The best band you've seen live?

[Firestorm]

[QUOTE 2028811, member: 45"]They were my annual event during my teens. Great live [/quote]


Still playing alot although the Annual gathering is the main thing these days
Mike Peters plays with Big Country and Dead Men Walking a lot too

 

[The Jogger]

Pink Floyd , The Wall @ Earls Court, late 70s mind blowing

 

[The Jogger]

Oh and of course The Undertones on many occasions ..brilliant.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Pink Floyd , The Wall @ Earls Court, late 70s mind blowing

Yeah i was there to.

 

[ColinJ]

The Invisible Girls....What did they look like?

Visibly masculine!

 

[ceepeebee]

HMHB - every time I've seen them has been great - though last year was the least great for some reason
Pulp - Glastonbury 95
Belle and Sebastian - 2x nights at Barrowlands in 2001?
Sodastream one night upstairs at the Betsey Trotwood were pretty magical
Dexys a couple of years ago playing the hits at the RFH
Spaceman3 at Sheff uni sometime round 1990
Arab strap at Reading 1999 when Braithwaite from Mogwai came on, woah
Mogwai at Maida Vale doing a John Peel special were phenomenal too.

probably a load more that I'll remember after I click post reply....

 

[GM]

Eagles at the O2
Radiohead at the Manchester Evening News Arena
Frank Zapper at the Rainbow ( when got pushed off the stage )
Yes at the Rainbow

 

[StuAff]

Many I could pick, but a few nights of many:

Nirvana, Reading '92. Anyone who says it wasn't that good either wasn't there or can't remember. I was, I can, and it was brilliant.
Ministry: First ever London show (Brixton '92) was jaw-dropping. Seen every one since, but the second of the two in 2003 was just about best for me.
Jean-Michel Jarre, Place d'Armes, Versailles, '93. Must have been 100,000 plus there. Phenomenal spectacular.
Einstürzende Neubauten, London, 2000. Nearly three hours, every track I could have wanted them to play and then some.
Metallica, Download '06. Master of Puppets in full. 'Nuff said.
Rammstein. Brixton in '01 was the most jaw-dropping thing I'd seen since that first Ministry show. Every one since has somehow raised the ante.....
Kraftwerk, midnight show, Brixton '04. Four blokes standing behind laptops. Total audience banter: five words (25% more than the earlier crowd got). Sounds dull like that. Anything but.
FNM, Brixton '09. 'Reunited', and it felt so good....

 

[ceepeebee]

Many I could pick, but a few nights of many:

Nirvana, Reading '92. Anyone who says it wasn't that good either wasn't there or can't remember. I was, I can, and it was brilliant.

saw them there the year before as I waited for Chapterhouse....

 

[EltonFrog]

SLADE.

 

[TheDoctor]

Queen at Knebworth.
Toyah at Hammersmith.
Scooter at HMV Forum earlier this year.

That little lot probably tells you something about my taste, or lack thereof,,,

EDIT - Oh, I forgot an Aids benefit gig at Brixton Academy a long, long time ago. New Order and Bronski Beat, amongst others.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2029022, member: 259"]

• The Ramones, twice in 1976 and 77?. Just impossibly mad!
• the Sex Pistols were dull corporate rack in comparison.

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First bit - like
Second bit - unlike

Actually I was listening to a Ramones studio album the other day and it sounded a bit on the weak side to me, and I've always liked them, but then slap on 'It's Alive' and it sounded great.

 

[EltonFrog]

Oh, I forgot about Queen, circa 1977 Hamersmith Odeon

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Thought of another too, The Leningrad Cowboys - in thick Russian type accent "we are American rock and roll band". The drummers set-up looked like a tractor, great stuff!

 

[User169]

The Wedding Present (obviously) - hoping to catch them again in Belgium in a couple of weeks time.

Other good'uns:
Throwing Muses, Go-Betweens, Sugarcubes.