Your Top 3 most seen live acts

[spring hall convert]

Was having a discussion with someone about Iron Maiden just last Sunday. Saw them 6 times in 1980 (and 81), all with Paul Di'anno on vocals. I thought they were vaguely edgy back then as Di'anno's leather, denim and short hair (and alcoholism) image balanced out the spandex loon pants and poodle hair, which i always thought was w*nk. Lost interest when Dickinson arrived as there was no balance any more.

My claim to fame is I appeared on an Iron Maiden record before Bruce Dickinson (I was at the Marquee when they recorded Drifter for the B-side of Sanctuary).

I'm pretty fond of Maiden up to and including 7th Son & thought Brave New World was allright but Iron Maiden & Killers are their best records for me.

 

[aberllefenni]

The Men They Couldn't Hang 35-40
Alabama 3 10
Pogues 6

 

[Mellotron]

Not including bands I "know":

Interpol - 4 times
Radiohead/Mew/Muse - 3 times

 

[angmering albion]

Paul Weller
Arctic Monkeys
Linkin Park (absolute class live)

 

[Da Man Clay]

Motion City Soundtrack (5)
Alkaline Trio (4)
New Found Glory (3)

 

[bhafc99]

Throwing Muses about 40 times.
New Order about a dozen times.
Then probably My Bloody Valentine, 7 times. My ears are just about recovering.

 

[lawros left foot]

The jam and Weller, about 5 times each
Levellers, about 6 times
Stevie Wonder, 4 times

 

[Return of the Rev]

piranhas15+
cohen 6
clash 5

 

[boik]

1. The Wedding Present
2. Maccabees
3. Cure or XTC or various Spizz incarnations (all 79/80/81)

 

[Bob!]

Specials
Queen
Jam

 

[tinx]

I think:-

Foo Fighters - 8 times
Manic Street Preachers - 7 times
Prodigy/Radiohead/Oasis/Carter USM - 6 times each

 

[big nuts]

Primal Scream definitely the most at least 11 times between 2002-2009
Oasis 8 times between 2000-2009

Not sure who I've seen the most behind that maybe Blur, The Charlatans, Kasabian, Kings of Leon or Franz Ferdinand probably at least five times each.

Been to so many gigs and festivals over the year it's really hard to keep track, I think at my peak between 2006-2008 I must have been watching around twenty gigs per year on top of at least one festival.

 

[Kumquat]

Pixies
Raveonettes
Mark Kozelek/Red House Painters

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elvis Costello are all well into double figures.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Scrub The Libertines, I completely forgot Super Furry Animals. Sacrilege.

 

[FamilyGuy]

Joan Baez
Saw Doctors
Eric Clapton
or maybe Crosby Stills and Nash

This list probably shows my age!

 

[atfc village]

I'd love to see The Macc Lads one last time always a giggle.

 

[catfish]

The Hamsters
Wilko Johnson
Catfish Keith

 

[Kumquat]

I'd love to see The Macc Lads one last time always a giggle.

Still love the line "clinging to my leg like a homesick turd".

 

[Hungry Joe]

in order...

British Sea Power
Spear of Destiny
The Waterboys

I'm going to see Spear of Destiny in Brighton in October. It'll be the first time I've seen them in 25 years, which shows how often I saw them in the 80's!