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Best Gig?

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 28/09/2008 14:59

Again, I have loads and can't decide.

Orbital at Glastonbury (last ever show)
Radiohead at Glastonbury
Pulp and Moloko Secret gig in dingy Sheffield club
Goldfrapp Black Cherry Tour at Brixton Academy
Gogol Bordello at Koko, amazing, intense, and drum surfing was involved.
The Eels secret gig in a pub in Oxford.

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platypussy · 28/09/2008 15:03

Muse - Wembley stadium last year.
Led Zep 1971. I am ancient!

cheesesarnie · 28/09/2008 15:04

jools holland at something castle(so good i cant remember)
james taylor everywhere ive seen him!

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 28/09/2008 15:08

Jools Holland vomits whole olives, haha.

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cheesesarnie · 28/09/2008 15:08

what?i dont get it?

cheesesarnie · 28/09/2008 15:08

what?i dont get it?

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 28/09/2008 15:11

Sorry, ExH once saw him throwing up into a urinal in a pub. It appeared to contain whole olives.

There's a lovely image for you.

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VictorianSqualor · 28/09/2008 15:12

The Hours @ The Zodiac, Oxford before it became the Academy.

Also really loved a band I saw at Wakestock this year but they were just a local band, Kinkane.

Lostprophets was an awesome gig. I 'liked' them before I saw them. I became slightly obsessed after

Babyshambles were great but I'd have preferred to see PD when he was in Libertines.

cheesesarnie · 28/09/2008 15:14

ooh im not sure if i can love someone who vomits whole olives

i need to think.

AnathemaDevice · 05/10/2008 20:36

Muse-Glastonbury 2005
Manic Street Preachers- Manic Millennium. Most times I've seent he Manics they've been ace, but that one was particularly fab!
Pulp- V96 (though that could be because it was my first proper grown up gig)
Rufus Wainwright recreating Judy Garland's Carnegie hall show at the Palladium.
er... Sure there's loads more but I can't think of them right now!

LittleMyDancingWithTheDevil · 05/10/2008 20:38

Iggy Pop at Brixton Academy.

Unbelievable.

janeite · 05/10/2008 20:42

Best for singing along - Carter USM at Nottingham Uni

Best for dancing along - The Levellers at The Humming Bird in Birmingham

Best for holding up cigarette lighters and being all goth about life - The Mission at the NEC

Best for pushing myself to the front and just standing there drooling - Morrissey at the Birmingham Academy

janeite · 05/10/2008 20:42

Sonic Youth brilliant live too - but I can't remember the venues

mppaw · 05/10/2008 20:51

Beck - at V96 Chelmsford
Editors - Brixton Academy Oct 07
Erasure - Just after they did the Abba stuff...absolutely fantastic, About 1990/1991
Scissor Sisters - G.A.Y. Apr 04 Superb

God I miss going to gigs (At a moments notice)...really must try and go more often.

janeite · 05/10/2008 20:53

Going to gigs is the thing I miss most since having children.

The Wedding Present were always great too.

ILikeYourSleeves · 07/10/2008 16:22

The Prodigy- T in the Park sometime in the 90's

The Stone Roses- Glasgow Barrowlands, esp as I was getting frisky with a bloke I totally fancied from uni in the middle of 'I wanna be adored' ahhh what an amzing memory....

The Charlatans- Barrowlands 1990 (I was 14 and it was my first gig!)

Arctic Monkeys- T in the Park 2006

maidamess · 07/10/2008 16:23

George Michael x 3

Yes I know, some may feel I am a glutton for punsihment but live he is THE DOGS!!

oops · 07/10/2008 16:24

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Overmydeadbody · 07/10/2008 16:26

The Flaming Lips. Without a shadow of a doubt.

Even Faithless couldn't beat that.

oops · 07/10/2008 16:28

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CatIsSleepy · 07/10/2008 16:30

the Pixies, the first time and last time I saw them (first time 1988? somehwere in Birmingham, last time Brixton erm 3 or 4 years ago)
Jeff Buckley at the Fleece and Firkin in Bristol
Franz Ferdinand at the Coronet, Elephant and Castle
and lots more probably

superdenki · 07/10/2008 16:44

There's loads, if only my pathetic brain could remember them all!

Beastie Boys supported by Henry Rollins at Birmingham Hummingbird, 1991 (or 92, my memory isn't what it was. It was the Check your head tour anyway).
Stone Roses at the empress ballroom in Blackpool (1990?)
Fugazi at the Boardwalk in manchester in 89/90 - absolutely amazing. I saw loads of bands at the Boardwalk - Primal Scream, Lemonheads, Charlatans, etc etc. Saw Green Day in a tiny upstairs room in the Millstone pub in Manchester about 4 years before seeing them play an almost identical set at Reading.
My mates and I used to be obsessed with Happy Mondays and followed them around manchester. I saw them about 15 times...

My first gig was Toyah at the Apollo in Manchester in 1984! I was 11, my dad took me

GentleOtter · 07/10/2008 16:49

Led Zep - Rotterdam. Just before John Bonham died.

SixSpotBurnet · 07/10/2008 16:55

My fave is still probably The Undertones, a very long time ago, at Hull City Hall. Met them all outside afterwards, as well as Edwyn Collins of Orange Juice, who were supporting.

Second best probably the Pixies and Throwing Muses double-headers, way back when in the early 90s.

Have fond memories of Daft Punk at Tribal Gathering in 1997.

SixSpotBurnet · 07/10/2008 16:56

Biggest regret - was staying in NYC on Columbia University campus in 1985, was asked if I wanted to go to a gig in a church by a little-known band. Said no.

They were...

REM.

Bugger.

superdenki · 07/10/2008 17:03

How annoying.
I won a competition in Sounds for tickets to see Happy Mondays at camden dingwalls and then have a bubble bath (I know - ) with Bez and Shaun afterwards. My mum woulnd't let me go as I had my French GCSE oral the day afterwards, the unreasonable bitch.
I also missed seeing Sonic Youth on the daydream nation tour as I was on a french exchange trip. Bloody French.