Here it comes, our version of the inevitable 'end of year' list peddled by everybody everywhere. What makes Uber Rock's list different from every other? Well, how about the fact that the majority of the gigs listed below were attended by our badass writers simply because they are fans of the bands in question? How about the fact that not one PR cock was sucked or arse licked in order to get people into these gigs? Tickets were bought, fists were pumped, horns were thrown, the ulterior motive to have a great time to a backdrop of ass-kicking rock 'n' roll.
Complaints came from favourite songs not being played rather than the difficulties of getting our guest passes or of having to take photographs from the mixing desk. Uber Rock supports live music - we don't claim to be fans and then refuse to go to a show because our freebie hasn't been forthcoming, because we have to leave after taking three songs worth of photographs, we do this because we love it. Uber Rock is a gang and we want you to be a part of it: Join or Die.
Read on as the 24 members of the UR Massive that matter fill you in with their favourite ten gigs from 2011.
Mark Ashby
1) Mama's Boys - Belfast, Spring and Airbrake 2) Y&T - Belfast, Spring and Airbrake 3) 30 Seconds To Mars - Belfast, Belsonic Festival 4) Rob Zombie - Newcastle, O2 Academy 5) Flogging Molly - Belfast, Mandela Hall 6) Worldsend - Belfast, Ma Nelson's 7) Children Of Bodom/Amon Amarth - Dublin, Vicar Street 8) Creation's Tears - Belfast, The Limelight 9) Pay*ola/Trucker Diablo - Belfast, Empire Music Hall 10) Swanee River - Belfast, Empire Music Hall
Lewis B
1) Gogol Bordello - Bristol, O2 Academy 2) Kasabian - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena 3) Vintage Trouble - Swansea, Sin City 4) Michael Monroe - Bristol, O2 Academy 5) Ginger - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach 6) The Cult - Bristol, O2 Academy 7) Toots and the Maytalls - Bristol, O2 Academy 8) Warrior Soul - Ebbw Vale, The Steelhouse 9) Revoker - Ebbw Vale, EVI 10) The Guns - Blaenavon, The Workman's Hall
Jason Daniel Baker
1) Basia Lyjak - Toronto, Timothy's Pub 2) Kid Rock - Toronto, Air Canada Centre 3) Eternal Judgement/Fatality/Titan's Eve/Ash Lee Blade - Toronto, The Blue Moon 4) Loverboy/Hollowick - Toronto, Exhibition Place 5) Belles Angels - Mont Tremblant, Mont Tremblant Casino 6) Dylan Goes Electric/Crooked Hill - Toronto, Mod Club 7) Diemonds/Die Mannequin - Toronto, The Horseshoe Tavern 8) Third Dynasty/That Hour In Us - Toronto, Velvet Underground 9) Black Phoenix Orchestra - Toronto, The Horseshoe Tavern 10) Kill Mathilda - Cambridge (Ontario, Canada) The 515 Club
Ian Bell
1) Rob Zombie/Skindred/Revoker - Birmingham, O2 Academy 2) Murderdolls/Black Veil Brides - Bristol, O2 Academy 3) Adam Ant & The Good, The Mad &The Lovely Posse - Cardiff, Coal Exchange 4) Skindred/Chiodos/Me V Hero - Cardiff, Solus 5) Roger Waters - Manchester, M.E.N. Arena 6) Radio Dead Ones - Rebellion Festival 7) Newton Faulkner - Brecon, Theatr Brycheiniog 8) Kasabian - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena 9) Michael Monroe - Hard Rock Hell V 10) Black Spiders/Japanese Voyeurs - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
Matt Blakout
1) Black Country Communion - High Voltage 2) Michael Monroe - Hard Rock Hell V 3) Bonafide - Hard Rock Hell V 4) The Quireboys - Steelhouse Festival 5) Tyketto - Hard Rock Hell V 6) Judas Priest - High Voltage 7) Wolfsbane - Hard Rock Hell V 8) Slash - High Voltage 9) Tainted Nation - Nottingham, Rock City 10) Rival Sons - High Voltage
Nev Brooks
1) Fishbone - Cardiff, The Globe 2) Gogol Bordello/Eureka Machines - Bristol, O2 Academy 3) Sisters Of Mercy - London, Roundhouse 4) Michael Monroe - Bristol, O2 Academy 5) Toots and the Maytalls/Talisman - Bristol, O2 Academy 6) Warrior Soul - Ebbw Vale, Steelhouse 7) Primal Scream/Little Barrie - Cardiff, University 8) Vintage Trouble - Swansea, Sin City 9) Roger Daltrey : Tommy - Bristol, Colston Hall 10) Judas Priest/Rival Sons - Newport Centre
Craggy
1) Terrorvision - Brighton, Concorde 2 2) The Bellrays - London, Borderline 3) INXS - Southern Sounds Festival, Clapham, London 4) Spin Doctors - London, Jazz Cafe 5) Michael Monroe - London, O2 Academy 6) Def Leppard/Motley Crue - London, Wembley Arena 7) Volbeat/Black Spiders - London, HMV Forum 8) The Bermondsey Joyriders with John Sinclair/Phobics - London, 100 Club 9) The Dogs D'amour - London, 02 Academy 10) Urge Overkill - London, Borderline
Dom Daley
1) Rebellion Festival - Blackpool, Winter Gardens 2) D Generation - London, Borderline 3) Michael Monroe - Hard Rock Hell V 4) Dwarves - Bristol, Thekla 5) Jesse Malin - Bristol, Fleece 6) The Damned - Bristol, O2 Academy 7) Michael Monroe - Bristol, O2 Academy 8) The Mission - Bristol, 02 Academy 9) The King Blues - Swansea, Sin City 10) Social Distortion - London, Shepherds Bush Empire
Joe Daly
1) Metallica: 30th Anniversary Night 4 - San Francisco, The Fillmore 2) Dimebash All-Star Tribute - Los Angeles, Key Club 3) Metallica: 30th Anniversary Night 3 - San Francisco, The Fillmore 4) Epicenter Music Festival - Irvine, CA, Verizon Ampitheater 5) Alice Cooper - Los Angeles, Whiskey A Go Go 6) Judas Priest - San Diego, Cricket Ampitheater 7) Amon Amarth - Los Angeles, House Of Blues 8) Supersuckers - San Diego, The Casbah 9) Volbeat - San Diego, House Of Blues 10) Testament - San Diego, House Of Blues
Gaz E
1) Rob Zombie/Skindred/Revoker - Birmingham, O2 Academy 2) Alice Cooper - Bristol, Colston Hall 3) Black Spiders - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach 4) Murderdolls/The Defiled - Bristol, O2 Academy 5) Warrior Soul - Ebbw Vale, Steelhouse 6.66) Slugfest 4 - Abertillery, The Mount/Doll's House 7) Dwarves - Bristol, Thekla 8) Adam Ant & The Good, The Mad & The Lovely Posse - Cardiff, Coal Exchange 9) Vintage Trouble - Cardiff, Glee Club 10) Manic Street Preachers/The Joy Formidable - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
Johnny H
1) Dwarves - Bristol, Thekla 2) Rebellion Festival - Blackpool, Winter Gardens 3) Michael Monroe - Hard Rock Hell V 4) Jesse Malin & The St Marks Social - Bristol, The Fleece 5) D Generation - London, Borderline 6) Heavy Metal Kids (with Phil Lewis) - London, Camden Underworld 7) The Guns - Newport, Six Feet Under 8) Judas Priest - Newport, Centre 9) Duran Duran - Bristol, Trinity Centre 10) Fishbone - Cardiff, The Globe
Ben Hughes
1) Vintage Trouble - York, Fibbers 2) Vintage Trouble - Gateshead, The Sage 3) Vintage Trouble - Sowerby Bridge, Working Mens Club 4) Vintage Trouble - Lincoln, Tokyo 5) Michael Monroe - Leeds, TJ's 6) Jim Jones Revue - Glastonbury Festival 7) Adam Ant & The Good, The Mad &The Lovely Posse - York, The Duchess 8) Queens Of The Stone Age - Glastonbury Festival 9) Urban Voodoo Machine - York, Fibbers 10) Adler's Appetite - York, The Duchess
Rob Lane
1) D Generation - London, The Borderline 2) Ryan Roxie - Nottingham, The Old Angel 3) The Revival Tour - Nottingham, Rock City 4) Butch Walker - London, The Borderline 5) The Wonder Stuff - Birmingham, Academy 6) Jaret & Erik/People On Vacation/Linus of Hollywood - Sheffield, Academy 7) Against Me! - Leeds, Cockpit 8) Mr Big - Manchester, Academy 9) Slash - Manchester, Apollo 10) Steel Panther - Nottingham, Arena
Fraser Munro
1) Michael Monroe/Voodoo Six - Bristol, Academy 2 2) Motorhead/Anti-Nowhere League/UK Subs - London, HMV Apollo 3) Big 4 - Sonisphere 4) Alice Cooper/The Treatment - Bristol, Colston Hall 5) Hard Rock Hell V - Prestatyn 6) Marky Ramone's Blitzrieg/Bubblegum Screw - London, Islington O2 Academy 7) Murderdolls/Black Veil Brides - Bristol, O2 Academy 8) Saxon/Wolfsbane - Bristol, O2 Academy 9) Stiff Little Fingers/Foreign Legion - Ebbw Vale, Leisure Centre 10) LA Guns/Prophets Of Addiction - Pontypool, Hog & Hosper
John Oakley
1) Mötley Crüe/Poison - Ridgefield Washington, Sleep County Amphitheatre 2) Manowar - Birmingham, O2 Academy 3) Judas Priest/Thin Lizzy - Las Vegas, Hard Rock Hotel 4) Metallica/Anthrax/Megadeth - Sonisphere 5) Lizzy Borden - Hard Rock Hell V 6) Sebastian Bach - New Jersey, Stone Pony 7) Hammerfall/Edguy/Nightmare - PPM Festival, Belgium 8) Sin City Sinners - Las Vegas, Sunset Station 9) Stuka Squadron - Camden, Unicorn 10) Four Wheel Drive - London, Kings Cross, Water Rats
Russ P
1) Vintage Trouble/Rival Sons - Camden, Barfly 2) Vintage Trouble - Cardiff, St David's Hall 3) Vintage Trouble - Bath, Moles 4) Vintage Trouble - Bristol, The Cooler 5) Vintage Trouble - Cardiff, Big Weekend 6) Cheap Trick - Bristol, O2 Academy 7) Butch Walker - London, Borderline 8) The Guns - Newport, Six Feet Under 9) Gillian Welch - Bristol, Hippodrome 10) Portugal. The Man - Bristol, The Louisiana
Matt Phelps
1) Cinderella - London, Shepherds Bush Empire 2) Iron Maiden - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena 3) Anti-Nowhere League - Bristol, The Fleece 4) Wolfsbane - London, The Borderline 5) Def Leppard/Motley Crue - Birmingham, LG Arena 6) Hardcore Superstar/Crashdiet - Bristol, O2 Academy 7) Argy Bargy - Bristol, The Croft 8) Reckless Love - London, Islington O2 Academy 9) The Old Firm Casuals - Exeter, Cavern 10) Imelda May - Reading, Hexagon Theatre
Jamie Richards
1) Foxy Shazam - Bristol, 02 Academy 2) Warrior Soul - Ebbw Vale, Steelhouse 3) Adam Ant And The Good, The Mad, And The Lovely Posse - Cardiff, Coal Exchange 4) Quireboys/Black Spiders - Steelhouse Festival 5) Cheap Trick - Bristol, 02 Academy 6) Ray Lamontagne - Bristol, Colston Hall 7) Ozzy Osbourne/Revoker - London, HMV Apollo 8) My Chemical Romance/The Blackout - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena 9) Oli Brown - Cardiff, The Globe 10) Iron Maiden/Airbourne - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
Jim Rowland
1) Graveyard - London, Borderline 2) Judas Priest - High Voltage 3) Prince - Hop Farm Fest, Kent 4) Scorpions - Hellfest, France 5) Rush - London, 02 Arena 6) Pentagram/Horisont - London, The Garage 7) Ghost - Southampton, Guild Hall 8) The Eagles - Hop Farm Fest, Kent 9) Bullet/Enforcer - Camden, The Underworld 10) New York Dolls - London, The Old Vic Tunnels
Darrel Sutton
1) Slugfest 4 - Abertillery, The Mount/Doll's House 2) D Generation/Eureka Machines - London, Borderline 3) Wormrot/The Atrocity Exhibit/Evisorax/Atomck - Cardiff, Undertone 4) Dwarves/Girl Spit - Bristol, Thekla 5) Kunt & The Gang/Wonk Unit - London, New Cross Inn 6) Bullet/Enforcer/Skullfist - London, The Underworld 7) Corrosion Of Conformity III - London, The Underworld 8) Revoker/The Guns/Lifer/The Hotel Ambush - Ebbw Vale, EVI 9) Onslaught/Gama Bomb/Fallen Fate/The Exiled - Cardiff, The Globe 10) Section 13/Threat Manifesto/Smiler/Trigger McPoopshute - Bridgend, Hobos
Mark Taylor
1) Scorpions - Banngkok, Impact Arena 2) Judas Priest - Hellfest, France 3) Status Quo - London, Greenwich, National Maritime 4) Alice Cooper - London, 100 Club 5) Saxon - London, Shepherds Bush Empire 6) Philip Sayce - London, Borderline 7) Bon Jovi - Hyde Park 8) New Found Glory - Bangkok, Cultural Centre 9) Heavy Metal Kids (with Phil Lewis)/Pink Cigar - London, Camden Underworld 10) Uriah Heep - Rock and Blues Festival, Skegness
Rob Watkins
1) Rob Zombie/Skindred/Revoker - Birmingham, 02 Academy 2) Adam Ant & The Good, The Mad &The Lovely Posse - Cardiff, Coal Exchange 3) The Pierces - Cardiff, Glee Club 4) Ginger/Willie Dowling - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach 5) The Guns - Newport, Six Feet Under 6) Stiff Little Fingers - Ebbw Vale, Leisure Centre 7) Exit_International - Merthyr Rock 8) Skindred - Cardiff, Solus 9) Murderdolls - Bristol, 02 Academy 10) Black Spiders - Steelhouse Festival
Ross Welford
1) Motley Crue/Steel Panther/Def Leppard - London, Wembley Arena 2) Guilfest Festival - Guildford 3) High Voltage Festival - London 4) Vain - London, Purple Turtle 5) Black Spiders - Brighton, Hydrant 6) Suicidal Tendencies - London, Electric Ballroom 7) Buckcherry - London, Electric Ballroom 8) Reckless Love - London, Islington Academy 9) Donnie Vie - London, Purple Turtle 10) Faster Pussycat - London, Underworld
Dai Whistance
1) Iron Maiden - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena 2) The Damned - Bristol, O2 Academy 3) Adam Ant And The Good, The Mad And The Lovely Posse - Cardiff, Coal Exchange 4) Michael Monroe - London, Islington O2 Academy 5) Revoker/Holy Grail/GU Medicine - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach 6) Bullet For My Valentine - Graspop Festival 7) Judas Priest - Graspop Festival 8) Ghost: Defenders Of The Faith 3 - Brixton, Academy 9) Volbeat/Black Spiders - London, HMV Forum 10) Alter Bridge - Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena
There they are, the hottest rock shows that troubled the senses of the Uber Rock Massive in 2011. Individual gigs from Adam Ant, Warrior Soul, Murderdolls and the Dwarves got the collective juices of our crack team of writers flowing while Black Spiders and MichaelMonroe pushed Vintage Trouble for the most mentions, Rob Halford and Judas Priest creeping up behind those talented gentlemen.....in a manner of speaking.
The important thing is the amount of quality bands in quality venues playing amazing shows - support live music so we can keep these gigs in our favourite venues and at an affordable price.
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