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Gig of the year 2018 edition

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    #62
    Mrs Shuttleworth
    Registered Users Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭Mrs Shuttleworth


    adrian522 wrote: »
    For me (from what I can remember):

    8. Nightmares on Wax - District 8
    7. Jon Hopkins - Vicar Street
    6. Beck/Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs - 3 Arena
    5. Beach House - vicar Street
    4. Gorillaz - Malahide, despite the venue
    3. Suede - Bord Gais Theatre
    2. The xx - The Tivoli - Great to see them in such a small venue.
    1. Nick Cave with Patti Smith in Kilmainham

    Most disappointing - LCD Soundsystem in Malahide and Arctic Monkeys in 3 Arena.

    Interesting to see so many of us with different tastes overlapping and rating as great the same gigs and then also forgetting so many big names that we enjoyed at the time we saw them such as the Monkeys.

    Didn't want to hand out Golden Raspberry but if I must:

    1. Kylie Minogue, 3 Arena
    2. The The, Iveagh Gardens

    :(


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    #63
    Nigel Fairservice
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    Smashing Pumpkins in London were fantastic. Well worth the effort travelling over for it.

    I really wish I could have made it to Incubus this year.


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    #64
    delbertgrady
    Registered Users Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »
    Didn't want to hand out Golden Raspberry but if I must: [...] The The, Iveagh Gardens

    I don't know if it was Golden Raspberry level, but it was definitely disappointing. What really annoyed me was the fact that they came on so late, which meant that - due to the curfew - we didn't get Lonely Planet at the end.

    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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    #65
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,840 ✭✭✭s8n


    1. Promise of the Real, Whelans
    2. Pearl Jam London 2, O2
    3. Arcade Fire, 3 Arena
    4. NiN, Rock Werchter
    5. Pearl Jam, Rock Werchter


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    #66
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    grudgehugger wrote: »
    Special mention to Aphex Twin @ Forbidden Fruit for just being the most fantastically weird genius I saw play this year

    I agree Aphex Twin was amazing but he played FF in 2017 ;)


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    #67
    creativedrinker
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭creativedrinker


    My top gigs were
    Pearl Jam, mad cool festival
    Rolling Stones, Manchester
    The Prodigy, Frankfurt
    Chemical brothers, 3arena
    Liam Gallagher, Malahide

    Was an amazing year for gigs!!


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    #68
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,590 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    circular flexing wrote: »
    Deafheaven - still not sure how the drummer never misses a beat
    Jon Hopkins - the drop in Magnets was one of my best gig moments ever
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor - songs really come to life when played live, how they get some of the sounds out of their guitars.
    Young Fathers - huge energy and Cocoa Sugar is probably my album of the year.

    What one? Body & Soul or the Vicar Street gig.

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



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    #69
    Stillill42
    Registered Users Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭Stillill42


    Mrs Shuttleworth wrote: »

    Didn't want to hand out Golden Raspberry but if I must:


    2. The The, Iveagh Gardens

    :(
    delbertgrady wrote: »
    I don't know if it was Golden Raspberry level, but it was definitely disappointing. What really annoyed me was the fact that they came on so late, which meant that - due to the curfew - we didn't get Lonely Planet at the end.

    Jaysus. Just goes to show you. I loved them.


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    #70
    exilec
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭exilec


    My top gigs were ...
    Pearl Jam ,Amsterdam
    Arcade Fire ,Dublin
    Nick Cave, Manchester
    QOTSA , Lisbon
    Arctic Monkeys , Dublin

    Got spoiled this year !


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    #71
    dasdog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,627 ✭✭✭dasdog


    Bambi wrote: »
    Any dates set?

    Not yet, promoters are "working hard to secure a new date". I'm not going to let that one slip. I'll post in the 2019 gigs thread if/when I hear.


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    #72
    dinneenp
    Registered Users Posts: 8,138 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    Nick Cave at Primavera NOS, Porto.

    To quote Steve Hanley from The Fall said in The Big Midweek book "Nick doesn't sing so much as howl and scream and crawl around the stage like some demented furless werewolf"


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    #73
    roll
    Registered Users Posts: 567 ✭✭✭roll


    Nick Cave at RHK was tops for sure among many other highlights.
    The only one not mentioned here is Mitski's gig at the Tiviloi.


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    #74
    phunkadelic
    Registered Users Posts: 967 ✭✭✭phunkadelic


    phunkadelic wrote: »
    The ones that stand out for me:

    Shame in Whelans
    Daithi at Other Voices
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra in Academy (short, but all killer)
    Jon Hopkins at Vicar st (pity visuals failed so early on though)

    I forgot a few ones earlier in the year:
    Gomez in Olympia
    Nils Frahm in NCH
    Khruangbin in Whelans


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    #75
    Ciaran_B
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    1. Taylor Swift Friday
    2. Taylor Swift Saturday
    3. Harry Styles
    4. Arctic Monkeys
    5. Kylie

    Worst - Britney :(


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    #76
    Ciaran_B
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    1. Taylor Swift Friday
    2. Taylor Swift Saturday
    3. Harry Styles
    4. Arctic Monkeys
    5. Kylie

    Worst - Britney :(


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    #77
    Dibble
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭Dibble


    Here's my best gigs of 2018:

    1. Arcade Fire (3Arena)
    2. The Frames (Whelan's - fundraiser billed as a Celebration for Jens & Cristel)
    3. Shame (Tivoli)
    4. Rolling Blackouts CF (Whelan's)
    5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Kilmainham)


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    #78
    blastman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭blastman


    My nominations....

    Iron Maiden - SSE Arena, Belfast
    Marillion - Vicar St., Dublin
    Frank Turner - Krakow, Poland (saw him a few times this year but this was probably the best show, IMO)
    John Fogerty/Steve Miller - The Point, Dublin (despite a high concentration of tossers in my immediate vicinity)
    Stiff Little Fingers - The Academy, Dublin


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    #79
    sweetie
    Registered Users Posts: 9,795 ✭✭✭sweetie


    Sparks Primavera
    Nick Cave Primavera
    Idles Primavera
    Murder Capital EP
    Sleaford mods EP
    Seamus Fogarty EP
    RCBF Whelan's
    Khruangbin Whelan's
    National Primavera
    Elephant New sounds in Old place


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    #80
    Pang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    1. Pearl Jam- London 1
    2. Travis- Dublin


    My top 2!


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    #81
    Dublin Spur
    Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭Dublin Spur


    1. The Struts (Koko, Camden)
    2. John Fogerty (3 arena)
    3. Magpie Salute (Garage, Glasgow)
    4. Rolling Stones (Croke Pk)
    5. Fratellis (Academy, Dublin)


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    #82
    PawneeRanger
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭PawneeRanger


    Hercule Poirot wrote: »
    Chemical Brothers in the 3arena, an absolutely stunning audio/visual experience - not only one of the best gigs in 2018 but one of the best I've ever attended

    This was the best for me this year. It was such a brilliant gig.
    Bought tickets for Leeds next November and I'm more excited for that than I am for Glastonbury!


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    #83
    but1er
    Registered Users Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭but1er


    U2 3arena
    Jake Bugg Whelans
    Liam Gallagher Malahide

    Worse, kodaline malahide


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    #84
    UrbanSprawl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭UrbanSprawl


    Engine Alley -Workmans Sept
    Murder Capital -Soundhouse
    Smashing Pumpkins -Wembely
    Idles@ Button Factory
    Teleman -Whelans
    Just Mustard Workmans in Feb

    A great year for alt/indie gigs from past and future greats.


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    #85
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Only one winner for me, Paul McCartney in the Hydro in Glasgow in December. I've never been more thrilled by a gig as I was that night. Yes, his voice is on the wane but it was still an exceptional event. The man is mid 70s and played for 3 hours, barely taking a breath. It was a soundtrack for my life and surpassed all my expectations. The demographic was literally 7 or 8 to well past 80. I've never experienced an atmosphere like it before a gig, there was an energy running through the place that hit the roof when he started playing. Just mesmerising.

    Honourable mentions

    Nick Cave in kilmainham
    Slayer in the three
    Steve Miller and John Fogerty in the three.


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