Best gig you have ever been to!

[Hiney]

The Who - Hammersmith Odeon '76
Dr Feelgood - Portsmouth Guildhall - '77

 

[Brian Fantana]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers supported by James Brown, Hyde Park 2004

 

[33057 Seagull]

Rory Gallagher at The Dome twice in late 1970s
The Ramones late 1970's @ Top Rank Suite
The Ramones early 1980's @ Top Rank Suite
Hawkwind at Hammersmith Odeon 1984(?)
The Tubes Brighton Dome 1980s
Pink Floyd at Versailles 1988
Blyth Power at the Duchess in Leeds 1999
Rancid - Brighton Dome - 2006

 

[rool]

ELO, wembley arena 1981

 

[Meade's Ball]

I am hugely torn here. Partly by my hampered dead memory, but then with seeing immodest flashes of smouldering evenings thrilled and intensified by music and/or any cohort i may have had with me.
I did enjoy the Brixton Academy Mandela show thing the day before the millions all got together and enjoyed white man's popular rock. Just a day of hip-hop and reggae with the Jungle Brothers and Public Enemy and Stetsasonic, films of the harlem globetrotters dribbled on vast canvasses, talks from Winnie Mandela (in her pre-murder days) and Jesse Jackson. Seemed to be a very welcome mood of culture and witnessable sculpture.

I also enjoyed the Flaming Lips at Glasto in about 99. One of the smaller tents before they were famous enough to master huge stages. I had obviously been lost in my head and the fields of sleepless grass for a couple of days, so the sober moments with them seemed beautiful.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The Wonderstuff @ Brixton Academy c1990

The Wedding Present @ Liverpool Uni c1989

REM / Blur @ MK Bowl c1996

Levellers @ Brighton Centre c 1996? [Though there is a certain irony to thousands of people singing 'There's only one way of life' togheter!]

 

[Norman Potting]

IIIrd Time Out - Ryman Auditorium Nashville

Nanci Griffith - Hawth Theatre Crawley

Richard Thompson - same venue

Thin Lizzy - Brighton Centre

Quo - Hammersmith Odeon

Springsteen - Earls Court

The Drivers - Cartoon, Croydon plus loads of pubs in Kent and Sussex - anyone remember them ?

 

[Pevenseagull]

Red House Painters

Dutchess Of York, Leeds, early 90's








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[Trufflehound]

I already mentioned Gang of Four as the best, but since everyone is putting lots down, I also give you...

The Ramones - many occasions, many venues ca.1978-1986.
The Tubes - Hammersmith and Brighton 1979
The Members supporting The Clash - the Rainbow 1979
Stiff Little Fingers - Electric Ballroom 1979
Echo & the Bunnymen (& the Blue Orchids) - Hammersmith 1981
U2 - Lyceum Ballroom 1981 (3x)
The Fall & The Birthday Party - Hammersmith Palais 1982
The Polyphonic Spree - Pukkelpop 2005
The Sound - The Marquee 1982(?)
The Wedding Present - Hammersmith Clarendon Club Foot 1986(?)
Wasted Youth - Hammersmith Clarendon Club Foot 1982(?)
!!! - Pukkelpop 2005
Gang of four again - Amsterdam Melkweg 2005
Underworld & Pulp - Werchter 1998.
The Chemical Brothers - several times
Sonic Youth - many times, but best at the Mean Fiddler 1987 and Pukkelpop 1991

Oh, and some more. Probably.

 

[Gwylan]

..
The Fall & The Birthday Party - Hammersmith Palais 1982 ....

Now, that's some combination.

What? No Rip, Rig and Panic?

 

[Trufflehound]

Now, that's some combination.

What? No Rip, Rig and Panic?

I never saw them live, sadly...

The Fall/Birthday Party gig was doubly tremendous as it came just as they had released "Hex Enduction Hour" and "Junkyard" - their respective finest hours in my opinion.

 

[Gwylan]

I never saw them live, sadly...

The Fall/Birthday Party gig was doubly tremendous as it came just as they had released "Hex Enduction Hour" and "Junkyard" - their respective finest hours in my opinion.

I saw RR&P in Bradford in 1981: they were pretty good but not in my top 10.

I was in London in 1982, how the hell did I miss out on the Fall/BP gig? I must have been completely stoned or something.

 

[Trufflehound]

I was in London in 1982, how the hell did I miss out on the Fall/BP gig? I must have been completely stoned or something.

If I remember right it was around Easter time - the end of March.

 

[Gwylan]

If I remember right it was around Easter time - the end of March.

Ah...I was in Bridlington Easter 1982, the Young Socialists conference.

It must have taken something like that for me to miss two of my fave bands.

 

[Buba]

Nobody saw Oasis at Maine Road in 1996?

What can I tell you...the generation is going down from one year to another.

 

[SussexSpur]

Actually, my favourite gig was one I took part in at the Birmingham Midland Institute while a student. After playing a few Beatles songs as part of an acoustic duo, we got to watch the rest of the bill including a ballroom dancing couple who'd forgotten their music and had to perform without, and an old man singing sea shanties. A legendary line-up.

 

[Curious Orange]

Favourite still has to be Faith No More at Brixton Academy in '97.

Special mention for Pusherman at Shafts (Glamorgan Student Union) a couple of times in the 90's. Great live band, never made it big, get a copy of 'Floored' as its an awesome album.

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Ali Bongo and the Scabs - Rosehill 1987

 

[LondonSeagull]

Queen and Paul Rogers at Hyde park, 2005

Feeder at the Roundhouse, Camden 2006

 

[Da Man Clay]

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