Gigs- who you seen and who is best

KevinMcC

long list for me, will prob have forgot some but here goes, in no particular order

Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Muse
RHCP
Bootleg Beatles
Futureheads
Kaiser Chiefs
Franz Ferdinand
Bloc Party
Editors
Arctic Monkeys
Athlete
P J Harvey
Distillers
Do Me Bad Things
Travis
REM
Maximo Park
Electric 6
The Blood Arm
JJ72
The Automatic
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Nine Inch Nails
Fratellis
idlewild
The Killers
Oasis
Snow Patrol
Texas
The Beautiful South
The View
We Are Scientists


as I said, more that I cant remember at the moment

Best in no order- Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Muse, The Killers and Do Me Bad Things

Best venue for a gig a tie up between king tuts or the barrowlands, cant stand open air pish with its crap sound

Anonymous

The Cult
Curve
ACDC
Simple Minds
PJ Harvey
Nick cave and the bad Seeds
Happy Mondays
primal Scream
U2
Beastie Boys
Suede
The Wurzels
Alvin Stardust
Got more, will have to remember..

KevinMcC

would love to take the cult and u2 (if its old u2, not the pale imitation these days) and add them to my list. suede, loved them briefly for about 2 weeks one summer, would be great just to hear Beautiful ones.

Why in gods name did you see the wurzels?

mmitchell88

I can't write a list, but the single best ever gig - from clubs to full on-stadium rock - was....

Love/Hate at the Newcastle Riverside on their first UK tour just after Blackout in the Red Room was released. 1992-ish??

EDIT: Hey, I've made 333 posts! If my name was Eric, I'd be...Eric the Half-a-Beast.

prawny

Seen loads mainly not famous though, best gig ever was Nickel Creek at the wulfrun amazing sound and fantastic musicians.

Pantera were great too although completely different, and less than jake were the most fun.

Million dead also deserve a special mention for being amazing live. ooh and Howards Alias.

whyamihere

prawny wrote:

Million dead also deserve a special mention for being amazing live.

Seeing Frank Turner solo next month. Can't wait for that.

edhornby

Maximo park, very good
Squeeze, just great
John Scofield - ok you may not have heard of him but ye gods what a musician...
Daft Punk

mask of sanity

Iron Maiden at Earls Court were just amazing!! That was my first gig and haven't been to a gig since where the crowd were so 'involved'. Bruce Dickinson is just an incredible front man!!

prawny

whyamihere wrote:

prawny wrote:

Million dead also deserve a special mention for being amazing live.

Seeing Frank Turner solo next month. Can't wait for that.

Geeet! Where's he playing? Not that I can afford it. Frank is ace and a nice chap too, I got chatting to them after a gig in rugely of all places and they were dead nice.

Splottboy

Seeing Toots and the Maytals, live at the Town Hall, Barry Town, Christmas Eve, 1972.
I was 15, with 3 mates. Got totally pissed, went back stage to meet Toots etc.
Sang some songs with 'em. He was amazed that Welsh guys knew Jamaican songs!

Missed our last train back to Cardiff, had to get a taxi. Cost a bloody fortune...

Woke up Christmas day, Reggae still ringin' in my ears. Wot a Christmas present!!!

whyamihere

prawny wrote:

whyamihere wrote:

prawny wrote:

Million dead also deserve a special mention for being amazing live.

Seeing Frank Turner solo next month. Can't wait for that.

Geeet! Where's he playing? Not that I can afford it. Frank is ace and a nice chap too, I got chatting to them after a gig in rugely of all places and they were dead nice.

Wulfrun, tenner.

Anonymous

My bestest -
Banco de Gaia / Eat Static / Aphex Twin, Hull Uni. 1994
Jane's Addiction, Manchester Apollo 2001(2?)
Orbital, Leeds Uni.1995

KevinMcC

best stage dive?

best I have seen was kaisers main guy launch into the crowd in the barrowlands during i predict a riot guitar bit- emerged after disappearing minus his tie, jacket and one shoe, bouncer threw him on stage, he grabbed the mic as he jumped back up and started singing just at his moment to come back in, very very impressive

this was after the support (the cribs I recall?) had stage dived but knocked himself out cold for 2 mins- one of the guitarists sand 2 songs while main guy stumbled about obv out of it on stage before suddenly starting to sing midway through a 3rd song- cracking gig

a_n_t

Ryan.

shockedsoshocked

Sparks.

Absolutely prefect showmen.

teagar

KevinMcC wrote:

long list for me, will prob have forgot some but here goes, in no particular order

Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Muse
RHCP
Bootleg Beatles
Futureheads
Kaiser Chiefs
Franz Ferdinand
Bloc Party
Editors
Arctic Monkeys
Athlete
P J Harvey
Distillers
Do Me Bad Things
Travis
REM
Maximo Park
Electric 6
The Blood Arm
JJ72
The Automatic
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Nine Inch Nails
Fratellis
idlewild
The Killers
Oasis
Snow Patrol
Texas
The Beautiful South
The View
We Are Scientists


as I said, more that I cant remember at the moment

Best in no order- Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Muse, The Killers and Do Me Bad Things

Best venue for a gig a tie up between king tuts or the barrowlands, cant stand open air pish with its crap sound

You sure this isn't just a not-so-subtle way of saying "look how much I am into music and look at how many gigs I go to"?

Has to be radiohead for me but the only other band I've seen (other than support bands) is Cooper temple clause.

Do DJs count?

jrduquemin

I've only been to see the following:

Pantera
Green Day
Machine Head twice
Monsters of Rock 1991 - Aerosmith, Sepultura and a few other bands

Off to see Slayer in November in London, can't bloody wait

KevinMcC

nah not at all Teagar, I like music but not a fanatic about it- just a way of spending cash in the good old days when I was at uni. If I was trying to show off I would have listed fake bands or really obscure ones to show off my proper indie credentials

and no dj's don't count, no guitar, no point

must say spotify is getting hammered tonight with some of the bands you lot have been posting that I had forgotten existed

teagar

KevinMcC wrote:

and no dj's don't count, no guitar, no point

:roll:

Anonymous

teagar wrote:

KevinMcC wrote:

and no dj's don't count, no guitar, no point

:roll:

+1

Anonymous

teagar wrote:

KevinMcC wrote:

long list for me, will prob have forgot some but here goes, in no particular order

Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Muse
RHCP
Bootleg Beatles
Futureheads
Kaiser Chiefs
Franz Ferdinand
Bloc Party
Editors
Arctic Monkeys
Athlete
P J Harvey
Distillers
Do Me Bad Things
Travis
REM
Maximo Park
Electric 6
The Blood Arm
JJ72
The Automatic
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Nine Inch Nails
Fratellis
idlewild
The Killers
Oasis
Snow Patrol
Texas
The Beautiful South
The View
We Are Scientists


as I said, more that I cant remember at the moment

Best in no order- Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Muse, The Killers and Do Me Bad Things

Best venue for a gig a tie up between king tuts or the barrowlands, cant stand open air pish with its crap sound

You sure this isn't just a not-so-subtle way of saying "look how much I am into music and look at how many gigs I go to"?

Has to be radiohead for me but the only other band I've seen (other than support bands) is Cooper temple clause.

Do DJs count?

Aww teagar there you go again, OVER ANALYZING, such a shame. You really want to get out into the world and learn some manners.

Anonymous

Also,

Pixies
Guns and Roses
Kiss
Napalm death
LLoyd Cole and rhe commotions
george P Clinton and the P funk parliament

Saw the Wurzels and Alvin omn my honeymoon in Devon 15 years ago, just don't ask.......

Anonymous

Pj Harvey was good

JAMC were excellent but could not hear anything for over a week.

Anonymous

Just a footnote,

Watching Blur at Glastonbury on TV this year was close to tears, would have been blubbing big style had I been there..........

Anonymous

I played guitar in a band and had a radio show / did live DJing (dance music) myself and have seen many many 'guitar' bands.

However, Some of the best nights out have been 'club nights' where DJs from a particular, erm, club night, came to the Uni.

Apart from the Jane's Addiction gig which was mind-blowing I have found the plinky-plonk beep beep music gigs the best. With the two I listed really shining.

Anonymous

dmclite wrote:

Just a footnote,

Watching Blur at Glastonbury on TV this year was close to tears, would have been blubbing big style had I been there..........

+1 awesome. Blur were always one of my fave bands (1st CD I ever bought was the single of There's no other way!) and I've seen them a few times.

All the times I've seen them the venue has been too big and there has been a lack of atmosphere and cack sound quality.

nicensleazy

Best live band I have seen must be the Clash - they don't build them like that anymore!

guilliano

Hmmmm...... trying to think who I've seen now.

Faith No More
Iron Maiden
LTJ Bukem
Noasis (tribute band)
Zoo 2 (also tribute)
Prodigy
Feeder
Rolling Stones
Little Boots (was at Reading)
Jack Penate
Airbourne Toxic Event
Alexisonfire
New Found Glory
Deftones
Fall Out Boy
Placebo
Kaiser Chiefs
Kings Of Leon

OK, a number of them were at Reading this year so not a list of gigs as such

But number 1 out of all that has to be Rolling Stones. Just brilliant in every way. Prodigy were also amazing and Kaiser Chiefs but on an incredible show getting everyone involved. I still wouldn't buy their music, but would gladly pay to see them live again

Am also going to see Airbourne Toxic Event at the O2 Academy in Oxford as they were fantastic at Reading (never heard of them before that....... I urge anyone to look them up on Spotify

mookiebaylock

mmmm...tough one

top five:

Pearl Jam
Radiohead
Kings of Leon
Eels
Beth Gibbons

tebbit

Ok top five,

Charlatans - Legends 1989
Big Audio Dynamite jamming with Jo Strummer 1988
The Damned and the Ramones all on stage together 1988 again
The Cocteau Twins circa 1996
New Order supported by the Happy Mondays 1986 or 87

B*gger I am going to have to make this list bigger,

The Stone Roses 1988/89

Also the covers act in a bar in Kiev last night, composed of musicians from all over the former Soviet Union, all professional classically trained musicians did some great ska numbers with a brass section, the bloke on the trombone was fantastic.

Killing Joke were/are always a good live act
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine at Oxford Poly fantastic

blu3cat

NaploeonD

+1 orbital - got VIP tickets for the v96 festival free booze, flushing loos and orbital. They were built for festivals. Bliss.

Top Five

Orbital - 96
My Bloody Valentine - 2009
Aphex Twin - late 90s
Super Furry Animals - 99
Red Snapper - sometime in the 90s