Another year of live music has passed and 2012 has been a fantastic year for gigs. This year I went Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona and also had the fortune of seeing a lot of the bands again when they visited Manchester.

A full list of bands I saw this year is below. Highlights included, Fucked Up, Boris, Earth and Dirty Three.

• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – Academy 3 – 2-2-2012
• Brand New – Academy 1 – 9-2-2012
• Twilight Sad – Ruby Lounge – 10-2-2012
• Rodrigo y Gabriella – Ritz – 22-2-2012
• Earth – Ruby Lounge – 7-3-2012
• Shearwater – Deaf Institute – 31-3-2012
• Pelican – Ruby Lounge – 11-4-2012
• Sounds from the other city 2012 – Salford – 6-5-2012
• iLiKETRAINS – The Soup Kitchen – 12-5-2012
• Primavera Sound 2012 – Barcelona – 30-5-2012
• Sunn O))) – Ritz – 11-6-2012
• Refused – Academy 1 – 14-8-2012
• Fat Out Fest 2012 – Islington Mill – 25-8-2012
• Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group – Deaf Institute – 27-9-2012
• Why? – Central Methodist Hall – 10-11-2012
• …And you will know us by the trail of dead – Club Academy – 11-10-2012
• The Wedding Present – Ritz – 9-11-2012
• Fucked Up – Deaf Institute – 14-11-2012
• Beak> – Deaf Institute – 16-11-2012
• Dirty Three – Manchester Cathedral – 21-11-2012
• Hundred Reasons – Academy 1 – 23-11-2012
• MONO – Sound Control – 2-12-2012
• Boris – Islington Mill – 5-12-2012
• Crooked Fingers – Castle Hotel – 6-12-2012

View my Last.fm page to find out more about the music I listen to.

I have recently returned from Primavera Sound 2012 in Barcelona. It has been the most intense five days of non-stop face melting, ear blowing, head exploding music. Highlights included:

The Wedding Present performing Sea Monsters, Archers of Loaf playing in the tiny Ray Ban Unplugged tent, Mudhoney, Beirut, Dirty Three, The Cure, Harvey Milk, Refused, Shellac and Yo La Tengo.

Such an incredible festival with such diverse and insanely good music ranging from Indie, folk, electronic to Doom, Noise, Drone and Metal.