Memorable Gigs

Saturday 13 June 1992 - London Wembley - Guns n Roses
Sunday 14 June 1992 - Manchester Maine Road - Guns n Roses
Tuesday 16 June 1992 - Newcastle - Guns n roses

What a great four days that was. :D

Donnington 1991 - AC/DC, Metallica, Queensryche & Black Crowes. Won't metion the other band on cause they were rubbish.

Plus all the Thunder gig's i've been too, too many to list.
 
Porcupine Tree in Manchester last year then Leeds the night after.

Marillion at the Mancheter Academy last year - Snowwhere Else Tour.

All 3 were awesome awesome gigs :)
 
Weezer - Brixton Carling Academy - June 15th 2005
Jimmy Eat World - Bristol Carling Academy - June 16th 2005

I think these were the dates. Ive got the tickets stored in the album sleeves at home but I remember the Jimmy Eat World gig was rescheduled to the day after the Weezer gig. These were probably the best 24 hours of my life to this point, went to these gigs with a fair few friends of mine, one who has since passed away and I still thank him for securing me a ticket. Really enjoyable.


Muse - Eden Project 2006
First time I had even seen Muse live. Just WOW. The Eden Project was such an awesome venue too, everything was just immense.
 
daft punk at global 06 , was 2/3 rows from the front dead centre , id waited 9 years to see them since i was far far too young when they toured in the 90s , normally when your so hyped about something youl be disappointed....

not on this ocassion though ! i cant see me EVER been happier than i was that night, never ever , not possible!

been to cup finals etc but nothing will ever come close to the atmosphere in that tent when erol alkan dropped "RATM - killing in the name of" to 20/30 000 daft punk fans 10 mins before they where due on. well nothing except when this happened... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=l9NBltVKY24&feature=related

get emotional just thinking about how good that whole night was
 
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It must have seeing a band called lawnmowee Deth in thje class venure that was Birminghams "Edwards Number 7" in around 1990ish ?
A small venue, crazy metal, stage diving, crowd surfing, the guitarist "Concord Face Ripper" playing naked (!) and seeing my watch in bits below me after a great small and rocking gig.

http://www.earache.com/bands/lawnmower_deth/lawnmower_deth.html

These lads were only in it for the laughs (and probably the beer as well, to be honest). Pure comedy thrash metal straight down the line, and great with it. Admitedly, they were never the best musicians in the world, and they probably wouldn't deny it, but they had something that was all too rare in the world of metal; a sense of humour. I somehow can't imagine a bunch of misery guts like Stain'd recording a song about Ray Reardon being a vampire, for some reason, never mind a song called 'Sumo Rabbit And His Inescapable Trap Of Doom'. Metal needs more bands like Lawnmower Deth, and they are sadly missed, even if they are a bunch of total and utter mentalists (the vocalist was called Qualcast Mutilator!) Case closed!



KJ
 
RSH said:
although I've never actually seen a single band live (that I like) and said "that was crap"
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You need to go to more gig's then, I've been to a few and walked out before they've finished due to them being rubbish.

For me Deftones, at Soundwave Festival last year, they were on form that night.
 
Foo Fighters - V Festival 2007
Foo Fighters - Dingwalls Comedy Club in Camden 2007
Foo Fighters - Hyde Park 2006
Foo Fighters - Reading 2005

Queens of the Stone Age - I think it was Newport leisure centre 2001.

Band of Horses - Bristol Thekla a few weeks ago.

Metallica - Download 2003

Prodigy - Leeds 2002

They're the main ones I think.
 
Darey said:
You need to go to more gig's then, I've been to a few and walked out before they've finished due to them being rubbish.
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No, you just make sure you see bands you like, simple isnt it?

I'm sure a lot of artists have 'off nights' but ive never seen any, couldnt even put a number on the amount of bands ive seen.

Im going to see Parkway Drive in may, I just know its going to be brilliant, if it isnt, I shall come back to this thread and eat humble pie.
 
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2004 Red Hot Chili Peppers Hyde Park with James Brown :D
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I was there. It was only memorable because I paid £70 for the ticket, though.

for me, it's Ozzfest 2000. Tool, Slipknot, Amen, (hed) p.e., apartment 26, soulfly, Zakk Wylde, Sabbath to name but a few.

Dashboard a couple of years was quite cool

Oceansize and Pure Reason Revolution were good last year, too.

Any Isis show.
 
Saturday 11th September 1999
Rock City
Nottingham

"I'm not enjoying this"... the words of Johnny Morrow as he paced the tiny Rock City stage during this, Iron Monkey's final gig. The crowd certainly were; flailing and writhing to the Monkey's special sounds, and if the band weren't interested anymore they didn't allow it to show through a superb, steamrollering ,though all to brief performance.

Opening with a barrage of feedback (what else?) at an almost unbearable volume, which had unsuspecting punters sticking their fingers in their ears, it was quickly clear that the Monkey meant business. No feeble, snivelling goodbyes for them. Just several doses of aggro sludge delivered by five dangerous looking individuals. Kicking things off with a new song, in typically perverse fashion (the first and last time we were going to hear it), Iron Monkey were quickly into their stride, with the guitar duo of Dean and Stu dishing up gargantuan groove heavy riffs at tremendous volume, backed up by the super human drumming of Justin and with Doug, legs splayed, churning out some of the most fuzzed out bass you are ever going to hear.

Supremely tight and together, the Monkey seem supercharged for this final demonstration of their simian potency. However, the deciding factor is vocalist Johnny Morrow. With his abrasive rasping voice sounding like barbed wire vomit, he has been cited by many listeners as the reason they don't like Iron Monkey and it is in up on stage where he comes into his own. Always, seemingly on a knife edge between disinterest and total commitment, Morrow is a compelling front man, whether prowling the stage with water pouring from his mouth, squatted roaring out lines like "It's no secret that it's me in the vicinity of the atrocity", or absent mindedly hurling a bag of flyers into the audience. Shedding his NHS spectacles for the stage, he is an intimidating character. Burly and unpredictable, he has the definite air of someone you don't want to upset and he spends the gaps in between songs by turns giving shout outs to friends and berating the audience. The most telling moment of the evening comes as he declares that the first person to approach him with a burst lip, bloody nose or cut eye will win an Iron Monkey 10". "Just show us that you care" he says, and perhaps that is the crux of the problem. For all their disturbed magnificence, would enough people ever have cared about Iron Monkey? Perhaps it is the band's view that it is better to leave us wanting more and to go down fighting, than to struggle on against record company indifference and general inattention. Whatever, it is impossible to speculate about the motives behind this unexpected break up, especially given that their official statement regarding the split states, "Iron Monkey have split up. You don't need to know the reasons why. It's none of your ****ing business. Get over it."

So that's it. They played their songs and left. Morrow gathering together his belongings from the side of the stage and making a hasty exit while the rest of the band bombarded us with a flurry of drums and feedback. And as the last squeals died down it really was the end. The lights came on and it was over. The demise of yet another great band, and despite what the Monkey may have said, hopefully we've learned something.
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The most memorable gig 'experiences' for me have ended up with adventures with the bands involved...

Melt Banana, Antiproduct, Miocene, earthtone9, Vacant Stare, Mad Capsule Markets (and the bunny costume scenario), Mahumodo...

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ahh, Antiproduct. I saw them play at a brewery in Stoke with Sack Trick and Wishbone Ash. Alex kept hitting himself in the face with the mic. What a class show that was.

God I sound like dmpoole

(bungee jumping people die)
 
wtf? they have a new bassist? when I saw them it was Toshi, but I'd heard he'd replaced Danny in the Wildhearts for a bit. That whole scene is very incestuous. I used to work with a girl who played in a band called Volta, they played with AP a few times and she was always going on about bands swapping members and stuff.

(lolmembers)
 
Most memorable:
Led Zeppelin - Earls Court 1975
The Tubes - Manchester Free Trade Hall - the late 70s sometim
Bruce Springsteen - Wembly Stadium 1985

Others:
Tool - Cardiff 2006
Iggy Pop - several times
Televison supported by Blondie - Manchester Free Trade Hall 1977
Rush - Manchester Free Trade Hall - 1977 (I think)
Linkin Park - Download 2004

..and Hard-Fi in the Bar Fly Cardiff last night.
 
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