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[4AssedMonkey]

The "Doh!" ones I have in the closet are Simply Red and Wet Wet Wet.  I was only accompanying an ex-GF though.  f**king dross the lot of it.

The "lucky" ones are Arctic Monkeys in a pub before they got a deal, Muse at Doncaster Dome on the tours for the first two albums (second time with Hundred Reasons as support - that was a great gig) and I have to say The Specials at Glasto last year.  Never thought I'd get the chance and they nailed it.

[Madyokel]

MEGABOWL, on Apr 2 2010, 08:34 PM, said:

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In a bad way: -
Blacklace (the legendary Blackpool Tower 1989 show)
Simply Red
Elastica (just oncredibly, incredibly bad)

          
Blacklace.... WOW don't think anybody will Top Trump you with that one!!!!

Except... as a joke I was given a signed photo once as a birthday present..
Worrying thing is I may still have it somewhere...

Now the virtual campfire thread...
Maybe I have some fuel..   

[fairyinboots]

strudders, on Apr 2 2010, 09:38 PM, said:

And he is on the main stage for global singing epicness this year!  

For more crying!  Will be amazing....

[Wanderlei]

The Spice Girls, Don Valley Stadium. I went with my mum and little sis when i was a kid. First ever gig i went. Slam ya body down and zigga-zig-ah!

[BlackHole2006]

ethereal, on Apr 2 2010, 08:41 PM, said:

At Glastonbury; Page & Plant with the Egyptian Orchestra, Jeff Buckley.

Elsewhere; Pixies with Throwing Muses (heaven), Nirvana.

You absolute lucky bastard.

[ciderboy]

Suppose seeing pink floyd all together at live 8 was for me the dream that cant be beat,no point in thinking further

imo nothing else can beat it(mind cost enough to bribe my mate to take me rather than his girl but well worth it)

[ciderboy]

niceandfriendly, on Apr 2 2010, 07:14 PM, said:

i can't believe i saw a bit of the ting tings last year. wtf was i doing?

     ah right- sugarbabes 1 year at glasto for me main stage,just too tired to move

[denwyn]

Frank Zappa ( Free Trade Hall Manchester )
Leonard Cohen ( Glastonbury )
Neil Young ( Glastonbury )
Lynyrd Skynyrd ( original band at Knebworth)
Stones ( Knebworth )
Pink Floyd ( Earls Court )
The Byrds ( Free Trade Hall Manchester )
Van Morrision ( Free Trade Hall Manchester )
BB King (NEC)
Beatles ( Rhyl Ritz Ballroom )No 1 at time with Please Please Me )
Small Faces ( Gaiety Theatre Rhyl )
Johnny Winter (Cheese and Grain, Frome)
Bob Dylan ( Wembley Stadium )
Santana (Wembley Stadium)
Rory Gallagher ( Liverpool Empire )
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (Nynex Manchester)
Tod Rundgren ( Salford Uni )
David Bowie... (Main road football ground)
Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band ( Old Rhyl Pavilion) Amazing,think they were the first well known band i ever saw,besides the Beatles 1966 i think


Best Forgotten or hall of Shame

Lionel Richie...With her indoors (NEC )
ShowWaddyWaddy...Best forgotten
UB40... afraid to say twice NEC and Wembley...under pain of death though
Hot Tuna ( Knebworth )
Terance Trent D'Arby...(Main Road football ground...he was proberbly the worst i had ever seen)
Have seen many more but these leave best memories

Edited by denwyn, 04 April 2010 - 09:58 AM.

[TheBigJT]

The Good:
Lynyrd Skynyrd (The full band just two months before the plane crash)
The Ramones
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band in 1978 and 1980
Peter Gabriel (in a 2000 seat gym touring his 2nd solo album)
Crowded House at the Glass House and the Troubadour (both very small clubs)
Neil Finn and 7 Worlds at the Largo (less that 200 people)
Peter Tosh (at the Roxy)
The Kinks
David Bowie (Stages tour)

The Bad:
The Cars (dreadful live)
Spirit
Starship
Todd Rundgren
Chicago
Ted Nugent (I once had a choice between seeing him or the Genesis Duke tour...what the hell was I thinking?)
Survivor
Poison

The Ugly:
Cliff Richard
Christopher Cross
Rick Springfield

Edited by TheBigJT, 02 April 2010 - 10:30 PM.

[wiltshireham]

strudders, on Apr 2 2010, 07:39 PM, said:

Frank Zappa in 88 at the NEC, his last appearance in concert in the UK

Radiohead Reading last year... it was just so good.

Levellers Headlining Glasto in 94.. was a turning point in my life

Blue Oyster *more Cowbell* Cult at the Bristol Colston hall in 80-something..

seeing the levellers in 94 must have been awesome.
my dad took me to see rod stewart when i was about 12 in 1980 (i think he just wanted some company).
i saw elton john in tenerife - out of this world performance. why does he not appear on peoples wish lists on this site? i am not a massive fan but what a talent.
best ever for me was my first ever concert - tears for fears at guildford civic hall in 1982 when i was 14/15 - performing their first album and rarely got better from there. happy days

[ethereal]

denwyn, on Apr 2 2010, 11:25 PM, said:

Frank Zappa
Leonard Cohen
Neil Young
Lynyrd Skynyrd ( original band )
Stones
Pink Floyd
The Byrds
Van Morrision
BB King
Beatles ( No 1 at time with Please Please Me )
Small Faces
Johnny Winter
Bob Dylan
Santana

Have seen many more but these leave best memories

Sounds like a great list, I take it some others of these would have been in their heyday too (given the Beatles one). Saw Johnny Winter a couple of weeks ago, class act.

[strudders]

wrong thread!  

OK

Alice Cooper...

Edited by strudders, 02 April 2010 - 11:53 PM.

[halfpint]

fairyinboots, on Apr 2 2010, 09:14 PM, said:

Macca with my Dad last year.
Nirvana last gig at Reading fest
Ray Davies, with fantastic company that did not laugh because I cried.....
Michael Jackson in Ireland. Was a total surprise, his Thriller tour.
Many more, but will add to this later.

Jealous at those in bold...can't wait for Ray this year - really enjoyed lasy year.

I will add to this with i cant belive that i have seen the Cure as much i have in such as short time frame - esp in berlin

[strudders]

denwyn, on Apr 2 2010, 11:25 PM, said:

Frank Zappa
Leonard Cohen
Neil Young
Lynyrd Skynyrd ( original band )
Stones
Pink Floyd
The Byrds
Van Morrision
BB King
Beatles ( No 1 at time with Please Please Me )
Small Faces
Johnny Winter
Bob Dylan
Santana

Have seen many more but these leave best memories

Seen six...  

but I bow to your collection..

we're not worthy! we're not worthy! we're not worthy!

[sisterofmercy]

The Good

-Morrissey
- The Pixies
- Spinal Tap
- Leonard Cohen
- Babyshambles with Roger Daltrey at the Bristol Academy

The Not so Good
- Girls Aloud, bands of that ilk at T4 on the beach
- Tom Jones- a definite 'WTF' moment.

[bulb]

fairyinboots, on Apr 2 2010, 09:14 PM, said:

Michael Jackson in Ireland. Was a total surprise, his Thriller tour.
.

My mum had tickets to his show in Cork and she was flying back from working in Germany that day.
They missed their flight by an hour so had to wait 2 hours for the next. They thought they would still make it until they realised the flight was flying into Dublin and not Cork. They arrived back in Cork at about 2am where the concert goers were still celebrating the night in it.
Talk about regret.

[cabstar]

Seen way to many bands & acts, hard to pick but will try

Pixies 1989 I think at Sheffield Leadmill but may have been Leeds Uni
Jaynes Addiction 1989 Sheffield Leadmill
U2 1987 Wembley Stadium
The Cult 1986 supporting Simple Minds Milton Keynes Bowl
Prince 1986 Parade Tour with Ronnie Wood
Prince 1988 Lovesexy Tour Wembley Arena best show I have ever seen
Stevie Wonder 1988 first Mandela Show Wembley Stadium
Whitney Houston same gig as Stevie Wonder
Jesus & Mary Chain 1988 I think at Sheffield Octagon featuring the short movie "Story of a Blind Man's Penis!!!"
Gary Glitter 1990 Hull City Hall comeback number 146, superb show & he handed me one of his roses, looking back that could have been something terrible lol
Oasis V Festival 2009 their last ever UK show, it was truly shocking but definately an I was there moment
Shirley Bassey Glastonbury
Candi Staton Glastonbury
The Who Glastonbury
Tom Jones Glastonbury
Roddy Frame Glastonbury Accoustic
REM Glastonbury
Eddie Grant Glastonbury
Dandy Warhols Glastonbury
Electric 6 Glalstonbury
Patti Smith Sheffield couple of weeks ago
katy Perry V 09
Chesney Hawkes Big Reunion 2008
East 17 Big Reunion Weekend 2009
Prince O2 arena residency 2007??


The bloody awful list
General Fiasco
Happy Mondays V09
Jet V09
Keene V07 I think bloody awful
All Saints Top of The Pops 2003 I think

[paulomas]

i work at hammersmith apollo so ive been so many things i thought i'd never see. recently being JLS!

i dont think ive ever seen anyone thats a massive deal, but last year watching the maccabees in the guardian lounge at glastonbury. walking in there ten minutes before they were coming on and there only being about 15 people in there milling around and sitting on the chairs. walked up to the front, got a perfect spot and they played an incredible set to about 150 people (finally got full up by the time they came on).


actually, i never thought i'd see oasis. benicassim last year

[pothead pixie]

Iggy Pop and the Stooges 2007 They have never, ever lost it!
Three quarters of Pink Floyd 1988 - the oldies section!
Robert Calvert (ex-Hawkwind) and the Starfighters 1987 (Year before he died I think)
LCD Soundsystem 2005
Van Halen in 1984 ( I remember Dave Lee Roth getting hit by a loaf of bread, in which he retorted through the microphone, " Do that again and Ill f**k your girlfriend")
GonG 2009 with Steve Hillage - subliminal - Their only gig in Scotland, Edinburgh, the versions of youll never blow your trip forever and Masterbuilder were simply the shit, I have a sore neck to prove it.
Kraftwerk 2005 - These guys are mental, there is no one else like them on planet earth
The Birthday Party - Nightmoves, Glasgow 1983

Edited by pothead pixie, 03 April 2010 - 03:16 AM.

[mr_bizarre]

I cannot believe I've seen the following:

David Bowie at Glastonbury 2000
James Brown in a small field in Essex back in 1992!
Rage Against The Machine Reading 2008
Faith No More Reading 2009
Arctic Monkeys Glastonbury 2007
Ray Davies Glastonbury 2009
Shirley Bassey 2007
The crazy world of Arthur Brown + Hawkwind London 2009
Alien Sex Fiend London at some point in time?
Eat Static Sunrise 2009
Infested Mushroom London 2009
The Mars Volta London 2009
Death In Vegas (Can't remember where)
Underworld Bestival 2008
Massive Attack Bestival 2009
Bauhaus London 2002?
Aphex Twin Bestival 2008 (crap!)
Pantera Ozzfest 1998
The Cult London 2008

Erm...Can't think of anymore....

Oh yeah, The Pixies....twice!

Edited by mr_bizarre, 03 April 2010 - 10:09 AM.