Greatest gig you have been to.

The Smashing Pumpkins at the Manchester Apollo in 2000 for their supposed last ever tour. My friends and I were only able to get tickets for the upstairs seating section but we stood up at the front of the balcony for the entire concert. As we were the only people to stand up and go nuts on the balcony, Billy Corgan appeared to wave at us towards the end of the set. As the concert was on Halloween, the band threw sweets from plastic pumpkins into the crowd, one of which I caught and kept in my fridge for about a year!
 
Eminem at Punchestown Racecourse in 2003 was pretty amazing - he also had D12 & Cypress Hill with him. 50 Cent was meant to be there but couldn't make it for some reason. It was a pretty awesome concert :D
 
tom waits - hammersmith odeon - 2004

will never be beaten unless I see Waits again!
 
I have heard Red Hot Chili Peppers are coming to India latter this year.I am sure that will be the greatest gig I will ever attend.
 
Ozzy - 96 Manchester Apollo
Rolling Stones - Wembley 95?
Iron Maiden - Donnington 92

Were the best one's I've been to, but Page & Plant at Reading Festival were good, as were Mark B & Blade, Ugly Duckling and George Clinton at the Urban Festival in Hackney in 2002?
 
Bury Red said:
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.
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that's a great little list BR, I saw The Roses on the Second Coming tour and luckily I caught them on a good night at Sheffield.

But my bestest ever gig ever is Radiohead at Glastonbury '97. head and shoulders above everything I've seen before or after. They were so intense and on their game that night.

I've got way too many to go into what is second and third and so on.
 
Wolfboy said:
that's a great little list BR, I saw The Roses on the Second Coming tour and luckily I caught them on a good night at Sheffield.

But my bestest ever gig ever is Radiohead at Glastonbury '97. head and shoulders above everything I've seen before or after. They were so intense and on their game that night.

I've got way too many to go into what is second and third and so on.
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So jealous Wolfy, thats the greatest Radiohead gig I have seen on film, as you said so tight and intense. Just wish I could find a decent copy to download of it, had it on video but it has been watched that much it is now worn out :(

Radiohead are one of the greatest live acts in the history of music.
 
Metallica or Iron Maiden in 2006, probably. Ozzy & Black Label Society (2007) comes close, but the sound was a bit fecked up.

Cold_Boy said:
I have heard Red Hot Chili Peppers are coming to India latter this year.I am sure that will be the greatest gig I will ever attend.
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I wouldn't be so sure. They've been quite rubbish this year.
 
RedNome said:
So jealous Wolfy, thats the greatest Radiohead gig I have seen on film, as you said so tight and intense. Just wish I could find a decent copy to download of it, had it on video but it has been watched that much it is now worn out :(

Radiohead are one of the greatest live acts in the history of music.
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Wolfboy said:
that's a great little list BR, I saw The Roses on the Second Coming tour and luckily I caught them on a good night at Sheffield.

But my bestest ever gig ever is Radiohead at Glastonbury '97. head and shoulders above everything I've seen before or after. They were so intense and on their game that night.

I've got way too many to go into what is second and third and so on.
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I saw radiohead last year at V not expecting anything, but they were amazing possibly the highlight despite me not being a fan.
 
MUFCgal said:
Eminem at Punchestown Racecourse in 2003 was pretty amazing - he also had D12 & Cypress Hill with him. 50 Cent was meant to be there but couldn't make it for some reason. It was a pretty awesome concert :D
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Xzibit was there aswell. Xzibit and Cypress Hill were better than Eminem I thought, him coming down on that ferris wheel was cool tho'
 
3 Doors Down, 2004, Manchester Academy. My first gig, always something extra special about your first.
 
Bury Red said:
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.

I was one of the 63 who were there :)

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apart from thet Jamiroqui - 96 - Bournemouth, End of tour - superb
Groove Armada this year at Lovebox - amazing!!
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I haven't really been to that many gigs but The Roots a month ago must be up there.
 
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