The War On Drugs · 2022

A living music journal

Paddy
Has Needs

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

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.

Most seen

headline or support

Most visited venues

all event types

Most visited cities

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The full log

394 of 394 shows

Date	Who	Where	Type

Paddy Has Needs · annual blog, 2011–2026

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

394 pages

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Festival / night out

Riot Fest

Seen live ×210 photos

Editions

oldest first

16Sep 2022Show 1 of 2

Festival

Riot Fest 2022 (Friday)

Douglass Park · Chicago

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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