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As it seems from the ‘what are you listening to?’ thread, some people on here actually have interesting musical tastes.
So! Who has seen who live? Best gig you’ve ever seen? Etc. Just curious.
Personally the best gig has the be the Rolling Stones at Sheffield last year…. the list is (including support acts)…
The Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
Status Quo (group venture, a lot of twenty somethings taking their parents out to see the two chord wonders!)
Embrace (particularly good as the gig was open air in Thetford forest, after England’s first-match win in the World Cup, of course the band did the official song. Lots of england shirts and good atmosphere, even if when they tried to do the WC song they stuffed up the intro twice and when Danny McNamara yelled "sing along!" everyone sang three lions because nobody knew the words)
The Delays (fantastic)
The Bravery (twice – brilliant live!!!! also good at hugs)
We Are Scientists
Some ****-awful support band at Quo (faster pussycat, kill, kill)
Morning Runner
Forward, Russia (mental but great – you’e got to admire anyone who can scream a set whilst systematically trying to throttle himself with a mic lead)
Captain
Stellastarr
Morning After Girls (turned out to be a bunch of australian blokes in leather jackets)
Paolo Nutini (really good!)
The Subways (alright)
The Sunshine Underground (the reason I went to see the Subways)
The Open (sadly split up)
Kelly Jones doing solo material and some Phonics classics in Dublin (bloody wonderful)
Catherine Feeney (fantastic, particularly good at telling people to **** off)Probably more, but I’m getting old lol, brain ain’t what it was….
Tears for Fears (A few years back when Roland was on his own and a couple of years ago when Curt rejoined)
Little Angels
Bryan Adams (Squeeze and Extreme supporting)
Robbie Wiliams
Texas
A-ha (twice),once at Harrogate years ago.
Lightning Seeds (Dubstar supporting)
ThunderI must have been to a few more than that,but none spring to mind at the mo.
Wouldn’t mind seeing Bryan having seen a live show at Slane Castle, and Lightning Seeds would be great!
Despite it p!ssng down with rain all night and having to put up with a strange woman standing on my left the Rolling Stones at Sheffield were amazing, but they narrowly failed to top The Who, whom I saw live at Wembley Arena in 2000. It was one of their final gigs in Britain before John Entwistle died. Although they were never the same band after Moon died they were still pretty phenomenal. Supporting them that night was Joe Strummer, who also is sadly no longer with us. I saw Blur at the Brighton Centre when they were at the peak of their powers in ’94, that was a special night too. The Beautiful South were a lot better than I expected as well!
Blur??
You lucky git.
Oooh, actually aren’t they and The Verve back touring soon?
And as for strange woman at your side – it was your idea!!!!
Besides. I’m not strange. I’m eccentric. Get it right
PS cheers for the lift lol
Just from memory, I’ve been to see the following;
Aniseed Couch * Baxendale * Belle & Sebastian * Blaggers ITA * Blessed Ethel * Blind Melon * Boo Radleys * Billy Bragg * Brenda System * Breeders * Captain Sensible * Cardiacs * Chrome Hoof * Circulus * Clientele * Coping Saw * Cornershop * Dead Moon * Dub War * Elliot Jack * Erase Errata * The Fall * The Freed Unit * Futureheads * Gabrielle’s Wish * Godsister Helen * Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci * Half Man Half Biscuit * Hayseed Dixie * Helen Love * Humousexual * International Strike Force * Jazzfinger * Kyuss * Le Tigre * Lonesome Organist * Low * Lung Leg * Magnetic Fields * Margerine * Marine Research * Milky Wimpshake * The Mission * Montgolfier Brothers * New Model Army * Nina Nastasia * Orrin De Forest * The Otto Show * Peanut * Piney Gir’s Country Roadshow * Pixies * Emma Pollock * Polythene * Pop Will Eat Itself * Puppy Fat * The Real Tuesday Weld * Red Monkey * Reef * Rubbish Men * Scaramanga Six * Seasick Steve * Shellac * Shrug * Frank Sidebottom * The Silver Apples * Silver Wizard Project * Sally Skull * Jill Sobule * Soundgarden * Spraydog * Stereolab * Sudden Infant * Teenage Fanclub * They Might Be Giants * Third Eye Foundation * Threatmantics * Thrush Puppies * Trembling Blue Stars * Urusei Yatsura * H T Virgo * Rick Wakeman * Wedding Present * Wire * Wonky Alice * Yo La Tengo * Yumi Yumi * Yummy Fur
Yoinks! That’s appreciably larger than I thought it would be. At least I know now where a couple of hundred nights of my life disappeared to…
The most-seen act out of that lot is easily CARDIACS, and I’m off to see them again at the Nasty Asty in London in November. Good times!
Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Stop showing off
To quote Buffy: "Just cause you’re better than all of us doesn’t mean you can be all superior!"
I would say strangely eccentric, which is preferable to eccentricly strange.
Probably
Didn’t say I enjoyed them all, Zoz! Kyuss were especially poor. Reef, too, but that kind of goes without saying. The world really didn’t need the Wurzels’ illegitimate children to overdose on gibbon hormones and discover electric instruments.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
Hihihihihihih, no HJ!
That was actually my first gig. “An evening with Rick Wakeman” at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham, ca 1987. I spent a fortnight in there that evening.
As regards Countdown, and tying in with one of the above, did you ever hear that sketch on Radio 1 – might have been Mary Whitehouse Experience or similar – where Mark E Smith out of The Fall appeared on Countdown?
“Consonant-ah! Vowel-ah! Another vowel-ah! The nine letters of the Countdown Conundrum spell Lie Dream of a Casino Soul Proliferating across the Earth-ah!”,
etc.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
or not – was going to buy tickets to see Dylan the other year and someone told me he was rubbish these days so I didn’t bother, and then I saw that documentary – no direction home, and so wished that I hadn’t listened to them…as I said on the other thread there are bands that I would love to see live that I don’t particularly like to listen to, White Stripes in particular.Saw Franz Ferdinand, Editors and Rakes last year and they were all good. Still think Levellers are my favourite live band. Also saw The Strawbs do an accoustic set [anyone remember them?] and in my youth saw Rory Gallagher and thoroughly enjoyed it, but have got none of his albums and can’t even remember what he sounded like! Hitched all the way from Cornwall to London in my youth to see Pink Floyd do a free concert and slept all the way through it. also didn’t buy tickets to see Muse last year when they were available..used to love A ha, no one took them seriously first time round….also Fairport Convention and Runrig are brilliant live if you like folky things. and Maddy Prior used to do a Christmas concert carol singing tour which was magical. Actually did see Pink Floyd at Knebworth and stayed awake, but can’t remember it at all so must have been really boring….really want to do Glastonbury one year….am now trying to find that Stereophonics Britney Spears cover which I know is somewhere in the house…mo
Moe – assuming it was the same tour, Dylan was amazing and his band were spot on.
Bands to see before I die:
Muse
Franz Ferdinand
FeederOh bloody well bring back Britpop!!!
Oh bloody well bring back Britpop!!!
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Well, not unless we can bring back the C96 counter-movement as well. I never did get round to seeing Prolapse, Donkey or Bis at the time. Meh.
gc
Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.
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