Best gig you ever went to?

[ComedyPilot]

U2 - I Will Follow

They don't make bands like that nowadays.

I am in that seething mass somewhere.

Dortmund 1984

 

[vernon]

Led Zepplin 1978 Knebworth for awe and wonder.

Elbow MEN Arena 2009 for sheer brilliance and intimacy created by Guy

Garvey.


Tom Jones MEN Arena 2009 for a quality blast from the past.

 

[HLaB]

U2 again :-) Vertigo, Croke Park 2005

 

[zimzum42]

For me, Metallica, Reading 97...

 

[numbnuts]

Rick Wakeman

 

[TVC]

Roger Waters, Dark Side of the Moon Tour. NEC Brum. 10th row front and centre, inflatables, confetti, lasers, flame throwers and Andy Fairweather-Low.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK-VmlFMV4Q&feature=related

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQk27s3gd2U


Got my tickets for the next one - a full production of The Wall, nice

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Andy Fairweather-Low

genius alert!

 

[ComedyPilot]

For me, Metallica, Reading 97...

Fixed that for you

 

[yello]

I'd like to say that it was The Smiths at Camden Electric Ballroom in December of 1983 (the year I arrived in the UK so I remember it well) but there might be a bit of nostalgic hindsight creeping in there.

Otherwise, there are 2 gigs that stand out for me,

The Fall, March 1990, Kilburn National, London
Murky Weasels, Sep 1989, Borderline, Charing Cross Rd, London

but that seems an injustice because there are so many other possibles, if I think about that list would easily grow

 

[Happiness Stan]

"World's greatest set at the World's greatest gig". I was 20 yards from the front and this one of the greatest days of my life including the birth of my two sons and Mansfield Town winning the Freight Rover Trophy in '87:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNwixrmdVbg&feature=related

 

[ianrauk]

Husker Du - Camden Electric Ballroom
Rocket From The Crypt - The Garage
Black Sabbath - Hammersmith Odeon Mob Rules Tour
ZZ Top - Mescalero Tour - Brixton Academy

 

[vernon]

"World's greatest set at the World's greatest gig". I was 20 yards from the front and this one of the greatest days of my life including the birth of my two sons and Mansfield Town winning the Freight Rover Trophy in '87:

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNwixrmdVbg&feature=related

I hated Queen at the time and I found other things to do when their set was played on TV.

I've seen exerpts form their set for the first time in the Youtube clip and I have to agree that it's a platinum standard performance.

 

[amnesia]

Roger Waters, Dark Side of the Moon Tour. NEC Brum. 10th row front and centre, inflatables, confetti, lasers, flame throwers and Andy Fairweather-Low.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK-VmlFMV4Q&feature=related

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQk27s3gd2U

+1

Also saw the 'In The Flesh' Tour a few years ago - awesome

Got my tickets for the next one - a full production of The Wall, nice

+1


I gave away my tickets to the Live8 at Hyde Park a couple of years ago... now I will never see Pink Floyd in concert again. RIP Richard Wright

 

[Rob3rt]

Either Glassjaw or Alexisonfire. Architects are pretty awesome live too.

Not a fan of big gigs (stadiums) but my dad would have loved that roger waters tour.

 

[DavieB]

Im 30 and have never been to a gig wanted to go see gaslight anthem but it sold out