Sisters of Mercy (leeds uni)
Southern Death Cult (Warehouse, leeds)
Dead Kennedys (leeds Uni)
Death Cult (Dortmunder, Leeds)
Loads of others, but these are the ones which stand out in my memory.
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Following the band/album threads.. best gig ever been too?
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Faaaaar to many great gigs over the years, really, to pick a best, but Thin Lizzy were always great, saw them five or six times, Yes were good on the Close To The Edge Tour, Fleetwood Mac were fantastic, and there have been loads of excellent gigs in recent years, one of the very best, and one that will stay with me was Metric at the Thekla in Bristol recently. Stunning gig, Emily has just so much energy packed into a little body. Killing Joke at the Beirkeller in Bristol was also memorable for the insanity of the moshpit, with me walking away with a leather jacket soaked clean through with sweat, and me an unhealthy shade of deep red 'cos of the heat.
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grateful dead, last brtish tour
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In date order.
U2 - Pop tour, Belfast
Red Hot Chillies - V fest, 02/03 can't remember the exact year
Nine Inch Nails at the O2 earlier this year.
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Keef Hartley Band, Kingston Hotel 1968.
Isle of Wight Festival, 1970 (Hendrix, J.Tull, Family, Rory Gallagher, Free, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, The Who, Tiny Tim, John Sebastian, etc etc etc)
The Faces, QE Hall 1969.
Pink Floyd, Knebworth 1975
Anti-Nazi League march, Victoria Park 1979 (The Clash, X-Ray Spex, Elvis Costello).
John Stevens Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Half Moon, Putney 1979.
All the gigs I played at the Marquee and the Paradiso (Amsterdam) in the '80s. Every single one.
Billy Cobham Trio (QE Hall, South Bank) 2002.
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Green Day's recent tour in Birmingham at teh end of last month.
Adam and the Ants in Southampton late summer 81 the support band 'Gods Toys' stole the show for me. Look them up on Youtube.Posted 2 years ago # -
in no particular order:
Violent Femmes, Manchester International
Motorhead, Deeside (seen them at Mcr Apollo too but they always seemed louder at Deeside)
Thin Lizzy, Apolloplenty of excellent stuff since (much of it probably better musically) but my best gig would be picked from those three.
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Blackpool empress ballroom around 1993, haggled with the touts outside and did a deal to see Ride and The Charlatans on a double bill. Ride were rather impressive (Going Blank Again era) so much so we thought the Charlatans were going to die on their arses. Oh yea of little faith, they blew the place apart. Great night out.
Other good ones:
Wedding Present at Preston Poly when they were doing a single a month for a year
Mudhoney twice in a week whilst touring My Brother the Cow
Julian Cope various timeshaven't been to a gig for ages
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muse wembley 2010!!
hmmm zootv popmart vertigo or 360?? One of the above probably vertigo manchester with athlete as support.
other great gigs, pretenders newport ? 95, INXS get out of the house tour at cardiff uni was mad, REM at the arms paaaaark too many to list
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Blur at Southend this summer.
Prefab Sprout Jordan tour Portsmouth 1990.
Thompson Twins Into the Gap tour Southampton Guamont
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slimtubing - Member
Danzig- '91 bizzarre festival in germany, didn't expect much but he fookin raawked!
I was there! Went for New Model Army, but missed a lot of the other bands due tositting outside drinking foul lager. Great festival though.
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REM @ Madison Square Garden
Prince @ The O2
Galaxy 2 Galaxy/ Los Hermanos @ TITP
Daft Punk @ RocknessPosted 2 years ago # -
Bloody 'eck, Mr Whoppit - you must be older than me! IOW must have been amazing!
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Beastie Boys / Run DMC @ Brixton Academy 86 or 87
Stiff Little Fingers @ Kilburn National 87? (1st Reunion tour)
Or most recently Specials @ Brixton this year.
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Red Hot Chilli Peppers @ Leeds Uni '89
Got grief off the missus as I had a spare ticket and didn't think of taking her (we were just mates then)The Meteors @ Leeds Astoria '86
Absolutly mental , spent the entire gig in the 'phsycobilly' equivalent of a mosh pit , got my glasses knocked off in the 2nd song and a bouncer gave them back to me on the way out , he saw it happen and kept an eye out for me (great big pointy quiff unmissable)Motorhead @ Bradford St Georges Hall '80
My first ever gig (10) went with my dad and uncle and all 3 of us were headbanging over the balcony
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The Blue Areoplanes Reading Festival 1991, brought the tent down, literally.
Tow Waits Edinburgh Playhouse 2008 Magical!
Rem/10,000 Maniacs Hammersmith Odeon 1986?, rem popped back out after most of the crowd left to do an acoustic set with the lights up.
House of Love Edinburgh Small club 198? free tape at the door and a pint with Guy Chadwick afterwards.
Radiohead @ Paradiso Amsterdam 1997? not a big fan but teh sound quality at this gig was crystal clear well impressed.
Air @ Fruitmarket Glasgow, they brought the Funk and left the trip hop at home, top gig
Glastonbury 1989 1st Time, went as a lager lout came back a hippy, big shock to the parents.
Now did someone mention Megadog, that realy was something else, we didnae have stuff like that in Scotland so it was a bit of an eye opener going to the Rocket in North London for that, people were skinning up on the bar!
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Undertones, Rock Garden, Middlesbrough, 1978ish or much later on the last pre-breakup tour in the BierKeller, Newcastle, maybe 1992?
10000 Maniacs, Nottingham 1997?
Clash, Mbro Town Hall
Misty in Roots, anytime I've seen them.
Smiths were good, with James supporting, Nottm 1985?
Spear of Destiny, Hanley 1985? Some fantastic gigs that tour.
U2, probably War tour, saw about six shows, Newcastle was probably the pick.
Faith No More, Newcastle 1992ish
Gin Blossoms, London 1989?
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Hawkwind Leeds Uni '74 - bonkers
Rolling Stones - Leicester '75 - we were on telly, being at the front of the que and , er, bunking off school.
The Who - Charlton footy ground '75.
The Clash, The Damned, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Sex Pistols - Leeds Poly - Anarchy in the UK '76 Tour
The Triffids - Warehouse '83
REM - Warehouse '84 (the band I was 'managing' at the time supported them)
Big Black - ? '85 - Leeds Poly - loudest gig EVER!
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Hawkwind Leeds Uni '74
I am envious!
The Cramps supported by The Stingrays at Newcastle Mayfair 1986.
Bevis Frond and Walkingseeds. The Dome, Tufnell Park? North London at any rate. errr. 1989? 1990? Not sure as I was doing a lot of acid roundabout then. It was awesome though.
Brain of Morbius. Deptford Free Festival. 1995ish. Very funnu
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Rush at Brum Odeon 1980 - last day at school too boot.
U2 in Cork in 1997, Zoo tour and back in '87 on the Joshua Tree tour.
A couple of Yes gigs, Union Tour in the round in 80's and at the NIA with a Symphony orchestra back in 2004(ish.
Springsteen at Bramall Lane '88.
Hootie and the Blowfish - Wolverhampton Civic Hall.
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Oh yes, forgot about Hawkwind, Stonehenge, Summer Solstice 1984.
All a bit hazy.
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Agreed with whoever mentioned Megadogs, the first few at Manchester Academy were just incredible nights out.
Also Faith No More this summer at a sweatbox in Edinburgh, sounded even better than when I saw them the first time around.Posted 2 years ago # -
Prodigy Glastonbury 1995 was pretty good. Saying that the whole festival was shit hot.
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Carter - early 90s (30 Something tour). An absolute riot
Always regretted not seeing the Pogues when they were at their best
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Too many to list really, it's my 30th year of gig-going this year. Highlights that spring to mind are Radiohead (can't pick a best gig from the 18 times I've seen them so far) Tom Waits in Dublin, Flaming Lips in Manchester, Prince @ Earl's Court, Bjork @ Brixton (1991 ?), Happy Mondays (Brixton), Grandaddy (Oxford Zodiac), Felice Brothers (Mcr), Primal Scream (best was on the Xtrminator tour, Zodiac) etc etc
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Saw Taj Mahal, an old blues guy, playing at the Glasgow Fruitmarket about 10 years ago. Small gig, seated and he just totally had everyone in the palm of his hand. The atmosphere was electric. I'll remember that one 'till I die.
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I was lucky enough to see Gil Scot Heron a few years back. It was just him and his piano. This was just before all his problems with drugs/hiv started.
James Brown and George Clinton were on the same bill at the same time. We ran back and forth between the two tents.
Fugazi sometime around 94/95? in Germany
Billy Bragg...seen him a load of times(even took my mum!)
Roy Ayers at Ronny Scott's when one of the Temptations turned up.
Neil Young with Sonic Youth opening up.
Also seen Lee Scratch Perry loads of times...probably the best was at Finsbury Park with the Mad Proffesor
Aba Shanti I at the much missed Blue Note Club
Coldcut at Southbank
I also got to see the wonderful Ornette Coleman at the Meltdown festival this year.
Fat Freddy's Drop... seen them a few times
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Live Aid.
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I saw Van Morrison by accident at the point dublin in 1999ish. had gone on £5 ryanair flights, while there saw he was playing so got tix from a branch of HMV. decent tickets downstirs near the front. Met some yanks who had come all the way fro the US specially, booked months in advance, and their tickets were way way way up at the back.
Did we fell smug? Only a little bit.
Van the man was underwhelming actually.Posted 2 years ago # -
Sigur Ros at Brixton, 2005
Plastikman, Tribal Gathering 1995
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man, Glastonbury 2003
Autechre, Glastonbury 1995
Stars, ULU, 2006Posted 2 years ago # -
john_drummer - Member
Easy.The Sisters Of Mercy + New Model Army + Skeletal Family, Huddersfield Town Hall, c1983/4
That was Sunday 14th October 1984, John.
The Chameleons, supported by Salvation - Leeds Warehouse 8th September 1986. Two fantastic live bands.
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Husker Du Stow Hill Labour Club in Newport.
Metallica at the Lyceum only London show for Ride the Lightening, people offering £100 outside Torme and Tank supporting utter bedlam. ears still ringing at Christmas.
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Stones in Hyde Park 1969
Talking Heads Manchester University 1978
Thomas Mapfumo Harare 1983
Crash Test Dummies Melbourne 1992
Ginger Pig Band Northampton 2009Posted 2 years ago # -
ZZ Top at Newcastle City Hall in 1984 (I think - it was the Eliminator tour) a tad cheesy but in a cool way.
Best was probably Weller at Oxford Apollo on the Wildwood tour - absolutely superb, but very very loud.
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Prodigy - Bug Jam 1993 ish
Deacon Blue - Guernsey 2002
Stiff Little Fingers - Guernsey 2002 (they were supporting the Stanglers who were rubbish and nearly got booed off stage)Posted 2 years ago #
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