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Gigs of the Year 2011

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  • 13-12-2011 3:44pm
    #1
    lordgoat
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    Roll up roll up, come one come all and nominate your gigs of the year. I'll post up the acts most voted for early in 2012.

    Here are the categories, feel free to vote in some, many or all of them.


    Best Gig - Your Top 3 gigs of 2011 (in ireland)

    Best Irish Festival - Nominate your favourite festival

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Nominate your favourite act from an irish festival.

    Best Promoter. Who's bringing over the bands you go and see.

    Best Festival (including overseas). Nominate 1 festival in Ireland or elsewhere you attended.

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). One gig or festival performance from outside Ireland.


    Also thanks to all of you for contributing to Gigs/Events during the year. You're a great bunch of lads.


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    aka accounts 2010
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    lordgoat wrote: »
    Roll up roll up, come one come all and nominate your gigs of the year. I'll post up the acts most voted for early in 2012.

    Here are the categories, feel free to vote in some, many or all of them.


    Best Gig - Your Top 3 gigs of 2011 (in ireland)

    Best Irish Festival - Nominate your favourite festival

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Nominate your favourite act from an irish festival.

    Best Promoter. Who's bringing over the bands you go and see.

    Best Festival (including overseas). Nominate 1 festival in Ireland or elsewhere you attended.

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). One gig or festival performance from outside Ireland.


    Also thanks to all of you for contributing to Gigs/Events during the year. You're a great bunch of lads.

    Top Three Gigs of 2011:

    1. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - O2 Dublin 04/11/2011
    2. Kasabian - O2 Dublin 26/11/2011
    3. Kings of Leon - Slane Castle 25/05/2011

    Top Festivals of 2011:

    1. Oxegen
    2. Sonisphere
    3. Glastonbury - only attended 1 day
    4. Electric Picnic

    Top Irish Festival Performance of 2011:

    Foo Fighters - Oxegen 2011

    Best Promoter:

    MCD

    Best Festival:

    Equal split between Oxegen & Sonisphere

    Best overseas Gig 2011:

    Thin Lizzy - Apollo London 21/01/2011 - amazing!!


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    sportzstar
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    Best Gig -
    Foster the People - Electric Picnic
    The Frames - Vicar Street
    The Rubberbandits - Electric Picnic

    Best Irish Festival - Electric Picnic

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Foster the People

    Best Promoter. MCD

    Best Festival (including overseas). Electric Picnic

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). N/A


    Also thanks to all of you for contributing to Gigs/Events during the year. You're a great bunch of lads.


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    lordgoat
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    sportzstar wrote: »
    Best Gig -
    Foster the People - Electric Picnic
    The Frames - Vicar Street
    The Rubberbandits - Electric Picnic

    Best Irish Festival - Electric Picnic

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Foster the People

    Best Promoter. MCD

    Best Festival (including overseas). Electric Picnic

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). N/A


    Also thanks to all of you for contributing to Gigs/Events during the year. You're a great bunch of lads.


    Just wondering is there a particular reason MCD got your promoter of the year when every gig you listed is Aiken/POD. Not a criticism, genuine interest.


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    StaticAge11
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    Best Gig
    1. QOTSA - Olympia
    2. The Darkness - Olympia
    3. Kasabian - The O2

    Best Festival
    Sonisphere

    Top Irish Festival Performance of 2011:
    Foo Fighters - Oxegen 2011


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    laois gael
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    Coronas in the Olympia ....Close the thread!


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    CiaranK
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    Best Gig - Roger Waters - The O2
    Roger Daltrey - Marley Park
    Rush - The O2
    Bon Jovi - RDS

    Best Promoter - Think I'll go with Aiken. Loads of great O2 and Vicar Street nights this year. :)



    No festivals this year.


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    whelanslive
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    lordgoat wrote: »
    Just wondering is there a particular reason MCD got your promoter of the year when every gig you listed is Aiken. Not a criticism, genuine interest.

    Only Aiken gig there was The Frames. EP is POD/Festival Republic and Foster The People was MCD


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    fits
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    Best Irish Festival - Body and Soul

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland)- Aphex Twin at Forbidden Fruit.


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    homerun_homer
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    Not been to as many single gigs as usual this year. Not enough drew me up to the pale compared to other years.

    Best Gig -
    1. Warpaint - Tripod
    2. Wild Beasts - Academy
    3. The Joy Formidable - Whelans

    Best Irish Festival - Electric Picnic

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland).
    1. Arcade Fire - EP
    2. Pulp - EP
    3. Ash - Indiependance (for nostalgia)


    Best Festival (including overseas). Electric Picnic

    I was at Primavera but I don't like not being able to get beer/water/soft drinks after a sweaty subway ride, queueing for an hour in line, eating food in 30 degree heat because the shoddy & flawed system was stupid and failed on first night. Also getting assaulted by security for doing nothing is not cool

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland).
    1. Interpol - Apolo Barcelona
    2. The National - Primavera
    3. PiL - Primavera
    whelanslive wrote: »
    Only Aiken gig there was The Frames. EP is POD/Festival Republic and Foster The People was MCD

    Foster the People was MCD in the olympia, he was not listing their Olympia gig but the EP gig.


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    RayCon
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    Best Gig:
    Rush - O2
    Roger Waters - O2
    Fish - Whelans

    No Festivals

    Best Promoter:
    DME - without them no Warrior Soul, Anathema, GWAR, Orange Goblin etc come to Ireland.

    Best Gig(outside Ireland):
    Iron Maiden - Belfast


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    sportzstar
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    lordgoat wrote: »
    Just wondering is there a particular reason MCD got your promoter of the year when every gig you listed is Aiken/POD. Not a criticism, genuine interest.

    Bitter with Aiken 'cos Bruce is on a week night at the RDS rather than on the weekend at Slane.


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    Furious-Red
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    Best Gig - Your Top 3 gigs of 2011 (in ireland)

    1. Kasabian - O2
    2. The Darkness - The Olympia
    3. Bryan Adams - O2

    Best Irish Festival - Nominate your favourite festival
    Indiependance Festival

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Nominate your favourite act from an irish festival.
    Foo Fighters - Oxegen 2011

    Best Promoter. Who's bringing over the bands you go and see.
    MCD

    Best Festival (including overseas). Nominate 1 festival in Ireland or elsewhere you attended.
    None

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). One gig or festival performance from outside Ireland.

    Foo Fighters - Milton Keynes


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    mickeyboymel
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    Best Gig - Your Top 3 gigs of 2011 (in ireland) - Have to put the only 3 in Irl I attended as all energies went into Glastonbury this year.
    Slane Castle - Kings Of Leon
    Croke Park - Take That
    The Aviva - The Script


    Best Irish Festival - Nominate your favourite festival:
    Electric Picnic

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Nominate your favourite act from an irish festival.
    Arcade Fire - Electric Picnic
    (Have to Put In Cry Before Dawn @EP Also Purely For The 40 Mins Of Sheer Nostalgia)

    Best Promoter. Who's bringing over the bands you go and see.
    MCD

    Best Festival (including overseas). Nominate 1 festival in Ireland or elsewhere you attended.
    Glastonbury 2011

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). One gig or festival performance from outside Ireland.

    U2 Glastonbury - In The Rain
    Kaiser Chiefs Glastonbury - In the sunshine


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    delbertgrady
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    Best Gig - Your Top 3 gigs of 2011 (in Ireland)

    Roger Waters, O2
    Gillian Welch, Grand Canal Theatre
    Tori Amos, Grand Canal Theatre

    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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    EyesClosed
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    Best Gig - Your Top 3 gigs of 2011 (in Ireland):

    Rush - The O2
    Queens Of The Stone Age - The Olympia
    Iron Maiden - Odyssey Arena

    Best Irish Festival - Nominate your favourite festival:

    Oxegen (as it was the only Irish fest I went to)

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Nominate your favourite act from an irish festival:

    Foo Fighters - Oxegen

    Best Promoter. Who's bringing over the bands you go and see.
    MCD

    Best Festival (including overseas). Nominate 1 festival in Ireland or elsewhere you attended.
    Lollapalooza 2011

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). One gig or festival performance from outside Ireland.

    Foo Fighters - Lollapalooza


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    MeetReality
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    Best Gig - Your Top 3 gigs of 2011 (in Ireland):

    The Field- Cyprus Avenue
    Little Dragon- Button Factory
    Friendly Fires- Olympia

    Best Irish Festival - Nominate your favourite festival:

    Body and Soul

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Nominate your favourite act from an irish festival:

    Santigold- Electric Picnic/ Jamie XX- Forbidden Fruit/ Nicolas Jaar- Body and Soul

    Best Promoter. Who's bringing over the bands you go and see.
    POD

    Best Festival (including overseas). Nominate 1 festival in Ireland or elsewhere you attended.
    Field Day London

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). One gig or festival performance from outside Ireland.

    SBTRKT- Field Day


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    Oasis_Dublin
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    Best Gig - Your Top 3 gigs of 2011 (in ireland)
    1. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ The Olympia
    2. The Vaccines @ The Academy
    3. Thin Lizzy @ The Olympia (a surprisingly good show, despite the obvious short fallings of modern day Thin Lizzy)
    That also means the Beady Eyes miss out :eek:

    Best Irish Festival
    Oxegen 2011 (yes the atmosphere was infinitely better at EP, but Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Strokes, Beady Eye, OCS etc > Arcade Fire, Chemical Brothers, DO'D etc)

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Nominate your favourite act from an irish festival.
    Arctic Monkeys - Oxegen 2011

    Best Promoter. Who's bringing over the bands you go and see.
    Whoever brought Noel, Thin Lizzy, The Vaccines and Beady Eye over

    Best Festival (including overseas). Nominate 1 festival in Ireland or elsewhere you attended.
    Electric Picnic (for atmosphere/food/lack of scumbags/comedy tent)

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). One gig or festival performance from outside Ireland.
    N/A

    I appreciate that I was never asked to explain my choices, but it's done now so you can bloodywell deal with it!


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    part time punk
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    I only went to a paltry 2 or 3 gigs this year but one of them was the Mountain Goats in Whelans. Quality over quantity.


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    WarZoneBrother
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    Best Gig - RHCP, Eminem and Coldplay (Oxegen)

    Best Irish Festival - Oxegen 2011

    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). - Coldplay

    Best Promoter. MCD

    Best Festival (including overseas). Oxegen 2011


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    lordgoat
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    Best Gig - Your Top 3 gigs of 2011 (in ireland)

    Final Fantasy - Whelans - for a fiver
    Mountain Goats - Whelans
    Bon Iver - Grand Canal - alot of people i know didn't like this, i loved every second of it.


    Best Irish Festival - Nominate your favourite festival
    Body and Soul


    Best Festival Performance (in ireland). Nominate your favourite act from an irish festival.
    BATS at forbidden fruit was really enjoyable.


    Best Promoter. Who's bringing over the bands you go and see.

    Foggy Notions or Harmonic as he's now known!

    Best Festival (including overseas). Nominate 1 festival in Ireland or elsewhere you attended.
    Primavera

    Best Gig/Festival Performance (outside ireland). One gig or festival performance from outside Ireland.
    Girl Talk at Primavera


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