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[asimplechord]

MrIris asked me earlier how many shows I attended this year, and whether I thought I'd see more or less in the coming year. I couldn't answer either question! So I tallied them up, just so I could answer the first part of his question.

Gigs for 2008:

Gallows, This Is Hell, Cancer Bats
Angels & Airwaves, Meg and Dia, The Color Fred
The Bravery (with other bands)
The Really Really Ridiculously Good-looking Tour - The Cab, We The Kings, Metro Station, Cobra Starship
They Might Be Giants
George Thorougood and the Destroyers
Blue October and Pretty Baby
Say Anything (with Manchester Orchestra, Weatherbox, and Eli Paperboy Reed and the Trueloves)
The Starting Line (with openers I can't remember)
Bamboozle Roadshow (Steel Train, Armor For Sleep, Metro Station, Set Your Goals)
Ministry
Honda Civic Tour - Houston (Phantom Planet, The Hush Sound, Motion City Soundtrack, Panic At The Disco)
My Chemical Roadtrip (5 shows, includes BuzzFest, EdgeFest, plus three additional smaller shows with My Chemical Romance, Drive By, Billy Talent, and Taking Back Sunday)
The Breeders, Colour Revolt
The Cab, Metro Station, Forever The Sickest Kids, Danger Radio, The Maine
Old 97s, Hayes Carll
Steve Miller Band
Indigo Girls and Brandi Carlile
Bonnaroo (BB King, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Raconteurs, Gogol Bordello, and others)
Warped (Cobra Starship, We The Kings, Say Anything, The Bronx, Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is..., A&A, Against Me, Jack's Mannequin, Norma Jean, and others)
Stone Temple Pilots (w/ Black Francis)
George Michael
Less Than Jake
Phantom Planet (with Steel Train?)
Bullet for my valentine (with Cancer Bats and some other band)
Seether (with Red and Safetysuit Apparatus)
The Morning Light, Steel Train, The Cab, The Hush Sound
Melissa Etheridge
LeATHERMOUTH and Reggie and the Full Effect (with MC Chris and Warship)
Projekt Revolution (Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, The Bravery, Atreyu, SDC, 10 Years, others)
ACL festival (Foo Fighters, Raconteurs, Against Me, The Black Keys, White Denim, MGMT, and others)
Shooter Jennings, Driveby Truckers
The Kills and the Butthole Surfers
Hey Monday, Carolina Liar, We The Kings, The Academy Is...
Gym Class Heroes (and Estella?)
Phantom Planet and Rocket Summer (and some other bands)
Protest the Hero (and some other bands)
Treaty of Paris, Eric Hutchinson, Jack's Mannequin
Tokyo Police Club, Angels & Airwaves, Weezer
The Better Than Nothing Show (The Offspring, 10 Years, Saving Abel, some other bands)
Thrice and Alkaline Trio
The Gourds (and an Austin-based band whose name escapes me)
Barely Blind, Forgive Durden, Dear and the Headlights, Steel Train
Sassyback - Cobra Starship, Forever The Sickest Kids, Hit The Lights, Sing It Loud
Metro Station and some other bands
Rock Band Live - Austin (The Cab, PWTs, Dashboard Confessional, Panic At The Disco)
Barely Blind, The Cab, PWTs
Metallica, The Sword, Down
Blue October, Hoobastank, Pale (Buzzfestivus)


I meant to do a year-in-review fic roundup, but I'm too lazy to do the coding for that right now.

Instead, I'm going to go finish Devil's Brood, which is the first work of historical fiction that I've read in a long while that hasn't made me want to throw it across the room in anger at inaccuracies and impossibilities. Plus? Eleanor of Aquitaine, who ruled when most women were chattel, is one of the main characters. BONUS.

Comments

[katieupsidedown.livejournal.com]

Hey, we saw at least two of the same bands at ACL \o/

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I had such a hard time choosing which bands to see - most of the time there were a couple on at the same time at opposite ends of the park and I just flipped a coin.

[katieupsidedown.livejournal.com]

Oddly my biggest decision was between seeing Conor Oberst and Beck or seeing Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. I would up picking Conor and I'm really glad I did.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I did NOT see Conor, and I wish I had.