Bands You’ve Seen Live

[madman marz]

Crowded House
Australian Crawl

I’ve lived a sheltered life

Never too late to let your hair down, and go wild in the country Kingston

[Kingston Town]

Look out York!

[TheCheekster]

I saw Chesney Hawkes live when I was a kid.

[madman marz]

I saw Chesney Hawkes live when I was a kid.

At least your honest about it cheekster,

[graysonscolumn]

I saw Chesney Hawkes live when I was a kid.

I let Chesney Hawkes live when he was a kid.

The floppy-fringed future Smash Hits-adorning wazzek got caught in one of the man-traps on my estate whilst scrumping for apples. I could have left him there for my savage, rabid pig-cum-ferret cross-breeds to feast upon, but I was feeling generous after landing a four-timer at Cartmel and heeded his pitiful, pre-pubescent squeals for me to set him free… not before stubbing out my cigarette on his face as a cautionary lesson to him, though.

And that, dear friends, is the origin of that big moley mark on his face, which of course the devious little sodmonster later exploited as a beauty mark when being pawed all over by the Jenny Powells and Andi Peterses of this world during his mercifully brief flirt with chartdom. We know the truth, though, Hawkes. Watch yerself!

I presume you all already know, by the way, that Chesney Hawkes is a perfect anagram of CHEESEY H W*NKS?

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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

[strawbear]

THE TEMPTATIONS at the centuer in cheltenham, just as w a n k now as they were 100 years ago

[reetpetite]

Going to see the brilliant (but can’t sing) Ian Brown in a few weeks time.

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Couldn’t agree more ! There is a touch of genius about the man. F.E.A.R. is one of my all time favourites. His albums are so polished, it just makes me wonder how long it takes to get the finished article beause his live voice is dreadful .

I saw him supporting the Manic Street Preachers a few years back. The audience were giving him terrible stick but he just came back at them with such arrogance, you couldn’t help but admire him.

I’m really excited about going to see Mesh in Bristol next month. I saw them for the first time last year and they were awesome. It’s criminal that they’re not better known in this country .

Also just got tickets to see Marc Almond in February. He’s an artist I admire enormously.

[mead1986]

Hi Everyone, this is my first post so i thought i would break myself in gently in the lounge lol. the bands that i have seen are:

Oasis
Coldplay
The Doves
Travis
The Who
The kooks
Blur
U2
Kaiser Chiefs
Ordinary Boys
Kasabian
Richard Ashcroft…..
and a few smaller bands that i cant really remember at this time.

[moehat]

what were U2 like? I know people rave about their live shows, but I just can’t get enthusiastic about them. Sunday Bloody Sunday is probably one of my favourite songs of all time in the Song 2 category of music that makes you want to drive along in an open top car along a mountain road singing along to it, but apart from that -nothing.

[mead1986]

I must say although u2 aren’t my fave band, they were excellent live.. Bono just stole the show, at times i could feel myself getting goose pimples just watching him.

As for their music i like only a handfull of songs such as "Where the streets have no name", "Still havnt found what im looking for", "sunday bloody sunday".

[reetpetite]

I’ve seen U2 twice and they are well worth seeing . I do like their music although they’re not my favourite band. I just think they’re a group you should see once in a lifetime. They’ve had real staying power over the years and not too many bands can say that.

[graysonscolumn]

Going to see the brilliant (but can’t sing) Ian Brown in a few weeks time.

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Couldn’t agree more ! There is a touch of genius about the man. F.E.A.R. is one of my all time favourites. His albums are so polished, it just makes me wonder how long it takes to get the finished article beause his live voice is dreadful

Yep, Brown can’t sing. That’s as indisputable a fact as the one that says my botty points downwards. There was that song of his on the first album, wasn’t there, whose chorus went, “She has corpses in her mouth”. So that’s why “she” can’t sing, but what’s his excuse?

F.E.A.R is a mighty track for sure, notwithstanding the above. I did think of a few racing-related lines he could have added, but can’t remember too many just now – Fondmort’s Evermore Awesome Ryanair, perhaps? Or Fakenham Events Are Ramshackle?

Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)

Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

[reetpetite]

How about Frankie’s Enduring Ascot Record? Gotta be more surely ?

[Grasshopper]

Yep, Brown can’t sing. That’s as indisputable a fact as the one that says my botty points downwards. There was that song of his on the first album, wasn’t there, whose chorus went, “She has corpses in her mouth”. So that’s why “she” can’t sing, but what’s his excuse?

F.E.A.R is a mighty track for sure, notwithstanding the above. I did think of a few racing-related lines he could have added, but can’t remember too many just now – Fondmort’s Evermore Awesome Ryanair, perhaps? Or Fakenham Events Are Ramshackle?

Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)

Happy to report that Broonie’s voice was shocking. At one stage, my mate said “This is like karaoke”, and it was hard to pick a hole in his argument.

That said, the man himself was 100% rock’n’roll, so he is forgiven. “I Am The Ressurection” proved a most popular, mid-set ditty. There was much jumping about and general malarkey.

Forums Enjoy Alan Ridley?

Flat Events Aid Retardation?

Fallon’s Ecstatic Avoids Rap?

[graysonscolumn]

Flat Events Aid Retardation?

Or Regression?

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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

[Burroughhill]

I haven’t got time to read the whole thread, so I’ll just add my memories….

I’ve seen Muse twice because they’re just so bloody awesome live. Amazing experience! I’ve seen quite a few smaller bands over the years:

The Vines
Klaxons
Cooper Temple Clause
Funeral for a Friend
Head Automatica
the Thrills
QOTSA
All American Rejects

But the experience of a lifetime was seeing System of a Down playing at Nottingham Ice Arena, because my daughter and I got backstage passes
( I used to be a moderator on their official forum), and we got to stay behind after the gig, go into their dressing rooms with them and generally chat and mingle with them for a couple of hours.
We didn’t get much sleep that night we were on such a high! Best night EVER!

[moehat]

did they have their carpets with them?

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