[Closed] A-Z of Live Bands

ZZ Top.
Easy.
Saw them supporting Eliminator back in the day.
APF

Aldous Harding
Black Mountain
Calexico
Deerhunter
Eels
Fleet Foxes
Goat
Hot Chip
INXS
Jeffrey Lewis
Laurie Anderson
LCD Soundsystem
Mercury Rev
Neutral Milk Hotel
Orbital
Pentangle
Q
Richard Dawson
Stereolab
TVAM
U2
V
Whitney Houston
Xylouris white
Yo La Tengo
Z

Harper, Ben, that counts right!

Apollo 440
Bad Brains
Cash (JR)
Dinosaur Junior
E
Fishbone
Grant Lee Buffalo
H
I
James
Kingmaker
Lemonheads
Moby
Neds Atomic Dustbin
Orbital
PWEI
Rage against the machine
Swervedriver
That Petrol Emotiin
Utah Saints
V
W (The) Wonderstuff
X
Y
Z

Vadim (DJ)!

Apollo 440
Bad Brains
Cash (JR)
Dinosaur Junior
E
Fishbone
Grant Lee Buffalo
Harper Ben
I
James
Kingmaker
Lemonheads
Moby
Neds Atomic Dustbin
Orbital
PWEI
Rage against the machine
Swervedriver
That Petrol Emotiin
Utah Saints
Vadim (DJ)
W (The) Wonderstuff
X
Y
Z

Wow! You lot have good memories, I can barely remember most of the gigs I've been to.

Maybe I could do an A-Z of the various drugs I've used at different gigs., perhaps causing me to have little memory f them.

B - Black Sabbath
C - Clash
D - Dio
E - Europe
F - Fireball Ministry
G - Gillan
H - Hollowstar
I - Iron Maiden
J - Judas Priest
K - Kingdom Come
L - Led Zeppelin
M - Marillion
N - Nazareth
O - Ozzy
P - Phil Campbell and the bastard sons
Q - Queensrÿche
R - Ramones
S - Saxon
T - Thin Lizzy
U - Uriah Heep
V - Volbeat
W - Whitesnake
X - Xtc
Y - Y & T
Z - ZZ Top

Aerosmith
Blackstone Cherry
C
Daran et les Chaises
Extreme
Faith No More
Gun
H
IAM
Joe Bonamassa
K
Little Angels
Massive Wagons
N
O
P
Quireboys
Rush
Stereo MCs
Thunder
Ugly Kid Joe
Van Halen
Wynton Marsalis
X
Y
ZZ Top

Harder than I thought!

!!!
Apparat
Bjork
Cabbage
Death Grips
Eat
Fat White Family
Girl Band
Health
Idles
Joy Formidible
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
LCD Soundsystem
Massive Attack
New Order
Oasis
PJ Harvey
Q (nothin)
Rapture
Squid
Tropical F Storm
Underworld
Vessel
Working Men's Club
XC-NN
You Say Party
Z (nope)

Eat? No but I have seen Eat Static!!

Apollo 440
Bad Brains
Cash (JR)
Dinosaur Junior
Eat Static
Fishbone
Grant Lee Buffalo
Harper, Ben
I
James
Kingmaker
Lemonheads
Moby
Neds Atomic Dustbin
Orbital
PWEI
Rage against the machine
Swervedriver
That Petrol Emotiin
Utah Saints
Vadim (DJ)
W (The) Wonderstuff
X
Y
Z

Abdoujaparov
Birdland
Culture Shock
Dinosaur Jr
Eat
Faithless
Gomez
Hard Ons
Iggy Pop
Janes Addiction
Kasabian
Levellers
Mudhoney
Nirvana
Ozric Tentacles
Pogues
Q
Radical Dance Faction
Senser
Transglobal Underground
U
Vintage Trouble
Wedding Present
X
Y
Z

AC/DC
there have been others but these chaps were the dogs and no one else comes close.

OFFICIAL

Arab Strap
Body Snatchers
Cure
Deltones
Echo and the Bunnymen
Fall
Grace Jones
Hank Wangford Band
Inspiral Carpets
Jess Garron and the Desperados
Kitchens of Distinction
L (might have seen Laibach waaiting check)
Mekons
New Order
OMD
Pogues
Q – nothing
Royal Marines Regimental Band
Specials
Three Johns
(Pere) Ubu
Van Morrison
Wolfe Tones
X
(Sonic) Youth
Zodiac Mindwarp

Bit of cheating and can’t believe I have nothing for L and R

Eat? No but I have seen Eat Static!!

Eat supported James (Gold Mother tour, I think) I watched Eat and left when James came on. Eat were ace. 😀

^ I saw the fat man do the shiiiiiiiiiiimmmmy.....

Eat were ace. Used to watch them loads!

Ange Dolittle was my mancrush ... So cool. 😀

[edit]
see also Big Yoga Muffin & We Know Where You Live

Jesus! I’ve been going to gigs for nearly fifty years, I’ve seen a lot of bands and artists in that time, one year I managed 39 actual gigs, then there’s festivals...
This could take some time.

Ash (not a great start admittedly, but read on it gets better)

Bjork

Chemical Brothers

Deftones

Echobelly

Foo Fighters

Guttermouth

Hawkwind

Incubus

J? (Would have been Jinjer if I’d managed to get tickets!)

Korn

Lacuna Coil

Metallica

No FX

Ozric Tentacles

Placebo

Finlay Quaye

Reef

Soul Asylum

Tura Satana

U?

Veruca Salt

Whale

XYZ?

CountZero
Jesus! I’ve been going to gigs for nearly fifty years, I’ve seen a lot of bands

Challenge for you - none of your list can have white female singers 😉

A
Ballam & The Angel
Cult
Doves
Einsturzende Neubauten
Fall
Godflesh
Harvey. P.J
I
Jesus & The Mary Chain
Killing Joke
Laibach
Ministry
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
O
Public Image Limited
Q
R
Sisters of Mercy
Terrorvision
U2
V
Weller. Paul
Youth Code
Z

anagallis_arvensis

Just noticed I have missed Q!!!

Erm, what's wiv the copy n pastageddon? 😆

Anti System
Bad Brains
Conflict
Discharge
Exploited
Fugazi
Green Day
Hard Ons
Instigators
Jesus and Mary Chain
Killing Joke
Levellers
Misfits
No Means No
Poison Idea
Quicksand
Ripcord
Subhumans
TSOL
UK Subs
Violent Arrest
Warwound
Xentrix (crap metal letting down this otherwise superb list)
Youth of Today
Zounds

I think I might have to do this in instalments! I’m just looking through lists I compiled over a period from around 1985 to 2003, and there’s a lot of bands, headliners and supports. This is something I’ve sort of intended to do, but to do it alphabetically is going to be time consuming, to say the least!
This is as far as I’ve got:
Adrian Legg
Aimee Mann
Alanis Morissette
Allanah Myles
All About Eve
Altan
Arnold
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Babes In Toyland
Bangles
Be Good Tanyas
Belly
Beltane Fire
Bellatrix
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Beth Orton
Bis
Big Leaves
Big Thief
Björk
Blind Boys Of Alabama
Blondie
Blood Red Shoes
Breeders
Budapest
Buzzcocks
Calexico
Catatonia
Capercaillie
Capri
Cara Dillon
Chacha Cohen
Cowboy Junkies
Chris Difford
Curve
Dar Williams
Dark Star
Deus
Doves
The Divine Comedy
The Drink
Dubstar

Aerogramme
Bush
Common, Johnny
Dog eat dog
Earthtone 9
Faith no more
Get up kids
Har mar superstar
Insane Clown Posse
James Brown
King Django
L
Mogwai
Napalm death
Oasis
Placebo
Q
Rage against the machine
Snot
Turbonegro
U
Vision of Disorder
Wildhearts
X
Yo la tengo
Z

I think I might have to do this in instalments!

I think you've missed the point. Juts pick one for each letter...otherwise all of our lists would be as unreadable as AA's last one!

A- Anhrefn (Yr)
B- Bad Brains
C- Chumbawamba
D- Damned
E- Electro Hippies
F- Fugazi
G- Grover
H- Heresy
I- Instigators
J- Janice Graham Band
K- Kismet HC
L- Leatherface
M- Macc Lads
N- Nuclear Assault
O- Oi Polloi
P- Pogues
Q-
R- Rasta4Eyes
S- Stalingrad
T- Toy Dolls
U- UK Subs
V- Visions of Change
W- Witch Fever
X-
Y- Youth Brigade
Z- Zounds

Can't do Q, U, V and had to use 'the' for X (which is cheating)

Anna Calvi
Brian Wilson
Carter USM
Dreadzone
EMF
Father John Misty
Galliano
Hot Chip
Inspiral Carpets
John Grant
Kate Tempest
LCD Soundsystem
Motorhead
New Order
Ozric Tentacles
Pixies
Q
Red Hot Chili Peppers
She Drew the Gun
Teenage Fanclub
U
V
White Denim
X (the) XX
Yo La Tengo
ZZ Top

I think you’ve missed the point

Yeah, like uh of course the rest of us have only seen one band starting with each letter 🙄

Missing Q and X at the moment!

Arcade Fire
Beastie Boys
Carla J Easton
Dum Dum Girls
Eagulls
Flaming Lips
Girls
Health
Iggy & the Stooges
Jeffrey Lewis
King Prawn
Lovely Eggs
Madness
Nervous Twitch
Otoboke Beaver
Pet Shop Boys

Richard Thompson
Scissor Sisters
Tune Yards
(The) Understudies
Veronica Falls
Withered Hand

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Zola Jesus

zzjabzz - I see we have the same taste in music. Heresy were ace live!

Royal Marines Regimental Band

Can be replaced with The Railway Children who I saw on 6/6/87 at Finsbury Park, thanks to a pile of old ticket stubs

See, in these days of e-ticket and print-it-yourself, you don't get that

hmmmm jumpers for goalposts etc etc

Aereogramme
Battles
Clutch
Dinosaur Jr
Eels
Fugazi
Garbage
Helmet
Icarus Line
Jarcrew
Killing Joke
Lift to Experience
Mclusky
New Order
Oxbow
Pearl Jam
Queen Adreena
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Shellac
Tool
Unkle
Voy
Walkmen
X
Yo La Tengo
Zombi

Ash
British Sea Power
Cast
Dandy Warhol's
Echo and the Bunnymen
Faithless
G??
Hole
Incubus
James
Kula Shaker
Linkin Park
Metallica
No Doubt
Ocean Colour Scene
Prodigy
Quo, Status
Radiohead
Supergrass
Turin Brakes
Underworld
Verve, The
Weller, Paul
X??
Y??
Zutons

Erm, what’s wiv the copy n pastageddon

God knows, sorry, I've reported it to mods.

There is only one band I wish that I had seen - Fugazi. Please tell me they were as good as I imagined?

Fugazi were absolutely brilliant. I ahd a mate who came to the gig without knowing them and he didn't like them - you know how that sort of thing ruins the memory of a gig?? I mostly remember that and the sound of the snare drum ripping through me.

Ben Harper
Black Crows
Black Keys
Black Sabbath
Bryan Adams x2
Def Leppard
Dire Straits
Elton John
Eric Clapton
Extreme
Fairport Convention
The Fall
Genesis
Guillemots
Heart
Jethro Tull
The Levellers
Little Angles
Marilyn Manson
Metallica
Ozzy Ozbourne
Paul McCartney
Paul Weller
Pink Floyd
Plant & Page x4
Primal Scream
Rolling Stones
Status Quo
Squeeze
Tears for Fears
Thunder
Turin Brakes
ZZ Top

and there's loads more lesser known bands I can't remember because of multi gigs at day festivals.

AC/DC
Blue Oyster Cult
Clutch
Dire Straits
Enter Shikari
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Hawkwind
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Killing Joke
Lemonjelly
Midnight Oil
N
O
Pink Floyd
Queen
Rush
System of a Down
Therapy?
U2
Van Halen
X
Y
Zombie (Rob!)

meh forgot to add Dreadzone as well, twice!

Missed W !
Errr....White Stripes

Yes, Fugazi were awesome live, MCR Boardwalk 89 and at the Irish club in Hulme. Only saw them these two times. Black Flag, yes plenty of mutuals there 😃. Looking at some of these lists, perhaps an A to Z of bands I should have seen would be in order...

anti-nowhere league
black flag
crass
damned
exploited
fits
gbh
happy mondays
idles
jesus and mary chain
killing joke
lurkers
murder capital
n - cant think of owt. really should have seen new model army by now but nope....
outcasts
placebo
q - nope, cant think of owt.
rage against the machine
strokes
therapy
uk subs
von bondies
white stripes
xs energy
yeah yeah yeahs
zoundz

Auteurs
Billy Bragg
Cud
Dinosaur Jnr
Edsal Auctioneers
Flatmates
Gate bykers on acid
Hole
Iggy Pop
James
Killers
Lemonheads
Mojo Nixon
Needs atomic dustbin
Orb
Parachute men
Queens of the Stone age
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Spacemen 3
The Ting Tings
U2
Voice of the beehive
Wedding present
X
Young gods
Z

Parachute men

Saw them at a scout hut in New Malden, due to a mix up publicising the date the audience was me, two mates and the promoter, there were more bouncers than paying customers. Good gig though, ears were ringing for days.

Alice In Chains
Bauhaus
The Cult
The Damned
Echo & The Bunnymen
Fields of The Nephilim
Gene Loves Jezebel
Hawkwind
I
J
Killing Joke
Lesbian Bed Death
The Mission
New Model Army
O
Play Dead
Q
R
Skeletal Family
Take That
Under Two Flags
Vice Squad
W
Xmal Deutschland
Y
Z

Assemblage 23
Billy idol
Clan of xymox
Depeche mode
Echobelly
Fields of the nephilim
Gene loves jezebel
H
Iron maiden
James brown
Killing joke
Laibach
Mesh
Nitzer ebb
Ozzy osbourne
Psycadelic furs
Queensryche
Rammstein
Sneaker pimps
Tori amos
U
VNV Nation
WASP
XC-NN
Y
Zodiac mindwarp

I'm trying to think of the ones to fill the gaps.....can't remember all the gigs.

Astley, Virginia (iirc she played a flute...)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy or Buzzcocks (Buzzcocks were the first band I went to see)
CRASS (preaching Anarchy from music hall stages, at, er, the Aberdeen Music Hall... 🤪)
Dylan, Bob (surprisingly he was really good, despite it being in the ‘00’s)
Exploited, The (support for Cockney Rejects I think.. 🤦‍♂️)
Fugazi
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Hurrah (possibly the same gig as V Astley...)
I
Jones, Elvin (amazing jazz drummer, played in Coltranes bands)
Killdozer
Lampchop
Mudhoney or My Bloody Valentine
N
Orange Juice
Pixies (the original line up, back in ‘88)
Rapeman or REM
SCARS (the embra band, awesome first gig at Music Hall In Aberdeen)
Tinariwen (and Trio Bulgarka, going for the world theme)
UK Subs (can’t believe I’m admitting to this, at least it was only ‘79)
Van Etten, Sharon
Win or Wire (wire was at triptych fest, also Andre Williams, Komputer & Pan Sonic the same night)
X
Y
Z

Keep thinking I should be able to find ones for I & N at least...

Lesbian Bed Death
...

Take That

Oh, I do so hope that the first were support for the second 😆

I've seen at least one from everyone's list .. except coynie09's. I'm special 🙂

There is only one band I wish that I had seen – Fugazi. Please tell me they were as good as I imagined?

Is it really ****ty to say yes to this?

First time i saw them it was their first time over around 88/89ish and they played Planet X in liverpool and it was packed out, then Wigan the next night (or two??) and virtually no one turned up. I was with a mate who roadied for black flag when they came to the uk in the early 80s along with Ian Mackay. So spent the evening playing pool with Fugazi in an emptyish club. Bizzare and amazing.

Is it really ****ty to say yes to this?

If so, I beat you to the ****tiness 😀

If so, I beat you to the ****tiness 😀

ha ha, I snooze I lose

Lesbian Bed Death
…

Take That

Oh, I do so hope that the first were support for the second 😆

Sadly not, it was Rick Ashley. Was taking MrsD to see Take That, honest guv

LBD were support for Skeletal Family.

a. Arcade Fire
b. Bellowhead
c. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
d. Datsuns
e. Elbow
f. Flaming Lips
g. Grandaddy
h. The Hives
i. Interpol
j. James
k. Kings of Leon
l. Ladytron
m. Modest Mouse
n.
o. Orbital
p. Polyphonic Spree
q.
r. Radiohead
s. Stars
t. Tapes n tapes
u. Urban circus!
v. The verve
w. Weezer
x. The xx
y. Yeah yeah yeahs
z. The zutons

Alt-J
Bloc Party
Cinematic Orchestra
Doves
The Enemy
Fleet Foxes
GoGo Penguin
The Hives
Inspiral Carpets
Jungle
Kings of Leon
Lewis Capaldi
The Maccabees
Noel Gallagher’s Highflying Birds
O
Pulp
Queen
Rush
Snow Patrol
Teleman
Underworld
Vaccines
W
X
Y
Z