Time to look back to the 2008 concerts, and select the ones that provided me with the best experience, the best memories and the best performances!
After careful consideration, I came up with a top 5:

Miss congeniality goes to:
MUSE at the Royal Albert Hall. The crowd was one of the best ever! Totally packed with die-hard fans, it was a miracle to get those tickets, and privilege to watch that performance.

Miss Photogenic goes to:
GOLDFRAPP. The best stage of the season. Not for the lasers and bangs, but the atmosphere generated, in perfect sync with the music.

Runner-Up 2:
PORTISHEAD. 10 years I've been waiting for this. Sublime, human, textured, orgasmic, it was absolutely perfect... Beth's vocal performance and stage presence I will never forget.

Runner-up 1:
GOLDFRAPP. I saw them twice, in the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. This award refers to the Albert Hall show in June. Lost for words. Sensationally creative, atmospheric, surreal, sensitive, sensual, joyful and nostalgic. Greatest candidate to concert of the year was my prediction at the time. Came awfully close! It was simply MORE perfect.

And the winner is:
ATOM HEART MOTHER. A no brainer. This was a part of the Chelsea Festival in London. It's a classic Pink Floyd epic, from 1970, comprising a full choir, brass section and a rock band. Mostly classical music mixed with rock. The last time it was performed live was somewhere in the early 70's. It was all about emotion. To see that piece played live with Gilmour on stage, to an audience of true Floyd fans was enough to ensure a climax that no other concert gave me this year. Its all in the emotion. Its all in the smile you carry out from the gig... Those present that day will know what I mean.

I'm kicking off 2009 with the Arctic Monkeys. It's gonna be the first time that everybody on stage is younger than me. Painfully unavoidable. May the force be with 2009.