I’ve spent a fair few nights watching live music in the last 12 months. Many have been outstanding. I’ve seen acts I had spent half my life waiting to see, I’ve seen some of my favourite acts in unexpectedly small venues, I’ve seen over a hundred acts for the first time, and found new favourites. I haven’t attended quite a gig a week, but it’s not been far off. It’s been fun, and it’s involved the consumption of a lot of beer, and a of time in particular in The Brudenell Social Club and The Fulford Arms. However bad things have been in 2016 socially and politically, there has, at least, always been great live music in abundance.
There is a heap of people – PR, bands, venue personages – I’d like to thank, and I’ve chatted to some ace folks while out and about. Mosly I’d like to thank all the acts I’ve seen for making it a fun year. Those acts are listed, alphabetically, below. I’ve had a blast, and suffice it to say I’m looking forward to more of the same in 2017.
…And the Hangnails x 3
99 Watts
999
Asylums
Avalanche Party
Bearfoot Beware
Baroness
Beige Palace
Big Love
The Black Lagoons
Brix & the Extricated
Broken Skull
Buen Chico x 2
Bull x 3
By Any Means
Cannibal Animal
Charlie Padfield
Chris Catalyst
Circuit Breaker
Climbing Alice
Colour of Spring
Consumer Electronics
The Contortionist
Corinth
Cowtown
Deathmace
Death Valley High
DVNE
Dragged Into Sunlight
The Duke Spirit
Eagulls
Elsa Hewitt
Eugene Gorgeous x 2
Face
The Fall
False Flags
Famine
Fat Spatula
Fawn Spots x 2
FEWS
Fighting Caravans x3
Fizzy Blood x2
Flora Greysteel x 2
The Franceens
Future of the Left x 2
Game Program
Gang of Four
Ghold
Gnaw Their Tongues
Gloomweaver
Groak
Hands Off Gretel
Heads.
Helen Money
Hinges
Holy Esque
Hoogerland
The Homesteads
Hora Douse
Horsebastard
The Howl & The Hum
Human Certainty
Irk x 2
Jaded Eyes
Jakoby
Joanne
Kagoule
Kid Canaveral
Killing Joke
Kleine Schweine
Knifedoutofexistence
Legion of Swine
Living Body
Low Key Catastrophe
The Lucid Dream
Mannequin Death Squad
Man of Moon x 2
Max Raptor
Maybeshewill
Mayshe-Mayshe x 2
Meabh McDonnell
The Membranes x 2
Milk Crimes
Mishkin Fitzgerald
Mouses
Mums
NARCS
Near Meth Experience
Nick Hall
Moloch
Mountains Crave
Naked Six
Neuschlaufen
Nordic Giants
No Spill Blood
Ona Snap
One Way Street
Oozing Wound
Orlando Ferguson
Palehorse
Party Hardly x 2
Percy x 2
Pijn
Post War Glamour Girls
Protomartyr
Push
Raging Speedhorn
RM Hubbert
RSJ
Sand Creature
Sarah Carey
Seep Away
Shellac
Shield Patterns x 2
Shrykull
Silver Apples
Simon Bolley
Soma Crew x 5
Stereoscope x 3
Stoneghost
Suburban Toys
Super Luxury
Sweet Deals on Surgery
TesseracT
Thank
Tooth x 2
They Might Be Giants
Three Trapped Tigers
Treeboy & Arc
Unwave
Vesper Walk
Washing Machine Repair Man
Wharf Street Galaxy Band
Wolf Solent
Worriedaboutsatan
Yard Wars
You Slut!
ZoZo
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