Top 5 (Non-Festival) Shows You Witnessed in 2009

[TallGuyCM]

This thread is for you to list the best shows you saw in 2009, outside of the Coachella/Bonnaroo/Glastonbury sets, etc. As in, an individual show that you saw with a band headlining.

I'm assuming many of our concert years are over, so it's safe to have a final tally now.

Mine:

1. Nine Inch Nails - Fonda
2. Underworld - Fox Oakland
3. Mogwai - Orpheum
4. Grizzly Bear - Wiltern
5. Dirty Projectors - Troubadour

[Gribbz]

1. Wilco/Grizzly Bear - Centennial Hall
2. Gang Gang Dance - The Troubadour
3. Bat for Lashes - Fonda
4. Animal Collective - The Rialto
5. Mono - Club Congress

[WizardIsAboutToDie]

Yorke--Orpheum
Fever Ray--Fonda
Prodigy--Palladium
Pixies--Palladium
Phoenix--Wiltern

[NicoDread]

1. My Bloody Valentine - El Rey
2. Fever Ray - O2 Shepherds Bush/Fonda/Glasshouse
3. Pixies - Palladium
4. M83 - Koko
5. Animal Collective - Wiltern

[paulb]

1. The Pixies - Paramount Theater night 2
2. The Sounds - Commodore Ballroom
3. The Prodigy - WAMU Theater
4. The Cranberries - Club Nokia
5. Limp Bizkit - The Pearl

[shakermaker113]

the vast VAST majority of the best sets I saw this year were at festivals. if you remove all festival sets... shit, I'm not even going to bother.

[shakermaker113]

3. Muse - Gibson Amphitheater

that counts as non-festival?

[paulb]

that counts as non-festival?

If it doesnt.. I could change it for Cranberries...

[GrossMagic]

1. Fever Ray - Glass House
2. Dan Deacon Ensemble - Mezzanine
3. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros- Belly Up
4. Dirty Projectors - Casbah
5. The Slew - Key Club

[Derekx]

In no particular order.

Depeche Mode - Hollywood Bowl
Mew - Fonda
The Flaming Lips - Fox Theater
Fever Ray - The Glass House
Thursday (WATT show) - Knitting Factory

Edit - Completely forgot about Yorke at the Echoplex. It's tie somewhere in the list.

[AAM!!!]

MBV at coachella would be number 2 but...

1. Depeche Mode- Honda center
2. Depeche Mode- Hollywood Bowl night 1
3. Fever Ray- Glasshouse
4. Morrissey- Fox Pomona
5. Nine Inch Nails- Irvine Amp.

[Kid B]

1. Thom Yorke - The Orpheum
2. Pixies - The Palladium
3. U2 - The Rose Bowl
4. Depeche Mode - Hollywood Bowl
5. Wilco - The Wiltern

[Bongo-anders]

I only got 3 good concerts this year that i went to.

Spleen United - Tivoi, Copenhagen
Green Day - Forum, Copenhagen
Kaiser Chiefs - Tivoli, Copenhagen

[Boourns]

Non-festival:
1. St Vincent - el Rey
2. Jarvis Cocker - wiltern
3. My bloody valentine - el rey
4. Asobi Seksu - el rey
5. Metric - wiltern

Festival:
1. Blur - Glastonbury
2. Paul McCartney - Coachella
3. Neil Young - Glastonbury
4. Leonard Cohen -Coachella
5. Bat for Lashes - Glastonbury

[woogie846]

NIN - Fonda
NIN - Wiltern
Animal Collective - Troubadour
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Club Nokia
Mastodon - Palladium

[liquidsnake28]

Faust - Buster's Backroom Billiards (yes, krautrock legends in a fucking pool hall)
Jay-Z - Bank of Kentucky Center
Flaming Lips - Lifestyles Community Pavillion
Deerhunter/No Age/Dan Deacon round robin - Southgate House
Butthole Surfers - Newport Music Hall

As you can see from the first three in this list, the midwest has really stupid names for venues.

[IdiotequeThom]

1. Nine Inch Nails - Fonda
2. Monsters of Folk - Copley Symphony Hall
3. Wilco - The Joint
4. Jimmy Eat World - House of Blues
5. Flaming Lips - Del Mar Racetrack

[yeyis]

Dungen - Mohawk
Gogol Bordello - Stubb's
Animal Collective - Stubbs's
El Guincho - Aura
Los Amigos Invisibles - Ananá

[juloxx]

5. Limp Bizkit - The Pearl

Does Limp Bizkit actually play? I didnt know they still did music.

[Boourns]

I didn't know they ever started.

But they did a reunion tour this year which consisted of euro metal fests and that gig in Vegas.

[Kid B]

I remember hearing somewhere that they have a new album coming out next year

[JustSteve]

1. them crooked vultures(wiltern) - a big part is because i had been on i.v.'s and in the hospital for a couple weeks and it was just the right time for something like that.

2. nin(echoplex) - a good bookend to my first show in the early 90's

3. grizzly bear(wiltern) - took my nephew who is a great musician and really coming into his own, they blew his, and my mind

4. killers(uci) - laugh all you want, my sis and i took my mom to see them for her birthday and it was a great night with the most amazing mom in the world

5. not sure on the 5th one yet, but since it hasn't been a year since this show i will include it: snoop dog at the glasshouse on 12/26/08. hung out with my friend who runs coachella that night(don't get too do that as much as i would like to), heard so many songs that were a part of my youth, saw a bunch of cops inside who had to be on a contact high, and my feet almost froze because it was so damn cold hanging out outside that night(car read 39 degrees when i left). good times.

so as you can see, pretty much all of the shows had quite a bit of emotion involved, not all to do with the actual band on stage, but i am considering the whole night as part of the "show".

[unitedwesuck]

I see Nine Inch Nails are at the top of everyone's list this year

[rage patton]

Why are festival gigs excluded?

[unitedwesuck]

Needless to say:
1) NINE INCH NAILS-Aragon Ballroom, Night one

2) Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Aragon Ballroom

3) Death Cab for Cutie/Ra Ra Riot-War Memorial in Sacramento

(Wow the top 3 are pretty emo-oh well)

4) Dr. John-South Lake Tahoe

5) Explosions the Sky-Congress Theater

[JustSteve]

Why are festival gigs excluded?

because chris created the thread

[paulthomasanderson]

1. Nine Inch Nails - Echoplex
2. Nine Inch Nails - Wiltern
3. Wilco - Wiltern
4. Thom Yorke - Orpheum
5. Grizzly Bear - Wiltern

[MantisMel]

The Flaming Lips-Fox Theatre
The Prodigy-Palladium
Simian Mobile Disco-The Mayan

[JSam67]

Fever Ray - Metro
Nine Inch Nails - Aragon Ballroom (night two)
Pixies - Aragon Ballroom
The Prodigy - Congress Theater
Phoenix - Aragon Ballroom

Yorke--Orpheum
Fever Ray--Fonda
Prodigy--Palladium
Pixies--Palladium
Phoenix--Wiltern

Nice (alarmingly similar to my own) list of shows.

[Mr. Dylanja]

1. Nine Inch Nails - Wiltern
2. Underworld - Fox Oakland
3. Mogwai - Orpheum
4. Grizzly Bear - Wiltern
5. Dirty Projectors - Troubadour

Glad to see you finally came around when it mattered.