Best Band you've seen live

[Beach Hut]

The Jam at The Brighton Centre- their last gig

U2 at the NEC in '87

Saw both of them as well at those events - memorable to say the least

 

[Beach Hut]

Sorry one more for the record:

Prince - NEC, quality

 

[towbarball]

THE WHO

Worthing Assembley Hall

The Valley Charlton Football Club

Brighton Centre

All 1970's

 

[kevinbha]

I was at that Who at the Worthing Assembly Hall, awesome gig, also:

The Who at Charlton 1976 (bloody hot and loud)
Led Zeppelin Knebworth 1979, simply the best concert I have ever seen
REM at the Carioca in Worthing early 90's yes true
Beach Boys Wembley in the 80's
ELP - The Brighton Dome mid 70's
Supertramp ditto
Free ditto
Page and Plant Wembley 1995


God I feel old

 

[Kent Seagull]

Cream - Sussex University, late sixties.

Hendrix - also at Sussex University

The Doors - Isle of Wight

The Beatles - Maney Church Hall, Sutton Coldfield, early sixties

Thinking about things, maybe I need to get out a bit more these days.

Bloody hell, I am now very jealous! Add the Stones and you've just compiled a list of artists I would love to see but can't.


The best for me has to be Genesis at the Lyceum in the Strand somewhere around the time of the Duke album. They were far better at the smaller Lyceum than at Wembley a few years later.

 

[Curious Orange]

I'm quite hopeful that my trip to Wembley Arena tomorrow to see the Beastie Boys may be added to my earlier list.

 

[dougdeep]

Led Zepp.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Carter USM, Brixton Academy, 1992

 

[e77]

The Verve, Brixton 1997.

 

[timseagull]

...This year the Levellers accoustic gig at Horsted Keynes this summer was something special.

Yep that was a great evening! As was the Levellers in the concorde 2...special May day gig a couple of years back.

Other great gigs I've seen! David Bowie at Glastonbury in 2000 was stunning, seeing Joe Strummer the year before was also pretty cool. The last Suede gig at the Brighon Centre was excellent (Head Music tour) Marilyn Manson at Docklands early 2001 was a bizarre experience!

 

[Thimble Keegan]

Hard to name one as there has been so many: Supergrass, Charlatans, Ocean Colour Scene, Shed 7, Radiohead, Sleeper, Super Furry Animals (one for the 'Laughing Bluebird' that), Cast, Oasis...Even saw Northern Uproar once and they weren't bad.

I saw Primal Scream one year at The Event and they were pants but then the following year they played the Brighton Centre and they rocked.

A special mention must also goto The LongPigs who have always been tight.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[capone]

Rolling Stones, Big Apple, Brighton, Seventies
James Taylor, Lincoln Festival, Seventies
Bruce Springsteen, Birmingham NEC 1981
LittleFeat, The Forum, 2000
Richard Thompson, The Dome, 2002
Lambchop, Theatre Royal, 2003

And there's more. If I had to pick 1 it would be the Stones. Small (ish) venue, standing about 30 metres from stage central, excitement at fever pitch due to long wait between acts (Groundhogs came on first), Jagger in pink suit straight into Jumpin Jack Flash.

 

[Squiggsy]

Hmm....

First gig - Gary Numan Brighton Centre 1980
Too many to remember after that but

Nick Cave - Brixton 2001
James - Brighton Centre 1998
Bowie - MEN Arena 2003
The Cure - Brighton Centre 1985
REM - Move Festival 2003
Suede - Brighton Centre 'Head Music' Tour
David Byrne - Brighton Dome 2004
Manics - Brighton Centre 2002
Moby - Brighton Centre 2002
Jam - Last Gig Brighton Centre
Kraftwerk - Brixton 2004

....were all excellent one way or another, could probably do a completely different list tmrw!

For a venue I hate - I seem to have turned up at the Brighton Centre a lot. Fave gig ever played........supporting Goodbye Mr McKenzie at Pavilion Theatre in 1989 - if only because their backing singer / keyboardist was Shirley Manson - who sort of did ok after that in Garbage.....!

 

[Blackadder]

1 ELO Wembley 1981

2 Slade Brighton (twice) circa 1973.

 

[perseus]

Historic but not as old as Lord Bracknell:

Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Worthing Assembly Rooms) late sixties

Champion Jack Dupree (Portsmouth Guildhall) 1969
Albert King (Portsmouth Guildhall) 1970

Beats 250 other bands.

I wish I had seen the Alex Harvey Band and Jeff Beck when they were in Brighton though as these sounded (from reports) like they were good.

 

[chips and gravy]

Strangely Soul II Soul at the Brighton Centre in about 1990. Went under sufferance with my sister and was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.

Bare Naked Ladies are always good for a laugh too

 

[the full harris]

Goldfinger, easily.


the new ones are crap in my opinion.

 

[burrish gull]

The Cult Wembley Arena 1987and Rage Against the Machine Reading Festival a few years ago

 

[Juan Albion]

Bare Naked Ladies are always good for a laugh too

Absolutely. Wonderful showmen. Seen them 8 times.

I remain proud of wearing a Barenaked Ladies T-shirt through the streets of Crowborough years before anyone had heard of them over there - and visibly shocking some older citizens! Mind you, that's easily done in Crowborough.

Anyway, if you can't beat them join them. Great bands seen include:

The Jam (16 times)
The Smirks (also 16 or 17 times)
Elvis Costello (about 12 times)
U2 (half dozen times - best would have been Hammersmith Palais I suspect)
and loads of others.

Best this year: Saw Doctors, Stiff Little Fingers, Collective Soul, Stranglers, Cowboy Junkies and Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons, with the Nudie Women Christmas show to come in 2 weeks...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Every time this thread comes up, I mention that I saw the Beatles at Maney Church Hall, Sutton Coldfield.

This time, I've done a bit of googling and discovered the itinerary of that particular Beatles tour.

The Sutton Coldfield gig, on 1 February 1963, was the last date of a solo tour of Scotland and the North and Midlands that took in 24 venues in 28 days - including five appearances at the Cavern in Liverpool. Please Please Me was issued on 11 January, three weeks before they turned up for this Youth Club gig in what was then my home town.

Yes. It was a Youth Club dance. Marvellous scenes, as I remember.

The following day, the Beatles went off to Bradford to start another one month tour - but this time as the support band to Helen Shapiro (!)