29 Mar 2008
I've seen a lot of live music in that period, maybe 1500 sets. I did a rough calculation for a year, at the peak it worked out to 3 nights a week, sometimes 4. So with 3 bands per night, approx 10 bands per week, multiplied by 52 weeks, comes out to approximately 500 per year. Did this for 2 years straight, and the other years were once or twice a week. This is nothing special, as I saw a couple of others doing the same thing.
Of course my favourite bands were repeated constantly, and I had a lot of favourites.
The following is a list of some of the artists I have seen and liked.
Overseas Bands
Robert Plant Deep Purple
Dire Straits Lucinda Williams
Juliana Hatfield Leo Kottke
Kristina Olsen Christine Collister
Cat Power Stellar
Transvision Vamp Montell Jordan
Del Ray
Local Bands
Bughouse Hummingbirds
Clouds Falling Joys
Club Hoy Maybe Dolls
Stella One Eleven Rebecca's Empire
the Mercy Bell Cactus Child
Peccadilo Leonardo's Bride
Deadstar Eva Trout
Relish Women in Docs
the Killjoys Spiderbait
Headless Chickens Frente
Def FX the Mavis's
Girl Overboard Fourplay
Skulker CODA
Karma Zoo Waifs
Pollyanna Bluehouse
Acquiesce Sugarmoth
Primary Meridian
Divinyls Caligula
Def-Ryme the Sharp
Cleopatra Wong Superjesus
Hoodoo Gurus Rat Cat
Effigy Dream Poppies
Screamfeeder Millers Tale
Skunkhour Cordrazine
Epicure Lash
Lino Fyrefiles
Jebediah Killing Heidi
the Velvet Janes Seventh Seal
Juliet Obsessed George
Taxiride Splendid
Go Betweens Dear Hunters
Badloves Baby Animals
Big Pig Screaming Jets
Angels Custard
Mental as Anything Nitocris
Tiddas Freudian Trip
Knievel Fur
the Whitlams Things of Stone and Wood
Something for Kate Karma County
Fell to Erin Safire
the Hamptons
Local solo
iOTA Nick Hanlon & the Godesses
Deborah Conway Margret Urlich
Penny Flanagan Gyan
Sarah Blasko Tania Bowra
Janine Emerson Elia Bel (COG)
Bernie Hayes Genevieve Maynard
Angie Hart Fiona Horne
Lisa Schouw Lisa Miller
Robyne Dunn Endorphin
Danielle Spencer Abi Tucker
Jackie Bristow Pico
Diana ah Naid Alex Lloyd
Julia Richardson Graham Rix
Slava Grigoryan Simone Hardy
Jodie Phillis Ed Kuepper
Kate Millar Heidke Jenny Morris
James Reyne Kate Ceberano
Renae Gayer Wendy Mathews
Max Sharam Monique Brumby
Jeff Lang Peggy Van Zalm
Covers
Gold Zeppelin Dread Zeppelin
Whole Lotta Zep Seattle Sound
Beatnics the Door Experience
Sunday Bloody Sunday Rattle and Hum
Zeppelin at the Taj
Just a some of the 650 bands that I have keep a record of seeing. I only started keeping records late in that period to stop doubling up, I've forgotten the early ones.
The artist with the most views was iOTA with 53, next was Stella One Eleven with about half, 25ish.
Due to my engineering background I have to analyse everything so I came up with the following formula as to what made an artist appealing to me.
1st - Interesting voice, 2nd - Good writing, 3rd - Technically accurate, ability to sing in key
eg iOTA Interesting voice+good writing+technically proficient=Great
Stella One Eleven Interesting voice+good writing+not perfect key=Good
Abi Tucker Interesting voice+not good writing+technically proficient=Not very good
Alex Lloyd Interesting voice+good writing+mainly out of key(live)=Acceptable(live)
Alex Lloyd's CDs Interesting voice+good writing+in key=Good
Even an opera singer is very technically accurate, but I find the voice not very interesting even with all their training. So it looks like Interesting voice+good writing is the main criteria
MySpace Views (38)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.