Which bands have you seen live?

[MattBellamysMuse]

Here's my list:

Muse (will be x5 by Sept 2010)
Biffy Clyro
Friendly Fires
Kaiser Chiefs x2
Red Hot Chili peppers x3
U2
Elbow
Faith No More
Nirvana x2
Soundgarden
Blur
Neds Atomic Dustbin
Pop Will Eat Itself
Metallica
Oasis
Bon Jovi
Sisters of Mercy
Beastie Boys
Smashing Pumpkins
Manic Street Preachers
Jesus Jones x2
Suede
The Big Pink

Loads more from festivals. Too many to list.

Coo, I've just realised I've also seen REM and the Cranberries (don't think that really helps my cause though)

One band I have seen that I had no wish to: Manic Street Preachers

caught them accidentally at Glastonbury one year and couldn't escape fast enough

The only ones on my list that I thought were rubbish is The Big Pink. Although I couldn't actally see them from where I was sitting because the stage was full of Muse's stuff (Big Pink were supporting).

Ahh now if you're counting festivals
I can add quite a lot more, sadly I was too stoned pissed to remember them

Reading Early 90's
So Glasto mid 1990s
V (chelmsford) early 2000's

I have NO idea who I saw...

Suprising how similar the lists are.. all my mates are into R and B and poppy stuff and view me with bewilderment.

I went to Reading twice in the early 90s (91 and 92 I think) and I can hardly remember who I saw either. It was a long time ago.

I have not seen anyone for years as we cannot afford it anymore and the only ones I can remember are the lemonheads, garbage, the smashing pumkins and jamiroquai. I used to frequent the civic and wulfrun hall in wolverhampton a fair amount though so there must be loads more. I am getting old

Are we counting festival appearances, as well as bands/acts you've deliberately seen? If so
Manic Street Preachers x 31 ( I think, might be 32)
Rufus Wainwright x 11
Pulp
Muse x5
Supergrass
Catatonia
Radiohead
Oasis
Frank Turner
Take That
Ash
The Who
Jay-Z
Bjork
Goldie Lookin' Chain
The Levellers
Seasick Steve
Sex Pistols
Franz Ferdinand
Mika
Super Furry Animals
Hole
Skunk Anansie
Amy Winehouse
Billy Bragg
Chas and Dave
Girls Aloud
Kaiser Chiefs
The Auteurs
Luke Haines
Black Box Recorder
Marilyn Manson
Eminem
Kula Shaker
The Prodigy

Plus lots of others that I can't remember. (I've been to at least one festival a year since 1996, with the exception of this year- having a baby put a temporary stop to my drunken weekends in a fields.) Looking forward to starting DS's live music education at Glastonbury next year

jesus and mary chain x a few
the bachelor pad
the bmx bandits
the pastels x a few
the wake
the shamen
galliano
the dream warriors
jesse garon and the desperadoes
loop
the pixies
my bloody valentine
throwing muses
inspiral carpets
the stone roses
st etienne
pulp
teenage fanclub x 11 (!!!)
alex chilton
sonic youth
the beastie boys
the jon spencer blues explosion
primal scream x a few
the orb
the super furry animals x a few
schlammpleitzeger
barbara morgenstern
jeff buckley x 2 (the first time a tiny wee gig on his first visit to glasgow)
the flaming lips x a few
underground resistance x a few
vashti bunyan
kraftwerk
arthur lee
brian wilson
toots and the maytals x a few
dr alimontado
prince buster
edan
dabrye
maher shalal hash baz
candi staton x a few
belle and sebastien x a few
the hypnotic brass ensemble

i'm sure there are more but i have big gaps in my memory!

i thought 11 was a lot for teenage fanclub until i saw anathema device's manic street preachers x 30 odd!!!!!! phew. like em do ya?

oo forgot spacemen 3.

Too many to mention but here's a few of the bigger ones, in no particular order other than what pops out of my head first:

The Stranglers
The Damned
The Ramones
UK Subs
Stiff Little Fingers
999
Killing Joke
Alice Cooper
Iggy Pop
Rush
The Mission
Genesis

plus many, many more that are lost in the mists of time!

It does seem to be mainly rock and indie bands on these lists.
Where are the Take Thats and Beyonces?

Um.....

Haircut 100
Kajagoogoo
Tears for Fears
Duran Duran
David Sylvian
Dead or Alive
Echo and the Bunnymen
Marc Almond
Transvision Vamp
Bon Jovi
Def leppard
Space
U2
Bjork
REM
Radiohead
The Cranberries
Billy Bragg
travis
Texas
The Beautiful South
Robert Plant
Pink Floyd
The Who
Paul McCartney
David Bowie
Eric Clapton
Bob Dylan
The Levellers
Supergrass
Depeche Mode
Blue Oyster Cult
Fairground Attraction
Coldplay
Blur
Madness
James
The Soupdragons
Terrorvision
Robbie Williams

And others that I have forgotten....

I used to keep a list of every band I'd seen but lost count when it got well into the hundreds (gigged several times a week for years). But some of the big/best ones, off the top of my head...

Morrissey
Nick Cave
Pixies
New Order
Manics
Suede
Radiohead
Oasis
Hole
The Fall
REM
Brian Wilson
Beck
Billy Bragg
Dinosaur Jr
Pavement
Cat Power
Sonic Youth
The Charlatans
The Coral
The Lemonheads
Doves
Interpol
Franz Ferdinand
Elastica
Foo Fighters
Kristin Hersh
Julian Cope
Kings Of Leon
Tindersticks
Psychedelic Furs
Ash
Supergrass
The Magic Numbers
Godspeedyoublackemperor
Neil Young
Stone Roses
White Stripes
Ride
Sebadoh
Super Furry Animals
Spiritualized
The Polyphonic Spree
American Music Club
Red House Painters

Ragged Robin- I admit I may have been a little bit obsessed in my younger days
I've (mostly) grown out of it now, although we did name DS after Nicky Wire...

Van Morrison
Bob Dylan
Dire Straits
Eurythmics
The Undertones
Phil Collins
Peter Gabriel
Tina Turner
Stevie Wonder
Eric Clapton
VAST

I sound like your mum now don't I. There were others but I'm so old I can't remember lol.

at the number of people who have been to suede gigs

Was anybody at the last ever gig?

AnathemaDevice are you one of Shampoo?!

I was also a teenage Manics obsessive, but lived too far away from anywhere to get to see them.

Then I met DH and one of his best friends is the agent for them, I got to see them for free a few times but by then they had Gone A Bit Bryan Adams

But I have met James a couple of times, he was very nice and didn't appear to notice that I was being a loon ("GuesswhatguesswhatIwasthefirstpersoninBuryStEdmundstoownGenerationTerroristsyouknow")

Lists, I love lists but an never remember to include everything.
Here goes

The Sex Pistols
Public Image Limited
The Cure
Siousxie and the Banshees
Radiohead
Paolo Nuitini
Placebo
Florence and the Machines
Mission
The Damned
Stiff Little Fingers
Echo and the Bunnymen
Half Man Half Biscuit
The Smiths
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Killing Joke
Bad Manners
Stiff Little Fingers
Devo
Magazine
Buzzcocks
Wedding Present
Pogues
Adicts
Peter and the Test Tube Babies
Rezillos
Animals
Maximo Park
Ruts
Hazel O'Connor
Selector
Beat

oh I give up now!

We used to go and see bands quite often, now only once in a blue moon!
Here's what I can remember

Hot Chip (x3)
LCD soundsystem
Super furry animals (lots of times)
The Rakes (x2)
The Pipettes
Flaming lips
Ian Brown (the gig at apollo Manchester where Noel Gallhager came on as special guest, then someone threw a pint at him and he stormed off stage!!)
Duran Duran (x3)
Depeche Mode
They Might be Giants
Arcade Fire (in Liverpool after release of first album, probably best band I've ever seen live)
Pop Will Eat itself
Teenage Fanclub
Supergrass
Goldfrapp
The Bravery
The Stills and AuRevoir Simone (in New York)
Black Grape
Happy Mondays
Catatonia
Kenicke
Goldie Lookin Chain
Wonderstuff
Primal Scream
Placebo
and yes I've also seen Suede
Wet Wet Wet (NEC circa 1990!)
Sleeper
Can't remember anymore!

Oooh I like lists too,although finding it hard to remember

Placebo x4
Pixies x5
Frank Black/catholics x loads
Polyphonic Spree
Nin
Hayseed Dixie
Mercury rev
Eels
Robbie williams (when I was 16 lol)
Radiohead
System of a down x5

at festivals....
Marilyn Manson
Travis
Iron Maiden
Ministry
deftones
Green Day
Papa Roach
Pj Harvey
Fear Factory
The Strokes
Eminem
Inme

With Dp(prog fan)

Magnum
Iq
Marillion
Jethro Tull
Rush

I'm sure there are loads more, can't remember.

RDF
Faith No More
Therapy?
Pop Will Eat Itself
Levellers
Chumbawamba
They Might be Giants
Red Hot Chili peppers
Christy Moore
Oysterband
L7
Seven Little Sisters
Four Men and A Dog
Altan
Ezio & Booga
That Petrol Emotion
Sick Of It All

tons more, but my mind has gone absolutely blank

Ok, my list to date

The Used (my very first gig)
Papa Roach
Slayer (My first ever mosh pit)
Slipknot (AMAZING atmosphere) x 2
Soulfly (ended up with soime 20 st bloke in new rocks landing on my foot, limped into work next day, with a big grin on my face. also screamed like a girl at a take that concert when max came on stage)
Goo goo dolls (went alone cos xp ripped up ticket)
Nelly Furtardo (got free tickets, benefit of knowing half the lads from the NIA)
Funeral for a friend
Stonesour (got elbowed in throat, almost passed out, missed bother cos I was still trying to recover)
Madina Lake (won tickets to see them, wasn't aware I was 4 weeks pregnant with DS at the time)
Machine Head (missed the first song because ex didn't believe me when I said they were on already, and insisted on getting a drink. he ruined that night)

And

Frank Turner (March 2010)
Hoping for the RATM free concert. Was too young to see thenm pre-split, and a huge fan. Think DS might be a bit too young to take, but he loves killing in the name of (the clean version)

Hmmm, showing my age with some of these:

Pretenders
Blondie
Iggy Pop
Pogues
Paul Simon (Graceland tour)
Counting Crows
Green Day
Beth Orton
Kate Rusby
Eliza Carthy
Levellers
Oyster Band
Saw Doctors
Christy Moore
Van Morrison
Al Stewart
Steve Earle
John Martyn
Ezio and Booga
Latin Quarter

I'm sure there are more but my mind's gone blank!

Portofino: I can't believe that you've been to see Blue Oyster Cult!

Oh bloody hell, never going to remember all of them, but actual gigs

King (first ever in 1984)
The Damned (10th anniversary in Finsbury Park, 2nd ever)
Doctor and the Medics (many times, in many sweaty clubs I was far too young to actually go to...they weren't a novelty act, honestly)
The Blow Monkeys (supported by Craig Charles!)
Hawkwind (supported by Dumpys Rusty Nuts) My dad trying to 'educate' me...
The Cure (x a billion)
Siouxsie and the Banshees (ditto)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (ditto)
Depeche Mode (ditto)
Bon Jovi (same excuse as above, friends birthday)
Wham (warmup gig at Brixton, pre The Final at Wembley, went because it was the only way my friends would be allowed to go. I was sensible and trustworthy apparently )
Carter USM
Jesus and the Mary Chain (x a million)
Cocteau Twins
The Family Cat (x a million)
Crowded House (x a million What? They're fab!)
Ash
Pixies
Throwing Muses/Kristin Hersh solo
Feeder
Ramones
New Order
Sugarcubes
Cowboy Junkies (fell asleep, not the most exciting band!)
Senseless Things
Ride
Hugo Largo
Culture Club
Pulp
The Fall
Oasis/Bootleg Beatles
Blink (Irish band, not Blink 182 although they are why they have the 182 on the end)
Kaiser Chiefs
Billy Bragg
Skunk Anansie

I'm sure I've forgotten loads... We used to go to lots of sweaty pub gigs prekids, weirdly enough always seemed to be able to afford it as students