The Rakes Concert History

The Rakes were a four piece indie rock band hailing from London. Releasing their debut album Capture/Release in 2005, The Rakes were the talk of the Reading and Leeds Festival after joining forces with indie elites such as Bloc Party and Maxïmo Park in the NME Tent.

Date Concert Venue Location
May 31, 2007 –
Jun 02, 2007
Primavera Sound Festival 2007
The Smashing Pumpkins / Modest Mouse / Band of Horses / Diplo / Foals / Justice / Grizzly Bear / Hot Chip / Wilco / Beirut / Chromeo / Explosions in the Sky / of Montreal / Patti Smith / Klaxons / Black Lips / Girl Talk / Maxïmo Park / Buzzcocks / Architecture In Helsinki / Built to Spill / Blonde Redhead / Battles / Low / Spiritualized / Billy Bragg / Kimya Dawson / Melvins / múm / The Fall / The Good, The Bad And The Queen / Black Mountain / Kid Koala / Sonic Youth / Fujiya & Miyagi / The Apples In Stereo / Mike Patton / Spank Rock / The Rakes / The White Stripes / Pelican / Jonathan Richman / Ted Leo and The Pharmacists / Nathan Fake / Slint / Umek / Bonde do Rolê / The Durutti Column / Dirty Three / Herman Düne / Erol Alkan / Fennesz / Dominik Eulberg / Barry Adamson / Robyn Hitchcock / Los Planetas / The Long Blondes / DJ Yoda / Errors / Oliver Huntemann / Luomo / DJ Hell / Shitdisco / Brightblack Morning Light / Man Like Me / Technasia / Girls Against Boys / Parenthetical Girls / Comets On Fire / Portastatic / Standstill / Hell / Shannon Wright / Death Vessel / Sr. Chinarro / Luke Slater / Matt Elliott / Isis / Bola / David Thomas Broughton / Reinhard Voigt / David Carretta / Grupo de Expertos Solynieve / Onetwo / X-Wife / Robyn Hitchcock And The Venus 3 / Alexander Tucker / Za! / Ivan Smagghe / Jay Reatard / Oakley Hall / Play Paul / Evripidis And His Tragedies / Ovni / Toktok / Lisabö / Mus / Mijk van Dijk / 6pm / The Light Brigade / How Dare You / Half Foot Outside / Veracruz / Ginferno / Plastic D'amour / Thee Earls / Koacha / Le pianc / Ghouls'n'ghosts / Peluze / Lisab / Anticonceptivas / aa tigre / Ghouls & Ghosts / People Are Germs Show all bands
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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
May 18, 2007
The Great Escape Festival
"The Great Escape Festival" / Mechanical Bride / The Kissaway Trail / Battle / Foals / Friendly Fires / The Holloways / The Rakes
Concorde 2 Brighton, England, United Kingdom
May 17, 2007 –
May 19, 2007
The Great Escape 2007
Adele / Passenger / The Temper Trap / Foals / Angus & Julia Stone / The Roots / Wolfmother / Kate Nash / Friendly Fires / Laura Marling / Amos Lee / Flogging Molly / The Airborne Toxic Event / John Butler Trio / Ziggy Marley / Frank Turner / Hermitude / Gomez / Gogol Bordello / Nouvelle Vague / CSS / Patrick Watson / Hilltop Hoods / The Vines / Noisettes / Missy Higgins / Birdy Nam Nam / Fat Freddy's Drop / The Lemonheads / The Pigeon Detectives / Jack Peñate / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / The Magic Numbers / Ben Kweller / Hadouken! / Wire / The Enemy / Deerhoof / Bliss N Eso / British Sea Power / Blood Red Shoes / Alice Russell / Reverend and The Makers / The Living End / Lee "Scratch" Perry / The White Buffalo / Voxtrot / Willy Mason / Art Brut / The Rakes / Kaki King / Wintersleep / Mumm-Ra / Gallows / Dan Mangan / Anna Ternheim / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / Cocoon / Goose / One Night Only / Fishbone / The Whip / Land of Talk / These New Puritans / Johnossi / Alberta Cross / Kitty, Daisy & Lewis / Archie Bronson Outfit / Air Traffic / The Rumble Strips / Good Shoes / Bonde do Rolê / Dub Pistols / Maps / Fourplay / Cherry Ghost / The Besnard Lakes / Loney Dear / The Holloways / Priestess / Children Collide / Sparkadia / Dash / Kate Walsh / Future of the Left / Little Birdy / Elvis Perkins / Micah P. Hinson / Operator Please / Get Well Soon / Ali Love / Bertie Blackman / Dananananaykroyd / Joel Plaskett / The Hours / Annuals / Bob Evans / Cut Off Your Hands / Oh No Ono / Sohodolls / The Kissaway Trail / Johnny Foreigner / Textures / Ghosts / Damien Dempsey / Peggy Sue / Polarkreis 18 / Lou Rhodes / Heights / Holly Throsby / Robots In Disguise / Coda / Brakes / Blue King Brown / Mr. Hudson & The Library / Iain Archer / 1990s / Lay Low / Darren Hanlon / Peter Von Poehl / I LIKE TRAINS / Prayers / Hello Saferide / young soul rebels / The Midway State / I Was a Cub Scout / Rubik / The Answering Machine / Karima Francis / The Dykeenies / Hot Club de Paris / Cap'tain / Immediate / Fancy / The Envy Corps / Bird / The Metros / 120 Days / zZz / Circlesquare / The Cops / Spleen / Hat / Radar / Vincent Vincent and the Villains / James Yorkston And The Athletes / Expatriate / Die! Die! Die! / Damn Arms / The Fumes / Palladium / Kid Harpoon / Sam Isaac / Yourcodenameis:Milo / Found / Dan Kelly / Lucky Jim / Battle / The Panda Band / Moths / Stephanie Dosen / The Early Years / True Live / Cashier No.9 / Sister / Neon Plastix / The Draytones / SixNationState / Astronomy Class / Candie Payne / Panico / Kubichek! / Tiny Dancers / The Paper Scissors / The Loose Salute / Mechanical Bride / The Race / Luke Toms / Macromantics / The Scare / Sex Panther / Look See Proof / Magenta Skycode / Channel One / Walrus / The Orange Lights / Bridezilla / Grimskunk / Les Breastfeeders / Neils Children / The Victorian English Gentlemens Club / Beat Union / XX Teens / Velojet / The Lionheart Brothers / Polytechnic / The Strange Death of Liberal England / Sergeant / Rob da Bank / The Pistolas / Ripchord / Melanie Horsnell / Last Gang / Carla Werner / My Federation / We Are The Physics / Navel / Adjagas / The Exploders / Damn Seagulls / Fear Of Flying / Popup / Minotaurs / Wons Phreely / Johnny Panic / The Sins / Make Good Your Escape / This City / Yes Boss / The Displacements / Video Nasties / Maths Class / Four Day Hombre / Metro Riots / Paul Steel / Nibs Van der Spuy / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Electric City / Floors And Walls / The Ripps / Stick Figures / Whiskey Go Gos / The Mares (AUS) / Daniel Benjamin / Kharma 45 / Andy Gower / We're Marching On... / Help She Can't Swim / Lights Action / Untitled Musical Project / The Flairz / Indigo Moss / 586 / Consequences / Kingtide / My Device / The Favours / Rastawookie / The Alones / A Beggar's Opera / The Lawries / Spencer McGarry Season / Small White Light / I Say Marvin / From the Wreckage / Nude Girls / Belisha / Toydeath / Hijera / Drookit Dogs / Dance With Voices / Jamie Lloyd & Jimi Polar / Cuthbert & the Nightwalkers / Julian Knowles / emergency! emergency! / ENID BLITZ / Trailing Laces Show all bands
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Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 17, 2007
May 11, 2007
"Festival Les Inrocks Philips" / The Rakes / Digitalism / Joakim / Yelle / Kitsune

Festival Les Inrocks Philips

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Cabaret Sauvage Paris, Île-de-France, France
May 06, 2007
The Rakes
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Luxor Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
May 05, 2007
The Rakes Atomic Café Munich, Bavaria, Germany
May 03, 2007
The Rakes
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Schocken Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
May 02, 2007
The Rakes
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Lido Berlin, Berlin, Germany
May 01, 2007
The Rakes Knust Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Apr 29, 2007
The Rakes / The Kissaway Trail Lille Vega, VEGA Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
Apr 17, 2007
Sanseverino / Bloc Party / Feist / Maxïmo Park / Amon Tobin / Cold War Kids / The Rakes / Phoenix / Gotan Project / Peter Bjorn and John / The Automatic / Cassius / Just Jack / Capleton / Bunny Wailer / Olivia Ruiz / TTC / Shannon Wright / Third W...
Sanseverino / Bloc Party / Feist / Maxïmo Park / Amon Tobin / Cold War Kids / The Rakes / Phoenix / Gotan Project / Peter Bjorn and John / The Automatic / Cassius / Just Jack / Capleton / Bunny Wailer / Olivia Ruiz / TTC / Shannon Wright / Third World / AaRON / DUB INC / Rose / Jeanne Cherhal / Ridan / Miossec / Les Fatals Picards / Jacques Higelin / Salvatore Adamo / Mano Solo / Oxmo Puccino / Eiffel / Iration Steppas / Improvisators Dub / Juliette Greco / Abd Al Malik / Naast / Stuck In the Sound / Mademoiselle K / Adrienne Pauly / Nosfell / Joey Starr / NADJ / Triste Sire Show all bands
Le Phénix Bourges, France
Mar 31, 2007
The Rakes
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Brixton Academy London, England, United Kingdom
Mar 25, 2007
The Rakes O2 Ritz Manchester Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Mar 23, 2007
The Rakes / The Holloways / Love Is All Nick Rayns LCR, University of East Anglia (UEA) Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Mar 22, 2007
The Rakes / The Holloways / Love Is All Octagon Centre, University of Sheffield Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Mar 22, 2007
Mar 19, 2007
The Rakes Rock City Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Dec 08, 2006
XFM's Winter Wonderland
XFM's "Winter Wonderland" / Manic Street Preachers / The Rakes / Little Man Tate / Badly Drawn Boy / Mumm-Ra / The Magic Numbers / Stephen Fretwell
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O2 Apollo Manchester Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Aug 27, 2006
Reading Festival 2006
Animal Collective / Flogging Molly / Dashboard Confessional / Coheed and Cambria / Dizzee Rascal / Franz Ferdinand / Gogol Bordello / Capdown / Anti-Flag / Fall Out Boy / The Bouncing Souls / Reel Big Fish / Muse / Taking Back Sunday / Against Me! / My Chemical Romance / Municipal Waste / Killswitch Engage / Alexisonfire / The Bled / Hawthorne Heights / Arctic Monkeys / Metric / Bedouin Soundclash / Klaxons / Aiden / Boysetsfire / The Raconteurs / Wolfmother / Broken Social Scene / Sick of It All / Eagles of Death Metal / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Millencolin / Rise Against / Mastodon / Zox / Bleeding Through / Plan B / Feeder / The Kooks / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / The Spinto Band / The Like / Hundred Reasons / Jet / Maxïmo Park / Belle and Sebastian / Kaiser Chiefs / The Fratellis / The Dresden Dolls / Goose / Soulwax / Spank Rock / TV On the Radio / Hot Chip / Slayer / Mystery Jets / The Subways / Peaches / Eddie Vedder / Lightyear / The Streets / Howling Bells / The Vines / Body Count / Tilly And The Wall / The Cribs / Paramore / Erol Alkan / Secret Machines / The Maccabees / Be Your Own Pet / Lady Sovereign / Primal Scream / Boy Kill Boy / Fightstar / Everything / The Futureheads / The Automatic / Forward, Russia! / The Sunshine Underground / Semifinalists / Story of the Year / Noisettes / Vitalic / Dirty Pretty Things / Nouvelle Vague / Less Than Jake / Field Music / The Twilight Singers / The Rakes / Lethal Bizzle / The Rumble Strips / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / Good Shoes / The Long Blondes / Little Man Tate / Guillemots / Coldcut / Tapes 'n Tapes / Sway / Mumm-Ra / Archie Bronson Outfit / Goldie Lookin Chain / Milburn / Fields / Shitdisco / The Organ / Giant Drag / The Morning After Girls / Switches / Hope of the States / Serena-Maneesh / Bromheads Jacket / Scissors for Lefty / Cap'tain / Headman / Larrikin Love / You Say Party! / Duels / Towers Of London / The Race / The Research / Youthmovies / The Marshals / 747s / Send More Paramedics / Humanzi / Adequate Seven / Good Books / Superthriller / The On Offs / Kharma 45 / Nite Versions / Niteversions / Pearl Jam / 2manydjs (DJ Set) / The Pigeon Detectives / Placebo / Bullet for My Valentine / Panic! At the Disco Show all bands
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Unknown venue Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Aug 25, 2006 –
Aug 27, 2006
Leeds Festival 2006
Arctic Monkeys / Muse / Fall Out Boy / Paramore / Panic! At the Disco / Pearl Jam / The Kooks / Franz Ferdinand / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Rise Against / My Chemical Romance / Hot Chip / Kaiser Chiefs / Placebo / Metric / Bullet for My Valentine / Belle and Sebastian / Plan B / TV On the Radio / Eddie Vedder / Animal Collective / Dizzee Rascal / The Fratellis / The Raconteurs / Taking Back Sunday / Wolfmother / Slayer / Jet / Broken Social Scene / Killswitch Engage / Dashboard Confessional / Primal Scream / The Streets / Coheed and Cambria / Mastodon / Flogging Molly / The Maccabees / Klaxons / Eagles of Death Metal / Reel Big Fish / Maxïmo Park / Nouvelle Vague / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / Peaches / Feeder / Enter Shikari / Gogol Bordello / Less Than Jake / Story of the Year / Against Me! / Hawthorne Heights / Mystery Jets / The Vines / The Cribs / Noisettes / Alexisonfire / The Subways / Anti-Flag / The Pigeon Detectives / The Futureheads / Vitalic / The View / Millencolin / The Bouncing Souls / Lethal Bizzle / Bedouin Soundclash / The Dresden Dolls / Guillemots / The Automatic / Lady Sovereign / Dirty Pretty Things / Coldcut / Sway / Field Music / Spank Rock / Secret Machines / Goose / Mumm-Ra / The Rakes / Body Count / Sick of It All / Tapes 'n Tapes / Aiden / Municipal Waste / Tilly And The Wall / Boy Kill Boy / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / Fightstar / The Rumble Strips / Archie Bronson Outfit / Good Shoes / The Spinto Band / Erol Alkan / The Like / Bleeding Through / Howling Bells / 2manydjs (DJ Set) / Milburn / The Sunshine Underground / Hundred Reasons / Goldie Lookin Chain / The Twilight Singers / The Long Blondes / Boysetsfire / SikTh / The Bled / Fields / Little Man Tate / Zox / Shitdisco / Giant Drag / The Morning After Girls / Switches / Forward, Russia! / The Organ / Capdown / Bromheads Jacket / GoodBooks / Serena-Maneesh / Scissors for Lefty / Cap'tain / Larrikin Love / Towers Of London / You Say Party! / Everything / Duels / The Hedrons / The Research / Be Your Own Pet / Song / Lightyear / 747s / The Marshals / Semifinalists / Adequate Seven / Humanzi / Superthriller / Good Books / The On Offs / The Para-medics / Kharma 45 / Rat:Att:Agg / Nite Versions / Niteversions / Send More Paramedics Show all bands
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Leeds Festival 2006 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicates for Aug 25, 2006
Aug 24, 2006 –
Aug 27, 2006
Reading Festival
Franz Ferdinand / Subways / Towers Of London / Muse / Deefer / Dirty Pretty Things / Cribs / Wolfmother / Pearl Jam / My Chemical Romance / Vines / Secret Machines / Mystery Jets / Guillemots / Long Blondes / Fields / Coheed and Cambria / Het / Automatic / Be Your Own Pet / The Rakes / Kooks / Goldie Lookin Chain / Hope of the States / Forward Russia / Tapes n Tapes / Eagles of Death Metal / Bromheads Jacket / Field Music / You Say Party We Say Die Show all bands
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Little John's Farm Reading, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Aug 24, 2006

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Leeds Festival 2009 on Aug 28, 2009 [185-small]

Leeds Festival 2009
Aug 28 - 30, 2009
 Wetherby, England, United Kingdom
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Tracy Chapman / Editors / The Rakes / Amadou & Mariam on Jul 21, 2006 [961-small]

Tracy Chapman / Editors / The Rakes / Amadou & Mariam
Jul 21, 2006
 Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland
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Glastonbury Festival 2005 on Jun 24, 2005 [058-small]

Glastonbury Festival 2005
Jun 24 - 26, 2005
 Shepton Mallet, England, United Kingdom
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The Rakes / The Young Knives on May 12, 2006 [435-small]

The Rakes / The Young Knives
May 12, 2006
 London, England, United Kingdom
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Franz Ferdinand / Editors / The Rakes on Nov 21, 2005 [557-small]

Franz Ferdinand / Editors / The Rakes
Nov 21, 2005
 Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Reading Festival 2009 on Aug 28, 2009 [558-small]

Reading Festival 2009
Aug 28 - 30, 2009
 Reading, England, United Kingdom
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T In The Park 2005 on Jul 9, 2005 [687-small]

T In The Park 2005
Jul 9 - 10, 2005
 Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Summer Sonic 2005 on Aug 13, 2005 [563-small]

Summer Sonic 2005
Aug 13 - 14, 2005
 Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


How many concerts has The Rakes had?

The Rakes has had 219 concerts.

What genre is The Rakes?

The Rakes is most often considered to be Rock, Indie, Indie Rock, British, Alternative Dance, New Rave, Dance-Punk, British Indie Rock, and UK Americana.

When was the last The Rakes concert?

The last The Rakes concert was on November 04, 2011 at The Boardwalk in Orangevale, California, United States. The bands that performed were: Mike Pinto / Insomnia / Cash the Kidd / Casta Nova / The Rakes / Chicowa / T-Dub & The Internationals.

What setlist does The Rakes play live?

The songs that The Rakes performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the October 16, 2009 concert at De Helling in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands:

  1. Strasbourg
  2. The Light From Your Mac
  3. The Woes of the Working Woman
  4. Retreat
  5. The World Was a Mess but His Hair Was Perfect
  6. Down With Moonlight
  7. 1989
  8. When Tom Cruise Cries
  9. Time to Stop Talking
  10. Chess
  11. Little Superstitions
  12. You're in It
  13. All Too Human
  14. Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep)
  15. Binary Love
  16. Wish You Were Here
  17. 22 Grand Job
  18. Open Book
  19. We Danced Together

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