The War On Drugs · 2022

A living music journal

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

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

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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

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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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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

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Artists who made the list in three or more years.

Everyone in the log and the lists

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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.

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LIFE

Seen live ×15 photos

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oldest first

11Mar 2020Show 1 of 1

Support / on the bill

The New Colossus Festival 2020

Lower East Side venues · New York Also saw: Tim Burgess, Honey Cutt

With both me and Chelsea told to work from home for the foreseeable future the risk of spreading any potential COVID was sufficiently low enough for me to get out to the last day of @newcolossusfestival . The line up changes meant I missed a few bands I wanted. But did see Tim Burgess, Life, and Honey Cutt. Gig 2/40 in the books. #PJ40before40
Posted on Instagram · 15 Mar 2020

Wow! What a way to kick off my gig year. @lifeband are gonna take some beating on Day 1! So good. #newcolossus #PJ40before40
Posted on Instagram · 11 Mar 2020

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