Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich

Mumford & Sons
Florence & the Machine
Both at Shepherds Bush Empire before they got really big – both awesome.

Saw Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott last week at Somerset House – they were still knocking out the tunes.

Don’t really go in for big stadium gigs, but I did see the Michael Jackson Bad tour at the old Wembley when I was about 7. I remember it being pretty good.

Coldplay are (sad to admit it) very good live.

Best gig(s) I’ve been to in recent times were Frank Turner’s – seems to get it right whatever the venue.

I’ve seen Metallica live four times and they’ve never disappointed.

Machine ahead live are brilliant too. Rob Flynn is a great front man.

Less Than Jake have always been good too when I’ve seen them live.

One Minute Silence were good in their day too.

Quite enjoy Marilyn Manson, but I think it’s the stage show and theatrics that make.

Might be wishful thinking trying to get to a gig in this day and age, but Pulp are hands down the best live performers I’ve ever seen. For comparison, I’ve seen Muse, Foo Fighters, Paul Weller, GnR, Slipknot, Basement Jaxx, Prodigy, Biffy Clyro, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Deacon Blue and Gary Moore. Foo Fighters and Slipknot were close, but Jarvis Cocker is in a different league altogether.

Edit: forgot about Jurassic 5. They were pretty damn special too.

^^ Pulp are great!

Slayer. Slayer. Slayer. If you like that sort of thing \m/

A recommendation to not go and see would be Stereophonics – the most disengaging uninteresting band I’ve ever seen on stage. And I like their music by the way

Prodigy and The Wonderstuff are good live, but I think Black Sabbath topped it for me.

Glad someone else mentioned shed seven!

Forgot about the Lancashire Hotpots, always a top night out

For many different reasons the following are bands that I rate as ace live:

The Charlatans
Neds Atomic Dustbin
PWEI
AC/DC
Shed Seven
Iron Maiden
Motley Crue
The Wonderstuff
The Prodigy
Red Hot Chilli peppers
Rage Against The Machine
Public Enemy

Damn! Forgot RATM! Awesome band!

The Verve were amazing in their day too.

Clutch are great live. Pearl Jam always feel like more of an event than a gig. Tom Blackwell (also known as T G Elias), great small scale gigs. Beastie Boys were great when I saw them in the late 90’s

I’m looking forward to seeing 65DaysOfStatic next weekend. I saw them at Koko in Camden a while ago and they were excellent.

To be honest there’s very few gigs I’ve been to and thought “well that was shit”. I was underwhelmed by Massive Attack a couple of months ago but still better than sitting on the sofa on a Monday night.

The Wedding Present are a great live band, as are We Are Scientists.

Springsteen
Muse
Err….The Proclaimers
The Orb

Primal Scream

So what most people on here think, is you need a time machine to see a decent gig? (or go now and see some old farts churning out the same stuff they’ve been playing for 30 years 😆 )
Granted, I’d love to go back to a time before mobile effing phones, but there’s some fab new bands around now.

Seeing Suuns tonight. Last time I saw them they were superb.
Last gig was !!! (chk chk chk) – who are incredibly funky and entertaining live.

CountZero should be along shortly with an essay 😉

brilliant live stuff i’ve seen:

faith no more (back in the day, not sure now)
wonderstuff (as above)
pulp.
british sea power
fun loving criminals
candi staton
richard hawley
death cab for cutie
chillis (in ’94 at reading)

Neil Young – last month at the Hydro, top class!

Jimmy Cliff – last year at Wickerman, been dying to see him for years & he was amazing.

Couldn’t be arsed with any big stadium gigs now

Queens Of the Stone Age. No one I’ve seen comes close. Though Limp Bizkit were pretty good for nostalgia factor haha.

Oh and Mastodon. Incredible musicians and they put on a much better show these days than they did the first time I saw them.

This was without a doubt the best night of my life. Coming up just as the intro drums to Millionaire kicked in was so intense haha

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Seasick Steve. Sure his stories between the songs are old and well rehearsed, but there is definite sincerity there, but he was having fun and so were the crowd. The Quality of the sound was also excellent.

Status Quo. They use their back catalog of songs to great effect and really now how to pace the show. They also produce a really heavy wall sound at their gigs and again the crowd are all fans so the sense of fun is strong.

I want to see Rammstein, but not at a festival. Desperately hoping they tour the new album.

Slayer need to be indoors too, seen them twice at festivals and somehow the sound was terrible both times, I think it didn’t carry well in the open air. Saw them in Preston once and they were great.

Rob Zombie does an awesome show.

Last time I saw Marilyn Manson it was a bit pants. Lots of theatrics to distract but he is past it now.

And I’m seeing Steel Panther in October. Looking forward to that !

I’m short live music is ace, go and see bands.

Except Jose Gonzalez, he’s boring live.

Killing Joke
Garbage
Green Day
motorhead (were worth seeing live)
Prodigy
Frightened Rabbit
Foos
Jules Holland

Worst band ever – Alt J, took the mrs for her birthday, no performance or interaction with the audience whatsoever, they just stood there making plinky plonk sounds like they were in a rehearsal

Bands worth seeing live…

Bands whose music you enjoy?

Crazy I know.

of the bands I’ve seen live, the best are:

Muse (though this was in 2000, but still, very very good)
Stereophonics
Manic Street Preachers
Tori Amos (mostly without her band)
Gary Numan
Sneaker Pimps (post splinter, and they are writing new stuff)
Rammstein, a romp of a show.

oh and VNV Nation, if not just for the banter.

Another vote for Gogoll Bordello.

Also throw Marmozets into he mix.

I spend my summer sat on the sound desk at festivals, the two act that really stand out for a good show in the last few years are Skindred and Belle & Sebastian, in terms of pure energy Skepta’s red bull gig was just insane.

Acts that used to be amazing – all IMO: –
The Monkees – yes I really enjoyed them.
Prince, sincerely one of the best gigs I’ve been too. His medley of 70’s funk tracks was superb.

As mentioned already: –
Primal Scream – can be amazing if Bobby is up for it.
The Hives are great – no t seen them for over 10 years though

Other ones I have really loved and left buzzing: –
Elbow
Inspiral Carpets

The Orb

Mudhoney
Spiritualized
Ultra Vivid Scene
Iggy and the Stooges
Jane’s Addiction

All great live

Springsteen & the ESB, from the pit. Nobody comes close, imho.

Wolfmother. Highly accomplished bunch of musicians.

Stone Roses just blew me away at the Etihad!

Seeing Suuns tonight. Last time I saw them they were superb.

Yes! They were fantastic. Go see them if you know what’s good for you (and quit with all the old shite!)

Don’t get out as much as I should, but in the last year Fat White Family and Richard Dawson stand out as being excellent. They both managed to silence the gig chatterers.

They both managed to silence the gig chatterers.

That is rare! Seen FWF a couple of times, good band.

Blackstar Riders have been brilliant the last couple of times I saw them.

Tyr if you like a bit of Viking Metal.

The two best ever acts I’ve seen live are Nick Cave and Einstürzende Neubauten. Both were long shows that felt like minutes.

Appreciate different tastes but I think I’d rather lay down at the front and be trampled to death than see Coldplay or Mumford & Sons. Glad no one mentioned Elbow though, just the sound of them makes me feel ill 🙂

Therapy? and The Beatsteaks are two bands that stand out for me.

Therapy? just seemed like they really wanted to be there on their Troublegum anniversary tour and Beatsteaks was just a gloriously sweaty mess at Camden Underworld with masses of crowd interaction.

They both managed to silence the gig chatterers

Lias from FWF told them to “shut up or **** of” – only once…..they left.