The War On Drugs · 2022

A living music journal

Paddy
Has Needs

Shows seen *since 2007394322 gigs, 58 festivals, 14 club nights & other

Most seen19The NationalEzra Furman 10 · Jeff Rosenstock 10 · The Magnetic Fields 9

Playlist · 20262026 Tracks

Gigs this year: 19

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Paddy's Gig Log

Every show I could find a ticket for, from Anathallo at the Borderline in 2008 to whatever's on next week in Brooklyn. Festivals and club nights are logged as events. A band only counts as seen at a festival if I called them out at the time, since nobody remembers exactly who they saw at Gov Ball.

Tap any name for that artist's page: every time I've seen them, photos from Instagram, and where they turn up in my albums of the year.

Shows attended 394 2007–2026

Shows per year

GigsFestivalsClub nights & other

Busiest year: 2025 with 38 shows. 2020 has just one: New Colossus in March, the week everything shut down. Everything else booked that year was cancelled.

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399 of 399 shows

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Albums of the Year

Every year-end list from the blog, ranked the way Paddy ranks them: by how much each record actually got played.

Every number one

Regulars

Artists who made the list in three or more years.

Everyone in the log and the lists

Artists

One page per artist, with every gig in date order, photos and clips from Instagram where I posted any, and their appearances in Albums of the Year. Festivals and nights out get a page per event series.

Latest photos

from Instagram

A to Z

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Artist

Coolio

Seen live ×15 photos

Gigs

oldest first

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Support / on the bill

Riot Fest 2022 (Friday)

Douglass Park · Chicago Also saw: Bleachers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Linda Lindas, Sleater-Kinney, Jeff Rosenstock, My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, The Wonder Years

Clip from Instagram

Chicago! So much fun at Riot Fest, Bleachers, YYY’s, Linda Linda’s, Sleater Kinney, Jeff Rosenstock, My Chem, Jimmy Eat World, Coolio(!), Wonder Years and quite a few smaller bands I loved. Plus we threw in a trip to Buddy Guys blues Club for good measure. Thanks to @brooklyn.brit @alissajayne @bhickey87 for the lovely company as always ❤️ #riotfest
Posted on Instagram · 21 Sep 2022

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