In 2014, I got to see bands that I thought I would never ever see live – McLusky, Neutral Milk Hotel, Violent Femmes, Neil Young as well as various other acts that I have sang along to in various bedrooms in various houses for over half of my life. I’m not sure where the nostalgia ended and the quality of the gig began but it didn’t matter. I was screaming along the words. I was living in the moment whenever that moment may have been. The following videos are inadequate of course – they may well be from the actual gig or the same tour or in some other tenuous way linked to the performance I witnessed.
2014 Gigs of the Year
Neutral Milk Hotel – Roundhouse, London
McLusky – Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff
Sharon Jones and the Dapkings with Lee Fields – Colston Hall, Bristol
Violent Femmes – The Troxy, London
Jurassic 5 – Academy, Bristol
Alec Ounsworth – Living room show, Portishead
Caribou – Motion, Bristol
Neil Young – Hyde Park, London
Baxter Dury – 100 Club, London
Micah P Hinson – Thekla, Bristol
Alt-J – Apollo, Manchester
Part Chimp – The Exchange, Bristol
Curtis Eller – The Cube, Bristol
East India Youth – Louisiana, Bristol
Onra – Colston Hall, Simple Things, Bristol
Bill Callahan – St. Georges, Bristol
Arcade Fire – Hyde Park, London
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