Faithless - have seen them a number of times but a few years back at Glastonbury they were awesome.
Muse - genuinely blew me away about 3 or 4 years ago at Bournemouth
And recently and most surprisingly - the Pet shop boys , also at Bournemouth, last year. Wasn't sure before seeing them but what an awesome show - loved every bit.
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Bands you've seen live and been left thinking 'wow'...
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support act for Megadeth
I saw that tour at Glasgow Barrowlands, Scienceofficer, '92 I think; exactly the same result... Pantera destroyed the audience, & Mustaines mob sidled on after obviously knowing they couldn't live up to that.
Unsurprisingly, completely the reverse was true on Meshuggahs' last tour; the support band, 'Trigger the Bloodshed', are the first band I've seen who I could not hear any tune / riffs / music from at all, white noise was all they seemed to produce. While Meshuggah were as tight as you'd expect with 8-string guitar players + Tomas Haake playing..
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Jane's Addiction on their Strays tour. It was my first proper gig and I loved it
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Dredges memory banks..........
The Stone Roses supporting James at a Legalise Cannabis Campaign gig at Manchester Uni back in the 80's was a cracker - early days for the Roses, James blew them off stage.
Faith No More at the International (just after Mike Patton had joined) and then a few weeks later a the International II.
Any Here & Now gig, but the Cheetham Hill Library gig stand out - support by Lemn Sissay, no alcohol on sale but free mushroom tea at the bar
Subhumans at Hulme Labour club.
Misty In Roots at the same place.
Catatonia (who I'd never heard of before) supporting the Manics at a small gig in Blackburn before the Manics first American tour.
The last Manchester Beta Band gig at the Acadamy.
King Creosote at Dry Bar a couple of years ago, bloke is pure class.
Big Audio Dynamte at the Apollo, supported by Schooly D, to the complete and absolute bafflement of an audience of Mancunian scuffers who'd never seen a headlining DJ before. We didn't know whether to dance or just sit there and applaud nicely!
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Lost prophets at download a couple of years back.
Muse were good at wembley too, however when they played in teignmouth too many locals went along and got a bit miffed with all the moshing when all they wanted was just to sit down and have a picnic.
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Big Audio Dynamte at the Apollo, supported by Schooly D, to the complete and absolute bafflement of an audience of Mancunian scuffers who'd never seen a headlining DJ before.
I saw BAD on the Megatop Phoenix tour. They had some odd bloke in a bowler hat supporting - Adamski. Totally nonplussed Geordie audience were similarly baffled.
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Lots of gigs many been okay but highlights must be
David Bowie 78 Newcastle
The clash 81 Leeds
The Damned 80 Durham
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Oasis - Knebworth - What a day.... Incredible
More upto date - Paperplane - A west yorkshire band, yound lads - loads of talent
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Two gigs where I had no intention of going to but was offered tickets at the last minute.
Massive Attack (approx 2003) in Queen Square, Bristol - whole afternoon festival including Goldfrapp and the Streets - was never into Massive Attack but received a call from a mate saying he'd got a spare ticket about an hour before the festival began, and was totally blown away.
Sigur Ros - Colston Hall (2009) - had heard they were good live but had never knowingly heard anything of theirs (didn't have a clue that BBC's Olympic theme tune was by them). Again another mate had a spare ticket. Was transfixed by the whole visual and aural show. Their Icelandic support band was also awesome).
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"One band I've never seen and wish I had was Metallica. Can't bring myself to go now 'cos if I didn't enjoy it, it'd really spoil them for me. (yeah, I know. Weird...)"
I was surprised but they were better last time I saw them (Sonisphere 09) than they have been for years- the new album was overrated but they seem to be, well, awake again. New bass player brought them a lot more energy but they're not just treading the groove any more- less cliched crowd chat, different takes on songs- Hetfield doing all the solos etc for Nothing Else Matters frinstance (not to mention shortening it by about a minute and giving it a whole new ending), Hammett improvising trying to so solos he couldn't actually do and dropping notes rather than just knocking out whatever he'd been practicing in his bedroom since he was 10... It really was bloody good overall.
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Mew - for my money the most beautiful band live
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The Levellers - Town & Country (Kentish Town Forum)
James - Brixton Academy
The Wonder Stuff - Phoenix Festival.
Flowered Up - Portsmouth Guild HallAll early to mid 90's
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Quite a few:
The Levellers at York Uni before they were ever known
Thunder - at Don Valley Stadium supporting Bon Jovi
Little Angels - saw them a couple of times, just a great sound
The Pretenders - couldn't stand their records or Chrissie Hines whining voice, but great live for some reason!
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