Having been lucky enough to see Coldplay at a couple of small venues (the Junction in Cambridge in 2000 particularly stands out in the mind), I just can't get the big-crowd-in-the-dark thing. I also bought Brothers And Sisters on Fierce Panda (which I lost when I moved house) and remember listening to it thinking this is the kind of atmospheric, thought provoking and all-round fantastic no-sales indie that I love. Funny how things turn out, isn't it.
Okay, I suppose my bandwidth is now going to get a teensy weensy bit hammered, but it is the end of the month, and I have a few gigs left - so hammer away before it's all too late.
1. Radiohead - OK Computer 2. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation... 3. Nirvana - Nevermind 4. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted 5. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead 6. Pixies - Surfer Rosa 7. De La Soul - 3 Ft. High And Rising 8. Prince - Sign O The Times 9. PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me 10. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton 11. U2 - Achtung Baby 12. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique 13. Husker Du - New Day Rising 14. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 15. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville 16. Beck - Odelay 17. Nas - Illmatic 18. Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction 19. Hole - Live Through This 20. Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers) 21. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet 22. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 23. Outkast - Stankonia 24. Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out 25. Nine Ince Nails - The Downward Spiral 26. Bjork - Post 27. The Cure - The Head On The Door 28. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 29. Fugazi - 13 Songs 30. The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die 31. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me 32. The Replacements - Tim 33. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted 34. Elliott Smith - Either/Or 35. Dr. Dre - The Chronic 36. Pixies - Doolittle 37. Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand 38. A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory 39. Lucinda Williams - s/t 40. Run D.M.C. - Raising Hell 41. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream 42. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking 43. B.D.P. - Criminal Minded 44. Green Day - Dookie 45. Kanye West - College Dropout 46. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace 47. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full 48. Radiohead - Kid A 49. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of... 50. New Order - Low Life 51. Nirvana - In Utero 52. Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill 53. Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles 54. The Breeders - Last Splash 55. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole 56. PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love 57. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells 58. Metallica - Master Of Puppets 59. Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West 60. De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead 61. Weezer - Pinkerton 62. Missy Elliott - Supa Dupa Fly 63. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 64. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 65. Basement Jaxx - Remedy 66. Outkast - Aquemini 67. Slayer - Reign In Blood 68. Tricky - Maxinquaye 69. DJ Shadow - Entroducing... 70. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 71. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy 72. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 73. Pulp - Different Class 74. Portishead - Dummy 75. Le Tigre - s/t 76. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister 77. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 78. The Stone Roses - s/t 79. Moby - Everything Is Wrong 80. D'Angelo - Voodoo 81. Beck - Mellow Gold 82. Jeff Buckley - Grace 83. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command 84. Soundgarden - Superunknown 85. REM - Automatic For The People 86. Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun 87. Blur - Parklife 88. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup 89. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell 90. Sonic Youth - Sister 91. XTC - Skylarking 92. Big Black - Atomizer 93. Pearl Jam - Ten 94. Slint - Spiderland 95. Elastica - s/t 96. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash 97. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea 98. Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time 99. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen 100. Strokes - Is This It
What the hell is Spin magainze, we don't get that down at W H Smiths?
If I had to pick my top 10 out of this 100 it'd be:
1. Pulp - Different Class 2. Elastica - s/t 3. Blur - Parklife 4. Radiohead - OK Computer 5. Portishead - Dummy 6. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup 7. The Stone Roses - s/t 8. Oasis - Definitely Maybe 9. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen 10. XTC - Skylarking
This is a more interesting poll, as it was voted for by over 2,200 Radiohead fans.
Definitely my favourite band of the moment. I should have heard it all before but there's something of particular quality in all of the songs on Silent Alarm, which is my bestest album of 2005. I thought the live songs were a bit wayward, but that was probably because the production went through the mixing desk and it doesn't quite capture the same atmosphere and energy that comes when you hear it out of the big speakers.
I got a bit distracted while looking for something
And ended up on the English translation of the German Wikipedia for Sporting World Records set in 1953. Enjoy.
27 April - Nina Otkalenko , Russia , ran the 800 m of the ladies in 02:07,3 min
5 May - Sverre Strandli , Norway reached 62.36 m in the hammer throwing of the gentlemen
9 May - Parry O'Brien , the USA , pushed 18.00 m in the ball pushing of the gentlemen
20 May - Yuriy Lituyev , Russia ran the 400 m hurdles of the gentlemen in 50,4 s
1 June - Emil Zatopek , Czechoslovakia ran the 10,000 m of the gentlemen in 29:01,6 min
27 June - walter Davis , the USA , jumped in the hochsprung of the Mr. 2.12 m
5 July - Parry O'Brien , the USA reached 18.04 m in the ball pushing of the gentlemen
9 July - Parry O'Brien , the USA reached 18.00 m in the ball pushing of the gentlemen
20 July - SAM Iness , the USA reached 57.93 m in the Diskuswerfen of the gentlemen
27 July - walter Davis , the USA reached 2.12 m in the hochsprung of the gentlemen
8 August - Bud hero , the USA , threw 80.41 m in the speerwurf of the gentlemen
11 August - Fortune ferment-serve , the USA reached in the Diskuswerfen of the Mr. 58.10 m
17 August - Mel Whitfield , the USA ran the 800 m of the gentlemen in 1:48,6 min
19 August - Leonid Serbakov , Russia reached 16.23 m in the three-jump of the gentlemen
22 August - Fortune ferment-serve , the USA , threw in the Diskuswurf of the Mr. 59.28 m
7 September - Bud hero , the USA reached 80.41 m in the javelin of the gentlemen
20 September - Juri Litujew , Russia , ran the 400 meters of hurdles of the gentlemen in 50,4 s
21 September - Fortune ferment-serve , the USA reached in the Diskuswerfen of the Mr. 59.28 m
9 October - Galina Zybina , Russia , pushed 16.2 m in the ball pushing of the ladies
.. does sound exactly like the Kaiser Chiefs' Employment, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. This is not a cheap shot, this is exactly why I love the Kaiser Chiefs - they play a brand of music I adore without having the stigma of enjoying something that Damon Albarn had something to do with. I actually have a reason to look forward to going to V this year. I feel duty bound to both go and enjoy it, since it is only a short drive up the A176 for me, and hopefully I won't be elbowed and kicked to the floor by a load of 15 year old girls as I was during Scissor Sisters last year.
For some reason I can't admit that I like the Doves. I've never considered them a "favourite" of mine but I'm more than happy to sit and watch them from start to finish. Twice I've heard a single, thought it was fantastic, bought the album and never played it. It's like I can take 5 minutes of them but not 45 which is probably so far from the truth I should prove myself wrong one day, but maybe not today. Of the two tracks on here, Space Face is actually a reworking of a very very early Sub Sub track - I think the opening keyboards instantly date the song around 1992, which is helpful.
How fantastic is this idea? This press release stood out among all the others today:
Do you ever lay in bed at night dreaming of what Sheriff Fatman would sound like played on descant recorders, xylophones and glockenspiels? This Christmas you can find out JIM BOB'S CHRISTMAS CONCERT WEDNESDAY 7th DECEMBER CARLING ACADEMY ISLINGTON N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield St, London N1 Tickets: 0870 771 2000 (24 hrs) www.ticketweb.co.uk Featuring The Jim Bob School Orchestra Performing Jim Bob songs, Carter USM songs and new numbers from the Jim Bob School Orchestra concept album. A story of a school at the bottom of the education league table. A tale of asbomania, fag smoking PE teachers, insane geography teachers, foul mouthed food technology teachers, mufty day riots and the school orchestra that changes everything (released early 2006) A live Jim Bob DVD filmed in July will be released to coincide with the show and will be available on the night. www.jim-bob.co.uk
The Frank and Walters - from the Wilderness to the Water Rats
Had the good fortune to see long forgotten Irish veterans The Frank and Walters at the Water Rats on Saturday. I've long admired the band's simple yet highly efficient indie-ness and their ability to lose their fanbase as their songs stayed at the high standard of their early releases - the interestingly titled EP1, EP2 and EP3 were all NME Singles of the Week in 1992, when the accolade really meant something.
There is an interview with the band here and it seems there is a B-sides album and an album of new material coming out soon. Have to agree that the new songs were just as good as the old, a rarity these days.
The track I have added is an acoustic session from their last LP, 2000's Glass.
One of the things I love about this band is that Pete Doherty is obviously unfocused and casual about the whole thing - none of this Primal Scream-style starting songs again, if they sound bad, he's not muso enough to care. I still haven't got round to seeing him live - missed a couple of old Libertines gigs at the last minute but I'll be at the Wireless on Thursday so I might finally get within a quarter of a mile of him.
I saw Royksopp in the dance tent at V a couple of years ago and they really beat the hell out of their keyboards, Jesus Jones style (remember that?) Their performance at Glastonbury was a bit more sedate and they were promoting a lot of new songs (with words included this time) from their forthcoming album, The Understanding. I have added Eple (sounds like apple, because it is Norwegian for apple!) because it's almost perfect pop music.
No real reason other than to indulge my list-making fantasies, here are all the gigs I can remember going to. (Last updated 1 December 2005)
Peter Gabriel
26.6.1987 London Earl's Court
Genesis
2.7.1987 Wembley Stadium Support: Paul Young I have never seen so many fights anywhere in my life as I did between 2pm and 7pm waiting for the acts to come on. And I was brought up in Romford.
7.5.1988 London Sadler's Wells Support: Panic Brothers, Mae McKenna What the hell were the Panic Brothers?
Steve Hackett
16.5.1988 Dartford Orchard Support: Mae McKenna
Siouxsie and the Banshees
21.9.1988 London Royal Albert Hall Support: Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft Without a shadow of a doubt, the worst gig I have ever been to. And as you can already see, I have seen T'Pau live.
Marc Almond
13.10.1988 London Victoria Theatre
Pink Floyd
9.7.1989 London London Arena
Cure
22.7.1989 London Wembley Arena Support: Shellyan Orphan Hottest day of the year and a gig that went on for hours and hours and hours. I swear they played every song twice, some three times.
Kinks
15.8.1989 Kentish Town Town & Country Club Support: River City People
Who
27.10.1989 London Wembley Arena
Ben Elton
27.11.1989 Hammersmith Odeon
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
29.10.1989 London Wembley Arena Briefly, the band formerly known as Yes.
Jasper Carrott
16.5.1990 London Royal Albert Hall
Marillion
12.7.1990 London Wembley Arena Support: Little Angels Little did I know that in nine years time I would be seeing one of the Little Angels perform in the infintely better Younger Younger 28s.
Marillion
22.12.1990 Kentish Town Town & Country Club Support: Cry No More
6.12.1991 Kentish Town Town & Country Club Support: Frank & Walters, Mega City 4, Midway Still
They Might Be Giants
4.2.1992 London Bloomsbury Theatre Support: Family Go Town During half of the TMBG set, between songs a lone voice could be heard clearly shouting among the cheers - "you wankers! you student wankers! fuck off!" etc. Turned out it was Jonathon Ross from the side of the stage. I think his celebrity star was on the wane at the time.
Sugarcubes
7.3.1992 Brixton Academy Support: Levitation
Thousand Yard Stare
20.3.1992 New Cross Venue Support: Jennifers, School of Fish The Jennifers were an earlier incarnation of Supergrass. There were a lot of people making a fuss of them although I didn't really notice them that much!
Carter USM
1.5.1992 Tonbridge Angel Centre Support: Frank & Walters
They Might Be Giants
13.5.1992 London Town & Country Club Support: Cast Yes, that Cast, over three years before the release of their debut album.
Carter USM
23.5.1992 Brixton Academy Support: Frank & Walters, Sultans of Ping FC This is the daddy - the best gig of the whole lot.
Sultans of Ping FC
6.6.1992 Canterbury Kent Uni (Rutherford JCR) Support: Nineteen Miles High I'd forgotten that I'd been to this one until I found the poster I nicked off the walls. It was A3, badly xeroxed and put together Viz style by a bunch of students.
12.9.1992 Clapham Grand Support: Darling Buds Although being a fan of both bands at the time, I remember leaving early because I felt sick :-(
Marc Almond
30.9.1992 London Royal Albert Hall
Sultans of Ping FC
8.10.1992 Rayleigh Pink Toothbrush Support: Radiohead, The Shopkeeper Appeared The Pink Toothbrush is quite a small venue and I managed to bump into or obstruct Thom Yorke several times while he was helping to wire up all the guitars just before Radiohead came on. Deliberately, on some occasions …
7.10.1993 Dartford Orchard The most unfunny twat I have had the displeasure to see live. Bored the arse off me and much of the audience. Even Jim Davidson could have done better.
Carter USM
21.10.1993 Tonbridge Angel Centre Support: Sultans of Ping FC Played in a big school gym type room.
Carter USM
23.10.1993 Brixton Academy Support: Mega City 4
Paul Merton
29.10.1993 Dartford Orchard
Pop Will Eat Itself
7.3.1994 Romford Ritzy Support: Blaggers ITA
Sultans of Ping FC
20.5.1994 Ilford Palais Warm Friday evening, 45 minute set or thereabouts which was a bit of a shame.
Blur
26.5.1994 Shepherds Bush Empire
A House
10.6.1994 Highbury Garage
Carter USM
8.7.1994 Clapham Grand Support: S*M*A*S*H, Salad, Blaggers ITA I don't remember S*M*A*S*H playing and I think I was too late for most of Blaggers ITA, I wonder if I was actually there sometimes. Salad were excellent though, truly one of the underrated bands from the Britpop era.
Blur
4.10.1994 Cambridge Corn Exchange This was the one where I had to pay 70 quid for 2 tickets from a tout.
Echobelly
1.11.1994 London Astoria
Carter USM
6.2.1995 London Virgin Megastore
Carter USM
17.3.1995 Kentish Town Forum
Marc Almond
23.5.1995 London Hanover Grand
Essential Festival
27.5.1995 Brighton Stanmer Park Bands seen: Carter USM, Charlatans, Pop Will Eat Itself, Gene, Dodgy, Teenage Fanclub, Lightning Seeds, Skunk Anansie, Reef It took me a long time to remember who played there that day …
Marc Almond
15.7.1995 London HMV Free gig to promote Fantastic Star album.
My Life Story
22.8.1995 Camden Jazz Café Support: Bikini Beach
Carter USM
23.8.1995 Highbury Garage
Blur
17.9.1995 Clacton Oscar's I think this was the first gig I went to which was advertised on usenet (alt.music.blur), it sold out within hours. Oscar's is a small nightclub and we were all packed in around 10 to a square foot. In those days, Dave Rowntree (Blur's drummer) used to write and post up the Blur FAQ himself!
Carter USM
14.10.1995 Colchester Essex University
Alexei Sayle
4.11.1995 Ipswich Regent
Blur
2.12.1995 Wembley Arena Support: The Brit Pops Orchestra
Pulp
21.12.1995 Brixton Academy Support: Stereolab
Supergrass
29.2.1996 London Astoria Support: Divine Comedy
My Life Story
10.3.1996 Camden Dingwalls
Divine Comedy
17.5.1996 London Camden Centre Support: Frank & Walters
Essential Festival
26.5.1996 Brighton Stanmer Park Bands seen: Echobelly, Audioweb, Menswear, My Life Story, David Devant and his Sprit Wife, Bis, Add N to X I interviewed Jake Shillingford from My Life Story for now-defunct Billericay radio station Mayflower FM. I had met Jake in the audience at the Divine Comedy gig the previous week - he gave me his contact number by writing it on my ticket in lipstick!
3.6.1998 London Electric Ballroom Support: Earl Brutus, Seafood Kenickie were always good live, Earl Brutus were outstanding. One of the bands I always wanted to see again, but their live shows after this were few and far between.
Ben Folds Five
29.6.1998 Kentish Town Forum
V98
22.8.1998 Chelmsford Hylands Park
Divine Comedy
5.10.1998 Cambridge Junction Support: Pelvis
Marc Almond
19.12.1998 Charing Cross Albery Theatre
Abdoujaparov
30.1.1999 Chelmsford Y Club Support: Pharmacy, Ton Up Kid Abdoujaparov is the band that Les Carter formed after Carter USM split in 1997. This was their second gig and I interviewed them for Phoenix FM. (A copy of the interview can be found here. Les Carter mentions it in his tour diary here). Pharmacy featured Morty on drums - he was formerly with the Sultans of Ping FC.
My Life Story
27.5.1999 London LA2
V99
21.8.1999 Chelmsford Hylands Park
My Life Story
7.10.1999 Colchester Arts Centre Support: Younger Younger 28s, Dum Dums
Elastica
26.1.2000 Colchester Arts Centre
Phill Jupitus
5.2.2000 Hornchurch Queen's Theatre
V2000
19.8.2000 Chelmsford Hylands Park
Leeds Festival
26.8.2000 Leeds Temple Newsam
Frank & Walters
30.9.2000 London LA2
Coldplay
2.10.2000 Cambridge Junction Support: Lowgold
Frank & Walters
20.10.2000 London Mean Fiddler
Barenaked Ladies
2.11.2000 London Forum
Chumbawamba
16.11.2000 Cambridge Junction Support: Robb Johnson
Marc Almond
12.12.2000 London Union Chapel
My Life Story
15.12.2000 Camden Underworld This was MLS's last ever gig. Jake Shillingford went on to form Exile Inside, whose first album sounded very much like MLS's last one.
King Adora
12.3.2001 Charing Cross Sound Support: Last Man Standing This was a free gig organised by XFM.
Soft Cell
16.3.2001 Hackney Ocean
Manic Street Preachers
30.3.2001 Brixton Academy Support: My Vitriol
Mull Historical Society
21.5.2001 Charing Cross Sound Another free gig organised by XFM.
V Festival
18.8.2001 Chelmsford Hylands Park
Reading Festival
25.8.2001 Reading down by the river Bands seen: Dropkick Murphy's I'm sure there were others but this is the one I remember for now!
Who's The Daddy Now
15.9.2001 Harlow Square Support: Jim's Super Stereoworld, Abdoujaparov, Iinviisiibles
Gorillaz
28.9.2001 London Forum This was weird, they just played behind a big screen. All you could see was their silhouettes and some superimposed animations. Quite freaky without the benefit of alcohol.
Who's The Daddy Now
14.12.2001 London Astoria Support: Jim's Super Stereoworld, Abdoujaparov, Iinviisiibles
A
7.3.2002 London Astoria Support: Fenix TX
Jim's Super Stereoworld
22.3.2002 Highbury Garage Support: Chris T-T, Bransby
Abdoujaparov
24.5.2002 Highbury Garage Support: Divine Brown
A
29.5.2002 Kentish Town Forum
Thurrock Music Festival
6.7.2002 Thurrock Orsett Showgrounds Bands seen: Sugarcoma, Inme, dury*falls, Electric Sky, thisGIRL, Revolution 45, Reconsider, Bastion 4, Keratose, Jacob, Warblefly, The Wires, The Java Sea, Inertia, The Egyptians, Minx, Seven Machine, Djevara, The Lanes, Jadegroove, Missin Link, Spankin Harry, The Grove, Cyrus, The Zoltans Damn I saw a lot of bands that day.
Jim's Super Stereoworld
27.7.2002 Harlow Square Support: Chris T-T, Malowski
V Festival
17.8.2002 Chelmsford Hylands Park Bands seen: Bluetones, Elvis Costello, Supergrass, Nickelback, Athlete, My Vitriol, Manic Street Preachers, Turin Brakes, Seafood, Donnas, Coral, Elbow, Idlewild, Doves, Royksopp, Lamb, Soft Cell Bit of a weak line up this year I thought - Royksopp and the Manics being the best of best ones.
Reading Festival
23.8.2002 Reading down by the river Bands seen: Pulp, White Stripes, Dandy Warhols, Peaches, International Noise Conspiracy, The D4, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Muse, Ash, Sum 41, Hives, A, Princess Superstar, British Sea Power, Datsuns, Interpol, Mitch Benn International Noise Conspiracy were by far and away the best band of the two days I saw. They're the Swedish Jam, with hammond organs.
Who's The Daddy Now
7.11.2002 Harlow Square Support: Jim's Super Stereoworld, Abdoujaparov, Iinviisiibles
Blur
9.5.2003 Charing Cross Astoria
Jim Bob
29.5.2003 Brentwood White Hart Support: Celeste, Bransby, Crazy Sadie Acoustic set from Jimbob (Carter USM) which I promoted. I'm pleased to say we created a very homely atmosphere at the venue.
V Festival
16.8.2003 Chelmsford Hylands Park Bands seen: Cardigans, Hives, Ash, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Athlete, Killing Joke, Turin Brakes, Feeder, I Am Kloot, Inspiral Carpets, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Distillers, Asian Dub Foundation There is a list of the bands who played the whole festival here.
Tommi & Chris
23.1.2004 Kentish Town Bull & Gate
Celeste
6.2.2004 Grays The Fat Surfer Support: Whitegirl, MCH2R
Dum
5.3.2004 Grays The Fat Surfer Support: Black Top Phoenix, Carnies
Abdoujaparov
9.4.2004 London Metro Club Support: Art Brut, Rhesus
Phoenix FM All Dayer
1.5.2004 Brentwood White Hart Bands seen: Celeste, Abdoujaparov, Whoremoan, Whitegirl, Nothing, Black Ash, Crazy Sadie, Doobie Snax, MCH2R, My Paradigm, Fiction, A Python G Another event I organised, and we had over 100 paying customers for this one which I was very pleased with. I took a lot of pics which you can see here on the Phoenix FM website.
21.8.2004 Chelmsford Hylands Park Bands seen: Divine Comedy, Hal, Phoenix, The Killers, Pink, Crimea, The Dead 60s, Human League, Tim Booth, Kasabian, Jamie Cullum, Goldie Lookin Chain, Snow Patrol, Fountains Of Wayne, Kristian Leontiou, The Zutons, Scissor Sisters My pics from the event can be seen at various places on the website including http://www.redpenguin.net/v2004-pics.php.
Leeds Festival
27.8.2004 Leeds Brahmam Park Bands seen: The Stills, Client, Secret Machines, British Sea Power, Radio 4, Auf Der Maur, The Others, Von Bondies, Do Me Bad Things, Reel Big Fish, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Departure, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Distillers, The Hives, LCD Sound System, !!!, The Offspring, Mclusky, Graham Coxon British Sea Power and the (International) Noise Conspiracy were the best acts on the two days I saw, just like 2 years ago really then! My pics from the event can be seen at http://www.redpenguin.net/leeds2004-pics.php.
Human League
13.12.2004 Ipswich Regent
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
15.12.2004 Highbury Garage Support: My Dad Hitla
Pop Will Eat Itself
22.1.2005 Birmingham Carling Academy First time I had seen PWEI in nearly ten years. First time I had ever been to Birmingham too. What a magical double whammy that was for me!
Pop Will Eat Itself
24.1.2005 Shepherds Bush Empire
Abdoujaparov
20.2.2005 Brixton Windmill Support: Jim Bob, Ciccone Tsunami benefit gig - there were other bands on the bill but I didn't get a chance to see them.
Fiction
2.4.2005 Leigh on Sea The Ship Support: Goose
British Sea Power
4.4.2005 London HMV Free gig to promote Open Season album.
A
4.4.2005 London Metro Club Phill Jupitus was Djing. I didn't see him even though I was standing next to the record booth.
Bravery
17.4.2005 New York Bowery Ballroom Support: Ash
Girls Aloud
25.5.2005 Ipswich Regent
Frank & Walters
25.6.2005 King's Cross Water Rates Support: Amazing Pilots
Wireless Festival
30.6.2005 London Hyde Park Bands seen: The Rakes, The Others, The Editors, Soulwax, Ladytron, Babyshambles, El Presidente
Madness
4.7.2005 King's Cross Scala Played under the pseudonym "The Dangerman". It was a full-on extravaganza of ska, and no mistake.
Maximo Park
20.7.2005 London The Rocket Support: The Research
Hayseed Dixie
31.7.2005 Southend Riga Music Bar
Jesus Jones
4.8.2005 Highbury Garage Support: The Jungle
Thurrock Music Festival
6.8.2005 Thurrock Orsett Showgrounds Bands seen: The Others, The Duke Spirit, Electric Eel Shock, The Hellset Orchestra, The Betes Noires, Sikth, Engerica, Blood Roses Too many bands to mention once again.
Data Panik
9.8.2005 Camden Dublin Castle Support: Luxury Of Feeling Fine
Whoremoan
18.8.2005 Basildon The Castle Mayne Support: The Rejects
VHS or Beta
7.9.2005 Shoreditch 93 Feet East Support: ¡Forward, Russia!
Jim Bob
14.9.2005 Camden Barfly Support: Bransby
Leigh Regatta
17.9.2005 Old Leigh High Street Support: Dirty Fairies, Dirty Water
Fat Surfer All Dayer #3
18.9.2005 Grays Civic Hall Support: Whoremoan Back to the Civic Hall in Grays for the first time in over 14 years! There were many other bands playing but I only got a chance to see Whoremoan.
Robocop Kraus
19.10.2005 London Metro Club Support: ¡Forward, Russia!
Amnesty gig
23.10.2005 Shoreditch Amnesty International Support: Others, Starsailor
Subways
24.10.2005 Cambridge Junction Support: Kooks
Little Britain
1.11.2005 Southend Cliffs Pavilion
Frank and Walters
11.11.2005 London Borderline Support: Beauty Shop, Hybrasil
Sultans of Ping FC
19.11.2005 Grays The Fat Surfer Support: iDou, Dirty Fairies
Mystery Jets
29.11.2005 Southend Chinnery's Support: Ludes, Les Incompetents
Others
3.12.2005 Southend Chinnery's I haven't seen this yet!
Ben Elton
14.12.2005 Brentwood Centre I haven't seen this yet!
Sultans of Ping FC
17.12.2005 Dublin The Village Support: Jim Bob, Rulers Of The Planet I haven't seen this yet!
Sultans of Ping FC
18.12.2005 Belfast Spring and Airbrake Support: Jim Bob, Rulers Of The Planet I haven't seen this yet!
