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.