Best Gig?
Nuggs
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Following on from the 'bands you wish you'd seen' thread - what gig was your best ever?
I'll kick off:
The Wedding Present - Finsbury Park Powerhaus - 1994ish
Just brilliant - raw, energetic, great interaction from Gedge, loud, great atmosphere, great venue. I was deaf for days afterwards.
I'll kick off:
The Wedding Present - Finsbury Park Powerhaus - 1994ish
Just brilliant - raw, energetic, great interaction from Gedge, loud, great atmosphere, great venue. I was deaf for days afterwards.
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U2 July 1987 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Great Show!Skinny Git on a Bianchi.0
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My Bloody Valentine earlier this year. Astonishing that they could come back and still be marvellous.
All 3 times I've seen Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Boards of Canada @ All Tomorrows Parties in 01
Squarepusher @ Warp 10'th Birthday party 1999. Strangely, the next time I saw the Pusher at the 100 Club he was so awful it wasn't even funny
Aphex Twin @ ATP in 03.
The Metallica £5 gig at the O2 a few weeks go was also great.Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
Johnny Cash @ The Shepherd's Bush Empire in July 1994.
REM @ Manchester Apollo in 1989.0 -
Thin Lizzy - Edinburgh Playhouse 1981 - sheer power
Stranglers - Alpexpo Grenoble 1983 - right down the front
The Meteors - Drac Ouest nightclub, Grenoble 1984 - intimate and wild
U2 at the Caird Hall in Dundee in 1983 was a very good show, but I was in a bad mood that night (woman trouble!)0 -
The Barracudas at Dingwalls, sometime in late 1984 - the only time I ever saw them live
Both The Long Ryders and Green on Red at the same venue were pretty amazing too.0 -
Bruce Springsteen Wembley Stadium July 4th 1985Ride a bike.... be happy.0
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Jane's Addiction at Subterranea, around the same time Ritual came out and a warm up show for Reading festival (which they subsequently cancelled their appearance at).
It was a fantastic week - some mates and I had been away on a boozy weekend, then went to the JA gig, slept at Waterloo station then headed for Reading festival.
The concert was astounding - I was offered some ridiculous sums for my ticket outside, the gig was packed to the rafters, hot and sweaty and it really felt like we were witnessing something rare and special (which of course we were).0 -
fugazi - bristol bierkeller
holy f**k at the thekla bristol
and many wedding present gigs but espcially the one with buffalo tom as support0 -
sunrise rave white waltham airfield 1989 f**kin mental danced all night
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Jean-Michel Jarre Destination Docklands 1988
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Oasis at Knebworth, August 10th 1996, the first gig I ever went to!0
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Too many best gigs . To a rock junkie they were alaways the best ...until the next one came along .
Er : Eddie Cochran at ... M'cr , I forget where ; Bo Diddley Oldham '64 ; John Mayall and Clapton ( when he was worth seeing ) ; Cream ( still worth seeing ) ; Jimi Hendrix at the Shaftesbury '67 ; Mothers of Invention - Albert Hall ; Arthur Brown - Pink Floyd - Soft Machine at UFO Tott'm C'rt Rd. ; The first Technicolor Dream at Ally Pally ; Captain Beefheart ...and so on . Saw Beck and a couple of Zep's early gigs , but they don't hang around in my addled noggin for some reason .
Although I missed Punk I expect that was the last time R&R had any real visceral appeal . Gave up when they started hiring football stadiums and the like ."Lick My Decals Off, Baby"0 -
Nina Nastasia at The Spitz Club in 2002
James (supported by the Happy Mondays), Sheffield Uni in 1988
The Smiths supported by James at Cheppenham Goldiggers in 1984"Check your sheds! Check your sheds! I think I've lost my mind" Half Man Half Biscuit0 -
Elbow at Sheffield earlier this year went straight into my Top 5
Richard Hawley anywhere!!dyslexia rules KO0 -
the clash, newcastle poly 1978
slade, newcastle city hall 1973
tom verlaine, peppermint lounge new york 1981
david bowie, newcastle riverside 1995ish
the concretes, newcastle academy 2006
talking heads, newcastle poly 1977
rezillos, middlesbrough rock garden 1978
tom petty, newcastle city hall 1978
tony christie, the sage gateshead 20080 -
Thin Lizzy Renegade Tour Leeds Queens Hall(?) 1981 ish
Gillan Trouble Tour Nottingham 1981ish think banged my head til i was dizzy
UFO Nowhere to Run Tour first ever gig Sheffield city hall had a chat with Phil Mogg
Worst gigs (i know you didn't ask but hey...)
Marillion Hammersmith Odeon not good & Rolling Stones Leeds Roundhay Park fell asleep after first song woke up when the fireworks went off.0 -
Deacon Blue, Wembley Arena 90/91ish. Lorraine Mcintosh - what a voice!?
Worst gig and you did not mention Smashing Pumpkins :shock: Nottingham Arena about 6 months ago. Billy Corgan - you are a muppet!0 -
Dammed - Final show with nearly priginal line up, Apollo mid 1986
Pink Floyd - Earls Court about 1977
Bob Dylan - Blackbushe about 1980
Dr and the Medics - Carlisle May 1986
Medics/Cult/Motorhead/Dammed jam under Charing Cross 1987
Rainbow - at the Rainbow 1978
Ian Dury - Hammersmith 1988
Duffy - Glasto 2008
Tom Jones - Earls Court TV - 2005
James Brown - V2 19990 -
The Prisoners - Rotherham Town Hall, 1985
it's a hard life if you don't weaken.0 -
The Stinkin' Fish at Stourbridge Town Hall 1987
Can we fix it?
Yes we can!0 -
Greenday - Milton keynes bowl 8)0
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ZZ Top, wembley Arena when I was about 9 yrs old with mum and dad. Prob about 1984 or something. Amazing, I was hiding from the laser show as I thought they would killl me. haha.
Pink Floyd, all of em.
Rolling Stones, W Arena with Bro.
Chuck Berry, Brentwood centre. Years ago.
Reading festival, Supergrass, Beastie Boys, Chemicla Brothers, Prodigy. All back to back. awesome.
Oh yea. One of the best ever. Lamb at Manchester Uni 2001 or something. amazing small gig, with awesome sound.Be excellent to everyone.
(Bill S Preston Esq, Ted Theodore Logan. 1989)
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Best : Wonderstuff @ Astoria 1988 (2 nights) all the way to that London villiage with no tickets, both gigs sold out. Got in via a Fire Exit scam first night; blagged the guest list on the second.....
Worst : The mighty Fall were awful a few weeks back in Aberdeen, which was a real shame.....0 -
Mark E Smith was mentioned in the paper the other day, refused to come out of the toilet for a show. He is a needy character!!! Should join Smashing Pumpkins. They have the infrastructure there, to put up with Billy Corgan's issues already.0
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Dylan, Wembly Stadium 85/86...The Clash, West Runton Pavilion 1977 with the Buzzcocks......all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...0
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I saw The Fall at the Forum years ago. Utter crap - Mark E Smith really couldn't be arsed...sheepworryingbhoy wrote:Worst : The mighty Fall were awful a few weeks back in Aberdeen, which was a real shame.....0 -
Radiohead & Sigur Ros, Tredegar House, Newport, September 2000. Right before Radiohead released Kid A, back when an album getting leaked early on Napster was a big deal.0
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ChrisLS wrote:Dylan, Wembly Stadium 85/86...The Clash, West Runton Pavilion 1977 with the Buzzcocks...
although I never went there myself, West Runton Pavilion must have been the best venue in the country bar none. I've got the book about it, it would make a great film. The Sex Pistols gig there must have been incredible. An amazing story, the list of bands that played there is unbelievable.
ChrisLS, did you see many gigs there ?0
