This weekend I sat down to plan my gig calendar for the next few months. I can’t believe it’s already February and already some classic events are coming up. Before we even notice it will be festival season again and some great gigs all around.
Still, this year will have to deliver very highly considering the quality of shows I witnessed in 2009. My highlights were as follows:
There is something primordial about watching a crowd of 19’000 go mental watching The Prodigy on the outskirts of Paris. The fact that the festival also offered up classic performances from Birdy Nam Nam, MGMT, Metric, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was an added bonus.
Neil Young/ Bruce Springsteen live at Hyde Park
As far as rock legends go you could do much worse than seeing either Shakey or The Boss live. The fact that I saw them play back-to-back at Hyde Park this summer was Epic. Both lived up to their legendary status and I concluded my weekend as a very happy man.
I have already said several times on these pages that Tim Kusher is a songwriting hero of mine. Back in July I finally saw him live fronting Cursive at the intimate Camden venue. The fact that they picked and mixed discography and the relative closeness to the stage made this a night to remember and led our writer to drunkenly label it “a religious experience for the atheist“.
Good luck with living up to that 2010
TRACKS:
The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die ? Liam H Re-amped Version
