2013 concerts recap
jasonbouchard88
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Another year is soon coming to an end. I am already done with going to concerts this year so I figure it is time for me to recap what I have seen in 2013:
All concerts in Toronto except where stated:
-Soundgarden at Sound Academy on January 25,
-Lady Gaga at the Air Canada Centre on February 8 & 9 (won tickets for the February 9 show)
-Bon Jovi at the ACC on February 17
-Muse at the ACC on April 10
-Green Day at the ACC on April 11 (show was originally on January 29)
-Elton John in Las Vegas on April 30
-Steel Panther at Sound Academy on May 16
-Orion Music and More co-headlined by Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers at Belle Isle in Detroit, MI on June 8 & 9
-Mumford & Sons at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre on August 26
-Nine Inch Nails at ACC on October 4
-The Orb at the Opera House on October 25 (got on the guest list for free)
-Bon Jovi at the ACC on November 2 (tickets won in a contest)
-Chris Cornell at Massey Hall on November 6
-Gary Clark Jr. at Danforth Music Hall on November 18
-P!nk with the Hives at the ACC on December 2 (tickets won in a contest)
-Halestorm with Redlight Kings and Stars in Stereo on December 3
All concerts in Toronto except where stated:
-Soundgarden at Sound Academy on January 25,
-Lady Gaga at the Air Canada Centre on February 8 & 9 (won tickets for the February 9 show)
-Bon Jovi at the ACC on February 17
-Muse at the ACC on April 10
-Green Day at the ACC on April 11 (show was originally on January 29)
-Elton John in Las Vegas on April 30
-Steel Panther at Sound Academy on May 16
-Orion Music and More co-headlined by Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers at Belle Isle in Detroit, MI on June 8 & 9
-Mumford & Sons at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre on August 26
-Nine Inch Nails at ACC on October 4
-The Orb at the Opera House on October 25 (got on the guest list for free)
-Bon Jovi at the ACC on November 2 (tickets won in a contest)
-Chris Cornell at Massey Hall on November 6
-Gary Clark Jr. at Danforth Music Hall on November 18
-P!nk with the Hives at the ACC on December 2 (tickets won in a contest)
-Halestorm with Redlight Kings and Stars in Stereo on December 3
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For Bon Jovi, on October 25, there was a short event from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM at the Galleria of the Air Canada Centre where you can send a video message congratulating Bon Jovi for 17 shows at the ACC. While there, there was also a contest to win tickets for their show on November 2 so I entered in a ballot and I got an email on October 28 telling me I won.
For The Orb, I got an email from Destiny Events on the day of the show, October 25, where I had to reply and said I wanna go see the orb (something like that). First 10 people to do this are on the guest list for free. I wasn't sure if I wanted to enter because I didn't even know their music but I did it anyway and got a reply telling me that I'm in the guest list. It was a very good show. Show did end around 12:10 AM. I went by myself since the guest list was only for one person. All I needed to do was to show valid I.D. at the venue.
Nothing to do with winning contest but about EDM music: I do have a ticket for the Dutch Trance DJ Armin Van Buuren at the Metro Toronto Convention Center on Saturday, April 19 and his show is scheduled to go from 9:00 PM to 2:00 AM.
Finally for P!nk, I won the tickets from 98.1 CHFI. I entered online and had to spend points on ballots. The more ballots I "purchased", the bigger the chance of winning. I won the tickets in late-March.
Apollo Ghosts, Peace
Tragically Hip
Muse
Soundgarden
Marilyn Manson, Butcher Babies
White Lung, Peace, Nu Sensae, High Drops
Elizabeth
Trust
Needles//Pins, BA Johnston, Previous Tenants
Village, Wild Ways, Violet Age
Weed, Tough Age, Babysitter, Peace
Juvenile Hall, Binz
Black Wizard, War Baby
Needles//Pins, Ladyhawk
LSD and the Search for GOD, Flavour Crystals, Violet Age
Nardwuar, Thee Goblins
Nomeansno (Nicole Knockout
Apollo Ghosts Final Show
Gold and Youth
Peace
War Baby
Metz
Kurt Vile
Suuns
Generationals
Zebrasseirs, Tough Age
War Baby
Tim The Mute
Lethal Halo, Iron Kingdom,
Khatsalano Fest, War Baby, Johnny De Courcy, Bestie, Lions in The Street, No Sinner, Pack AD.
Americanarama, Bob Dylan, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Richard Thompson Trio
Pearl Jam
Jennifer Castle, Parquet Courts
Elizabeth, Gangbang
Jordy Laine
Kurt Vile and the Violators, Johnny de Courcy
King Tuff, War Baby
Yeah Yeah Yeahs w/ Har Mar Superstar*
Melvins w/ Honky^
Victory Square Block Part Dead Ghosts,Slow Learners,Jay Arner,Courtneys
The Albertans w/ Wild Ways, Soft Serve
Thee Goblins,Tough Age,The Evaporators
Typhoon
Tragically Hip
BA Johnston, Babysitter
Feral Children, Moon King (Austra Show)
Houndmouth, Andrew Combs
Psychic Alliance (Wavves, King Tuff, Jacuzzi Boys Show) Need confirm on first band
The Paper Kites, Rueben and the Dark
The Broken Hands, Black Thunder, Mother Upduff, Dead Ranch
Main Street Vinyl Fair - Johnny de Courcy
Nervous Talk - Exclusive Jamspace Performance
Hollerado, Pup
Moonface, Blackout Beach
Nine Inch Nails
Botnek, Waka Flocka, Borgore (Aokify America)
Lightning Dust with Louise Burns
Pearl Jam w/Mudhoney
Pearl Jam w/Mudhoney
Holograms w/ TV Ghost
59 Shows, a couple more to round out the year. Going to see live music once every 6 days for a year.
pj
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i need to get out more
Wow! Superb list. Interesting that you saw Steve Aoki. He did come to Toronto in late October, but the tickets were over $80 each when I found about it. And that's the actual price, not from scalpers. I couldn't believe it was this expensive.
funny you should mention Aoki, I actually went to that one to interview one of the openers, Botnek.
The episode aired today as a matter of fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsC4F86ka6g
THAT was a crazy and eye opening show.
1/29- Palma Violets@ Kung Fu Necktie (philly)
2/2- The Vaccines@ Union Transfer (philly)
3/8- Django Django@ Union Transfer (philly)
3-19- KMFDM@ The Troc (philly)
4/27- Jim James@ Union Transfer (philly)
5/5- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club@ TLA (philly)
7/19- Pearl Jam@ Wrigley Field
8/31- Made In America Festival w/Phoenix and Empire Of The Sun (Philly)
9/1- Made In America Festival w/NIN, QOTSA, Gaslight Anthem & Fitz & the Tantrums (philly)
9/18- Arctic Monkeys@ Mann Music Center (Skyline Stage in philly)
9/19- Vampire Weekend@ Mann Music Center (Skyline Stage in philly)
10/15- Filter@ The Ardmore Music Hall (Ardmore, PA)
10/19- Pearl Jam@ Barclays Center
10/21- Pearl Jam@ Wells Fargo Center
10/22- Pearl Jam@ Wells Fargo Center
10/27- Pearl Jam@ Baltimore Arena
11/1- KMFDM@ Chameleon Club (Lancaster, PA)
11/30- Jagwar Ma@ Voyeur Nightclub in philly (won tix)
12/6- Fastball@ The Note (West Chester, PA)
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
The who/ Vintage Trouble
Maroon 5 / Neon trees/ Owl city
Elton John
Soundgarden
Sully Erna (of Godsmack
rockstar energy drink fest: with Circa survive, Coheed and Cambbria, Jane's Addiction, and Alice in Chains
drowning pool/ Non Point/ Redline Chemistry
white Chapel/ GWAR
Glen Danzing
Cut// copy
Vaden Todd Lewis (lead singer of The Toadies) solo acoustic show.
Pearl Jam (x2) with Midlake
Gary Clark JR.
Rev Horton Heat (Dec 19th)
skid row (Dec 21rst).
EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12
Quality, not quantity. You did fine.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Soundgarden
Muse
Elton John
Rolling Stones
Black Sabbath (Gorge)
Dave Matthews Band
Pearl Jam
NIN
A good year!
1/31 Sound City Players @ Hollywood Palladium
2/9 Gary Clark Jr. @ Roxy
2/15 Soundgarden @ Wiltern
2/16 Soundgarden @ Wiltern
2/17 Soundgarden @ Wiltern
3/5 Sound City Players on Hollywood Blvd. for Jimmy Kimmel Live
3/21 The Joy Formidable @ Fonda Theatre
4/9 Red Hot Chili Peppers @ Fonda Theatre
4/11 Phoenix @ Fox Theatre Pomona
4/19-4/21 Coachella Festival
4/24 Soundgarden (Chris Cornell & Ben Shepherd acoustic) @ Hollywood Tower
5/11 Jim James @ Fonda Theatre
5/24-5/27 Sasquatch Festival @ The Gorge
6/1 Chvrches @ Troubadour
6/8 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers @ Fonda Theatre
6/14 Atoms For Peace "secret show" @ Cafe Club Fais Do Do
6/26 Robert Plant @ Shrine Auditorium
7/3 Fleetwood Mac @ Staples Center
7/8 Portugal. The Man @ Red Bull Sound Space
7/9 Portugal. The Man @ Hollywood Tower
7/12 Portugal. The Man @ Wiltern
7/15 Wolfmother @ Troubadour
7/19 Pearl Jam @ Wrigley Field
7/27 Fitz & The Tantrums @ Wiltern
7/29 Queens of the Stone Age @ Jimmy Kimmel Live
7/30 Franz Ferdinand @ Echoplex
8/2 Flaming Lips @ Warner Brothers Records
8/3 Americanarama @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Bob Dylan)
8/12 The National @ Jimmy Kimmel Live
8/17 Queens of the Stone Age @ Gibson Amphitheatre
8/25 FYF Fest
9/3 Nine Inch Nails @ Troubadour (special album release show)
9/6 Pixies @ The Echo
9/17 Grouplove @ Troubadour
9/18 Jim James @ Grammy Museum
9/23 Paul McCartney on Hollywood Blvd. for Jimmy Kimmel Live
9/26 Gary Clark Jr. @ Wiltern
9/27 Lumineers, Dr. Dog @ Greek Theatre
9/30 Gary Clark Jr. @ Grammy Museum
10/15 Wavves @ Echoplex
10/22 Arcade Fire @ Capitol Records
10/31 Arcade Fire @ Hollywood Palladium
11/6 Ben Harper @ Bridges Auditorium
11/7 Nine Inch Nails @ Jimmy Kimmel Live
11/8 Nine Inch Nails @ Staples Center
11/21 Pearl Jam @ Viejas Arena
11/23 Pearl Jam @ Los Angeles Sports Arena
11/24 Pearl Jam @ Los Angeles Sports Arena
12/15 Jeff Tweedy @ Largo
Been pretty fortunate this year. I love living in LA.
Oops. Fixed. There's been a couple instances over the years that I've been able to make two shows in one night based on set times but that wasn't one of them.
Soundgarden
Muse
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Kurt Vile
Tragically Hip (Shoutout to RestlessSoul for the free tickets to this one
Chris Cornell
Nine Inch Nails
Pearl Jam
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no doubt!!! Muse seems like Forever ago, doesnt it?
How were these shows man? Specifically the Halloween one....new stuff sound good? Really want to see em, but not coming to Vancouver.
It does. I totally forgot Soundgarden and Muse were even this year.
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pearl jam buffalo
pearl jam charlottesville
chris cornell buffalo
the hold steady buffalo
counting crows buffalo
jason isbell buffalo
patterson hood ithaca
black francis ithaca
danzig niagara falls
nine inch nails las vegas
bob dylan/wilco/my morning jacket darien lake
jane's addiction/alice in chains darien lake
steve earle syracuse
soundgarden toronto
THE REPLACEMENTS toronto
1)charlottesville 2)replacements 3)the hold steady
Soundgarden @ Paramount x2
Gregory Alan Isakov - Crocodile Cafe
Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle) (Alt-J, MGMT, Sheepdogs, Joy Formidable, and many others)
Paradiso Festival (Gorge) (Tiesto, Darude, and a ton of others)
Nine Inch Nails - Spokane Arena
Pearl Jam - Spokane Arena
A ton of local and regional bands at various bars and pubs.
Favorite Albums of 2014 Article
-Gorge 2005
-Bonnaroo 2008
-Key Arena 1 & 2 2009
-Spokane 2013
July 17 - Phish - Alpharetta, GA Night 2
1996: Ft Lauderdale
1998: Birmingham
2000: Charlotte, Tampa
2003: Tampa, Atlanta, Phoenix
2004: Kissimmee
2008: West Palm Beach, Bonnaroo, Columbia
2010: MSG2
2012: Music Midtown
2014: Memphis
2018: Wrigley 1, Fenway 1
2022: Nashville
2023: Ft. Worth II
Halloween show was great and the new stuff sounded really good. It was a lot of fun. These early gigs they were doing were heavy on new stuff so the set list was shorter than I would have liked, but it just makes me look forward to when they come back around on their full scale tour. With that gap in April, they're lined up to play Coachella.
Not sure how far of a trek it is for you, but would be cool to see them at the Gorge.
Johnny Marr - Glasgow, O2 ABC A (March)
Andrew McMahon - Glasgow, Oran Mor(May)
The Who - Glasgow, SECC (June)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Glasgow, SECC (June)
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - London, Wembley Stadium (June)
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band - Glasgow, Hampden Stadium (June)
Leonard Cohen - London, O2 Arena (June)
The Moody Blues - London, O2 Arena (June)
Jake Clemons - New York City, Rockwood Music Hall (August)
Roger Waters - London, Wembley Stadium (September)
Joe Bonamassa - Aberdeen, AECC (September)
Johnny Marr - Aberdeen, The Garage (October)
The Wedding Present - Aberdeen, The Lemon Tree (October)
Peter Gabriel - Glasgow, The Hydro (October)
Bob Dylan - Glasgow, Clyde Auditorium (November)
It's been an excellent year, I have been very lucky. 2012 was phenomenal, I thought there was no way 2013 could live up to it, but it certainly did. Hoping 2014 will bring more musical joy!
Bob Seger
Gaslight Anthem
Pearl Jam
Fleetwood Mac @ Scotiabank Place Ottawa (4th row) April
Rolling Stones @ the Bell Centre Montreal (bought $85 tickets and was upgraded to the tongue pit where I ended up at the rail 10 feet from Keith) June
Pearl Jam @ Budweiser Gardens London (back near the soundboard... remember that the day was hotter than hell. July
Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience @ the NAC in Ottawa (5th row) July
London 2013 "The Dundas Hookers on Crack" Show
Cold War Kids
Pearl Jam
Had to save all my money for PJ!
Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
RNDM- 11/27/12
PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
The Who Quadrophenia Nassau Coliseum
The Who w/ Elvis Costello Who Cares Benefit at the Theater at MSG (met Roger's mom and dad, Derek Trucks and Marc Ford)
The Black Crowes at T5 (met the entire band - funny I had met Ford 5 weeks prior. Didn't mention that to band. Ha, ha).
Crossroads Guitar Fest (both nights) at the Garden
John Mayer at Jones Beach
Pearl Jam x 6 - Wor 2 through Hartford
Gary Clark, Jr. at T5
Wow!! I think I may have seen every great living guitarist at some point this year.
And just realized my 13 turned 14 year old son went to 5 of those 13 total shows with me (though maybe, equally amazing my 9 and 11 turned 12 year old went to 3). I'm either crazy or lucky (or maybe a little of both
Download Festival, Donington Park, Castle Donington UK, June 14-16. Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Rammstein headliners. What fun this was, and a total gong show too. And holy fucking fuck do the Brits drink or what? Festival sold 1.2 million pints in 3 days, and that doesn't even include all the alcohol people brought with them to the campsites. Some of my favourite performances here were Down, Mastodon, QOTSA, the Hives, Iron Maiden (epic WWII bomber intro!), Devin Townsend accoustic set, Masters of Reality, Rammstein, Limp Bizkit (Fred Durst looks like a Muslim with his long beard haha)
Queens of the Stone Age, August 8, Corral, Calgary. QOTSA loves Calgary and Edmonton, this is I believe the third time they've just played on off shows here (part of their tour kinda, but no dates scheduled much before or after), and they played all of ...Like Clockwork except the title track. Slight letdown as the crowd rooted harder for "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" (heard 4 times in 6 shows for me) than "Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" (never heard it live :( )
Pearl Jam, December 2, Saddledome, Calgary. The Blizzard Show, enough said
Pearl Jam, December 6, Key Arena, Seattle. Great fucking time.
1. Pearl Jam, Calgary, 2005
2. NIN/QOTSA/DFA 1979, Calgary, 2005
3. Pearl Jam, Calgary, 2013
4. Rock the Bells, San Francisco, 2007
5. The White Stripes, Calgary, 2007
BB King
Bob Dylan w/Dawes
Built to Spill w/Genders
Pearl Jam
Black Crowes w/Tedeschi Trucks Band
John Butler Trio w/SOJA
Alabama Shakes w/Clear Plastic Masks
I may be missing a couple....
But at least you finally got to see PJ!
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