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2017 gig of the year

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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.

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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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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)

MadYaker

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

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.

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.

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.

First Up

Showing my age with Jackson Browne at Vicar St.

phelixoflaherty

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

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.

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

SoundOfSilence

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

Fuzzy_Dunlop

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

Vladimir Poontang

Guns N Roses Slane - Epic

Dagenham Dave

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

sally cinnamon89

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

Ferris_Bueller

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

henryporter

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

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

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