1. Badly Drawn Boy - Olympia & Witnness 2. Orbital - Glastonbury 3. The Beta Band - Glastonbury

my 3 (cents) 1. Sigur Ros, Ambassador 2. Cinerama, Spirit(abbey st.) 3. The Frames, Vicar St. (yesterday!)

Hmm tough one. The great were Glen Tilbrook @ Whelans Lloyd Cole @ Vicar St Dylan @ The Point The *real bad* were Glen Hansard @ Whelans Grand Drive @ Whelans (Sat night, brutal crowd) The "Promised much but disappointed" were Morrissey @ the Ambassador Aimee Mann & The National Stadium The one gig that really surprised me was Coldplay @ the Point. I was expecting it to be poor but it rocked in a big way.

Three that come to mind are....Low at the Olympia, Natalie Merchant at the Olympia and Cathal Coughlan in the Shelter. Joe Pernice played a stormer at Vicar St but that might have been the end of 2001.....I'm trusting my memory on these, not always reliable.

Top Ten Gigs of the year..... 1. Hi.Rise at Witnness (*mashed #1) - 1 for d Irish! 2. Air at Witnness (*mashed #2) 3. Basement Jaxx, ahh Witnness again (*mashed #3) 4. Groove Armada, yeah you guessed it, Witnness! (*mashed #4) 5. BRMC, Ambassador (apart from having to c Andrew WK's lovechildren) (*not mashed) 7. The Coral at Witnness (*not mashed yet) 8. Spiritualized – Ambassador 9. The Chemical Brothers – WITNNESS (*way mashed #5) 10. Is anyone else having trouble remembering if they were at particular gigs this year when they were actually on the year before? (*too much mashing)

interpol-spirit coldplay-the point the coral-witness thethings-death disco............get my vote as gig(s) of the year

Sigur Ros Ambassador,,, St Etienne in Olympia (2 gigs 1 nite) Bobby Conn in Whelans (oh my god what a gig) Redneckmanifesto supporting Decal last Friday in Whelans White Stripes - Dublin castle Mundy in Spirit Stokre Dundalk (just him and a guitar, far superior to the Vicar Street show a week earlier) One gig I can't wait for is BRMC Saturday night...

Roesy and Mundy @ the kingshead in Galway David Kitt @ Cuba in Galway foo Fighters @ witness ( definitey not at the point tho)

Ryan Adams last night in the Olympia...

cornelius - witnness sigur ros - ambassador bell x 1 & the frames - whelans (i think that was this year)

Sigur Ros, Ambassador

BRMC last night @ The Olympia The Things @ Death Disco, Dorans Prince @ Spirit White Stripes @ Dublin Castle

Sigur Ros - Ambassador Decal + Redneck Manifesto - Whelans Dissapointment of the year: Sparklehorse - Olympia Such a s**te gig!

Skylarking - Vicar St. The Frames, Damian Rice, Gemma Hayse, Mundy, Paddy Casey, Kila, ... I could go on and on and ... The gig was outstanding. Never seen anything better ever, not just this year. I for got the Mundy Gig in the Lobby this summer. Damian Rice turned up and played Guitar and Glenn Handsard was on Drums for a bit. Afterward Damian and Mundy were on the street outside busking away for over an hour, playing covers. Classic. I was at the Heinekin gig (Damian R - The Frames) b4 that and that is probably No.3

skylarkin - vicar st.Dublin Mark geary - The Blackbird, Ballycotton Nina Hynes - The Lobby, Sept sometime Fred - The half moon, Oct. sometime There have been others but i just can't think right now..