[Tapper]

Concert was short, but fun. The lady drummer is definately the musical genius of the band, and the keyboard player is quite the beautiful lady, singer is the only one who brings a lot of stage presence, and that's a bit of a pity as it wasn't enough to really carry the crowd away,but I had loads of fun.

[Eye Flys]

Do I have to list all of them? Fack... in no particular order...

Melvins
Interpol x 3
Danko jones x 3
Mastodon
Butthole Surfers
The Jesus Lizard
Priestess x 4
Dinosaur Jr x 2
Dead Meadow
Monotonix
Harvey Milk x 2
Torche x 2
Boris
Isis
Tool x 2
Rush
Adrian Belew Power Trio
Zappa Plays Zappa
Primus
Tragically Hip x 2
Clutch
Wino
We Are Wolves x 4
Duchess Says x 2
Acid Mothers Temple
Mammatus
Alice Cooper
Flaming Lips
Blonde Redhead
Bloc Party
Arctic Monkeys
Holy Fuck x 2
Sonic Youth
Ben Harper
The Mars Volta
Queens of The Stone Age
The Cure
Muse
Melissa Auf Der Maur
Mogwai

I must be forgetting some...

Upcoming:
Danko Jones
Isis
Bob Log III
Heavy Montreal 2010 with Slayer, Megadeth, Alice Cooper, Rob Halford, Anvil, Testament, Mastodon, High on Fire(!!!)

Osheaga Montreal 2010 I'm going Saturday to see Pavement, fuck the rest of those shitty hipster douche bands.

[mr butterson]

I just went ot my first ever gig on Sunday, to see HammerFall. Was brilliant, and im still half deaf and have a sore neck from headbangin 2 days on. Im sold on gigs now! Now got Download and 2 other gigs booked for the near future.

[Lusipher]

I've seen: Radiohead (5x), Nine Inch Nails (2x), Bjork, Rilo Kiley, Beta Band, New Order, Air, the Pixies, the Cure, Underworld, Beck (2x), Muse, Yes and various rave DJs

[Animace]

I do a fair bit of music journalism as a bit of a hobbie, so my live list for the past couple of years is pretty unwieldy.

Tapper, you put Florence and the Machine as psychadelic metal/rock. Did you perhaps see the wrong band? Im not trying to be offensive, I just thought maybe you had because its fairly different to that.

In the spirit of how list crazy the forum has been lately, ill do my top 5 gigs of the past year.

1. Karnivool at The Metro, Sydney. Sheer musical bliss. Words fail to describe it. The entire crowd moving as 1 organism during Themata was almost an ascension to a higher plane of existance. A bit melodramatic maybe, but it was damn good.

2. Florence and the Machine at Paddington Church, Sydney. Was a myspace secret show, and only about 100 people fit in the church....just one of those really special moments when the air is alive with excitement, everybody there knew that it was going to be good, and it was that and more.

3. Bon Iver at The Spiegeltent, in Hyde Park as part of Sydney Festival. Wow. Extremely raw, intimate gig. Bon Iver excels in small unplugged settings, and many were moved to tears. (call me a little girly man, but I was one of them)

4. Clutch at The Gaelic, Sydney. Balls to the Wall hard rockin blues. One of the most energetic gigs ive ever been to, people were bouncing off the walls.

5. Birds of Tokyo at the Enmore Theatre, on the Broken Strings tour. Just them unplugged with a small string section, Ian Kenny's voice and melodies are angelic.

[Flashwit]

im going to my first concert on the 26th since i was 8 and was dragged to a country concert with my parents (blows proverbial brain out) my girlfriend surprised me with tickets to minus the bear in San Francisco so hopefully that should be fun.

[Tapper]

Animace, on 13 May 2010 - 05:39 AM, said:

Tapper, you put Florence and the Machine as psychadelic metal/rock. Did you perhaps see the wrong band? Im not trying to be offensive, I just thought maybe you had because its fairly different to that.

It was them.
Lady singer with red hair, barefoot, stage done with flowers, bird cages on stage, hot keyboard player, harpist, two dudes with guitars.
I may have gotten the musical genre wrong, but that is entirely likely as I'm not 'into' indie and they did bring some electrical guitaring to the scene, and most of the people going crazy were metalheads (illustrated by the reaction here on the forum by MTS, who also knows his way around a mosh pit).
Anyway, I thought it was shite. And rather psychadelic, or at the least, wanting to be .

[MTS]

Tapper, on 13 May 2010 - 10:14 AM, said:

Animace, on 13 May 2010 - 05:39 AM, said:

Tapper, you put Florence and the Machine as psychadelic metal/rock. Did you perhaps see the wrong band? Im not trying to be offensive, I just thought maybe you had because its fairly different to that.

It was them.
Lady singer with red hair, barefoot, stage done with flowers, bird cages on stage, hot keyboard player, harpist, two dudes with guitars.
I may have gotten the musical genre wrong, but that is entirely likely as I'm not 'into' indie and they did bring some electrical guitaring to the scene, and most of the people going crazy were metalheads (illustrated by the reaction here on the forum by MTS, who also knows his way around a mosh pit).
Anyway, I thought it was shite. And rather psychadelic, or at the least, wanting to be .

I wouldn't call Florence and the Machine psychadelic, and I definitely wouldn't call it metal. It's tough to pin it to one genre because Welch experiments with rather different musical styles. But I don't think she strays into psychedelic rock. Psychedelic rock is like The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Mars Volta, Animal Collective, The Church, Tame Impala etc. and she's a far cry from them. I can see how it would look psychedelic, some of her videos are rather...hippy lol.

[Tiste Simeon]

http://uk.sonispherefestivals.com/

Also, Orphaned Land in June! Possibly my favourite band atm!

[Procyon]

Sweden rock was awesome this year, and we need that tv show with steel panther !

[SalokinX]

I'm not sure if small, 30 minutes concerts from festivals count, but excluding those:

Cannibal Corpse
Disturbed
Slipknot
Iron Maiden
Skeleton Witch
Slayer
Metallica
Trivium
Behemoth
A Bullet for my Valentine
All That Remains
Marilyn Manson
God Forbid
As I Lay Dying
Stonesour
Soulfly
Mudvayne

hmmm, probably more, but those are the ones I can remember. Some were horrible, some were great. Some of those bands I was forced to go, but still had some fun.

Oh and this year still:
Testament
Epica
Scar Symmetry
Multiny Within

And out of the metal scene:

Linkin Park
3 Doors Down
Seether
Flobots

Can't really recall if there's more, but there are lot's of 1-hour concerts or 30-minutes concerts that play during 12-hours festivals that I never bothered to get the names.

[bubba]

Second row center for Rush next month. Cant "F"ing wait.

[Avatar]

This sunday: Snoop Dogg in Groningen... this is going to be fun

[MTS]

Next week is going to be EPIC.

Thursday July 1st - The Butterfly Effect (check 'em out guys, they are awesome, kinda like...)

Saturday July 3rd - KARNIVOOL! (Need I say more?)

This post has been edited by MTS: 22 June 2010 - 09:14 PM

[Ulrik]

Tomorrow Serj Tankian and Elect the Dead Symphony, wohooo! Hope there wont be crazy thirteens...

[MTS]

Saw The Butterfly Effect tonight, as noted 2 posts up. They. Were. AMAZING. Easily one of the best live acts I've seen. There was only around 300 of us there, but the atmosphere was just fantastic. Best parts were the guitarist playing the intro to In These Hands blind (singer had his hands over his eyes) and rocking out to One Second of Insanity. Seriously recommend people see these guys when they tour America next year, I can't praise them enough.

Also saw Calling All Cars, their support band. They were pretty awesome, although the lead singer/guitarist's face was hilariously distracting. Whenever he wasn't singing it looked like the guy was having an orgasm haha. ('When I played this guitar chord I jizzed in my pants'.)

[Animace]

Yeah I saw karnivool at the metro on wednesday night, they never cease to amaze. Just has a special feel to it, peoples faces lit up in an almost religious fervour. Never seen an alcohol fueled crowd of sweaty men go as quiet for the quiet parts as at karnivool.

New Day as a finisher was a collective out of body experience.


And I was sober.

They threw signed drumskins out at the end, I got the bass skin, sometimes being a big dude comes in handy (6 people grabbed it at the same time, so I yanked it really hard and walked away quickly lol)

Says "Nice catch! Love, the vool"

[Zanth13]

I have seen Papa Roach, and also Quiet Riot and Skidrow in South Korea... back in 2005...

I saw Willie Nelson in Colorado... in 2007

I saw Kid Rock, Kelly Pickler and Lewis Black (comedian) in Baghdad Iraq... in 2008...

but I have never paid for a concert ticket in my life... and never just gone to see a favorite band ect... just what freebies the military used to through at me...

maybe i should venture out more...

[alestar]

I'll be going to HEAVY MTL (Montreal) this coming week-end, wanted to go to Day 1 with all the old school bands, prior commitments may only allow me to go for Day 2...

Anyone else going?

[MTS]

Got tickets to Dead Letter Circus today, should be wild.