10 Gigs, 20 sore legs (Top 10 Gigs)

Member Name: deeej

Product:	Top 10 Gigs
Date:	17/11/05 (594 review reads)
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Advantages: My Music, My Scene, My Taste

Disadvantages: Always other people smoking in face

So do a review about "TOP 10 GIGS"

Please bare in mind this will change about 200 times in my lifetime, i will do my best to update this.

This is hard to do from 10-1 1-10 so I may just throw in a random number which sounds right, but may get altered later.

10. Doves - Manchester Apollo 09.12.2002

Support: Alpine Star & Delgados

What a night, my first Doves show and since they're from Manchester and it was last night of their huge tour over land and sea, it was a beauty.
The album tour (Last Broadcast) had been long and extensive and finished with two night in the famous Stockport road theatre of dreams. The noise was perfect, the band was

more than perfect and most of all the crowd were up for it.

Setlist
POUNDING
RISE
SEA SONG
CATCH THE SUN
LAST BROADCAST
MAN WHO TOLD EVERYTHING
WORDS
CALLING
NEW YORK
A HOUSE
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER
CEDAR ROOM
FEAR
FIRESUITE
HERE IT COMES
SPACEFACE

There was some serious moshing for Pounding, Catch the Sun, New York, Fear and Spaceface.

It was one of those night where you didn't need alcohol, you were on pure adrenaline and because it was a homecoming show, you felt that everyone in there was your friend.

9. Moloko - Manchester University Academy 1 09.05.2003

Support: Gus Gus

This was a show I had been anticipating because I loved Moloko's lead singer, she was a babe to put it lightly.
Moloko were diverse and strange, which is somethig I prefer. Although I loved this night it was one of those stranger nights because I loved the support act far more than

the main act. GusGus who reside in Iceland are an Electronic band led by the egocentric President Bongo of Gaybon.

Yeah wierd enough, but their music was amazing to say the least. Taken from their latest album Attention were some tracks which blew me away. In particular there was David,

Dance you down and Desire. I found it very strange that they were only support acts and were not massively famous. Nevertheless I loved their performance and Moloko's and

now I have all their album discography.

Familiar Feeling
I Want You
Absent Minded Friends
Day For Night
Come On
Fun For Me
Where Is The What If The What Is In Why?
Cannot Contain This
Pure Pleasure Seeker
Time Is Now
Statues
100%
Forever More
Sing It Back
Being Is Bewildering
Blow by Blow
Caught In A Whisper*
Indigo*


8. Peaches - Manchester Academy 2 16.04.2004

Support: Don't Know

If you don't know who Peaches is then you probably don't want too either. Peaches was born in Canada and now resides in Germany, her albums are The Teaches of Peaches and

Fatherf***er, yes Fatherf***er! She sings song about sex and fetish and isn't afraid to sing about it live in concert, in fact it gets quite graphic. But at the same its

top notch entertainment, the music is a mixture of Electronic beats and Rock and roll and she is the only playing the guitar. The room was full of people who dressed for

the occasion wearing leather and almost nothing yet it was great to be a part of it, even if I was wearing Jeans and a Tee.

It was a unique experience and definately something I will watch again. Similar to watching Har Mar Superstar except he is just gross!

I can't find the setlist anywhere sorry.

7. Thievery Corporation Manchester Academy 2 26.05.05

Support: No support

I had been following TC for about 2 years so this gig was muchly anticipated. Now TC are from Washington DC and this was going to be the only opportunity to see them in

Manchester for at least 3 years. I remember cancelling a game of football for this and on arrival I was having second thoughts, but im glad I stayed because it was truly

amazing.
On arrival there was no support act on stage, it's a small venue but one of the best because of it's size. There was only a couple hundred there but that added to the

spice, so I made my way up front with my friend and waited till they came on stage.

The lead 2 came on Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, Eric played the Bass guitar and Rob worked his magic on a keyboard synth. After the first song they both went to their

stations, like mixing boards and synths where they totally controlled the sounds. On stage there was 2 percussionists, a bass player, a guitarist who also played the sitar,

2 guys who played wind instruments such as trumpets and several vocalist who took it turn to come on stage.
Lou Lou is a french female vocalist who sings very delicately to songs like Le Monde and Omid (Hope), I know these words as she speaks them but I don't understand them as

they are mostly French.
Sista Pat is one of the more mature members of the group, she is Indian in origin and possesses a wicked voice and a friendly smile. It's funny but the crowd seem

intimidated by her presence as she glides from side to side.
Karina or Princess Karina, she is stunningly beautiful and looks almost niave as she does her part occasionally taking photos of the crowd.
Roots/Zee two Jamaican guys who specialise in Reggae, they are divine Ras in the house and speak the gospel of TC. They even jump into the crowd and help everyone to jump

around and enjoy themselves.
My friend says it's the best show he has ever seen, but earlier on he had never heard of Thievery Corporation.

The Cosmic Gate
Le Monde - lou lou
Omid - lou lou
Facing East
Lebonese Blonde - sista pat
Shadows - lou lou
So Com Voce - karina
Sol Tapado - karina
Liberation Front roots/zee
38.45 - roots/zee
Illumination
Revolution Solution - sista pat
Wires and Watchtowers - sista pat
Pela Janela - karina
Exilio (Exile) - karina
Focus on Sight - roots/zee
Assault - roots/zee
Warning Shots - roots/zee

Encore
Time We Lost - Lou Lou
Richest Man in Babylon - zee/sista pat/roots
Coming from the Top - roots/zee
Marching The Hate Machines

7. Queens of the Stone Age Manchester Apollo 20.06.2003

Support: Can't Remember

The year prior the Queens has released Songs for the Deaf, it was a massive release and thanks to a big track "No one knows" featuring Dave Grohl it recieved high

recognition both sides of the pond. No One Know in fact swayed me to buy this album and what a rock album it is too. I was greatly suprised that almost all the tracks were

good or excellent, so to hear to this live was the next step.

They came to Manchester to play the Apollo, a wise choice in my opinion. I had hoped they play the Academy and at least there would be a sell out and a huge mosh pit,

instead the Apollo proved to be a sell out and a decent size mosh pit.

At some point my glasses were broken it was either at A song for the dead or No One Knows, but I didn't care because Josh Homme was making sweet noise on stage and so was Nick Olivieri, No One Knows was awesome, the whole place went mental when that came on. Feel Good Hit of the Summer came in the middle of No One Knows which was just crazy and the crowd loved it. Never to be forgotten!!!

If you like Rock and you don't mind getting rough in a pit, then you have to try this out.

Spiders And Vinegaroons
First It Giveth
Do It Again
You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire
If Only
The Sky Is Fallin'
Quick And To The Pointless
Gonna Leave You
Hangin' Tree
In The Fade
A Song For The Dead
Ode To Clarissa
Go With The Flow
How To Handle A Rope
Mexicola
Better Living Through Chemistry
Woke Up Screaming
Leg Of Lamb
Autopilot
Another Love Song
A Song For The Deaf
No One Knows
Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
Tension Head
The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret

6. Faithless, Belfast University 23.04.2004

If you haven't heard of Faithless then you have been living under a rock. This is the first of my Faithless gigs in the top 10 and they are without doubt my favourite band ever. I will use this review to explain who they are.

In 1995 Rollo Armstrong who had owned Cheeky Records but then sold it to BMG had decided to start up a band, he took Sister Bliss (Ayalah Bentovim), an accomplished DJ and a classically trained pianist. Maxi Jazz, a buddhist rapper from London who had done pirate radio as a DJ and who also helped DJ and MC in The Soul Food Cafe's - Original Groovejuice" and with this they started to make music mixing house music with Hip Hop to create something called Trip Hop.
Soon after Faithless had created Reverence with the extra help of Jamie Catto, Pauline Taylor, Dido Armstrong, David Randall, Aubrey Nunn, Mark Bates, Matt Benbrook, Paul Herman and whoever else I am missing. From the album release came Insomnia, one the greatest dance tracks of all time, and something which has been performed live at every single Faithless show since.
When Faithless started touring 10 years ago it was only to promote Reverence and was supposed to last a couple months little did they know that they would be in Argentina, Macedonia, South Africa, Australia, Japan, Germany, France and everywhere else in time.

SWEEP
REVERENCE
LOVE LIVES
BLUE GRASS
INSOMNIA
IN THE END
ALL RACES
GOD IS A DJ
NO ROOTS
FAMILY BACK
SWINGERS GUITAR
MASS DESTRUCTION
WHAT ABOUT LOVE
WANT MORE- PART 1
WANT MORE- PART 2
WE COME ONE
POST CARDS
MISS U LESS
SALVA MEA

part 2 coming soon

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