Not a lot:
The Klaxons
Ray Davies
The Who
Franz Ferdinand
Sonic Youth
The Sonics
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
The Hives
Patrick Wolf
Lily Allen
Glasvegas
Vampire Weekend
Band of Horses
Arctic Monkeys
My Bloody Valentine
Anthony and the Johnsons
Beirut

Sure I forgot someone...

To the people who have seen Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The White Stripes live, how are they?

Joe Nichols
Three Doors Down
Breaking Benjamin
No Address
Coheed and Cambria (2x)
Slipknot
Trivium
Staind
Hamelin (4x)
Weird Al
Killswitch Engage
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Thursday (Under the fake name Bearfoot)
Hawthorne Heights (Under the fake name The Death Of...)
Silverstein (Under the fake name XCanuckX)
Boys Like Girls
Cartel
Say Anything
New Found Glory
Hellogoodbye
Muse
The Pink Spiders
Secondhand Serenade
Paramore
The Spill Canvas
MC Hammer (That's right, bitches.)
Jedi Mind Tricks
Mae
Armor for Sleep
Thrice
Yellowcard
Anberlin
Plain White T's
Halifax
Melee
Forgive Durden
Chicago
Earth Wind & Fire

EDIT: Added two mo'

sloan
malefaction
neil young
black halos
tricky woo
tragically hip
pink mountaintops
the adicts
earl scruggs
steve earle


...and I might be seeing the jesus lizard come november. The rest are bands no ones even heard of, and I don't even remember who they were.

I've got a really embarrassing list, as rare are the good bands that come here. [I go more to pubs or theaters for experimental underground music]

-James Blunt [had free backstage tickets] (feb 2009)
-Emir Kusturica & The No smoking Band (Aug 2009)

Hope my next year will be a bit better.

You're from Lebanon right? I guess I can count my blessings for living in Croatia.

^ lol yeah, you really should. It's good if you love to watch constant concerts by Tiesto, David Guetta, Armin Van Buren, Pussycat Dolls, Akon and Snoop Dog.

Tho this summer there was a concert by Deep Purple and another by Jethro Tull, but didn't have enough money.

Is Lebanon a bit of an exception as far as Middle Eastern countries are concerned? I have a hard time thinking the Pussycat dolls would do a show in Jordan or Syria...:\

^Our local female singers are a bit like frustrated tone-deaf porn stars, a bit of a sexual relief to the surrounding countries. That's why the Arab world doesn't care anymore about "good" music, some things are more important at that moment.

Here's one for you:


They don't never sing live, they alway lip-sync. What's even worse is that this singer is going to participate in the tribute for Michael Jackson, in Vienna.

Is it wrong that I kinda enjoyed that?

I saw Dave Matthews Band this past Saturday. I'm kind of neutral about these guys. I don't hate them like a lot of people do but I'm not really what you'd call a fan either. My wife likes them though so I took her for her birthday and holy shit was it a boring concert! It's hard to pinpoint exactly what made it so dull but it was seriously difficult to sit through.