Live music performances that just blow you away.

[Bianchi boy]

Rolling Stones in roundhey park leeds 1982 and at manchester city ground 1992, at the other end of music scale James Taylor at Nottingham, James taylor was superb

 

[Herbie]

I was watching highlights from T in the park, on T.V. last night. The Prodigy did Roadblox. That was pretty spectacular (I was never that into the Prodigy either).

Jean Michel Jarre, destination Docklands is an endearing memory from my youth as well.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z88QqTskJ4c


Do you have a 'stick in the memory' memory, of a live musical performance?

Ian Dury and the Blockheads at Edinburgh Playhouse 1979 .....my first gig I was 16 I was mesmerised ...

The Who at Glasgow SSEC in 2000. A bucket list box well ticked off

 

[Globalti]

Rolling Stones in roundhey park leeds 1982 and at manchester city ground 1992, at the other end of music scale James Taylor at Nottingham, James taylor was superb

My Irish pal got back from a motorbike trip that evening in Leeds and strolled down the road to see what he could see. Arriving at the interval he found nobody on the gates and walked in to enjoy the second half for free!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Closest I've come to ACDC is Hayseed Dixie, well worth the time. We saw Gogol Bordello at the UEA (which was a huge drive for us, but closest venue they were playing) again, highly recommended as a live act.

I've got a couple of Hayseed Dixie CDs
Gogol Bordello used to be played a lot on the 'Radcliffe & Maconie Show'

Messiest gig??
King Kurt, at Adam & Eves (Leeds)

 

[raleighnut]

I was at 'Off The Tracks' when Nick decided to have a wander round the courtyard during his set, breaking strings as usual, not a very good quality clip but stunning if you were there.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwKTDegcFBA&feature=player_detailpage

 

[Oldbloke]

Wilko Johnson Band...every time I saw them
Dr Feelgood...ditto
Chris Farlowe..pub garden in Wiltshire, 2001
Rod Stewart..Wembley 1995..until ballads time!

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Boothby Graffoe with Nick Pynn at Canterbury Uni. I've a lot of time for Boothby, but Nick Pynn is a fantastic addition. We also saw John Otway in Maidstone with the Big Band (I think that's what he calls it when he has full accompaniment.) and they were great. Bit of convergence, the lead guitarist also did/does lead for Eddie & the Hotrods. Otway was his normal shambles, but the band behind him were tight as and having a whale of a time. Was a really good night. That really works for me, when the band are obviously enjoying what they are doing (when we saw Eels it was the same, the band were just so tight it was scary) and might be one of the reasons I wasn't so take with Metallica when we saw the Death Magnetic tour at the O2, they were spread across a stage the size of a swimming pool and weren't even facing each other. Agreed, we were way up in the nosebleeds so wouldn't have seen chemistry anyway, but it was pretty obvious that wasn't there.

 

[Bianchi boy]

My Irish pal got back from a motorbike trip that evening in Leeds and strolled down the road to see what he could see. Arriving at the interval he found nobody on the gates and walked in to enjoy the second half for free!

From what I can remember tickets were £9 each, and a friend and I ordered our 2 tickets and we recieved 3 in the post, so sold the spare ticket for £15 , at the venue Happy days