Bands that can still cut it

[TVC]

The Mission, currently on their 30th anniversary tour, new album is great

View: https://youtu.be/dnH3WlEmOws

They certainly had bigger hair when I saw them in 1986, perhaps I should put them on my list.

 

[jefmcg]

Human League....they've definitely still got it

Are they objectively "good" or just as good as they once were? I saw them back-in-the-day ("Don't You Want Me?" day), and they were kinda terrible. Heaven 17 at the same time were good, and again in 2000

 

[Brandane]

(Jeff Lynne's) E.L.O..

 

[Tim Hall]

[QUOTE 4538469, member: 76"]TMTCH they were very good when I saw them last year, still had the energy and the passion of all those years ago![/QUOTE]
I saw Swill and Bobby Valentino (he's been in and out of them over the years) last week (as i mentioned in the gig thread).

I saw Terry and Gerry (who.?) last year. Absolutely spot on they were.

 

[Saluki]

The Manic Street Preachers. Still awesome

 

[Hacienda71]

Primal Scream.

 

[Firestorm]

Graham Parker still cuts it

I saw them supporting the Runaways in 77, I think Hold back the night had just been released

 

[Tim Hall]

Are they objectively "good" or just as good as they once were? I saw them back-in-the-day ("Don't You Want Me?" day), and they were kinda terrible. Heaven 17 at the same time were good, and again in 2000

Back in the day for me for The Human League was before Don't You Want me and while Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh were still there. A man with strange hair and a fantastic voice singing against a backdrop of slides fro. Thunderbirds. Before Martin Rushent started producing them. I remember seeing them at The Rainbow when they were riding high on the Don't You Want Me wave. Me and my mate Nic, aged 20, were a lot older than majority of the audience.

 

[TVC]

I assume we are taking Half Man Half Biscuit as a given.

 

[Tim Hall]

[QUOTE 4538594, member: 76"]I'm also hoping The Saw Doctors can still cut it. I am off to see them later in the month in the Bristol o2.

It's been too long, and I can't wait [/QUOTE]
Looking back at the bands you've listed, are you sure you're not me?

 

[slowmotion]

Squeeze. We saw them last time they were at the Albert Hall. The crowd all loved them.

 

[HLaB]

U2 can still cut it IMO but they've only been round since 1976 which wasn't that long ago

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 4538643, member: 45"]Ooh. Ooh. Level 42. Still one of the tightest bands around.[/QUOTE]

Shîte.

 

[Dan Morinary]

The Specials.
Still brilliant and still bouncing around stage like kids on pogo sticks!

 

[Chromatic]

Human League....they've definitely still got it

Saw them at Bristol a couple of years ago, it was a fantastic gig