Top 10 Live Performances Of 2002

1. Guns 'N' Roses (Leeds festival)
2. Sonic Youth (London Shepherds Bush Empire)
3. Queens Of The Stone Age (Glastonbury)
4. Jane's Addiction (Leeds festival)
5. The Icarus Line (Leeds festival - also seen at Nottingham Rock City)
6. Queens Of The Stone Age (Nottingham Rock City)
7. The White Stripes (Glastonbury - also seen at Leeds festival)
8. Godspeed You Black Emperor! (Hackney Ocean)
9. J Mascis (Nottingham Social)
10. Fugazi (Nottingham Rock City)

Other bands seen / endured this year (deep breath...):

A (x2), Air, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Ash, The Beatings, The Bellrays (x2), Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (x2), The Breeders, British Sea Power, Chris Brokaw, Cave In, Bobby Conn, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Coral, The Datsuns, The D4, Do Make Say Think, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (x2), Face To Face, Foo Fighters, Garbage, Green Day, Rolf Harris, Isaac Hayes, The Hellacopters, Hell Is For Heroes, The Hives (x2), Hoggboy, Hood, Hundred Reasons (x4), Idlewild (x2), Ikara Colt, Jetplane Landing, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Kinesis, The Levellers, The Libertines (x2), Muse, Music For One, NOFX, The Notwist, The Offspring, Orbital, The Parkinsons (x2), The Pattern, Iggy Pop, The Prodigy, qhixldekx, Raging Speedhorn, Randy, Red Letter Day, Reinhardt, Rival Schools (x3), Shat, Six By Seven (x2), Slipknot, Snuff, Sparta (x2), Spiritualised, [spunge], Rod Stewart, The Strokes, Twinkie, Vendetta Red (x2), Vex Red, The Vines (x2), The Von Bondies (x2), Roger Waters, Weezer, The Wildhearts, Andrew WK, Wolves (Of Greece!)

It's been a busy (and expensive) year!