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best: weller 2009 and getting into the after show party 😯
worst: Bowie and the glass spider tour 👿
Best - Massive Attack, Westonbirt 2006.
Worst - Oasis, Millenium Stadium 2009.
Best: dinosaur jr. the Venue Embra. Must've been, oh, '88. I went six months without cutting my hair after that. It all kinda made sense after about 15 minutes...
Worst: hmm, difficult to pull one out but I remember being so bored at the Banshees on their Juju tour that I left halfway through.
Sorry, need to change my "worst", just remembered that I had the misfortune of seeing Starsailor a couple of years ago...
Best - another vote for Alabama 3 at any one of several,
Worst - Dragonforce, the Astoria 2008 or 9. They take themselves far too seriously for the music they produce. The support was Turisas, who might be bonkers, but at least everyone has a good time.
Best exploited at duchess in leeds 80's or Motorhead leeds queens hall one of the loudest also the hardons/the stupids at scrumpys in leeds nearly same volume but scrumps was the size of a wardrobe
Worst GONG at pheonix club in chapletown ,even copious amounts of liberty caps didnt cover the dire drivvle.
Best - Clutch at Koko or PJ Harvey at Camp Bestival
Worst - The Strokes in Brixton, we obviously weren't worth their time so we went to the pub.
Best Jesus and Mary Chain - Sheffield Octagon year? 90ish?
was simply blown away - didn't expect to come across live
Worst New Order Bradford 85ish as said above about expectations not together and argued thru the stop start set
best-
Dwarves in king tuts
Rocket from the crpyt in king tuts
demented are go in glasgow barfly(?)
worst
onslaught at the barra's
Had seen them a couple of years before at the venue and they where great but had a new singer for the barra's and he was just mince
I don't know about best, but GWAR in a sleezy nightclub in Vancouver in about (er) 1990 was the most fun.
John Cale playing his piano was pretty awesome, with Martin Phillips from The Chills as support.
Worst was probably Sonic Youth. Sound was terrible, and I was very very drunk, had been sooooo looking forward to it had got a bit over-excited.
P.S forgot for last year at download Twisted Sister they stormed it. And the travesty they only got 30 mins or so , they had to drag dee snyder off the stage.
Same for Clutch,Black stone cherry ,and the cult
best: I cant judge t as I was largely off my tits tbh. 😳
Billy Bragg- he is genuinely a very funny guy and seemed a down to earth decent guy.
Worst: Primal scream so pissed they could not play and they switched the lead guitarists guitar off as he literally could not play in time never mind the actual song ...shocking leeds somewhere 90's???
Stone roses ....trust me kids he cannot hold a note for shit I could not listen for laughing first time they were much better but i was much more off my face
Worst - De La Soul @ Exeter University - abysmally organised & sound problems throughout which meant they only played for 20mins.
Best - The Subways @ Thekla in Bristol
Best Stiff Little Fingers @ Digbeth Civic Hall in Brum late 70's?
Worst The Tourists later to become The Eurythmics @ Brum Odean or Blondie @ same venue.
Dooh
Best - Kid Creole and the Coconuts in Aylesbury 2009 at one of the Friars finale's
Before you laugh, see them.
Best - Every one of the 15 times I've seen AC/DC
Worst - Van Halen @ Castle Donnington 1984. What a let down 🙁
Best: Ramones at Bristol . Marky on drums.
That won't happen again!
Worst ???
Best Mudhoney at the international 2 in Manchester or Soulwax at the student union
worst red hot chili peppers at the Apollo. no effort whatsoever, ignorant, soulless. I wanted my money back
Best - toss up between Razorlight at Sheffield Arena (way better than listening to their albums), or maybe Muse at Nottingham Arena.
Worst - The Darkness at Sheffield Arena. Got dragged along and to top it off we were in seats.
Best: Elbow, SECC last Feb. Being 6 ft from the stage may have helped.
Worst: Being dragged by the misses to see Chris De Burgh, again at the SECC in 92/93 ? Sat there with my arms folded the whole way through.It was PISH ! Blazing row with the misses afterwards for me being a grump.
Worst Support : An Emotional Fish (supporting Simple Minds). Did not recognise a single word the singer mumbled.
Queens of the stone age.. brixton..best
Razorshite... Earls court ..worst, I blame the Mrs for that one though, so mebby..iron maiden.. reading festival.
Blimey you lot are older than me!!
Best - Yazoo, Wolverhampton when they reformed or The Specials the following year in Birmingham
Worst - Can't really say that i have ever been disappointed at a gig that I paid for...where i have sneaked in is a different story.
Best loved all Alarm concerts from 80s through to 2012 that i`ve seen,
Worst U2 Zooropa tour at Leeds 92? so wished i`d seen them 5 years earlier!!
best- can't choose between:
beastie boys/rollins band at newcastle riverside, 1991/2ish
primus at the marquee club, 1991
sepultura/sodom at the marquee club, 1990
dinosaur jr at newcastle riverside, 1988ish
earth crisis/path of resistance/25talife/madball/merauder/crown of thornz at hungry charlie's, syracuse NY in 1997
converge at the attic, manchester in 2002ish
policy of 3 at the 1in12 club, bradford in 1995
worst- i can't really remember. try to block out the rubbish ones. i seem to recall terrorvision in the blandford pub in sunderland one sunday night were pretty horrendous though. prior to them getting signed, it was 50p in and we asked them for our money back.
nirvana at newcastle mayfair also sucked. played for 20 minutes, then spent another 25 smashing all their gear up. waste of money, totally overrated crap.
Best - probably The Prodigy at the Leeds Festival (at the very front - ouch).
Worst - Skunk Anansie headlining Glastonbury on the Sunday (1999?) Kerrap.
Or maybe Electric Six in Leeds or Blur in Wales or AC/DC or Kiss. Loads of great gigs.
Judas Priest were shit last year but Queensryche supporting more than made up for it.
Best , Fields Of The Nephilim, no way I could narrow it down.
Worst, Christian Death at the Astoria . They had a back drop of concentration camps and Valor's little boy in front of the mic saying "I am death" over and over again.
Most of the audience felt the same way as me as a chant soon started of " your daddy's a ****er"!
I felt proud to be English.
Scariest , Laibach in Germany. A backdrop of swastikas made out of axes, drummers in lederhosen and an audience reverting to their stereotype. Only there as the neffies were supporting.
Good - rembrandts in new york
Bad - brooooce on his born in the usa tour 85 Leeds. I want my 3 hours back please
Most memorable for being great;
Dead Kennedys
Birthday Party
Sonic Youth / Pavement
Fugazi
Groove Armada
Death Cult
Very average
Husker Du
Faith No more
God Awful
Black Grape
Mitch - saw the Juvies loads around Wakefield in the 90's and always enjoyed them.
Best- probably Stone Roses at Northampton roadmenders, just after release of debut album,
or maybe Spacemen3 at the then Town and Country club...
also many great nights in King Tuts
worst? no one really stands out, possibly some fat boy slim free thing on brighton beach just cos it was a nightmare with mental overcrowding and sh1t sound
Christ, this is difficult! I don't really know how many bands I've see over the forty one years I've been going to gigs, let alone which was the best! Led Zeppelin at Earl's Court? Elbow every time I've seen them, especially at the O2 last year? Fleetwood Mac at the NEC? Laura Marling the last six or seven times I've seen her?
Faith No More? Curve? Sisters Of Mercy? ZZ Top? Steely Dan?
Certainly the Civil Wars at the O2 Academy, Bristol last month was one of the very, very best I've been to, just a magical experience, seeing a band with a whole room full of people, none of whom had seen them before either, and the band just riding a huge wave of love for what they were doing.
Worst? Ah, not so difficult, there have been one or two that have been a little disappointing, but really only two that were bad. Katastrophy Wife, Kat Bjelland's band after Babes In Toyland, at The Fleece, in Bristol, was really dire, just utterly shambolic. 65daysofstatic, who were headlining when I saw Asobi Seksu, after Asobi's headlining gig got changed to a support; the only gig I've ever walked out on the headline act. Dull, duller, dullest, a formlest racket with no tunes, no vocals, and no redeeming features that I could see.
Revolting Cocks, at one of the Glasgow colleges 90/91 I think.
Best would be The Icicle Works playing on The Royal Iris, a Mersey ferry moored next to HMS Belfast in 1984. All drinks at Liverpool prices and I was stood at the front with one foot on the foldback speakers being asked to make sure no one nicked Iain Mcnabs set list. I still have it somewhere.
The Smiths at The Dome in Brighton in 85 was a pretty close second.
I don't think I can recall anything really disappointing.
best eagles. fleetwood mac. saw smokie last week they were brill.
worst. radio head cant imagine anyone could be worse
Worst probably Van Morrison at Llandudno, sang one song then went off. I like his music but he is a prima dona.
Best has to be Bruce Springsteen, sheer value of effort,content and duration. Saw him in Nottingham and Roundhay park on the same tour. Couldnt kill the bugger with a stick. Brilliant.
Best was Ben Harper at the Jazz Cafe in Camden in about 1994.
Worst.....weirdly because I love their music Iron and Wine, could have just stayed at home and listened to the cd
Most Iconic was J R Cash at Glasters
Best one - if I can only have one, then Public Enemy & Run DMC at the Barrowlands, 89(?)
Worst one - U2, Hampden a couple of years ago. Got free tickets. Left after about 20 minutes. Couldn't believe people are willing to PAY stupid amounts of money for that!
Worst one that left me gutted - New Order, SECC, 89/90(?) Too awful for words, still pains me to think about it.
Best: either The Who, the first time they reformed at Newcastle Arena, it was incredible hearing all those songs live, or sparklehorse at the sheffield leadmill, on their first UK tour, i honestly can't pick.
Worst: Brian Wilson at Newcastle city hall, the tour before he did Smile. Dreadful, or Elbow after their first album, so dull.
Best - Madonna @ Wembley 2006 (although £170 per ticket was just scandalous). Fantastic performer, the set was immense and her dancers were amazing. That was the first time I experienced a gig outside of Glasgow and found the crowds don't go mental like we do. They're a lot more reserved and it took quite a bit of asking by Madonna before they'd get involved.
Worst - The Prodigy @ Glasgow SECC 1997, crap venue anyway, but the lazy sods were over an hour late on stage (to a lot of boos) and the sound was awful. I had my ass kicked in the mosh pit and was crushed at the front.
Best: either Converge at CBGBs 2001, Snapcase TJs Newport 2000 and something, Helmet, kerbdog & Understand Wulfrun hall 1995. Or maybe Fugazi. or Metallica. Or Roni Size live. More recently Gallows and Trash Talk was ace. Dunno, there's too many.
Worst: probably Hole just after Cobain topped himself. Understandably his missus was not really interested. I've managed to see Jools Holland twice, was like being punched in the ears with boredom. loads of crap support bands.
Best: Either 'The Smiths' at the Kilburn National (87? - as heard on 'Rank') or 'Microdisney' circa 86 - ULU Aldwych.
Worst: Aztec Camera - Dominion or Lloyd Cole and his annoying Commotions - MK Bowl
Best - Rush Brum Odeon 1980 or U2 Cork 1993, saw them a couple of weeks earlier and they did a live link with Sarajevo, ok he wanted to get a point across but please - dropped it for Cork and were excellent.
Worse - U2 1997(ish) Popmart tour at Wembley, boring.
U2 doing quite well in the worst band stakes.
Flip, to choose 1 best out of what I've seen is pretty impossible! Short list would have to include the Jam (pompey guildhall), Pixies (brighton), Au Pairs (pompey mecca ballroom), Bauhaus (pompey guildhall), Lcd Soundsystem (brighton concorde), Sleigh Bells (Brighton Audio), Oasis (pompey wedgewood rooms), Sugarcubes (pompey guidlhall), Underworld (in a field).... (just thought of a couple more) Red Hot Chilis (club foot, london, supported by a dj called Norman Cook), Chemical Brothers + Fatboy Slim (london)..
Worst: Depeche Mode , chichester festival theatre - had my review of this gig published in the NME 🙂