Inspired by the sound of music...

Today I decided to make a list of all the concerts I have seen in my life. Not an easy task at all.. They have been hundreds... But I will do my best to share my list with you! Let's see what I remember...

Air (x2)
Anathema (x2)
And you will know us by the trail of dead
Arctic Monkeys
Audioslave
Avishai Cohen
Biffy Clyro (x2)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (x2)
Bloc Party (x2)
The Bravery
The Cinematics
The Cure
The Datsuns
Deftones (x2)
Deolinda
The Divine Comedy
Editors (x2)
The Electric Soft Parade
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand (x3)
The Gathering
Ghinzu
Guillemots
The Hives
Hot Hot Heat
Interpol (x2)
Kaiser Chiefs (x2)
Kasabian
Keane
Klaxons (x2)
Kraftwerk
Linda Martini (x2)
Manu Chao
Marilyn Manson
Maximo Park
Mew
Muse (x6)
New Order
Nick Cave
Nouvelle Vague
The Offspring
A Perfect Circle
Phoenix
Placebo (x4)
Pluto
Queens of the Stone Age (x3)
Razorlight
Turbonegro
Zero 7 (x2)

(and now some extras due to oblivion, I had to edit so they won't be in alphabetical order)

Auf Der Maur
Alanis Morissette
Blasted Mechanism
Peter Murphy
Belle and Sebastian
Chemical Brothers
Fatboy Slim
Futureheads
Death from Above 1979
Cardigans
Rodrigo Leão
Orishas
Soulwax
Dandy Warhols
Groove Armada
Ash
dEUS
James
The National
Cypress Hill
The Streets
Millionaire
The noisettes
PJ Harvey
Good Charlotte
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Staind
Sum 41
Radio 4
Pixies
Arcade Fire (x2)
Korn (x2)
Linkin Park (x2)
Pleymo
Static X
Massive Attack (x2)
Lenny Kravitz
Toranja
Moby
Slayer
Mastodon
Within Temptation
Moonspell
Tool
Soulfly
Alice in Chains
The Cult
The Jesus and Mary Chain
LCD Soundsystem
Underworld
The Gossip (x2)
30 Seconds to Mars
Prodigy (x2)

And some more that I just can't remember! But this ones are for sure my Top... something (150? I don't know!).

Cheers

Music Critic: Anathema and Avishai Cohen

I saw two of the best concerts of my life in the past 5 days! Anathema in Frankfurt (for the 2nd time) and Avishai Cohen in Mainz (for the first time).

Anathema were introducing their new album (weather systems) and play a lot of new songs and some old classics.

Positive things:

1) The duration - over 2h15min
2) Lee (the female singer - guest) came along, making the setlist more diversified and the songs more complete
3) The crowd
4) The choice of the songs - we were asked to do so!
5) The increasing quality as musicians since the last time I saw them

and so on...

Here's a little taste of what happened:

And what about Avishai Cohen!? I am still speechless! I felt like I had never witnessed live music before! A quality behind the normal in this little world for such a big talent!

Positive things:

1) Diversified setlist

2) 4 encores!! 

3) The duration: over 2h05min - when it was meant to be an 80min show

4) The proximity with the band

5) The friendly atmosphere 

6) THE QUALITY! 

Only one bad thing: the smell of alcohol in the room, everybody had beer bottles... In an intimate jazz concert in a small venue.. maybe it's the way I am, but I consider that this only has space in places like summer festivals.

And here's a taste of it too (not footage from Mainz sadly though):