What's the 12 best gigs you have been to?

[withdeanwombat]

Couple of Bob Dylan's
Del Shannon
Show of Hands - a lot
Desperate Dan band - several
Don McClean
Milverton Folk Club
Julian Lloyd Webber

Oh, too many to count.

 

[pauli cee]

Pistols Finsbury park
Piranhas Buccaneer
Buzzcocks Coalition club
Sham 69 Concorde 2
SLF Blackpool winter gardens
Pistols O2 Birmingham
Pistols Brixton x5
Buzzcocks Brixton
Sham 69 Brixton
Sussex Pistols Worthing
Anti Nowhere League Redhill
Peter & The Test Babies, too many dates to mention.

Sussex Pistols in Worthing is a good shout, forget exactly where I saw them. You're not Punky the Plumber are you?
The lennox

 

[ozzygull]

1 Genesis knebworth 92
2 Phil Collins Paris 90
3 Green Day Wembley Areana

Those really stand out for me,
I have seen U2, Genesis, Seal, Chris Rea, Eric Clapton, Bon jovi and enjoyed those.

The worst one has to be Meat Loaf, just very poor. I also took my daughter twice to see One Diection, that was painful, but then I am not supposed to like it and the amazed and happy look on my daughters face was priceless.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Oasis: Knebworth
Jools Holland Later with
Earls Court
Wembley Stadium

The Verve support act to Oasis, Earls Court
Eminem - Milton Keynes Bowl
Luther Vandross - Wembley Arena
Coldplay - Wembley Stadium
Corinne Bailey Rae - Shepherds Bush Empire
The Noisettes - Shepherds Bush Empire
Macy Gray - Shepherds Bush Empire
Simple Minds - Milton Keynes Bowl
Jools Holland - Royal Albert Hall
U2 - Wembley Stadium
Edwin Starr - Naafi @ RAF Abingdon
Black Eye Peas - Shepherds Bush Empire
Erika Badu - Brixton Academy

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Sparks - The Roundhouse
Sparks - The Dome
Sparks - Islington
Sparks - The Dome (again)
Sparks - Mile End Stadium
Sparks - Shepherds Bush
Sparks - Royal Festival Hall

You get the gist by now...

Also really enjoyed, Black Grape at what we call the Top Rank, Happy Mondays - Brixton, The Charletans at numerous venues in London....a stand out for personal reasons was The Seahorses at Portsmouth GH.

I also enjoy my Belle n Sebastian gigs so much so I'm missing Spurs away for one .... Bad fan! (Of Brighton not B&S)

 

[hart's shirt]

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute - Wembley Stadium
U2/RHCP/Coldplay - Slane Castle, Ireland
The Killers - Katowice, Poland
Nelly Furtado - Earl's Court
Keane - Dubai
Depeche Mode - Brighton
Aerosmith - Dubai
Adam And The Ants - Brighton
Simple Minds - Roundhay Park, Leeds
All About Eve - Brighton Dome (Tues), Portsmouth Guild Hall (Weds), Hammersmith Odeon (Fri), Astoria (Sun)
Marillion - Brighton
INXS - Wembley Arena

...and *cough* Simply Red (supported by Terence Trent D'Arby) at the Brighton Centre

...and, ahem, Rolf Harris at the Westminster College Summer Ball, Oxford

 

[Juan Albion]

12? That's impossible. But these for starters.

The Jam and the Vapors, Rainbow, 4th December 1979
The Jam and the Vapors, Rainbow, 3rd December 1979
The Jam and the Vapors, Rainbow, 2nd December 1979
U2, Hammersmith Palais, 1981
Joe Jackson Band, The Nashville, 1978
Steve Earle and the Dukes and Energy Orchard, Rock City Nottingham, 1989
Roger Hodgson, Rama, 2009
Skillet, Los Angeles, 2009
Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Streatham, 1983
David Crowder Band, Detroit, 2012
Anberlin, Dallas, 2010
The Inmates, Plough Lane, 1978

 

[catfish]

Wilko Johnson - Komedia 2003
Joe Bonamassa - Brighton centre 2012
BB King - Brighton Centre 1987
Stray Cats - Assembly Hall 1989
ELO - Wembley 1981
Van Morrison - Dome 1991
Al Stewart - Dome 2006
Leonard Cohen - O2 2008
Ian Siegal - Jook House 2011
Nimmo Brothers - Jook House 2011
Larry Miller - Ropetackle 2014
King King - Ropetackle 2014

 

[Pevenseagull]

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Hastings Pier
My Bloody Valentine & Sonic Boom, ULU
Mudhoney, Tad & Nirvana, The Astoria
Sonic Youth & Pavement, Town and Country Leeds
American Music Club, Bristol University
David Bowie, Microdisney & The Woodentops, Dominion Theatre
Mercury Rev, somewhere up north f***ed out of my head
Red House Painters, Dutchess Leeds
Lift To Experience, Pavilion Theatre
Tindersticks, Bloomsbury Theatre
Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr & (not so much) Blur, Brighton Centre
Wedding Present, Pale Saints & Cud, Warehouse Leeds
Throwing Muses and Pixies, Mean Fiddler
The Field Mice, Another Sunny Day & Brighter, The Escape
The Cure, Wembley Arena (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me tour ..... just edging out Disintegration tour)
Cocteau Twins, Town and Country club



hang on, that's more than 12



and I've missed loads

 

[Withdean and I]

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Hyde Park, 2009.

 

[BobbySmith]

Led Zep Knebworth
Floyd The Done
Eagles 02
The Who Charlton
The Who Worthing
Bowie Worthing
REM Worthing
Robert Plant Portsmouth
The Clash Brighton
Neil Young Hyde park
Genesis Wembley
ELP Dome

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Live Aid 13 July 85 Wembley Stadium
Stones 82 WS (4 more times)
The Jam Brighton Centre 81/82 x (4 more)
The Who Brighton Centre 79 & 82 (4 more)
U2 The Longest Day 21 June 85 MK Bowl (3 more)
Oasis BC East Wing (4 more)
The Beat the Suite 90? (4 more)
The Specials the Suite 82
Yellowman the Suite 83ish
Prince Wembley Arena 86 Parade
Primal Scream Brixton Academy 2am to 4am after The Dust Brothers on at Midnight
Blur/Pulp Ally Pally 95 (Blur 4 more)

 

[Garage_Doors]

It would have been Burleys on the seafront.
No I'm not ag, I was manager/promoter.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Not necessarily in order

Ramones - Top rank
Japan - same
Undertones - same
Souixsie & The Banshees/ The Cure/ Spizz - B/C.
Stranglers TRank
Jam Dome
The Cure/The passions T Rank
Joy Division Fall Buzzcocks -Electric circus
XTC - T Rank
Big Country Alice Cooper - Dome
Skids - Top Rank maybe BC
Pistols The Spots - Wolverhampton
Dexys Midnight Runner - Can't remember where

Wow, Seeing the pistols on the Spots tour, that would have been good, Assume that was at the
Lafayette club?

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Reading these lists make me wish there was some kind of Gig Tardis where you could go back and revisit these times.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

REM - Milton Keynes '95

Springsteen - The Emirates '08

Springsteen - Earls Court '99

AC/DC - Wembley Arena '88

Massive Attack - The Centre '97

The Jam - The Dome '79

The Dandy Warhols - Brixton Academy '03

Rush - O2 '12

UFO - The Centre '80

Rainbow - The Centre '79

Buzzcocks - Top Rank '79

The Besnard Lakes - The Lexington '14

Saxon - Islington Academy '12

 

[Guinness Boy]

Most of my mis spent youth was in clubs rather than gigs but still remember (in no particular order)

Flowered Up at The Zap early 90s
Ocean Colour Scene same venue & time
The Orb, Primal Scream & Andy Weatherall at The Event
Kraftwerk at Tribal Gathering
Black Grspe at the Brighton Centre
The first Big Beach Boutique - the one on the Friday night

Last year I finally got to see Buena Vista Social Club at The Dome. They were (sorry) amazebslls.

 

[Razzoo]

In no order at all
The Jesus Lizard Duchess of York, Leeds
Bark Psychosis at the same venue
Low Sage Gateshead
Fleet Foxes 02 academy Leeds
Arcade Fire Sheffield Leadmill
Love and Arthur Lee Irish Centre Leeds
Mr. Bungle same venue
Yo la Tengo and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci at Playhouse Leeds
Slint Brudenell Social Leeds
Mission of Burma same venue
Screaming Trees Duchess Leeds
The Young Gods Fibbers York
TAD Riverside Newcastle
The Blue Aeroplanes Brudenell Leeds
Probably missed a fair few but these ones all stick out.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Bob Marley at brighton centre
Genesis brighton centre
Supertramp, done and brighton centre
Thin lizzy, brighton centre
Queen, brighton centre
Led Zeppelin knebworth
Robbie Williams Wembley
Madonna Wembley
Sex pistols I think it was Hammersmith.
Shabba ranks Brixton academy( one of about 3 whities guys in the audience..very scary night)
Lynerd skynerd. Hammersmith odean
Barbara Striesand royal Albert hall.

To be honest there are many many more, but they were the most memorable

 

[Tarpon]

The Birthday Party - 1982
REM - 1984
The Smiths (James) - 1985
Gil Scott Heron - 1986
SLF - 1980
New Order - 1986
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - 2004
The Cure - 1983
Black Uhuru - 1987
Theatre of Hate - 1982
The Jam - 1980
Fela Kuti - 1989