This guy is addicted to gigahol, according to the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7741457.stm

5,000 gigs is pretty impressive, though.

lol Ray Morrissey

I wonder what his wife thinks of this oh wait

For someone who's seen that amount of live music, it's a startlingly banal list of favourite shows.

Well, (without looking at the list), if he'd been to more 'substantial' shows, he may not have needed to go to this list...

(e.g. My Bloody Valentine = "not going to any more gigs for a month")

Right Said Fred at number 3 was a bold pick.

"The greatest day in live music ever," he declared about Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in 1985 (10/10).

lol

Yeah, I enjoyed that Nik Kershaw set too.

For someone who's seen that amount of live music, it's a startlingly banal list of favourite shows.

my thoughts exactly.

kudos to his devotion though.

his website is bizarre though. what's with this:

Mon sees Extreme play their first London show for years at The Astoria supported by Hot Leg (whose singer is Justin ex Darkness).......Tues sees The Alarm play The Islington Academy.Tix 15 quid in adv.....and Paul Weller plays the second of his three shows at Brixton Academy............ 22 Nov 2008.Motorhead + Saxon live at Hammersmith Apollo,London.Get to the venue at 7.30pm and there is 100 in the guest list queue so end up missing the first band Danko Jones.The girl in the box office tells me there is a massive 300 or 400 on the guest list tonight.Wow. Saxon play a really good 50 mins of catchy rock. Tunes inc "Motorcycle Man","And The Bands Played On","747(Strangers In The Night" and "Princess Of The Night".The crowd loved it.What can you say about the rock legend that is Lemmy? Motorhead are another band who i have a lot of history with as i have seen them over 25 times since the 1970s.Even now Lemmy stills calls it The Hammersmith Odeon and refuses to say the A word.I was there for "No Sleep Till Hammersmith " live album in the early 1980s.Their dirty wall of noise is just brilliant.The 95 mins set included "Stay Clean","Metropolis", "Over The Top" and their cover of Sex Pistols "God Save The Queen" dedicated To Steve Jones.They played a couple of tracks from new album "Motorizer".Also "Just Because You Got The Power" and a stunning "Killed By Death" where they were joined by five female dancers in underwear with fire tricks.Encores of "Whorehouse Blues" a pukka "Ace Of Spades" where they were joined by Wurzel on guitar and then a perfect "Overkill" with a blaze of strobes and the dancing girls came back on.A great show. This was the last night of their UK tour before they head into mainland Europe for a month.See aftershow page for this gig...................... 19 Nov 2008.The Fratellis live at The Hard Rock Cafe,London.This was an invite only acoustic show for some 250 people for Q Mag Music Club. Its half comp winners and half music biz and media.Free cocktails,beer and Hard Rock grub is flowing all night for all which is great but that means loads of the music biz/media folks at the back are more interested in the free booze and chatting away for the bands entire set.The Fratellis have had a great year with the success of their "Costello Music" album.Tonight they play for 60 mins but never really get going. Set included "Baby Doll","A Heady Tale" neat covers of Pink Floyds "Breathe In The Air" and Led Zeps "Rock

it goes onanon.

Trainspotter not really giving a shit about trains shockah.

"Snuff" by Irvine Welsh to thread.

I bet "The Yeti" from Bristol could beat him! That guy is at 90% of gigs I attend.
Mike, Bristol, UK

^^^achh that fucking guy

Doesn't Steve "Lammo" Lamacq go to something like 250 half-arsed indie gigs a year?

Fair play to him, but oh my, that jacket is tragic.

Worth posting:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45227000/jpg/_45227200_ray_226170.jpg

It even has a Q magazine badge on it!

Wonder what the big logo on his back is?

Anal Cunt amirite?

gig is one of the worst words

Particularly when preceded by the word "Fratellis".

Before I read the linked article I thought this was about a guy who has downloaded 5000 gigs of music.

"A woman walked on to the stage and smacked Howard full in the face," was the entry after a Howard Jones gig at Camden's Jazz Café in 1995 (9/10).

^^^^^curious to know the story behind this

Probably heard his music.

Also worth posting:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45227000/jpg/_45227201_sexpistols_226.jpg

L-R: Dev out of Corrie, Richard Dawkins, Lance Henrikson, Some Bloke in a Wig

no:

Garth, Devoto, Maher, Shelley...

1. Sex Pistols
2. The Clash
3. Kiss
4. AC/DC
5. U2
6. David Bowie
7. The Rolling Stones
8. The Who
9. Thin Lizzy
10. Van Halen

who the hell picks THIN LIZZY as their edgy canon-busting band

He's a 49 year-old virgin in a leather jacket covered in badges and a James patch. Don't think he were going for edgy.

Also wd take Thin Lizzy over most of the 8 above them on the list.

Yeah, don't fuck with Thin Lizzy, especially live.

What is that sign on his jacket above the Q?

Take That?

It certainly looks like it.

Also wd take Thin Lizzy over most of the 8 above them on the list.

Yes. Lizzy over everyone except maybe the who, for me.

POLL: Thin Lizzy vs Steely Dan

^^^on purpose?

n/m

Does he actually know all the song names or does he grab the setlist every evening? I mean recognising Motorhead songs you've been listening to for 30 years is one thing, but if I was seeing 10 bands a week I wouldn't have sat around familiarising myself with the Fratellis' oeuvre

(just defensive cz I'm not a titles person, probably couldn't put titles to noises on most of the music I've acquired in the past decade)

Thin Lizzy fit perfectly well into that list. If anyone sticks out like a sore thumb then it's U2.

No Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, no credibility.

Before I read the linked article I thought this was about a guy who has downloaded 5000 gigs of music.

― Tuomas, Monday, November 24, 2008 7:58 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

My first thought was how long does it take to download five terabytes of music...