Regular readers of my blog will perhaps realise that I am a massive fan of music – both live and recorded. I have lost count of the amount of bands I have seen. So I have decided as a long-ish term project to try and write down all of the bands I have ever seen…

I expect this to be quite a task! But here goes… for starters…. (there’s around 340 bands I have seen)

2014

Barenaked Ladies – at Oshawa Canada
Arctic Monkeys – at Madison Square Garden New York

Amnesty International Concert – Brooklyn:
Cold War Kids
Lauryn Hill
Colbie Caillat
Blondie
Bob Geldof (again!)
The Fray
Imagine Dragons
Pussy Riot (!) – didn’t actually play
Madonna – ditto!

2013

Bon Jovi
Blondie
The Killers
Boomtown Rats
The Blockheads
The Farm
Happy Mondays
The Levellers
T’Pau
Jake Bugg
Hugh Cornwell (Stranglers front man)
Emilie Sande
Ellie Goulding
Paul Weller
The Stone Roses
Ian Hunter (Mott The Hoople)
Laura Mvula
Ben Howard
The Maccabbes
Bloc Party
Paloma Faith
The Script

The Stranglers
We Will Rock You incl. guest appearance by Brian May

2012

Springsteen
Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds
Tiny Tempah
Biffy Clyro
Pearl Jam
Madness
Jessie J (rubbish)
Feeder
Noah and the Whale
Elbow
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Suzanne Vega
Hue and Cry
Caro emerald
The Stranglers (again!)
Cerys Matthews
The Beat (AKA The English Beat) – Roseland Ballroom New York
Squeeze – ditto

2011

Blondie (Wollaton Park – Splendour)
Feeder – ditto
Scissor Sisters – ditto
Eliza Doolittle – ditto and rubbish.
The Killers (at Hyde Park)
James (ditto)
Kaiser Chiefs (ditto)
Feeder
White Lies
ABC
Boy George
Sharon Corr
The Courteeners
Kaiser Chiefs
Kings Of Leon x 2
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
Lissie
Stornaway
The Vaccines
Hurts
Mike and The Mechanics
Seasick Steve
Maverick Sabre
Iggy Pop
Pulp
Tom Jones
The British Pink Floyd Show
Nick Lowe
Plan B
The Script
Cast
Public Image Limited
Manic Street Preachers

2010

White Lies
Kings of Leon (Ricoh)
Faithless (Nottingham Arena)
Example
Squeeze (x2 Isle of Wight and Nottingham Concert Hall)
The Lightning Seeds
Gorillaz (Birmingham NIA)
De La Soul
British Sea Power (Derby Assembly Rooms)
Manic Street Preachers
Clockwork Lights
Scouting for Girls
Gary Numan (Rock City)
The Australian Pink Floyd Show (Manchester)
Barenaked Ladies
Reel Big Fish
The Stranglers
The Renegades (VIP show at Birmingham)
The Members
Jay-Z & Kanye West
Florence And The Machine
Calvin Harris
Suzi Quatro
Shakespears Sister
The Strokes
Blondie
Biffy Clyro
Vampire Weekend
Crowded House
Paloma Faith
Noah and the Whale
Bombay Bicycle Club
Paul McCartney
Pink
Editors
Spandau Ballet
Friendly Fires
James
The Alarm
Ocean Colour Scene

2009

The Killers (x2 – New York Madison Square Garden & Nottingham Arena)
Little Boots (New York – The Bowery Ballroom)
Fleetwood Mac (London)
Bananarama
Basement Jaxx
Calvin Harris
Iglu & Hartly
Ladyhawke
Maximo Park
Neil Young
Noisettes
Pendulum
Pixie Lott
Pixies
Razorlight (x2 Isle of wight and Nottingham Arena)
Simple Minds
Stereophonics
The Arcadian Kicks
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
The Charlatans
Human League
Maccabees
The Pigeon Detectives
The Prodigy
The Rakes
The Rifles
Script
The Ting Tings
The View
Ultravox
White Lies

2008

Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions band (Sheffield)
Robbie Williams (Leeds Roundhay – September)
Basement Jaxx (support for Robbie Williams)
Orson (ditto)
Maximo Park
The Black Kids (Nottingham Trent University – October)
Ladyhawke (ditto)
Ray Lamontagne (New York)
Tristran Prettyman (ditto)
Amy Macdonald
Bjorn Again
Delays
Feeder
Ian Brown
Iggy & the Stooges
Kaiser Chiefs
Kate Nash
KT Tunstall
Newton Faulkner
One Night Only
Scouting For Girls
Sex Pistols
Starsailor
Delays
The Answer
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
The Cribs
The Enemy
The Hoosiers
The Kooks
The Music
The Police
The Stranglers
The Wombats
The Zutons (x2)
The Couteeners
Razorlight

2007

Eric Clapton (who indulged himself at my expense)
A-Ha
Amy Winehouse
Ash
Echo and the Bunnymen
Groove Armada (2 x Isle of Wight and Rock City)
James Morrison
Kasabian
Keane
Melanie C
Snow Patrol
The Feeling
The Fratellis
Muse
Wolfmother
The Rolling Stones
Kasabian
Paolo Nutini

2006

Goldfrapp
Placebo
The Prodigy
The Rakes
Dirty Pretty Things
Editors
Foo Fighters
Primal Scream
Suzanne Vega
The Kooks
The Proclaimers
Coldplay
The Delays
Kubb
Lou Reed
Maximo Park
Procul Harum
Richard Ashcroft

2005

The Magic Numbers
Starsailor
Snow Patrol
R.E.M. (x2)
Caravan
Travis
Roxy Music
Ray Davies
Nine Black Alps
Feeder
Goldie Looking Chain
Ray Davies
Baby Shambles
Supergrass
Razorlight
Idlewild
Faithless
Glen Tilbrook (on the Nottingham Tram)

2004

David Bowie
Snow Patrol
Suzanne Vega
The Stands
The Charlatans
British Sea Power
Super Furry Animals
Jet
Manic Street Preachers
Steve Harley
The Who
Delays
Groove Armada
Stereophonics
Electric Soft Parade

Pre 2004

Barenaked Ladies (Birmingham & Leeds)
Aswad
Icehouse
The Bravery
Bowie (x11)
Tin Machine (at the Cambridge Corn Exchange)
Madness
The Selector
The Specials
The Members (at the Sandpiper Music Machine Nottingham – 1979)
The Merton Parkas (ditto)
The Boomtown Rats (x6)
U2
Del Amitri
Boney M (yes really)
S Club 7 (ditto)
Green Day
Big Country
Icehouse
Bruce Springsteen (Milton Keynes Bowl – 1993)
Oasis (Nottingham Arena 2008)
A-Ha (x2)
Incubus (x2)
Blondie (1997)
Crowded House
David Gray
Foo Fighters
Faithless (x2)
The Divine Comedy
The Guillemots
Matchbook Romance
Level 42
Inxs (not with Michael Hutchence)
Lindisfarne (x2)
KC and the Sunshine Band
Squeeze (1982 at Theatre Royal – including Jools Holland)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Chris Rea (at Birmingham)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads (just before he died)
Shane McGowan and The Popes
Patti Smith (New York)
Kool and the Gang (!)
Kings of Leon
Arcade Fire
Robert Palmer
The Waterboys
We are Scientists
The Wildhearts