Greatest gig you have been to.

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Evening fellow Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime.

Time to tell everyone the greatest ever gig that you had the fortune of attending, and your runners up too if you like as I know how hard it is to pick just one.

Here's mine:-

Number one slot goes to Radiohead at the Emperess ballroom in blackpool on the 12th may 2006.

Legendary gig for me. The band were up for it, the crowd were well up for it (all full on fans too, everyone singing along to every song) made for an amazing atmosphere, it was bouncing and I came out at the end soaked to the skin with sweat. Brilliant.


Number two slot goes to Blur at the Manchester Apollo in 2003 (I think, can't find the ticket stub) on the Think Tank tour.

Now I would say that their last album Think Tank is their best work to date, and this gig was them at their live peak for me. What I said about the Radiohead gig above pretty much covers this gig too.


Number Three slot goes to The Chemical Brothers headlining the dance tent at the V97 festival. fecking great gig, during their Dig Your Own Hole (second album) tour. A total sweat fest again, completely fecking bouncing all gig, never danced so hard in my life.


All three of these gigs were fecking awesome and will never be forgotten for me.
 
Dave_B said:
My No.1 would be Oasis at COMS in 2005.


The Who would come a close second. I saw them this year for the first time, they where unbelievable.
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I saw the Pete Townshend-Roger Daltrey show twice recently (San Jose in November, Fresno in Feb) but they were much better in Phoenix in 1972.
 
Oasis at the COM Stadium in 2005, then Franz Ferdinand at Alexandra's Palace in December 2005.

only been to like 6 gigs in my life, would love to go to more, but i never seem to have mates who like the same music at the time
 
Queen - Stafford New Bingley Hall - 1977
or
Live Aid - Wembley Stadium - 1985
or
Queen - Manchester Free Trade Hall - 1975


also honourable mention goes to -

Victor Brox Blues Train - Ashton-Under-Lyne - 1977
 
Too many big gigs here. The best one for me was The Stone Roses South Parade Pier Portsmouth in '88 or '89 just after the release of Sally Cinnamon, only about 50 people there for the gig and I managed to get into the sound check too and got into a bit of a barney with Ian Brown.

The Fall at Coventry Uni in '90 was excellent but mainly due to getting hammered with Mark E Smith beforehand, King of The Slums at the Boardwalk in Manchester and the Charlatans at Edward's No.8 in Brum were also brilliant small gigs while Julian Cope is always magnificent but probably at his best at some dodgy dance venue in Coventry's dodgy Hillfields area where he walked the whole way round the rail of the upstairs balcony still singing before taking a 40ft dive flat onto the stage and belting into Reynard the Fox while still flat out.

Best big gigs, probably The Cure in the NEC in 88, The Roses at Ally Pally in 90 or Oasis at Sheffield Arena in 94. I hate the big venues though as security and the crowds of plebs tend to ruin it unless it's the Pogues when security and the plebs scattered and the chairs departed for the orchestra pit at the Mayflower in Southampton in 88.
 
How I envy you all.

Had been to a few concerts in India before coming to the US but they aren't worth mentioning. My best has to be Audioslave in 2005. To see Chris Cornell sing live was a dream come true and to watch and hear him do a few Soundgarden covers, well that just blew my mind. :D
 
I went to see Meat Loaf in Berlin ages and ages ago and it was ace. I was only a youngster and I hardly got to see him on stage with the crowd, but he was my favourite singer at the time and I knew all the words :D That was the first gig I ever went to as well, I think I was about 10
 
I'm withe Bury re. large concerts.

I have seen U2 and Pink Floyd in halls of about 12-15,000 which were just about OK and The Wall was a great show but smaller is better.

Eurythmics in The Hacienda before they made it big was very good, Queen at the Apollo doing the Live Killers set was possibly even better. I saw New Order at The Hacienda a couple of times and they were also great.
 
So many good gigs but if I had to choose one it would be a 2 Tone gig at the NEC in Birmingham. United were away to WBA the samew day so there were lots of reds there. Madness, Specials, Selecter were all good, Elvis Costello wa shite and the headline band were UB40 playing their early Ska stuff and they were brilliant (hate most of their stuff now).

An honourable mention goes to The Buzzcocks at Lancaster Uni.
 
Wibble said:
I'm withe Bury re. large concerts.

I have seen U2 and Pink Floyd in halls of about 12-15,000 which were just about OK and The Wall was a great show but smaller is better.

Eurythmics in The Hacienda before they made it big was very good, Queen at the Apollo doing the Live Killers set was possibly even better. I saw New Order at The Hacienda a couple of times and they were also great.
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Pink Floyd at Maine Road was awesome,as well....it was a bit surreal.Maybe that was due to the copious amounts of weed being smoked in the ground.The air was thick with it.........everyone was stoned!:D
 
neil young and crazy horse - 86? RDS - dublin
page and plant - the point - dublin
the beta band - farewell tour - belfast
nirvana - national kilburn 92
John Martyn - 91 ulster hall solo acoustic gig
 
Simon and Garfunkel - 2004 Hyde park
Springsteen - 2003 Crystal Palace
Oasis - 2005 Millenium Stadium
NME Tour (We are Scientists, Arctic Monkeys, Maximo Park) - 2006 Cardiff Uni
Prodigy - V2005

Been to loads of gigs but these are the best. Honourable mention to foo fighters who made the Oasis gig extra special.
 
1) U2 Cardiff Arms Park 1993 - Awesome

2) Bryan Adams Cardiff Arms Park 1992 - Excellent

I also deeply regret not seeing Queen or Dire Straits live.
 
Stones-81 ny
Yes 78-ny
Grateful dead-ny 78
Springsteen -84 ny
 
1) Family: Corby Grammar fortnightly Friday night school dance, summer term 1967 (maybe '68). Supposed to be Broodly Hoo, a Four Tops/Temptations type band from Leicester. Instead this weird bunch of 'erberts took the stage - vibraphone, electric violin, singer with a voice that sounded like strangled sandpaper -- couldn't dance to them, but what an awesome sound and outrageous performance. Lead guitarist Charlie Whitney part-owned the agency that had booked Broodly Hoo, and I suppose they dropped out so Family came in as late subs for some beer money. They were biggish on the London underground scene, but this gig was a few months before they appeared on TOTP playing their first hit single. Stunning and unforgettable.

To put it in perspective for you youngsters, John Peel once introduced Family as the band who'd been on his show more than any other - he eulogised them when they broke up. I last saw them at their final gig in at Leiciester De Montfort six years later - another cracker.

A proper Poly band, working-class lads, fond of a pint or four.

2. Sensational Alex Harvey Band Leicester De Montfort Hall 22 May 1976 - the oldest teenager in the world, a true showman, proto punk in a glam band - held every audience in the palm of his hand and never failed to deliver. Saw Alex a few times but this is the one at which I was sufficiently sober to remember.

3. Jimi Hendrix IOW 1971 - the only time I saw Jimi live, and one that's up there with my all time best, I suppose becuase he died soon after. It's only when you saw him live, I think, that you truly appreciated the sheer genius of the man. The Who that weekend were pretty immense too.

4. Richard Thompson Big Band Rock City Nottingham Nov 11 1985. I can't get enough of Richard Thompson, solo acoustic or elcetric band, but this one stands out as the first in the UK with Christine Collister and Clive Gregson in the support band. It rocked and rocked and rocked. Simply stunning guitarist and songwriter on top of his form.

This is from the same period:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVb02-12Wwk
 
Oasis COM 2005!....was OK!

But I'm with Wibble!....New Order at the Hac' before and whilst they were famous!....You couldn't beat that community of locals 'avin it large in great club whilst paying a couple of quid in a taxi to get home after!....feckin great memories!
 
feck me ive been to a lot of gigs....here goes a massive list because its impossible as always to just pick one.

koRn... Download 07 ... absolutley staggering, sweat fest all the way through koRn in a tent rammed too capacity was just a mind blowing expereience.

Enter Shikari... Download 07 ... on just before koRn, and their live shows are usually something to behold but this was just taking the piss, fecking amazing.

Alexisonfire... Taste Of Chaos Newcastle Arena 06 ... Pant-shittingly good.

Metallica... Download 06 ... Simply Un-touchable that day.

City And Colour... Fibber Barfly, York 06 ... For all you that claim to know amazingly good singer songwriters...you havent heard shit till you've heard City and Colour, a treat live as well.

Oasis... Wembley 2000 ... Was only 13 but my dad took me down to london for both of them and their i witnessed the glorious night, and the shambles that followed...pure oasis, best 2 days of my life.

Space... feck knows where and can't remember what year ... It was a school trip for music at my brother's school, me and him loved Space and Spiders was the first album he'd bought, he was about 5 years above me at school, and had asked his teacher about 80 times if i could have a ticket, after being told no 8 times i was a little gutted but, one of the kids fell ill on the night it they all went, and alas i was dragged along...and it blew my fecking head off that was my second gig ...

koRn... London 96 ... Now i was 9 when this happened, i was brought up on a steady diet of pink floyd led zepplin, Metallica Slayer and Michael Jackson, Anyway my dad had heard of these new up-starts called koRn and bought their Second Album life is peachy, he hated it and banned me from listening too it, naturally i wanted to listen to that fecking album and i did, and it was immense because id heard NOTHING like that ever.

I begged my dad to take me too a gig and he did, I've never seen koRn in a big Arena, out doors a couple times but the two best were in tents or at this sweaty cramped as feck london venue that we went too, i think i almost went deaf...but it would of been all worth it.

Other Honourable mentions go too, Suicide Silence, Job For A Cowboy, Eternal Lord and Hatebreed.
 
Red_Molly said:
1) Family: Corby Grammar fortnightly Friday night school dance, summer term 1967 (maybe '68). Supposed to be Broodly Hoo, a Four Tops/Temptations type band from Leicester. Instead this weird bunch of 'erberts took the stage - vibraphone, electric violin, singer with a voice that sounded like strangled sandpaper -- couldn't dance to them, but what an awesome sound and outrageous performance. Lead guitarist Charlie Whitney part-owned the agency that had booked Broodly Hoo, and I suppose they dropped out so Family came in as late subs for some beer money. They were biggish on the London underground scene, but this gig was a few months before they appeared on TOTP playing their first hit single. Stunning and unforgettable.

To put it in perspective for you youngsters, John Peel once introduced Family as the band who'd been on his show more than any other - he eulogised them when they broke up. I last saw them at their final gig in at Leiciester De Montfort six years later - another cracker.

A proper Poly band, working-class lads, fond of a pint or four.

2. Sensational Alex Harvey Band Leicester De Montfort Hall 22 May 1976 - the oldest teenager in the world, a true showman, proto punk in a glam band - held every audience in the palm of his hand and never failed to deliver. Saw Alex a few times but this is the one at which I was sufficiently sober to remember.

3. Jimi Hendrix IOW 1971 - the only time I saw Jimi live, and one that's up there with my all time best, I suppose becuase he died soon after. It's only when you saw him live, I think, that you truly appreciated the sheer genius of the man. The Who that weekend were pretty immense too.

4. Richard Thompson Big Band Rock City Nottingham Nov 11 1985. I can't get enough of Richard Thompson, solo acoustic or elcetric band, but this one stands out as the first in the UK with Christine Collister and Clive Gregson in the support band. It rocked and rocked and rocked. Simply stunning guitarist and songwriter on top of his form.

This is from the same period:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVb02-12Wwk
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My friend used to tour with Alex Harvey and she was the one on stage who sprayed Vambo Rules Ok on the wall as part of the show.

She on the centre cover of his gatefold sleeve album "The Best of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band"...the one with the long blond hair
 
Neil Young, Vicar St, Dublin...

Was sat virtually next to Bono and the Edge (guitar player, not the Balcony!)
 
Red_Molly said:
3. Jimi Hendrix IOW 1971 - the only time I saw Jimi live, and one that's up there with my all time best, I suppose becuase he died soon after. It's only when you saw him live, I think, that you truly appreciated the sheer genius of the man. The Who that weekend were pretty immense too.
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Jesus, you saw Jimi live? I'd give my first born for that experience.
 
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know where you are coming from USDevil...Red Molly is a lucky gal....

I will have to say Springsteen in 1981 in the UK and Eric Clapton...as my fav gigs

there was a moment when Eric was playing...when I my jaws dropped...at the very same time my cousin turned and looked at me....he felt the same...

Jimi was the greatest...but Clappers is not too far behind....
 
Man Utd Mrs said:
My friend used to tour with Alex Harvey and she was the one on stage who sprayed Vambo Rules Ok on the wall as part of the show.

She on the centre cover of his gatefold sleeve album "The Best of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band"...the one with the long blond hair
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Neat. I've got that album. I'll look it out. 'Vambo coming to the rescue...'

I've seen SAHB a couple of times since Alex died - once with Maggie Bell, and once with the current stand-in guy. Pretty average band to be honest. Alex truly was sensational.
 
jdmufc said:
james-gmex
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Was that from the (then) final tour? I've got the DVD - looks like it was s tunning show. One of my all time favourite bands - the one I could take my young/early teen kids to see and we'd all be knocked out.
 
Red Dreams said:
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know where you are coming from USDevil...Red Molly is a lucky gal....

I will have to say Springsteen in 1981 in the UK and Eric Clapton...as my fav gigs

there was a moment when Eric was playing...when I my jaws dropped...at the very same time my cousin turned and looked at me....he felt the same...

Jimi was the greatest...but Clappers is not too far behind....
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Seen Old "Slowhand" about 4 times....The best show was where Chris Rea was his support.....or the one where he guested with Dire Straits...(or was it vice versa)?

Snake Lake Blues = Classic.
 
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