Your fave live shows of 2006?

Sigur Ros - Borgata, Atlantic City
Wolf Parade - Ottobar
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Blackcat
Radiohead - Bonnaroo
Sunset Rubdown - Blackcat
Mogwai - 9:30
Mogwai - Sonar

1) Belle and Sebastian w/ the Shins @ Hollywood Bowl
2) Social Distortion @ House of Blues, San Diego
3) Social Distortion @ TLA, Philly
4) The Germs @ Black Cat
5) Belle and Sebastian w/New Pornos @ 9:30 Club (tough call…both nights were a lot of fun)
6) Shellac @ Black Cat
7) Morrissey @ Aragon (Chicago)
8) Peaches @ 9:30
9) Charlatans UK @ 9:30
10) Yo La Tengo @ 9:30
11) Sleater-Kinney @ 9:30
12) Joan Jett w/Eagles of Death Metal @ 9:30

Honorable mentions: Echo & the Bunnymen, Thievery Corporation, Massive Attack, They Might Be Giants

Biggest disappointments: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth

Worst show (by far): Zero 7

1.) Neko Case @ 9:30
2.) Wilco @ 9:30
3.) Belle and Sebastian/New Pornographers @ 9:30
4.) Ryan Adams @ Sonar
5.) Editors/Stellastar @ 9:30
6.) Beth Orton/Willy Mason @ 9:30
7.) Band of Horses @ Black Cat
8.) Belle and Sebastian/BSS/Ted Leo @ Merriweather
9.) Cat Power (June) @ 9:30
10.) Drive By Truckers @ 9:30

Kudos to Josh Ritter for a great in-store at Olssons.

Disappointments:
YYYs @ 9:30
Arctic Monkeys @ 9:30
Wolf Parade @ Black Cat
Golden Smog @ 9:30

Addendum: Stars @ Black Cat in Feb. should be near the top of the list.

1. Wilco, 9:30, 10/19
2. Drive-By-Truckers, 9:30, 7/15
3. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins, Alexandria venue known for its great good, 3/23
4. Massive Attack, 9:30, 9/29
5. Ted Leo, U of R, 3/25
6. Echo & the Bunnymen, Charlotte NC, 6/23
7. B&S/NPs, 9:30, 3/5
8. Editors, 9:30, 3/29
9. Snowden, BC, 12/16
10. Lucero/Tim Berry, Nanci Raygun Richmond, 5/20

Originally posted by bearman:
Worst show (by far): Zero 7

so i take it you had the foresight to skip the Stereolab show.

Agreed. Should be on my list as well.

Originally posted by allmy$to930:


Kudos to Josh Ritter for a great in-store at Olssons.

Sweetcell, what are ya implying? :)

Stereolab i actually enjoy live…Now Zero 7..aren't they "producers" with singers?

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Originally posted by bearman:
Worst show (by far): Zero 7

so i take it you had the foresight to skip the Stereolab show.

best show i saw at 9:30 was most definitely either belle & Sebastian or lifetime.

i'm implying that stereolab blew. i'm a big fan of theirs, have been since the mid-90's, so i was psyched for their show. i left entirely disappointed. sound was awful, stage presence lacking. i tuned out halfway through their first set, i don't think i stayed until the end of it.

i thought that zero 7 put on a decent show. only thing that bugged me was that sia chick… talk about annoying. she was egotistical and didn't fit in with the rest of the group nor their sound, she would be better off fronting an all-girl punk band. but otherwise was a solid night at the 930, i'd go see them again.

* Sigur Ros (Madison Square Garden Theatre)
* Damien Rice (Lincoln Theatre)
* Gogol Bordello (930 Club)
* GWAR (930 Club)
* My Morning Jacket (930 Club)
* Sonic Youth (930 Club)
* Drive-By Truckers (930 Club)
* The Black Keys (930 Club)

Originally posted by allmy$to930:

4.) Ryan Adams @ Sonar

ahh, yes, forgot this show. loved it.

Alice in Chains - 9:30
Thirty Seconds to Mars - 9:30
She Wants Revenge - Black Cat
Queen and Paul Rogers - Verzion Center
Tool - Verzion Center
Roger Water - that place in NOVO everyone hates to drive to.

Wolfmother - Black Cat
Ray Davies - 9:30

Pearl Jam @ Verizon Center
My Morning Jacket w/ the Slip @ 9:30 Club
Yeah Yeah Yeahs w/ TV on the Radio @ Boston City Hall Plaza
Tool @ Verizon Center
Bob Dylan w/ the Raconteurs @ Patriot Center
M. Ward w/ Oakley Hall @ the Birchmere
Black Crowes w/ Robert Randolph, Drive-By Truckers @ Chevorlet Amp., Pittsburgh

And the sets that I enjoyed at Bonnaroo:
The Streets
Sonic Youth (and Stephen Malkmus!)
Devendra Banhart
Radiohead
My Morning Jacket (and Andrew Bird!)
Dungen
Clap Your Hands
Beck
Be Your Own Pet

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Brazilian Girls
The Decemberists.
Ladytron with CSS
Sleater Kinney
all at the 9:30 club

The Go!team
at the black cat..hmm..was that this year…oh well

Scissor Sisters
in boston

It is weird, I was at some of these "best" shows and was not that impressed. Different kicks for different people.

For me:

Massive Attack
Theivery Corporation
The Subways

(I know there were others but I keep getting the year wrong…)

Radiohead - Tower Theater (Friday) (MVP)
Bob Dylan and The Raconteurs - Patriot Center
Thievery Corporation - 9:30 Club (Thursday)
The Rolling Stones - First Mariner Arena


Other memorable shows at the Nightclub 9:30

Massive Attack
The Pogues
Cat Power and Memphis Rhythm Band
Wilco

Glen Phillips - MySpace Party Bus @ SXSW
Autumn Defense - Jammin' Java
Josh Ritter - PASTE party @ SXSW
Griffin House - Jammin' Java
Colin Meloy - Birchmere
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Galaxy, Santa Ana (nostalgia, really)
HM: Taylor Davis/Johnny Goudie @ Staccato; Pete Yorn @ Birchmere (decent show, but better than the 9:30 show)

Looking over my calendar, either no tickets or had to cancel for various reasons. A few, "Wish I had seen": Ray Lamontagne, John Doe, Hotel Lights, DCFC @ Norva, Subways.

"Just didn't get into show": Wilco ('tis the holiday season please don't flog me too much)

Thomas Dolby - Birchmere, 5/8 and 12/22
Sleater Kinney - 930 8/3
Stars - Black Cat 2/24
Roger Waters - Nissan 9/23
Pearl Jam / My Morning Jacket - VCtr 5/30
Death Cab for Cutie / Franz Ferdinand DAR 4/11

stars - black cat 02.24
broken social scene - 9:30 11.07
peaches - recher theatre 07.24
ladytron - 9:30 04.14
jenny lewis - 9:30 10.15