London Live Playlist – Highlights from our first year watching bands in London
It has been a year since Ana-Paula and I moved to London, and what a year it has been. One of the major benefits of living here has been the access to great gigs on a regular basis. It has been a fairly decent year for live music. So to celebrate our first year in this city I made her a playlist (not as romantic as a mixtape, but friendlier to the environment).
I put together a list of 30 songs we’ve seen live in the past twelve months. This playlist doesn’t cover all the bands we’ve seen, it’s just the highlights package. I don’t own music by all the support acts or bands we saw at Reading Festival. I also left off Limp Bizkit, because Ana-Paula really didn’t like them. It was quite a task to try and remember all the shows, fortunately I use a site called Songkick to get gig updates, so it was easy to track my gigography. If you’re interested you can listen to a variation of this playlist on Spotify. We already have some great shows planned for the next few months, so hopefully next year’s playlist will be even better!
1. Dear Reader – Bend
2. Gentlemen – Sending cards
3. People In Planes – Pretty Buildings
4. Jukebox The Ghost – Hold It In
5. Nightmare of You – The Studded Cinctures
6. Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
7. The Used – I Caught Fire
8. Manchester Orchestra – I’ve Got Friends
9. Bloc Party – Hunting For Witches
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Pin
11. Kaiser Chiefs – Oh My God
12. Metric – Help I’m Alive (Acoustic)
13. Deftones – Change (In The House Of Flies)
14. Maximo Park – Girls Who Play Guitars
15. Billy Talent – Red Flag
16. Jamie T – Sheila
17. The Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
18. Jack Peñate – Run For Your Life
19. Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
20. Radiohead – Karma Police
21. The Rumble Strips – Alarm Clock
22. The Pixies – Gigantic
23. Green Day – Basket Case
24. Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
25. Placebo – Every You Every Me (Live)
26. Them Crooked Vultures – New Fang
27. OK Go – Invincible
28. Finley Quaye – Sunday Shining
29. The Parlotones – Dragonflies and astronauts
30. Lostprophets – Last Train Home