What's The Bands You Can Say You've Died Happy Seeing?

[Tricky Dicky]

Go on, rub it in why don't you!

All right - they were crap, you missed nothing.

 

[Elder for England]

I haven't seen many bands, but the Spice Girls would take some beating


(queue piss-taking......)

 

[Lord Bracknell]

and (the real before i die one) Pentangle on july 2nd at the Dome. To hear Bert Jansch, the greatest guitar player ever, live will make my musical year!

Good shout.

Back in the sixties, it was my ambition to hear Bert Jansch before HE died. Rather mysteriously, he might outlive us all.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Wu Tang
Super Furries
Brian Wilson

 

[Trufflehound]

Quite a few really:

The Birthday Party several times
Gang of Four several times
Cabaret Voltaire several times
Gogol Bordello several times (including 2 hours of glorious mayhem in Tilburg just 2 weeks ago)
SLF at the Electric Ballroom in '79 (i.e. before they became rubbish)
U2 supporting Talking Heads at the Palais in 1980.
The Polyphonic Spree
Chk! Chk! Chk!
Ride, House of Love, Frank Black, Sonic Youth, the Pogues & the Ramones all on the same stage and the same day (though not at the same time, which would have been something...) in Belgium in 1991, although for reasons of beer I arrived late and missed a then-unknown Nirvana opening proceedings...
Carter USM playing in front of about 12 people in Apeldoorn
The Clash in 79
The Ruts in 79
The Three Johns at the Escape in the mid-80s (I think it may have been them who were supported by a very young Primal Scream)
The Members (several times) were a cracking live experience. Have many happy memories of leaping around like a loon to "Police Car".
The Banshees at the Rainbow in 79, waist deep in the broken remains of the seats that the organisers stupidly forgot to remove beforehand.

...and hundreds more...

I would still like to see The Flaming Lips before I go. But I will be getting the chance in August if I live that long.

 

[glasfryn]

Rolling stones
Hollies
Giants who used to play at the Starlight rooms in Brighton.
Starlight rooms now a block of fecking flats.

 

[Barrow Boy]

John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, The Dome
David Bowie on his farewell Ziggy Stardust tour, the Dome
Roxy Music (Brian Eno), the Dome
The Faces, Top Rank Suite
Nazareth, Top Rank Suite
Ossibissa, Top Rank Suite
Deep Purple, The Dome
The Sweet (yup, brilliant live), The Dome
Leo Sayer, twice at The Dome
The Bues Band, twice. Assembly Hall Worthing
Go West, Brighton Centre
Erasure, Brighton Centre
Status Quo, twice, Brighton Centre

All this lot at Wembley Stadium over two concerts
Guns'n Roses
Faith no more
Nine inch nails
Skid Row
Sound Garden

 

[pasty]

BUT missed out on ever seeing Queen live

Obviously I didn't know it at the time, but I was at Queens last ever live gig. August 1986 @ Knebworth

 

[sod1]

Pink Floyd at the Live8 gig

 

[Shegull]

Bon Jovi
Nickleback
The Eagles

and going back to my youth countless more that I can't even remember

Ive booked lots of tickets on line for my sons though if that counts lol

Metallica
Inflames
Sonata Arctica
Muse
The Stones
Bob Dylan
Bryan Adams


oh I give up the old memory is not what it used to be.

 

[scooter1]

Guns N Roses - Marquee in 87
Shit, pushed the return button by mistake

Manics at the Richmond in 89
Libertines at Brixton in 2004
Turned down a ticket for The Stone Roses at the Richmond in 88, miffed about that!!!
Weller at the Zap
Transvision Vamp at the Suite - just for the ogle factor
Big Country at the Centre
The Jam at the Centre
Madness, as a boy. The gig got stopped as the skinheads wouldn't stop fighting so the band walked off

 

[Jam The Man]

Michael Jackson - Wembley 92 & 97
Brian Wilson - Bri Centre 02
Blur - Wembley 95
Lightning Seeds - Dome 97
Paul McCartney - Earls Crt 03
(two of the other) Beach Boys - Bri Centre 04
Madonna - Wembley 93
Rolling Stones - Wembley 96