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Top gigs of 2011 (so far)

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  • 02-11-2011 6:00pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭


    my chemical romance (the o2 16\2\11):D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    1. Take That at Croke Park (19/06/11)
    2. Coldplay at Oxegen (10/07/11)
    3. Slash at Oxegen (10/07/11)

    After another two days I shall be able to add the RHCP to that list:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭DylanJames


    1. Bob Dylan - Marquee, Cork
    2. Justin Townes Earle - Whelans

    Compared to the last few years, I've found I've gone to much less music gigs this year, mostly because there just hasn't been too many worth seeing


  • Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭corm500


    1. Roger Waters at the o2
    2. Paul Simon at Vicar Street
    3. Roger Daltry at Marlay Park
    4. Brian Wilson at Grand Canal
    5. Judy Collins at NCH

    A load of OAPs but thats the stuff I like:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,159 ✭✭✭rednik


    Roger Waters : The Wall live in the 02
    Rush : In the 02
    Journey/Foreigner/FM : In the 02
    Def Leppard/Alice Cooper/Thin Lizzy : in the 02
    Thin Lizzy in the Olympia


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭StaticAge11


    In no particular order
    Foo Fighters at Oxegen
    Feeder at The Academy
    QOTSA at the Olympia
    Weezer at Oxegen
    Frank Turner in Whelans

    Wow its been an unusually slow year for gigs for me =/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    Due to budget restraints I've only been to a few this year. Standouts were:

    OFWGKTA in The Academy - one of the best gigs I've been to, just for the atmosphere and the intensity of the performance of it alone.

    Example in the SU in NUIM - he was the biggest act to have come to the college in my 3 years there. I managed to get my way all to the top. Great atmosphere at that as well and his tunes weren't too shabby either.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭nitromaster


    Haven't been to as many this year as i might have previous years...

    Favourite so far would either be My Chemical Romance in the o2 in feb...or Jimmy Eat World/My Chemical Romance/Iggy + The Stooges/Foo Fighters at Optimus Alive festival in Lisbon :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭Achtung! Bono


    Dana gig at The frontline. Man, i was moshin'

    (support band were sh!te, cross between Take that and Steps)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,734 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Roger Waters: O2
    Elton John: Cork Marquee
    Tom Tom Club: Vicar Street
    Rush: O2
    Lisa Hannigan: The Seamus Ennis Centre

    2024 Gigs and Events: David Suchet, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Smile, Pixies, Liam Gallagher John Squire/Jake Bugg, Kacey Musgraves (x2), Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Muireann Bradley, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Eric Clapton, Girls Aloud, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Rewind Festival, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Henry Winkler, P!nk, Pearl Jam/Richard Ashcroft, Taylor Swift/Paramore, Suede/Manic Street Preachers, Muireann Bradley, AC/DC, Deacon Blue/Altered Images, The The, blink-182, Coldplay, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Nick Lowe, David Gilmour, ABBA Voyage, St. Vincent, Public Service Broadcasting, Crash Test Dummies, Cassandra Jenkins.

    2025 Gigs and Events: Billie Eilish (x2)



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  • Registered Users Posts: 236 ✭✭PeterTwo


    Easily Sufjan Stevens at the Olympia


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,953 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    Foo Fighters - Milton Keynes
    Bryan Adams - The O2


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,473 ✭✭✭Roddy23


    Queens of the Stone Age, Glastonbury
    Japanese Popstars, Electric Picnic

    Hoping to add a few more to that list over the next few months...


  • Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭MeetReality


    SBTRKT (XOYO,London)
    Nicolas Jaar (Body and Soul Festival)
    The Field (Body and Soul Festival)
    **** Robot (Electric Picnic)
    Gold Panda (Koko, London)


  • Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭kennyu272


    Editors - Marlay Park
    Big Country - Academy,Killarney & Liverpool
    Vaccines - Oxegen
    The Alarm - Newcastle Academy
    Beady Eye - Olympia
    The Waterboys- Waterford


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,861 ✭✭✭RayCon


    Rush - O2, Dublin
    Roger Waters - O2, Dublin
    Iron Maiden - Odyssey Arena, Belfast
    Warrior Soul - Crawdaddy, Dublin


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 405 ✭✭Econoline Van


    PeterTwo wrote: »
    Easily Sufjan Stevens at the Olympia

    +1


  • Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭AhrSkidar


    +1

    Me too - fantastic gig.


  • Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭mark182


    In no particular order:
    Mona, Whelans, 17 Feb. 2011
    Bruno Mars, Olympia Theatre, 9 March 2011 (he did a good show)
    James Vincent McMorrow, Pepper Canister Church, 28 April 2011
    Mona, Electric Ballroom, London, 17 May 2011
    The Tallest Man On Earth, Vicar Street, 1 June 2011
    Foo Fighters, Oxegen Festival, 9 July 2011
    Frank Turner, Whelans, 18 Sept 2011
    Miles Kane (Arthurs Day), The Academy, 22 Sept 2011
    The Revival Tour, The Academy, 29 Sept 2011
    Mona, The Academy, 26 Oct 2011


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    Jello Biafra @ The Button Factory


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭AnalogueKid


    1. Rush - the O2 (by a long way!)
    2. Adebisi Shank - Whelan's
    3. The Redneck Manifesto - Button Factory



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    Pulp at EP.
    The Doors - La Paz, Bolivia.
    Aphex Twin - Forbidden Fruit
    Elbow - Glastonbury
    The Naked and the Famous - Rhythm and Vines, New Zealand


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,546 ✭✭✭Duff


    Only 2 gigs I've been to this year were Twin Atlantic and OFWGKTA both in The Academy and both amazing!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭christeb


    PeterTwo wrote: »
    Easily Sufjan Stevens at the Olympia
    +1
    AhrSkidar wrote: »
    Me too - fantastic gig.

    +3
    Others were Prince @ Malahide Castle
    Pulp @ EP
    Morrissey @ Vicar St

    All utterly superb, I'm not sure 2012 can top this year, although I am crowning it with a trip to see Macca in Cologne next month...


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭bren2001


    Mumford and Sons, midnight at the Olympia was the gig I enjoyed the most this year. Other notable mentions:
    The Killers Hyde Park,
    Kings of Leon Hyde Park,
    RHCP last night,
    Coldplay Oxegen,
    Arctic Monkeys V Festival,
    Brandon Flowers Oxegen.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Final Fantasy in Whelans - For a fiver.
    Mountain Goats - Whelans
    Bon Iver - Grand Canal.


    Odd Future was a good fun show too.

    I know i'm forgetting one but I can't see the FF show being beat. Amazing performance for cheaper than some of the drinks being served.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    karaokeman wrote: »
    1. Take That at Croke Park (19/06/11)
    2. Coldplay at Oxegen (10/07/11)
    3. Slash at Oxegen (10/07/11)

    To update that list;

    3. Red Hot Chili Peppers in the O2 last night, absolutely phenomenal performance from one of the world's most loved bands

    and of course

    4. Slash at Oxegen (10/07/11)


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,598 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    The Orb Soundsystem - Life Festival
    Aphex Twin - Forbidden Fruit
    Underworld - Electric Picnic

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭jamieh


    Bon Iver at the Grand Canal!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭marwelie


    Elbow in the O2, definitely gig of the year, maybe of the decade, possibly of the century. Life affirming stuff.


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