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Amazing voice and tone/harmonies, of course built on a classic backing. The deep bass when it comes in and the long notes at the end send shivers up my spine. And despite doing almost nothing, they have amazing stage presence; you can tell they trained as a dancer, even just standing there every limb is perfectly placed.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=05FKtPJO8IQ&pp=ygUddGhlaXIgbGF3IHBvcCB3aWxsIGVhdCBpdHNlbGY%3D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T6bZ37nexSY&pp=ygUOZ3V5IGNsYXJrIGxpdmU%3D
Edited...I was there for this one
https://youtu.be/UDMG3boB9f0?si=AU1GILceotGijKOm
Too many to really count but I'm really enjoying this:
and this
During the pandemic, when live music was basically not a thing, these 2 hit me really hard because of the audience participation and the sheer joy in the room, I missed gigs so badly..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPKkjUpwwGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ruXOh74xRE
Bruce Springsteen and Elis Costello amongst other pretty good backing band
I think this is a great way to begin a gig. Great energy but also so cool.
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Has to be some Cardiacs
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I've no idea why that doesn't embed. Anyway it's Fiery Gun Hand.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxhuQWKwbqY
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I don't suppose this will appeal to most but it's just a fabulous performance of one of the finest pieces of music ever written.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32dezNi6XO0
Edit – glad to see the poppies getting some love. used to hang out with Clint BITD, solid bloke.
Used to see him regularly around Stourbridge...mostly in The Swan, maybe you were there too!
Should also add this, possible my favourite song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4NW5S1UTPQ&pp=ygUSbWlzc2lvbiBkcml2ZSBsaXZl
the crescendo in the middle:
The words I’d use to describe this are probably too explicit:
and something (slightly) more recent that I love
https://youtu.be/M6mevE0rcpQ?si=54E9QRPOaOPb0v6I
And from this year, been watching this set on near repeat
https://youtu.be/T8xTWriGEOo?si=1ZwbWIy_IJgozyqV
My flatmate used to go out with Les (from Silverfish) and the drummer from Napalm Death was related to someone else in my house so there was always someone from the Brum music scene throwing up in our bathroom or asleep on our sofa.......and yes that included Miles (who used to be in the poppies anyway) I was at that gig - Bescot stadium!
Only thing I've ever saved and extracted the sound from for further listening
https://www.youtube.com/live/a2MCATB75C8?si=xBLhTmL6xS6nyI-C
Alvvays on KEXP. Absolutely sublime performance
I like EDM, so my taste is a little strange.
There is this:
and this:
But also this: https://youtu.be/Q692lHFaLVM and this https://youtu.be/sJsBd8U73YE
I'm not expecting this vid to be popular with the Floyd haters, but at about 6:48, near the end, when the fireworks are going off around the rim of the coliseum, there's a guy who puts his hand on his head in awe; I can pretty much hear him saying "F*** me, it was worth the price of the ticket for this alone"
The rendition of Comfortably Numb on the same occasion is really rather special too
Pixies at Brixton in 91 is very high in my list as I was there, but Santana at Woodstock doing Soul Sacrifice is the absolute best
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@desperatebicycle – without editing the intro? It’s a superb set
Yep, I did cut the intro off 🙂
I quite like this page
https://youtube.com/@arteconcert?si=Ut3rZ-fURYFJglus
Lots of live shows from summer festivals.
Mainly for the crowd going ballistic
Mainly for Stevie Nicks singing a full-blooded breakup song to the bloke who inspired it.
I really like The XX, and haven’t seen them live. Hopefully some gigs coming up with a new album coming out.
Also for a bit of nostalgia, there’s a channel, Dexbam who cleans up old bootlegs and VHS from gigs of my teenage years. This is a big fave.
*sigh*
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Mainly for Stevie Nicks singing a full-blooded breakup song to the bloke who inspired it.
blimey, @martinhutch, I thought the video of Rhiannon I posted captured nicks at her most intense, but jeeeeeezzzz, do not cross that woman! At the start of the performance it looked like - to use an stw phrase - it was a bit dusty in there, I thought a forgiving hug was on the cards, but by the end her performance was something way more powerful.
I really like The XX, and haven’t seen them live. Hopefully some gigs coming up with a new album coming out.
ooh, having posted on the “who would you pay a fortune for thread” and said something to the tune of “I’d rather have a Time Machine to see my favourite bands in tiny venues” you’ve reminded me to be grateful for what I have seen. Namely the XX back when they were a four piece playing an album launch party in a tiny record store, and a few months later in a tiny venue. Good times.
great videos on this thread. I really need to get out and see some more live music.
@slowoldman. THANKYOU! Good god I love Cardiacs!
From the same Rotten Shed DVD: Visiting hours.
Can't wait for Brighton next month.
Live in a studio but still sublime…
EDIT: Embed fail but fk it, its Friday
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Another "live but in a studio" one, but I think this is excellent
Oh, yeah, a bit leftfield but this is incredible and just builds and builds as it goes along.
It's very old upload so the video quality is a bit meh but the sound is solid.
And idea whether the Fairytales from the Rotten Shed audio is available anywhere? I know there's the dvd, I prefer these versions to the studio recordings and Garage concert cds.
Beautiful voice, and then just walked away from the music industry. Lives a quiet family life now, by all accounts, still in Ireland.
Sinead O'Connor with the chieftains
This:
I'm chuffed that a singer I've liked for a while has just joined a band I've loved for forever.
Never tire of this. Magnificent hair. Top of their game. And that’s how they opened the gig too
Songs with a more country style may not get so much love on here, but I think at times it can be hard hitting, or put you in a reflective mood.
Some of the best groove playing ever! It’s rather old and low res but it doesn’t matter:
More SLIFT
And this
So good but the BBC keeps taking it down
https://youtu.be/DUPvUO1l62g?si=YKtf9zwzIz2y-xK0
As they do this:
https://youtu.be/lD5FO_d-QII?si=BAwO58vgHZXPoYIt
One of my favourites
Takes a while to get into...but
Can't decide between these two....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlZFS6HR6P8&pp=ygUSYmVzdCBsaXZlIGNvbmNlcnQg
The best of all of them 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLIAp5nr0q0
For a EDM / Trance type vibe, this is nuts...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUNbhYcY9Ik
The boss and the two happiest fans in the world.
Nile Rodgers is surely the coolest guy on the planet. He also has an honorary professorship at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Oh and Freddy was the best frontman ever.
Something slightly different - a local band that are going places I think - just signed a deal and they are only 16.
I was there for this one, which is weird because I don't even like the Killers. But just for that one night they were perfect and this closer was perfecter. (apparently they ended up doing the "reprise" a lot but back then it was a genuine "we only do this occasionally when it feels right". I've been watching this video a couple of times a year for 17 years and it still gets me.
When Brandon Flowers the actual robot is visibly having an emotional reaction, just imagine what the tired pissed humans were like 🙂 Live music is sorcery.
Hah, too late to edit but I just noticed I left a comment on that video, 16 years ago. Sometimes you close your eyes
and see the place where you used to live when you were young!
Another one I rewatch pretty often that I was at... I love my chemical romance anyway and especially loved the black parade period (it's not emo, it's just britrock/classic rock) so they were a pretty epic festival closer already, then Brian May turns up. And I love Queen, but this was that spell where Brian May would turn up to the opening of a crisp packet and play We Will Rock You, he was unavoidable, I saw him do guest appearances with probably 4 or 5 other bands from Pink to the Foo Fighters and it was usually pretty dull and low effort tbf. But this one time he learned the band's own song and not just that but absolutely bloody smashed it- the first time when you hear <that> guitar sound really kick through on the lead and see him throwing shapes with Frank Iero still makes me grin like an idiot. Definitely not the best time I saw the band but it's the one I'll still remember when I'm a hundred and don't remember my own name.
Festival closers just hit so different... Mass hysteria is hard to replicate.
This one. I was there and still looking back on it gives me shivers.
Huh, I was completely convinced I was at that show, had people say how iconic it was and how lucky I am, I literally just now figured out I wasn't, I was at the 2004 show at the same venue 😛 Still great but not <that show>, man. Think it was the same stageset or at leat a similar round deal.
(we had standing tickets but found a gap in the curtain and sneaked onto the main floor, then one of our mates decided he was a freedom fighter and went back into the stand and started telling everyone else so there was a huge sway down towards the gap, so the security saw it and he got stuck back in the stand)
Fugazi
Ah Fugazi is a good one!
Currently enjoying the new live video from Linkin Park
Cant embed for some reason, AC/DC Thunderstruck live at Donnington 1991