Your best ever live gig

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

Depeche Mode - Crystal Palace (great gig shame about location)

Was that gig the one show they played in England on the Songs of Faith and Devotion tour? Sisters of Mercy as the support? If it was then I was there too!

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Squeeze, Town and Country Club, circa 1986

Del Amitri, Royal Albert Hall, 1998

Def Leppard, Dom Valley, 1992**

**I'm glad I saw them but the albums are sooo much better

 

[Beach Hut]

Yes sir that was the one - missed Sister's of Mercy, in the pub at Penge West and a bloody good one as well

 

[Caveman]

V2003 was wicked (What I remember).
Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Cold Play and loads more top bands.

 

[Gullet]

So many good concerts seen, hard to choose, but here goes:

Big Country....... Brighton Centre 1984 ( voted best concert there that year, they were superb!)

Specials....... Top Rank Suite 1980

Prince....... Wembley Arena 1990(ish)

 

[Gullet]

So many good concerts seen, hard to choose, but here goes:

Big Country....... Brighton Centre 1984 ( voted best concert there that year, they were superb!)

Specials....... Top Rank Suite 1980

Prince....... Wembley Arena 1990(ish)

 

[Gullet]

That wasnt meant to happen!!!

 

[Turgid]

So good you named them twice!

 

[Beach Hut]

So many good concerts seen, hard to choose, but here goes:

Big Country....... Brighton Centre 1984 ( voted best concert there that year, they were superb!)

Specials....... Top Rank Suite 1980

Prince....... Wembley Arena 1990(ish)

I went to that Big Country and The Specials and saw Princes first ever gigs in England at Wembley Arena

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Off the top of my head...

The Jam - supporting Little Bob Storey at Crawley College (their first tour)
Ramones, Talking Heads & Saints - Roundhouse
Who - Christmas 1976? Hammersmith Odeon
Capt Beefheart / Stones at Knebworth
Beach Boys at Wembley Stadium (but then had to endure Elton bloody John)
Butch Hancock & Jimmie Dale Gimore - Richmond Brighton early 80s
Buzzcocks / Slits at Top Rank Brighton
Bob Dylan at Blackbushe Airport
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Hammersmith Odeon
Kinks at BBC concert recording - Sheherds Bush 1973 (my first concert)
(Easy) Cure - The Rocket, Crawley - five or six times

 

[Gullet]

I went to that Big Country and The Specials and saw Princes first ever gigs in England at Wembley Arena

You have superb taste my friend.

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

The Undertones: Top Rank Suite (I think it was called then): 197?
(First ever - perhaps that should be a separate thread topic!)

Queen: Knebworth 1987.

 

[Raphael Meade]

symposium - concorde (the original) 98 i think
ash - swindon oasis - 2000
atari teenage riot - the albert - 99ish
red hot chili peppers - numerous, blow me away EVERY time
the ordinary boys - 100club london, 2004

 

[readingstockport]

Off the top of my head...

The Jam - supporting Little Bob Storey at Crawley College (their first tour)
Ramones, Talking Heads & Saints - Roundhouse
Capt Beefheart / Stones at Knebworth
Buzzcocks / Slits at Top Rank Brighton
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Hammersmith Odeon


Respect

And as for Hendrix

Not fair

 

[El Presidente]

The Members, Brighton Top Rank 1979
The Jam, Final gig at the Brighton Centre
The Chameleons, Academy Manchester 2001
U2 Birmingham 1987
Peter Gabriel Birmingham 1987

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

I'm ashamed, now, to say it but it was a Michael Jackon concert in 1988 - 126,000 at Aintree - apparently the highest audience ever at a european gig.

I stood behind a guy who was losing his hair as Jacko sung, the toilets stank & I didn't get home 'til 5am...............

But Kim Wilde was the support......Phwoaar!.............

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

Ultravox at the Brighton Centre in 1983 was f***-off as well!

 

[Dover]

Hawkwind, Marina Park, Ramsgate 1982
Queen. Wembley 1985
Genesis, Wembley 1987
Blue Ox Babes. York University 1984
Squeeze. Leas Cliffe Hall, Folkestone 1995
Big Country Leas Cliffe Hall, Folkestone 1995
Texas, Brighton Centre, 2000.
Ska Girl & the Hands of Ra, Freebut, 2002
Undertones, Concorde 2, 2003

All fantastic parties, and memorable nights.

 

[227 BHA]

Ultravox at the Brighton Centre in 1983 was f***-off as well!

Now, if we're talking Ultravox I'd have been there - seen everything them and Midge have done in this part of the country over the last 20 years!

Most recently, Midge Ure at Worthing's Assembley Halls last year and still superb

 

[Lush]

Specials/Madness/Selecter - Two Tone Tour - Top Rank Suite 1980?
UB40/The Pretenders - Top Rank Suite
The Jam/The Piranhas - Brighton Centre
The Piranhas - The Alhambra - most Sundays!!
Zoot And The Roots - The International, Manchester
Stereo MCs - The Astoria
A-ha - Royal Albert Hall