Top contributors: 9th – 15th November

This week, hats off to mellowdoubt again for all the awesome content he’s been adding, including a ton of reviews, loads more setlists and some great posters. There’s also some interesting photos to browse through from encosion and nathanray. Plus (not directly related to the leaderboards, but this has got to be shared)…. Pandalucia, who came third on this weeks Review leaderboard, has been busy adding her mahusive gigography which reveals her mighty impressive love for Radiohead – she’s seen them nearly 100 times!
Setlists
1) mellowdoubt – 43
2) nathanray – 14
3) whichway - 13
So, many more setlists added this week from mellowdoubt, including Blur at Glastonbury 1994…
… The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and The Smiths.
nathanray added setlists from the 1991 Lollapalooza festival:
And amongst those added by whichway, there’s James with The Happy Mondays and Little Boots.
Reviews
1) mellowdoubt – 46
2) MilkLizard82, daz, nathanray, FruitierThanThou, encosion - 5
3 ) Gizmad, Pandalucia, QB – 4
On the review front we’ve got mellowdoubt leading the way, followed by many close ties between newcomers (nathanray, daz, FruitierThanThou, Gizmad) and regular site contributors. Choosing a pick of the best out of 46 from mellowdoubt is a toughy, but here’s a couple… (worth a browse through his extensive gigography to sample some of the rest!)
Franz Ferdinand with The Rakes and Editors, Brighton Centre (15 Nov 2005):
“As expected the Franz Ferdinand/Editors/The Rakes triple header in Brighton was marvellous! I shall attempt to track down a set-list in due course but my personal highlights included.
- Alan Donohoe (frontman of The Rakes) “unique” dancing and a really wired and Wire-y sounding version of “We Are All Animals”
- Editors somehow topping their performance in Loughborough from the other month.
- A manic version of “Outsiders” in which Paul Thompson was joined on the drums by Andy Knowles (Franz’s touring keyboard/misc. instrument player) and a random technician.
- A sledgehammer trio of “Take Me Out”, “Darts Of Pleasure” and “The Fallen” mid-way into the set (you know the band’s at the top of their game when they can leave these songs out of the encore).
- Bob actually talking to the crowd (Alex Kapranos – “see he does talk”).All in all this was far and away the best gig i’ve been to in 2005 and i’d even class it amongst my all time top five. If you have tickets to any of the remaining dates you’re really in for a treat. I really can’t enthuse enough about how excellent all three bands are not only live but on record too.”
Arcade Fire with Electrelane, Brixton Academy (17 March 2007):
“The Arcade Fire concert at Brixton Academy was a quasi-religious experience. The only downside to the whole evening… annoying people who talked all the way through the Arcade Fire’s set, couples invading my personal space to take souvenir snaps of themselves at every opportunity instead of watching the band and errr that’s it. Yes, i’m turning into a grumpy old man.”
daz recounts his first punk gig experience:
The Damned, Smartyz (09 April 1979):
“This was my first evr proper punk band gig. I was 16 and lucky to get in as the gig was packed to the rafters in a tiny club, that only held 300. for once the bouncers were being picky about who they let in. When the gig finaly started the band just blew me head off! I mean at Erics in Liverpool you got close up to a band, but here you were litterally in touching distance if you were at the front. The club wasnt used to big name bands here and the band could only put outhalf there P.A. with Rat Scabies having to set up his drum kit in the DJ’s booth at the side. (DJ relegated to the rear)”
While nathanray shares his experiences of a free Juliette and the Licks gig and his first show.
Photos
1) encosion – 75
2) nathanray - 63
3) duanos00 – 59
There’s some great shots to flick through of the recent Andrew Bird show at the Union Chapel, courtesy of encosion:

nathanray has added a variety of concert memorabilia including old posters, ticket stubs and even a guitar pick from a Peaches show:
and duanos00 shares some great shots of Muse’s latest gig at the 02 Arena:
Posters
1) FruitierThanThou - 81
2) razorcandy – 44
3) mellowdoubt – 30
FruitierThanThou has added some great old posters from the eighties, including Prefab Sprout…
…and Aztec Camera, as well as some more recent ones:
mellowdoubt has also been adding some colourful posters of the more modern variety…
Videos
1) nathanray - 88
2) manishpuri – 19
3) iheartmusic – 16
Amongst the many videos added by nathanray there’s some from the recently reformed No Doubt. Manishpuri has been busy adding footage from some old Smiths shows, while iheartmusic’s added some nineties Jawbreaker ones.
Happy browsing! And thanks to all those mentioned (and to all those not mentioned who narrowly missed out!).

































































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