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More so I can remember than anything (although they might have varied from these, I often write a set list then play different tracks to what I intended).

Anyhow:
Number 1 (Feb 26th)
Thunderbirds are Now! - Better Safe Than Safari
Les Georges Leningrad - Skulls In The Closet
Q And Not U - Little Sparkee
The Blood Brothers - Lazer Life
Jawbone - Chug a Lug
Atmosphere - Trying to find a Balance
Final Fantasy - (This is the Dream of) Win and Regine
Two Gallants - Las Cruces Jail
Defiance, Ohio - Oh, Susquehanna!
The Decemberists - Chimbley Sweep
Fugazi - Break
Feist - Mushaboom [Postal Service Mix]
Now It's Overhead - Walls
Jaga Jazzist - Day
65daysofstatic - Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here
Bright Eyes - Gold Mine Gutted (James Figurine Mix)
Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down (FakeIDs Scummy Mix)
The Knife - We Share Our Mothers Health (Ratatat Mix)

No2 - Mid Marchish
Thunderbirds Are Now! - From: Skulls
Les Georges Leningrad - Mammal Beats
Lullabye Arkestra - Nation of Two
The Good Life - Friction!
Gogol Bordello - Sally
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Murder By Death - Brother
Final Fantasy - The CN Tower Belongs to the Dead
World/Inferno Friendship Society - Paul Robeson
The Faint - Agenda Suicide
Azure Ray - New Resolution [TPS Mix]
Now It's Overhead - Wait In Line [Faint Mix]
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights [John Tejada Mix]
Hot Chip - Over and Over [Party Ben's Smell of Repetition Mix]
Tegan and Sara Vs. Mylo - Walking With A Ghost in Paris 2007
The Knife - Like A Pen

No3 - April 2nd?

No4 - 23rd April 2007

1. What are you listening to right now ?
Yo La Tengo - Mr Tough

2. What song makes you sad?
Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Obladi Oblada by the Beatles

4. Your all time favorite band?
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, or A Silver Mt Zion

5. Your newly discovered band is?
Of Montreal, and Beirut.

6. Best female voice?
Nina Simone, runners up prizes for Regina Spektor, Jenny Lewis, Cat Power and Bjork.

7. Best male voice?
Efrim Menuch, followed by Owen Pallet. Also maybe Robert Smith.

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most?
Alternative - often either Post-Rock or Folk-rockish stuff.

9. What do you listen to, to hype you up?
Girl Talk, The Blood Brothers, Kiss Kiss, Menomena

10. What do you listen to, to calm down?
My Dad Vs Yours or Explosions in the Sky

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
Regina Spektor at Academy 1, Manchester on Feb 15th. Amazing - but some horrible people in the crowd, she did play 2 new songs and a super rare song though. :D

12. Bands you find yourself listening to the most right now?
A Silver Mt Zion, Beirut, Black Ox Orkestar, Patrick Wolf, Of Montreal, Two Gallants, Arcade Fire, Final Fantasy, Autechre.

13. Most hated band?
Arctic Monkeys. That's not even a question.

14. Song that makes you think?

Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come and Gone) by A Silver Mt Zion.

15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do?
Godspeed You! Black Emperor

16. Coolest music video?
Faithless - Bombs, Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Bombs

17. What do you play/would you play in the bedroom to spice things up?
My Dick is this small because it's 40 by 1 Speed Bike.

18. Can you play a musical instrument?
Yes: Guitar, Bass, Piano.

19. Ever been in a mosh pit?
Yes, I broke two toes and a rib.

20. Are you in a band?
No.

21. If yes, what kind of music does your band play and what is your role in it?

22. Do you wish yourself that you were a musician?
I wish I was better.

23. Best chick band you know of?
Sleater Kinney.

24. Best guy band you know of?
65daysofstatic maybe.

25. Last song that you heard on the radio?
If I listened to radio with music I could tell you. It might have been the hellogoodbye single though - it was horrible.

26. Are you a groupie?
No, I just stalk Regina.

27. Do you listen to music in foreign languages?
French, Serbian, Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaellic, Bretton, Swedish.

28. Worst concert moment?
Getting crushed by a fat sweaty man at Regina.

29. Funny concert moment?
Will Butler falling off the stage at Arcade Fire.

30. Sad Concert moment?
This first time I saw Regina play Samson made me cry.

31. Best local act you can think of?
Fenks

32. If you were a musical instrument what would you be?
Urmmmmmm, a piano, or a harp.

33. Have you met any famous musicians?
This list would too long.

34. Song that best describes your feelings right now?
O
Clean Getaway by Maria Taylor.

35. Song that describes your life?
My life is an album.

36. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to?
Not necessarily, I don't place too much weight on that kind of thing. Bands are the sum of their parts - I'm not sure individual members matter that much to some degree.

37. Favorite movie soundtrack?

Goodbye Lenin or 2001: A Space Odyssey.

38. What do your parents listen to?
Reggae and Punk

39. Do you wear band T-shirts?
Sometimes, I only own 4. Two Gallants, Xiu Xiu, The Smiths and The Ramones.

40. What do you think of people who do?
If you wear a bands t-shirt to their show you should be shot. Otherwise it's an exciting opportunity to judge you.

41. What music sub-culture do you feel like you belong to?
Alternative.

42. What song is stuck in your head right now?
Bloody Motherfucking Asshole by Martha Wainwright because I've just been playing it.

43. Do you sing in the shower?
No

44. If so, what?

45. Would you rather marry a musician or be one yourself?
Both?

46. How important is your partners taste in music to you?
Very, I find it hard to take people who don't take their music seriously serious.

47. Do you cook to music?
I do everything to music.

Apreludes (in C sharp major)

Hooray! It was something I'd never heard before. And it's a damn good song.

So I got really bored...
So here's every artist currently in my iTunes library.

*signifies that I have a lot of it/discographies. Most have at least one entire album/EP.

"Weird Al"
(getachew mekurya)
1-Speed Bike*
1 Giant Leap*
65daysofstatic*
A Plus D
A Silver Mt Zion* (this is ASMZ in all their incarnations)
A Silver Mt Zion plays War Radio (feat. Patti Smith)
Adam and The Ants
The Adam Brown
Adam Green
AFI*
Against Me!*
Air*
Alasdair Roberts
Alexei Zharkarov
Amanda Palmer
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead*
Andy LeMaster & Maria Taylor
Animal Collective
Antony & The Johnsons*
Aphex Twin*
Arcade Fire*
Arcade Fire & David Bowie*
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
At The Drive In*
Atach Tatuq
Atmosphere
Azure Ray
Bad Company
Bad Religion
Bear Vs Shark
Beastie Boys
The Beatles
Bedouin Soundclash
Beethoven
Beirut*
Bell Orchestre*
Belle and Sebastian
Bjork
Black Ox Orkestar*
The Bled
The Blood Brothers*
Boards of Canada*
Bob Dylan*
Boris
Bow Wow Wow
Brian Eno
Bright Eyes*
Bright Eyes/Her Space Holiday
Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova
Bright Eyes/Son, Ambulance
British Sea Power*
Broken Social Scene*
Broken Spindles*
Cake
Calexico/Iron & Wine
Call Me Poupee
Cansei Der Ser Sexy
Carla Bozulich
Cat Power
Circle Takes the Square
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Clash
Clytus Gowold
Cobra Starship
Cocoon
CocoRosie
Coheed and Cambria
Coldplay
Colin Meloy
The Coral
Criteria
The Cure*
Cursive*
Cursive/Silver Scooter
Cut Chemist
Daft Punk
Daniel Lanois
David Bowie*
David Byrne and Brian Eno*
David Ford
David Torn
Dead Kennedys
Death Cab for Cutie
Death From Above 1979
The Decemberists*
Deerhoof
Defiance, Ohio*
Desaparecidos
The Descendents
Devendara Banhart
DeVotchKa
Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dismemberment Plan
DJ Shadow
Dntel*
Do Make Say Think*
The Doors*
The Dresden Dolls*
Dustin O'Halloran
Easy Star All Stars
Eels
EF
The Elected*
Elliott Smith*
Embrace
Ernst Bour
Esmerine*
Europe
The Evens*
The Exploding Hearts
Explosions in the Sky*
The Faint*
Faithless
Fall Out Boy
The Fall*
Francois Couperin/Reitzell
Feist
Fenks
Figurine
Final Fantasy*
Final Fight
Flames
Fly Pan Am*
Four Tet
Francis Travis
Freezepop
Fugazi*
Fugazi Vs Destinys Child
Gang of Four*
Gennadi Rezhdestvensky
Geoff Farina
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
Ghost
Gil Scott Heron
Grizzly Bear
Godspeed You! Black Emperor*
Gogol Bordello
The Good Life*
Greg Graffin
Hangedup
Her Space Holiday
Herbert von Karajan
Hot Chip
Hot Hot Heat
Hrsta*
Hunter Revenge
Idlewild*
Imogen Heap
Internationale Muskinstitut, Darmstadt
Interpol*
Jaga
Jaga Jazzist*
The Jam
James Figurine*
Jawbone
Jawbreaker
Jean Philipe Rameau
Jenny Lewis & Johnathan Rice
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins*
Jimmy Eat World
Joanna Newsom
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
John Fahey
John Tejada
Johnny Cash*
Joie/Dead Blonde Girlfriend
Jordan and Peter Andre (fake?)
Jose Gonzalez
Joy Division*
Kanye West
Kate Bush
Katie Moore
Kelly Clarkson
Kid Koala
The Kills
Kimya Dawson
The Knife*
Kraftwerk
Kupek
Lamb
Laura Veirs
The Lawrence Arms
Les Georges Leningrad
Les Savy Fav
M Ward
Mahjor Bidet
Manic Street Preachers
Maria Taylor*
Matmos*
Mayday
Mayday (UK)
McDj
Metric
The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary
Minor Threat*
Minus the Bear
Mixed/Gyorgi Legeti
Moby
Modest Mouse*
Mogwai*
Montag
Morrissey
MSTRKRFT
Mum*
Murder by Death
Murder City Devils
Muse
My Chemical Romance
My Dad vs Yours*
Mylo
Nwa
Neil Young
Neutral Milk Hotel*
New Order
The New Pornographers
Nine Inch Nails
Nouvelle Vague
Now It's Overhead*
Oceansize
Okkervil River
Omnikron
Only, Son
Orbital
Orenda Fink*
otarie
Ozma
Panic! At the Disco
Park Attack
Patrick Watson*
Patrick Wolf*
Pest
Philip Roebuck
The Pogues
Polmo Poplo
Pop Levi
The Postal Service*
Professor Murder
Propaghandi
Prozak for Lovers
Public Enemy
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Q and Not U*
Quasi
Rachel's*
Radio dept.
Radiohead
The Rapture
Rasputina
Re:*
Red Sparowes
Refused*
Regina Spektor*
Reitzell/Beggs
Richard Skinner
Rilo Kiley*
Rites of Spring*
Rocky Votolato
Roddy Woomble*
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Sage Francis
Scissor Sisters
Set Fire to Flames*
Shadyzane
Shalabi Effect
The Shins
Sigur Ros*
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Smiths*
Socalled
Son, Ambulance
Songs of Green Phesant
Sorry About Dresden
Soundtrack
Spank Rock
The Spells
Squarepusher
Stereo MCs
The Stone Roses
The Strokes
The Strokes & Regina Spektor
Sufjan Stevens*
Sugababes
Swans
System of a Down
Tatu
T. Ramuscherie
Talking Heads*
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists*
Tegan and Sara
Telefauna
tenessee john & li'l andy
These Arms Are Snakes
These Hands
Thom Yorke
Thomas Esekov Patersen
Thursday
Tiger Army
The Tiger Lillies
Tilly and the Wall*
Tortoise*
Travelling Wilburies
TTC
TV on the Radio
Two Gallants*
U2
U2 with Arcade Fire
Underwold
Unknown Artist
Vashti Bunyan
VNV Nation
Wagner
Walter Carlos
The Watson Twins
The Weakerthans
Weezer
White Hassle
Why?*
William Shatnerv
Windsor For Derby
Wolf Parade
World/Inferno Friendship Society
Xiu Xiu*
XXL
Yann Tiersen
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yo La Tengo*

It's about 40% of all my music, my other computer has a shit load more stuff on it, mostly punk, indie and 'classic' albums but some other stuff too. There's also all my CDs and Vinyl that I haven't ripped. There are some guilty pleasures in there, and there's also some shit that I never actually listen to.

1. Which bands/artist do you own the most albums by?
I'm going to take a random guess, and say the band I own the most actual records/albums/cds by is probably Bright Eyes. The band I have the most songs by is probably AFI. I also have a lot of xiu xiu.

2. What was the last song you listened to?
Save Me Save Me

3. What's in your CD player right now?
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes is in my laptops CD drive.

4. What was the last show you attended?
Xiu Xiu at La Sala Rossa on October 19th. It was good.

5. What was the greatest show you've ever been to?
A Silver Mt Zion was pretty fucking amazing.

6. What's the worst show you've ever been to?
No idea - I've seen some pretty dire local bands.

7. What's the most musically involved you have ever been?
Probably right now, I'm helping out Blue Skies Turn Black, I've met with a load of bands who will play in the UK soon and I might be able to get to play in Aber, I'm writing for a local music magazine/newspaper, and I'm also going to work at CST for a few days next week.

8. What shows are you looking forward to?
The Decemberists on Sunday, Blood Brothers/...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead on Monday. Forward Russia! next Thursday.

10. What is your favorite band shirt?
My Xiu Xiu one, because it doesn't look like a band shirt.

11. What musician would you like to hang out with for a day?
Colin Meloy, Efrim Menuck, Jim O'Rourke, Jamie Stewart

12. Who is one musician or group you wish would make a comeback?
Neutral Milk Hotel.

13. Who is one band/artist you've never seen live but always wanted to?
Fugazi

14. Name 4 or MORE flawless albums:
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#(infinity)
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Joy Division - Closer
The Smiths - s/t
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Fugazi - End Hits
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

15. How many music related videos/DVDs do you own?
3 : 1 Giant Leap, Refused Are Fuckin' Dead, Dresden Dolls

16. How many concerts/shows have you been to, total?
Way too many to count. Up at around 20 in the last 2 months alone.

17. Who have you seen the most live?
No idea.

18. What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
2001 A Space Odyssey, or 24 Hour Party People

19. What was your last musical "phase" before you wisened up?
pre-2002 emo (that first wave, Thrice, Thursday etc)

20. What's your "guilty pleasure" that you hate to admit to liking?
I don't have guilty pleasures.

So, concerts I've been to recently, my thoughts, and tracklistings if I can remember:

4th September 2006 - A Silver Mt Zion @ Le National, Montreal

This is was incredible, and quite possibly the closest I've ever had to a religious experience. I just stood in the middle reveling in the amazing sound and letting the songs wash over me - the new material sounds absolutely amazing. 9.5/10 (if I take the support into account the whole show would probably be down to a 6/10)

Tracklist:
(intro)
God Bless Our Dead Marines
Mountains Made of Steam
Blind Blind Blind
could've moved mountains
Take These Hands And Throw Them In The River
Ring Them Bells (Freedom Has Come And Gone)
[encore]
One Million Died to Make this Sound


September 17th 2006 - Atmosphere/Psalm One/Mac Lethal @ Les Saints, Montreal.
Who knows what the support played, they were pretty rubbish. But among tunes Atmosphere did we had:
Good Times (Sick Pimpin')
Always Coming Back Home to You
And some shizzle off the new album that I don't know too well
It was really good fun, very very different to my usual kind of show, so was hugely interesting too. I've got a huge amount of respect for Atmosphere now. Despite his shit choice of support - 7.5/10 for Atmosphere, 3/10 for the support

? September - Oakley Hall/M.Ward @ La Sala Rossa
Not impressed by this show, at all. I don't understand the love for M.Ward going around at the moment, maybe 5/10.

4th October 2006 - Geoff Farina @ La Sala Rossa
A shed load of new songs
The Left Handed Way
Fire
Dissappointed by this, I loved [album artist=Geoff Farina]Reverse Eclipse[/album, the material on that was so good, but this show just didn't match up to that - he was still great, and is a stunning guitarist. So 6/10 for him.

4th October 2006 - Two Gallants @ La Sala Rossa
Steady Rollin'
Two Days Short Tomorrow
The Prodigal Son
Long Summer Day
All Your Faithless Loyalties
Las Cruces Jail
Nothing to You.

This was brilliant, so much fun, and the guys really commanded the stage, and they were lovely when I was chatting to them after. Really really enjoyed this set.
9/10

8th October 2006 - Regina Spektor (+ Only Son as support) @ Le National
Ain't No Cover (8 Miles High) [a capella]
Prisoners
Baby Jesus
The Flowers
Poor Little Rich Boy
Summer in the City
Bobbing for Apples
That Time
On the Radio
Sailor Song
Apres Moi
Better
Edit
Carbon Monoxide
Fidelity
Your Honour
[encore]
Ghost of Corporate Future
Music Box
Field Below
Us
Samson
Hotel Song

Amazing Venue, My Favourite Artist of the moment, amazing set list, brilliant crowd = wonderful night, one of the best shows I've ever been to. 9.8/10 for Regina 7/10 for Only Son.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Moya
- Rocket fall on rocket falls
- Storm (Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven / Gathering Storm / "Welcome To Barco Am/Pm..." / Cancer Towers On Holy Road Hi-Way)
- 9-15-00 (Part One)
- Providence

Neutral Milk Hotel
- Oh Comely
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Two Headed Boy
- Two Headed Boy Part II
- Holland 1945

Cursive
- Art Is Hard
- The Martyr
- Sink To The Beat
- Staying Alive
- Bad Sects
- Retreat!
- A Gentleman Caller

Fugazi
- Appregiator
- Full Disclosure
- Repeater
- Waiting Room
- Break
- Caustic Acrostic
- Blueprint
- The Argument
- Exit Only
- Instrument
- Give Me the Cure
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1. Take your top ten artists and get their 'emo rating'.
If you look on the artist page and then click
<tags> you can see how many times they've been tagged <emo>:

Sufjan Stevens - 32
Neutral Milk Hotel - 26
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - 0
Against Me! - 29
Broken Social Scene - 29
Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - 26
Fugazi - 118
Bright Eyes - 723
Xiu Xiu - 14
Orenda Fink - 0




2. Add them all together and divide by 10 to get the average:
96.8

3. Then divide that by the average of the top ten emo artists, which is 826:
0.11719128329297820823244552058111


so there you have it, I'm 12% emo, down to Bright Eyes and shit tagging of Fugazi.