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Danzig- '91 bizzarre festival in germany, didn't expect much but he ****in 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.
REM @ Madison Square Garden
Prince @ The O2
Galaxy 2 Galaxy/ Los Hermanos @ TITP
Daft Punk @ Rockness
Bloody 'eck, Mr Whoppit - you must be older than me! IOW must have been amazing!
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.
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 😆
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!
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?
Could be loads more, I've been lucky. Who to see next though?
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!
and many,many others.
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
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.
Oh yes, forgot about Hawkwind, Stonehenge, Summer Solstice 1984.
All a bit hazy.
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.
Prodigy Glastonbury 1995 was pretty good. Saying that the whole festival was shit hot.
Carter - early 90s (30 Something tour). An absolute riot
Always regretted not seeing the Pogues when they were at their best
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
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.
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
The list goes on and on
Live Aid.
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.
Sigur Ros at Brixton, 2005
Plastikman, Tribal Gathering 1995
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man, Glastonbury 2003
Autechre, Glastonbury 1995
Stars, ULU, 2006
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.
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.
Stones in Hyde Park 1969
Talking Heads Manchester University 1978
Thomas Mapfumo Harare 1983
Crash Test Dummies Melbourne 1992
Ginger Pig Band Northampton 2009
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.
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)
docrobster, i was there at that Ride gig and yes it was up with the best, or when I saw them at the Leadmill a little later.....
Went to many a gig in Sheffield around that time, many who I had never heard of... one of the best was Dr Phibes and the House of Wax Equations at Sheff 2 in old Sheff Poly Union.... or Levellers with Murphys at 50p a pint!!
In date order:
Buzzcocks/Subway Sect (Love Bites tour '78) - they say the first time always stays with you...
The Smiths (around the time of the first album)
Win (85 or 86)
Elvin Jones (80-sometime)
Dinosaur Jr ('88)
Lampchop
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy ('05)
(and that's not including The Jam, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Rapeman, Killdozer, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, etc. 😉 )
Chemical Brothers Glastonbury 20000.
I think everyone in Glastonbury was there at the mainstage that night....
The Chameleons - Manchester Academy June 3rd 2000
James Brown, Toulouse.
If only for the utterly delectable young lady I was with at the time. Hmmmm.
Little Angels - Any of their gigs, but that last one at the Albert Hall? 😥 Beautiful. "I ain't gonna cry..."
Oh, and I went to a simply stunning private recital at Coutts by Sir Thomas Allen. Simply beautiful voice, and when he broke in to some traditional songs from the North East, it was sublime. Great to hear a baritone like that.
Quicksand - borderline '94ish
Kyuss - Astoria 2 '94/95
RATM - Camden underworld
Slayer - every time i see them
Ministry / Helmet - Brixton acadamy
God Machine - pheonix festival
Faith no more - Windsor old trout and every other time i saw them.
Seaweed / bivouac - Gloucester town hall
Rancid - big day out Sydney '95
Frankie Stubbs solo show supporting snuff - New cross venue
Corrosion of conformity / soundgarden - Bristol bierkellar
Clutch - some tiny pub in Salisbury
Seafood - Joiners southampton
Mudhoney / hole - astoria 91
Too many more that i can barely remember
Metallica..O2 last year one off gig to launch their new album Death Magnetic...Awesome!!!!
Faith No More at the International in Manchester (first tour with Patton as singer).
Bad Brains (also at the International in the same year)
Sisters of Mercy (Black October tour Hanley) my first ever live gig.
Alien Sex Fiend (Tin Can Club Birmingham)a truly mad night.
Hüsker Dü (Powerhouse Birmingham)
The Young Gods (Birmingham but forgot the name of the venue)
The Cardiacs (Oxford)
Gaye Bykers on Acid (Telford)
New Model Army+Red Lorry Yellow Lorry+Ghost Dance (Telford)
Motorhead (Brixton Academy)
Fields of the Nephilim (Town and Country Club Kentish Town)
Massive Attack (Dresden) mainly because got to hang out backstage and empty their bar. 😀
Biffy Clyro - Last Monday in Birmingham Never Felt so much energy from a band ever Great atmosphere.
The Cure 16th Dec 1996
Finsbury Park 1991, Wedding Present, Henry Rollins Band, New Model Army, The Mission.
Oh I forgot.
Primal Scream (Finsbury Park). Didn't go to the gig but the after show party was something else! 😈
Van Morrison - Knebworth Festival 1974.
A truly moving, emotional, angst-ridden performance from a talented young man 8)
One of the defining events of my life.
Mogwai playing Young Team - Barcelona 2009
Six by Seven - King Tuts, Glasgow 2001
LCD Soundsystem - Academy, Manchester 2007
Verve and Spiritualized back to back - Phoenix Festival 1994
Pearl Jam - Brixton Academy 1993
Best unsigned band I've seen live are Galchen, by a country mile.
failedengineer - MemberBloody 'eck, Mr Whoppit - you must be older than me! IOW must have been amazing!
58. Strange to relate - I found myself feeling kind of "semi-detached" from the whole thing at the time...
"Message to Love" is a film about the event. It just looks kind of sad and tatty, in retrospect. The "music should be free" movement, and so on 😕
Hothouse Flowers / The Fat Lady Sings at Wolverhampton Civic Hall circa 1990.
mr woppit - while i'm way too young for the IOW
the anti nazi league victoria park is a blast from the past for me too
went down on the coach from grassroots books in manchester with a motley collection of ageing hippies and radical punks - good times 😀
Pink Floyd pulse tour
Faith no More - Anywhere i've seen them
Ben Harper at the Jazz Cafe Camden in about 1995ish.
Frank Sidebottom at Glastonbury 1995.
I was walking past the cabaret tent late one night and looked in and I could SWEAR that through the cider bus haze, there was a bloke with a huge papiermache head singing versions of Queen songs.