Best Gigs of 2007

Yes, I know this is a bit late. I wrote out this list meaning to add comments on each gig and then forgot about it … so now I decided I may as well post the list as it is rather than just delete it. So here it is, my favourite gigs of 2007 (it may seem like a lot, but it is about a quarter of the gigs that I went to)

  • 17/2 The Evens at Urtext
  • 28/2 Camera Obscura, Ned Collette at Rocket
  • 9-11/3 WOMAD at Botanic Park, particularly Etran Finitawa, Huun Huur Tu and Femi Kuti
  • 31/3 GB3 at the Garden of Unearthly Delights
  • 3/4 The Pixies and Jarvis Cocker at Thebarton Theatre
  • 5/4 Mike Cooper, Daniel Varicchio at Urtext
  • 4/5 Ninetynine, Birth Glow, All Made of Rubies at Electric Light
  • 12/5 No Through Road at Urtext
  • 22/6 Mick Harvey at the Space Theatre
  • 13/7 Dinosaur Jr at the Gov
  • 17/8 Zulya & The Children of the Underground at the Church of the Trinity
  • 18/8 No Through Road, Spindickle, 200 Motels at the Jade Monkey (Greens Adelaide Campaign Launch)
  • 24/8 Brunatex at the Jade Monkey
  • 25/8 Little Ice Age at the Wheatsheaf
  • 8/9 Benga at the Rhino Room
  • 22/9 No Through Road, Little Ice Age at the Prince Albert
  • 12/10 Art of Fighting at Jive
  • 19/10 Nick Cave/ Grinderman at Thebarton Theatre
  • 11/11 Bill Callahan, Sea Thieves at the Jade Monkey
  • 27/12 Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective at the Vanguard, Newtown in Sydney
  • 29/12 Vex’d at Herman’s, Sydney Uni.