The War On Drugs · 2022

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Paddy
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Shows seen *since 2007389322 gigs, 53 festivals, 14 club nights

Most seen12The NationalEzra Furman 10 · Jeff Rosenstock 9 · 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 but kept out of the band stats, 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 389 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

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.

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Seen live ×14 photos

Gigs

oldest first

23Jul 2016Show 1 of 1

Support / on the bill

Panorama 2016

Randall's Island Park · New York Bill: Kendrick Lamar, Arcade Fire, FKA Twigs, Broken Social Scene, Sufjan Stevens, Blood Orange

One more from Panorama taken during Kendrick's set. Great festival, well organised, awesome acts. Looking forward to next year 😀 #panorama
Posted on Instagram · 24 Jul 2016

Wow! FKA Twigs show is fantastic. Looks like a Broadway production but with better music.
Posted on Instagram · 22 Jul 2016

Sufjan's live shows are a bit different to the album's. Way less songs about death, lot more neon.
Posted on Instagram · 23 Jul 2016

Dev shredding. Loving the new Blood Orange band, still not sold on the new material.
Posted on Instagram · 23 Jul 2016

Big Win shouts at his little band. #arcadefire
Posted on Instagram · 23 Jul 2016

One of my favorite live bands, playing one of my favorite songs :) BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE!
Posted on Instagram · 22 Jul 2016

Ridiculously shitty day, but I'm finally sat in a field drinking a surprisingly good beer watching the fantastic Preservation Hall Jazz Band :)
Posted on Instagram · 22 Jul 2016

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