thought they done an amazing set despite the downpours.

desk tidy

Bjork last week in the 3 Arena - probably the best gig I've ever been to. Still processing it!

Sons of Kemet - EP
Patti Smith talk and headline set - ATN
The Cure - Glastonbury
New Order - Trinity
Massive Attack - 3 Arena
Kamasi Washington - Olympia
The Comet is Coming - Glastonbury

Weepsie

Olafur Arnalds in London (South Bank) - Could hear a pin drop. The best behaved crowd I've ever been in.
Tame Impale - 3Arena
Patti Smith or Hot Chip - ATN
Manics in The Olympia because they played some very rarely heard stuff from the entire back catalogue.
Death Cab for Cutie (I think that was this year) - Olympia

Conor Bourke

IDLES in Vicar St. or Tame Impala in the 3 Arena for me.

The Nal

desk tidy wrote: »

The Cure - Glastonbury

Oh yeah I'll add this to my list aswell. Exceeded expectations x 1000

fourmations

off the top of my head....

The Cure - Malahide
Foals - Trinity
Billie - EP
J. Marr - EP
Sigrid - 3 Arena

mrk75

John Grant - BGET
New Order - Trinity
Fontaines DC - ATN
Young/Dylan - Kilkenny
Billy Corgan - Oympia

Didn't get to too many others. Fontaines DC again next week will probably be up there and may yet top the lot...fingers crossed!

Decuc500

This is all I went to see in 2019:

The Delines - Liberty Hall Theatre
Ennio Morricone - 3 Arena
Sharon Van Etten - Vicar Street
Filthy Friends - Button Factory
Dylan / Young - Nowlan Park
Lloyd Cole - Vicar Street

Highlight was seeing Peter Buck in such a small venue playing with Filthy Friends.

RoryMurphyJnr

Metallica - Slane
Mayhem - Academy
Big Country/Skids - Academy (I hope)

blues2

U2 Singapore

Millionaire only not

Rod Stewart 3arena last night 4/12- just unbelievable might not be the guys here but sure was mine !

Dublin Spur

The Struts (Manchester Academy)

creativedrinker

My top 6 would be these but there were a lot to pick from... my poor poor bank account 😋
Eddie vedder in 3arena
Liam Gallagher - both nights in 3arena
Pixies in Olympia
The Cure in Malahide castle
Tool @ Download
Metallica in Lisbon

sally cinnamon89

A lot of LG love on boards. I'm surprised because IMO he is utterly awful.

fillup

In no particular order except the ways I recalls it ...............

Idles Vicar St and Iveagh Garden - best live band on the go at the mo in my humble opinion - nothing is left behind by those lads
Bjork - 3arena - tripped out visuals and an immense but intimate sound - simply stunning
King Kong Company - Button Factory - absolutely ram-jammed bonkers of a night out - I'm getting nothin' of dat
Massive Attack - 3arena - Mezzanine soundtracking our dystopian times and a visual assault courtesy of Adam Curtis
Murder Capital - Whelans - catching a band very much on an upward trajectory at such close quarters is always a thing of beauty

And Body and Soul - the whole freekin lot of it... after 10 years it's still hands down the best weekends fun to be had in Ireland

LoughNeagh2017

I only attended 4 as I live in rural lands and it is expensive to venture into cities. At least £130 to attend a Dublin concert to be precise unless you sleep at airport which I did recently.

Mike Shinoda - Linkin Park member solo show. I remember he played a song from the 1998 Linkin Park demo album, he didn't plan to play it so he looked at the lyrics on a fans phone, it was a strange thing to see.

Download Festival day ticket - I only went for half the day. I saw Trivium, Mark Hoppus' new band, Die Antwoord and Slipknot. It was ok but I didn't enjoy the outdoor conditions plus i only saw Slipknot from afar which meant I felt detatched from it. I never even saw Craig the sampler.

Lacuna Coil - Terrific performance, one of best concerts I have attended. Next time they tour I will attend several dates in England.

Liam Gallagher - I am only a casual Oasis fan, the music was good but the crowd was brutal, I had a more enjoyable time watching the youtube videos than actually being at the concert.

beecee

Janelle Monae (Trinity)
Hot Chip (Olympia)
Tame Impala (3Arena)
Bjork (3Arena)

From festivals: Serpentwithfeet, JMSN, Michael Kiwanuka, Neneh Cherry, Kojaque, The National, so many...

Jungle, Better Oblivion, Saving Grace, Steve Mason, Bell X1 all good gigs too!

Mushy

Dont get to many gigs nowadays. Hell think I only went to 3, and if there was more, must be a reason they're not jumping out.

Ghost - 3 arena
The Darkness - Cyprus Avenue
Therapy - Cyprus Avenue

The Nal

sally cinnamon89 wrote: »

A lot of LG love on boards. I'm surprised because IMO he is utterly awful.

Indeed but I saw him at Glastonbury and I was fairly pished and with a load of Mancs and it was great fun. For the first 20 mins or so anyway.

rednik

Greta Van Fleet - Olympia
Black Star Riders - Academy
Keane - Olympia
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Palladium
Metallica - Munich
Roger Hodgson - Royal Albert Hall

weldoninhio

weldoninhio wrote: »

The Cure - Malahide Castle
Liam Gallagher - 3Arena
Pat McManus Band - Michael Collins Bar.

Forgot Fangclub to come next week. Looking forward to that.

fafy

Interesting reading , this thread, great variety in tastes.

Strumms

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

Liam Gallagher - I am only a casual Oasis fan, the music was good but the crowd was brutal, I had a more enjoyable time watching the youtube videos than actually being at the concert.

He attracts a certain kind of knob... the sort who go to about two gigs a year, absolutely mashed by the time he comes on, end up smacking into people and wanting to fight you when you object to you and your other half nearly being shouldered onto the floor....

I saw Oasis here back in the day a few times and as good as they were that sort of fan was always a negative to the whole experience.

Strangely saw them in Paris back in ‘02 and the crowd was extremely diverse...old punks, skater kids, middle aged rockers, all enthusiastic, happy and up for it... I like LG but not so much the circus.

PTH2009

Strumms wrote: »

He attracts a certain kind of knob... the sort who go to about two gigs a year, absolutely mashed by the time he comes on, end up smacking into people and wanting to fight you when you object to you and your other half nearly being shouldered onto the floor....

I saw Oasis here back in the day a few times and as good as they were that sort of fan was always a negative to the whole experience.

Strangely saw them in Paris back in ‘02 and the crowd was extremely diverse...old punks, skater kids, middle aged rockers, all enthusiastic, happy and up for it... I like LG but not so much the circus.

They amount of coke and other drugs consumed at his shows is high no doubt and quite a lot of lads in tracksuits with those skin head type of haircuts

But I do like his stuff and Oasis. Well worth the money

hynesie08

Strumms wrote: »

He attracts a certain kind of knob... the sort who go to about two gigs a year, absolutely mashed by the time he comes on, end up smacking into people and wanting to fight you when you object to you and your other half nearly being shouldered onto the floor....

I saw Oasis here back in the day a few times and as good as they were that sort of fan was always a negative to the whole experience.

Strangely saw them in Paris back in ‘02 and the crowd was extremely diverse...old punks, skater kids, middle aged rockers, all enthusiastic, happy and up for it... I like LG but not so much the circus.

Don't forget the piss throwers, there's always piss throwers....

dmm82

Groove Armada - Boomtown.

harry Bailey esq

PTH2009 wrote: »

So what was/were your Gigs of the year for 2019 ??

Been to many gigs this year with a good few crossed of the bucket list. Top 5 in no particular order

Metallica Slane
Eddie Vedder 3arena
Foo Fighters RDS
Neil Young Nowlan Park (Bob Dylan was himself but decent)
Liam Gallagher IP park

Honorable mentions to Robert Plant Saving Grace Theate Royal and Volbeat in the Olympia

2020 very quite show far for me

The Happy Monday played a Stormer in vicar st tonight. I'm still off me bleeding tits.. On a more serious note, I'm not racist but.. when I finally go to bed and give Mrs Bailey her morning bone rattle, would I be a complete guttersnipe, close me eyes and pretend I'm nailin Rowetta?

acquiescefc

The Raconteurs and Yak in Camden ballroom
Oh Sees in TBMC
Mclusky in Workmans

fillup

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

The Happy Monday played a Stormer in vicar st tonight. I'm still off me bleeding tits.. On a more serious note, I'm not racist but.. when I finally go to bed and give Mrs Bailey her morning bone rattle, would I be a complete guttersnipe, close me eyes and pretend I'm nailin Rowetta?

Probably not racist but defo TMI and wholly inappropriate

weldoninhio

Strumms wrote: »

He attracts a certain kind of knob... the sort who go to about two gigs a year, absolutely mashed by the time he comes on, end up smacking into people and wanting to fight you when you object to you and your other half nearly being shouldered onto the floor....

I saw Oasis here back in the day a few times and as good as they were that sort of fan was always a negative to the whole experience.

Strangely saw them in Paris back in ‘02 and the crowd was extremely diverse...old punks, skater kids, middle aged rockers, all enthusiastic, happy and up for it... I like LG but not so much the circus.

You and the incel aren’t that type of knob I’m guessing hahaha

Dozyart

Metallica - Slane
Ghost - 3 Arena
Volbeat - Olympia
Baroness - Supporting Volbeat

But in terms of a show,brought the daughter TwentyOne Pilots and they just blew me away!