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5. Editors - Fine Line, MN
4. Bird with Mark Burgess, Elysium, TX
3. British Sea Power - Maxwells, NJ
2. Buzzcocks - Stubbs, TX
1. Arcade Fire - Judson Memorial Church, NY, absolutely epic venue...

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Interesting footnote to Arcade Fire was that we caught Marc Bolan's son, Roland, earlier that night at Joe's Pub, covering "Mambo Sun" with The Bongos. Quite a charismatic young man. Amazing evening all around.

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I only went to 8 shows, it's tough getting old.

1. The Police -Fenway park
2.LCD Soundsystem-Avalon, Boston
3.Detroit Cobras-TT the Bears Place,Cambridge Ma
4.Art Brut-Roxy,Boston
5.Squeeze-Bank of America Pavilion,Boston
6.Southern Culture on the Skids-Greenfield Ma, Greenfield music festival
7. Los Straitjackets-Johnny D's, Somerville,Ma
8. The Neighborhoods- Dodge St Grille, Salem,Ma


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1. The dBs- Bowery Ballroom, NYC
2. Blue Peter- The Mod Club, Toronto, Ontario, CA
3. The Speedies- Southpaw, Brooklyn, NYC
4. The Bongos- Joe's Pub, NYC
5. Ulrich Schnauss- Joe's Pub, NYC

honorable mention-

20/20- Southpaw, Brooklyn, NYC
The Neighborhoods- Southpaw, Brooklyn, NYC
Pal Shazar- The Living Room, NYC

[quote][i]Originally posted by schwenko[/i]
<br>20/20- Southpaw, Brooklyn, NYC[/quote]
Holy crap, I forgot all about this one...darned that lack of short-term memory. I also forgot about Morrissey just recently. Those two would definitely be top 5 for me...I might even slide out Editors and BSP for 'em.

Every one of the shows I saw this year made my top 5:
1. Rheostatics at Massey Hall - Toronto
2. Roger Waters at Rogers Centre - Toronto
3. Wilco at Massey Hall - Toronto
4. The Spoons and Blue Peter at The Mod Club - Toronto
5. The Tragically Hip at Air Canada Centre - Toronto

www.thespoons.ca, www.rheostaticslive.com, www.bourbontabernaclechoir.com, www.thiswheat.com, www.thomastrioandtheredalbino.com, www.thecanadianmusicforum.com

Top 3:

3. Graham Parker
2. Jonathan Richman
1. Stan Ridgway

Missed Holly & The Italians =(

Editors - Chop Souy, Seattle
Neil Young - WaMu Theater, Seattle
Killers - WaMu Theater, Seattle
Devo - Puyullup Fairgrounds
Billy Joel - Key Arena, Seattle (I took a friend who was cashing in on a bet, but ended up totally enjoying the show!)

Blue Peter - Toronto
Richard Hawley - Toronto
The Alarm - New Jersey
The Alarm / Psychedelic Furs / Fixx - Buffalo
Brian Setzer - Boston
Crowded House - Toronto

[quote][i]Originally posted by tenpole[/i]
<br>Richard Hawley - Toronto
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Nice. This guy is surprisingly engaging. The old traveling guitarist from Pulp I believe, making good on his own.

1. Jack's Mannequin Tempe, AZ (EdgeFest)
2. Bird w/ Mark Burgess Austin TX (SXSW)
3. Killers Dodge Theater Phoenix
4. Office Emo's Austin TX (SXSW)
5. She Wants Revenge Tempe, AZ



Major misses this year:
Devo - had great seats and the show was canceled
Fratellis and Against Me at SXSW
Shout Out Louds in Phoenix

I go to shows all the time.

The Police
Pearl Harbor and the Explosion
The Mutants
Social Unrest/ No Alternative
Arcade Fire/ LCD Soundsystem
Ladytron
MDC/The Mutants
The Psych Furs/The Alarm/The Fixx
Interpol
X
Psych Furs (again)
The Germs
Translator/VKTMS/The Contractions @ The Mabuhay Gardens yes the Fab Mab first time there in 22 years!!!

didn't attend too many gigs in 2007 - but my fave one is pretty easy - OMD Architecture & Morality Tour that was simply excellent, never expected that reunion to really happen....

The Clientele - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Billy Bragg - Calvin Theater, Northampton MA
David Kilgour - TT the Bear's, Boston MA
Camera Obscura - Pearl Street, Northampton MA
Gruff Rhys - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA
Crowded House - Calvin Theater, Northampton MA
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Iron Horse, Northampton MA

that's seven, but they were all good.

Morrissey would've been on the list, but fuck him, the bastard.

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There's only two that spring to mind:

1. Devo
2. The Selector


The worst was Hazel O'Connor. No stage presence, buggered off the stage when finished singing and hearing her hits arranged for the flute and accoustic guitar and harp was unusual. I'm not a fan of Irish folk music and this didn't do anything to change that.


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