A few months ago I wrote about how I had started attending a few listening parties to replace the lack of live music in my life. As I’ve got an automation (via IFTTT) that outputs everything from my calendar to a spreadsheet then it’s fairly easy for me to know how many “a few” actually is.
- Open Season (British Sea Power)
- The 3 EPs (The Beta Band)
- Different Class (Pulp)
- Power Corruption & Lies (New Order)
- Boat to Bolivia (Martin Stephenson & The Daintees)
- Dog Man Star (Suede)
- Architecture and Morality (OMD)
- 1977 (Ash)
- Divide & Exit (Sleeper)
- Dogrel (Fontaines DC)
- Do You Like Rock Music? (British Sea Power)
- Rattlesnakes (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions)
- IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME LIVE (The Twilight Sad)
- Figure 8 (Elliott Smith)
- I Should Coco (Supergrass)
- The Coral (The Coral)
- Love (The Cult)
- Real life (Joan As Policewoman)
- Before Today (Ariel Pink)
- Rum, Sodomy & The Lash (The Pogues)
- Hand. Cannot. Erase. (Steven Wilson)
- Be Here Now (Oasis)
- Infected (The The)
- Man of Aran (British Sea Power)
- Dig Your Own Hole (Chemical Brothers)
- Revel in the Drama (Ren Harvieu)
- Trials of Van Occupanther (Midlake)
- Last Splash (The Breeders)
- The Boy with the Arab Strap (Belle & Sebastian)
- Shortly After Takeoff (BC Camplight)
- Cafe Bleu (The Style Council)
- A Maximum High (Shed Seven)
- Bandwagonesque (Teenage Fanclub)
- Low Life (New Order)
- Machineries of Joy (British Sea Power)
- Boat (Pip Blom)
- Foolish Loving Spaces (Blossoms)
- Up to Our Hips (Charlatans)
- West Kirby County Primary (Bill Ryder Jones)
- When I Have Fears (The Murder Capital)
- The It Girl (Sleeper)
- High Land, Hard Rain (Aztec Camera)
- Moonshine Freeze (This is the Kit)
- Glasvegas (Glasvegas)
- I’ve Seen Everything (Trashcan Sinatras)
- Attack of the Grey Lantern (Mansun)
- I Believe (Tim Burgess)
- Eton Alive (Tim Burgess)
- Six (Mansun)
- Valhalla Dancehall (British Sea Power)
- Brutalism (IDLES)
- The Raven (The Stranglers)
- Joy as an Act of Resistance (IDLES)
- Separation Sunday (The Hold Steady)
- Source Tags & Codes (…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead)
- Sea of Brass (British Sea Power)
- University (Throwing Muses)
- Let the Dancers Inherit the Party (British Sea Power)
- Magic & Medicine (The Coral)
- Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division)
- Pale Green Ghosts (John Grant)
- Oh, Inverted World (The Shins)
- Nixon (Lambchop)
- Feast of Wire (Calexico)
- Don’t Get Weird On Me, Babe (Lloyd Cole)
- Deserter’s Songs (Mercury Rev)
- Want One (Rufus Wainwright)
- I Love The New Sky (Tim Burgess)
- Giant Steps (The Boo Radleys)
- From the Sea to the Land Beyond (British Sea Power)
- Faith (The Cure)
- Fibs (Anna Meredith)
- Force (A Certain Ratio)
- Insurgentes (Steven Wilson)
- Holiday Destination (Nadine Shah)
- The Decline of British Sea Power (British Sea Power)
- Let’s get out of this Country (Camera Obscura)
- Harcore Can Never Die But You Will (Mogwai)
- Stranger (Our Girl)
- Seamosters (The Wedding Present)
- The Crackdown (Caberet Voltaire)
- Dazzle Ships (OMD)
- Philophobia (The Arab Strap)
- Source Tags & Codes (..And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead)
- Costello Music (The Fratellis)
- Aviary (Julia Holter)
- Leave Me Alone (Hinds)
- Beauty Stab (ABC)
- A Certain Trigger (Maximo Park)
- Red Roses For Me (The Pogues)
- Aladdin Sane (David Bowie)
- Fisherman’s Blues (Waterboys)
- Underwater Moonlight (The Soft Boys)
- Kitchen Sink (Nadine Shah)
- Levelling the Land (The Levellers)
- If I Should Fall From Grace With God (The Pogues)
- Diamond Dogs (David Bowie)
- Troublegum (Therapy?)
- Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (The Dandy Warhols)
- All Things Being Equal (Sonic Boom)
- 101 Damnations (Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine)
- Grand Prix (Teenage Fanclub)
- Fear Of Music (Talking Heads)
- Closer (Joy Division)
- Young Americans (David Bowie)
- This Is The Sea (The Waterboys)
- Soul Mining (The The)
- Yuck (Yuck)
- All Is Dream (Mercury Rev)
- Technique (New Order)
- Pin Ups (David Bowie)
- Have You In My Wilderness (Julia Holter)
- Kaleidoscope (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
- A Pagan Place (The Waterboys)
- The Don of Diamond Dreams (Shabazz Palaces)
- Mind Bomb (The The)
- Bizarro (The Wedding Present)
- Doolittle (Pixies)
- Good Luck, Seeker (The Waterboys)
- Movement (New Order)
- Fibs (Anna Meredith)
- Hours (David Bowie)
- Surfer Rosa (Pixies)
- Dusk (The The)
- Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (Twilight Sad)
- The Queen Is Dead (The Smiths)
- Mainstream (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions)
- Seventeen Seconds (The Cure)
- Strangeways Here We Come (The Smiths)
- ACR Loco (A Certain Ratio)
- Pornography (The Cure)
- Jet Plane and Oxbow (Shearwater)
- Hex Enduction Hour (The Fall)
- Grotesque (After The Gramme) (The Fall)
- Slates (The Fall)
- Four-Calendar Café (The Cocteau Twins)
- New Facts Emerge (The Fall)
- All Blessed (Faithless)
- Nobody Wants to Be Here & Nobody Wants to Leave (Twilight Sad)
- Songs From Northern Britain (Teenage Fanclub)
- Gladsome, Humour & Blue (Martin Stephenson And The Daintees)
- Room To Roam (The Waterboys)
- Music In A Foreign Language (Lloyd Cole)
- Heaven Is Whenever (The Hold Steady)
- Songs From The Big Chair (Tears For Fears)
- Kiss Ass, Godhead! (Membranes)
- This Is the Day…This Is the Hour…This Is This! (Pop Will Eat Itself)
This is everything I’ve listened to that I actually put in my calendar. There may be a few more ad-hoc ones that I didn’t record, but it’s still quite a lot. One day I might go through them and work out how many were new-to-me albums, but that day is not today.