Incredible music Summer
Is it just because I'm paying more attention this Summer, or is the Music situation in Ireland this year unbelievable. I have my tickets to Electric Picnic, and that's my big outing this year - and between tickets and everything that goes with a festival it's going to cost. And yet I'm having to stop myself from buying tickets to EVERYTHING!
It's unbelievable, there's so much I want to go to...
There's no way I can even list everything but we have:
- Cat Power, Nouvelle Vague, Architecture in Helsinki, Kinky Friedman and Beirut all play the Tripod in Dublin on various dates...
- Oxegen - great line up, but doesn't have a great rep...
- Electric Picnic - my personal favourite!
- Lovebox - new to the scene, wouldn't be too excited by it so far...
- Live at the Marquee - Antony & the Johnsons, the Flaming Lips, Madness, The Who, Christy Moore and more... and it's IN CORK! Yes Boy.
- Garden Party - wouldn't be my scene musically. Anyone go last year?
- Al green and Joe Cocker - two legends! Saw Al green in Dublin a while back. The man is on of the best human beings on the planet.
- Arctic Monkeys - everybody loves them, I don't know them really.
- The Frames - yeah, I know they play all the time, but I only really got the Frames last summer at Electric Picnic so I'm still excited by Frames gigs...
- The Decemberists - no idea who they are, but they have a cool name.
- I'm not going to mention Justin Timberlake. Ok, I admit it, I'd go see him if he played another Vicar St gig, or whatever that little gig he did was.
- Grant Lee Philips - I know one of his songs and it's excellent!
- Damien Rice - Marley Park. Never seen him live. Oh, wait I saw him play one song at Electric Picnic.
- The Police - won't be going to this one, but I keep wondering if I should... I only really like their first album.
- Heineken Green Energy Festival - Kasabian are one of those bands that are on my ipod but I never listen to them. Themselves and Sinead O'Connor will be there.
- Rolling Stones - why the hell don't I know more Stones stuff? I dunnoe.
Phew. And their just the one's I've been hearing about so far. What else is on people?