Top whatever gigs 2008 (1 Viewer)

[hiphophooray123]

Top 10, 20, 30 whatever gigs/sets

top 30:

1. The Chemical Brothers @ Sydney Entertainment Centre
2. Bloc Party @ Hordern Pavillion (Second Night)
3. Dizzee Rascal @ Metro Theatre (Big Day Out Sideshow)
4. Pnau @ Big Day Out
5. Smashing Pumpkins @ V Festival
6. Bloc Party @ Hordern Pavillion (First Night)
7. Kanye West & Nas @ Acer Arena
8. Sigur Ros @ Splendour In The Grass
9. Snoop Dogg/Ice Cube/Bone Thugs N Harmony @ Acer Arena
10. Rage Against The Machine @ Big Day Out
11. Pnau @ Enmore Theatre
12. Stars @ Spectrum
13. Dizzee Rascal @ Metro Theatre (Parklife Sideshow)
14. Diplo @ Oxford Art Factory
15. Klaxons @ Never Ever Land
16. The Wombats @ Splendour In The Grass
17. Stevie Wonder @ Acer Arena
18. Cypress Hill & Pharaoh Monch @ Enmore Theatre
19. Cold War Kids @ Splendour In The Grass
20. Pnau @ Hordern Pavillion
21. Dizzee Rascal @ Parklife
22. LL Cool J @ Enmore Theatre
23. Gorillaz Sound System @ Global Gathering
24. MSTRKRFT @ Metro Theatre
25. Hadouken! @ Splendour In The Grass
26. Mark Ronson & The Version Players @ Global Gathering
27. MGMT @ Hordern Pavillion
28. Girl Talk @ Field Day
29. Modest Mouse @ V Festival
30. The Cool Kids @ Laneway Festival

 

[scarybunny]

1. Iron Maiden.


Yeah I didn't see shit this year.

 

[axlenatore]

Iron Maiden @ acea arena

 

[hiphophooray123]

yeh, it was awesome, but there were heaps of better gigs.

 

[Beege]

1. Rage Against The Machine @ BDO - Perfect
2. Arcade Fire @ Enmore Theatre (First Night)
3. Arcade Fire @ BDO
4. Dizzee Rascal @ BDO
5. The Presets @ Enmore Theatre (2nd night)
6. Cut Copy @ Enmore Theatre
7. Pnau @ Hordern Pavilion - Would Have Been In Presets Place If The Crowd Wasn't So Fucking Shit
8. Dizzee Rascal @ The Metro (Parklife Sideshow) - Went Too Quickly & I Got Heaps Crushed
9. The Smashing Pumpkins @ V Festival
10. The Jesus & Mary Chain @ V Festival
11. Cut Copy @ V Festival


Bloc Party 2nd Night Hordern Would Have Been High On That List For Sure Judging By The Videos But I Was Stuck In Bangkok Cauz Of The Protests (I was due to fly out the night before the show) so I missed out.

 

[Alvik]

3. Architecture in Helsinki (Metro Theatre)
2. The Matches (Manning Bar)
1. Laura Marling (Factory Theatre)

 

[Cinnamonster]

1. Rufus Wainwright @ State Theatre
2. Matchbox Twenty @ Entertainment Centre
3. Lior @ Enmore Theatre
4. Crowded House @ Enmore Theatre

Rufus and Matchbox were the best.
Especially Rufus.

 

[s-p-a-c-e-d]

jens lekman was undoubtedly the best.

 

[goony]

1. Iron Maiden.


Yeah I didn't see shit this year.

seconded

 

[bazookajoe]

1. Broken Social Scene - Manning
2. RATM - Entertainment Centre
3. Sigur Ros - Splendour
4. Jens Lekman - Manning
5. Stars - Spectrum (I think? can't remember, somewhere on Fag St)
6. Polyphonic Spree - Splendour
7. Bloc Party - Hordern
8. MGMT - Hordern
9. The Wombats - Splendour
10. Dizzee Rascal - BDO

Broken Social Scene would have been 1 and 3 if I went for multiple gigs

 

[A High Way Man]

ThE CURE at SEC!!!!!!!!!

 

[chamelia]

ThE CURE at SEC!!!!!!!!!

The Cure haven't played Australia this year? Was this overseas?

 

[chamelia]

1. Bloc Party @ Riverstage, Brisbane
2. LCD Soundsystem @ Sydney BDO
3. The Grates @ Metro Theatre
4. Whitest Boy Alive @ NeverEverLand, Hordern Pavillion.
5. Cut Copy @ NeverEverLand, Hordern Pavillion.
6. Faker @ Sydney BDO
7. Muscles @ Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle

 

[A High Way Man]

The Cure haven't played Australia this year? Was this overseas?

it prolly was last year, im just really out of it and dont go to concerts regularly

10 AUG 2007 - LOL,

 

[chamelia]

it prolly was last year, im just really out of it and dont go to concerts regularly

10 AUG 2007 - LOL,

Yep, that's it. It was the bestest everest superest gig though! I went both nights. It just got better and better.

 

[hiphophooray123]

made a list of the gigs/festivals ive been to this year:

Groove Armada + Sneaky Sound System @ Shore Thing, Bondi Beach Jan 1st.

Field Day @ The Domain:
- Felix Da Housecat
- Girl Talk
- Midnight Juggernauts Live
- People Under The Stairs Live
- Uffie & Feadz

Girl Talk + Operator Please @ Becks Bar Thing

Chromeo @ Becks Bar Thing

Summafielddayze @ Doug Jennings Park:
- David Guetta feat Chris Willis
- New Young Pony Club
- De La Soul
- Felix Da Housecat
- Benny Benassi

Cut Copy @ Cockatoo Island

Dizzee Rascal @ Metro

UNKLE @ Metro

Big Day Out:
- Something with numbers
- Operator please
- Faker
- Midnight Juggernauts
- Dizzee Rascal
- Hilltop Hoods
- PNAU
- UNKLE
- The Arcade Fire
- Rage Against The Machine

Something for Kate @ Australia Day Fare

Midnight Juggernauts + Van She @ Enmore

Cypress Hill + Pharohe Monch @ Enmore

Good Vibrations @ Centenial Park:
- Kid Kenobi + MC Shureshock
- Muscles
- K-Os
- Thievary Corporation
- Pharohe Monch
- Calvin Harris
- The Rapture
- Kanye West

The Chemical Brothers @ Sydney Entertainment Centre

Future Music Festival @ Randwick Racecourse:

- Anna Lunoe + Kato
- The Chemical Brothers
- John Digweed
- Datarock

Stars @ Spectrum

Feist @ Metro

Laneway Festival:
- Broken Social Scene
- The Panics
- The Presets
- The Cool Kids
- Stars

V Festival:

- Smashing Pumpkins
- Air
- Cut Copy
- Hot Hot Heat
- Modest Mouse


Pnau @ Enmore
Pnau @ Wollongong uni

The Presets @ Enmore

LL Cool J @ Enmore

We Love Sounds:

- Potbelleez
- Dubfire
- Mixmaster Mike
- The Bravery
- Bonde Do Role

Lightspeed Champion @ Oxford Art Factory
La Castle Vania @ Oxford Art Factory
Something with numbers @ Oxford Art Factory
Tokyo Police Club @ Oxford Art Factory

Splendour In The Grass 08:

-Art Vs Science
-The Galvatrons
-Tokyo Police Club
-Hadouken!
-The Music
-Gyroscope
-The Fratellis
-Scribe
-MSTRKRFT
-Cold War Kids
-PNAU
-Tricky
-Little Red
-British India
-Vampire Weekend
-The Wombats
-The Vines
-Sigur Ros
-The Presets

PNAU + Bluejuice @ Hordern

The Bumblebeez @ Snowball Manning

MSTRKRFT @ Metro

Death Cab For Cutie @ Enmore

Death Cab For Cutie @ Oxford Art Factory

The Kooks @ Metro Theatre (Myspace gig)

Gyroscope @ Metro

The Faint @ Metro

Little Red @ Annandale

Project X @ Manning Bar (Kool Keith, Tim Dog, Marc Live)
Diplo @ Oxford Art Factory

Dizzee Rascal @ Metro

Parklife:
-Grafton Primary
-Soulwax
-Diplo
-Peaches
-Dizzee Rascal

Little Red @ Manning Bar
Little Red @ Hunters Valley Beer Festival

Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube & Bone Thugs @ Acer
Stevie Wonder @ Acer
Bloc Party 1 @ Hordern
Bloc Party 2 @ Hordern

Global Gathering:
- The Orb
- Sasha
- ATB
- Gorillaz Sound System
- Mark Ronson
- Kraftwerk

Kanye West @ Acer with NAS Kid Cudi and Consequence. (missed Scribe)

MGMT @ hordern

Never Ever Land @ Hordern:
- Ladyhawke
- Whitest Boy Alive
- Herclues & Love Affair
- Cut Copy
- KLAXONS
- The Presets

then

shore thing to close out the year.

 

[FatJ]

1. Switchfoot at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
2. Sum 41 at Luna Park Sydney
3. Vandals at Luna Park Sydney
4. Incubus at Sunburst KL
5. George Clinton at Sunburst KL
6. Bowling for Soup at Luna Park
7. Pennywise at Luna Park
8. Pop Shuvit at Sunburst KL
9. everybody else except the Roots at Sunburst KL
Unranked due to crapness. The Roots at Sunburst KL

Yeah. Havn't been to too much this year. HSC is gay.

 

[A2]

Mgmt!!!

 

[joshoh]

Carlos Santana Accer Areana
Trivium Luna Park

 

[AsyLum]

1. Bon Jovi / Iron Maiden @ Acer.
2. Everything else I saw