best gigs you went to this year
 

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omar souleyman.

Lightning Bolt
Brian Ruryk
Honey Ride Me a Goat
Experimental Dental School
LIARS (haven't been too into their latest records but they were really good live)
Deerhoof

The Fall
Pavement
Boris
Grass Widow
Trash Kit
MV & EE (twice)

but i still have the best to come...

Vladimir Lenhart (a serbian dude playing from 4 walkmans, insane stuff)

No order, except Butcher was stand out by a long margin:

John Butcher
Dave Collett Trio
Thought Forms the week before Supernormal
Gnod (Bristol)
Faust (Supernormal)
Arditti quartet (especially the Dusapin and Schnittke) (Bath)
An Irish session I found unexpectedly
The guy who plays the kora on the streets.
Piecaitis (Bristol) (Also, here)
Fresh Milk, quite a few times (Bristol)
Spiderkitten/ Merciless Precision (Bristol)
Slab (Bristol)

Hmm. I'm sure there have been more than that.

Edit: Little Creature, Skjolbat, Non-Ferric Memories, Joined by Wire - that was a great night.

Edit 2: Don't know if it counts, but Dutty Ken DJed at some of the better nights of the year.

MUSSURUNGA aka Fuckhead performing Interzone
Scarnella (Cline, Bozulich) + Corsano
Radian
and I really enjoyed lots of local Viennese impro artists this year.

no "big" ones this year.
just were regularly in a bar/club where an open stage featured some of the strangest gigs Ive ever seen. from totally fucked up to overwhelmingly boring as an art form ?!
unfortunately they closed that thing.

hey christoph!

you know what? after my last weeks gig, Phillip Quehenberger came to me (I see him often on gigs in Bratislava) and told me I had a good sound and asked me if I wanted to play a gig in Vienna some time in the future. He said he can manage that. How cool is that?

Cool,
I think he's doing this "psychotronic nights" at the Celeste weekly on thursday now.
It would be great to see you play and If you ever need a place to stay, don't hesitate to ask.

btw,
He's quite the strange dude, isn't he?

xiu xiu
pj harvey & john parish

fuck buttons
still impressed by hallogallo so yes

can't remember things

stand outs from this year:

swans
hijokaidan
reiko kudo

YOB
Blues control
yo la tengo

can't remember

Best gigs so far this year.

Årabrot (I'm seeing them again this saturday)
Pavement
Panda Bear
Faust
Iggy and the Stooges(with James Williamson)
Flaming Lips
Motorpsycho

limiting myself extremely here, these are the ones that left me feeling ecstatic afterwards:

YOB
Shonen Knife
Incapacitants / Airway / Hijokaidan
Electric Wizard
Swans

Melt Banana
The Fall
Mouse on Mars

Merzbow
Gnod
Ashtray Navigations
Charles Hayward
Eat Skull
Grass Widow
Blues Control - First time I saw them the year before the sound was better.
US Girls - the one earlier this year. She was pretty drunk last time and kept on pressing the wrong buttons. Still a fun gig though.

My top concert of the year was Boredoms, hands down.

Autechre in Lille, by far

1) Bob Marley festival LBC February
Gregory Isaacs RIP , Tarus Riley, Mighty Diamonds, Albarosie, Barrington levy, Cocoa Teat

2) Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus March at the Dub Club

3) Don Carlos and Elijah Fari at Claremont College November

4) Groundation July Key Club

5) Wild Flag/Grass Widow spaceland november

6) reggae night IX hollywood bowl Jimmy Cliff

7 Frankie Paul and the Melodians Rhythm Lounge October