Which band is the best to see live?

[ISeeRed]

The Flaming Lips may not be on many people's lists of the best bands on earth, but their live shows are legendary. Typically, the night starts off with the lead singer coming out and crowd-surfing in a large hamster excercise ball:

 

Then they do the balloons/glitter thing:

 

And once the dust settles you realise there are a whole pile of fuckers dressed up as Father Christmas dancing on one side of the stage, and a bunch of babes dressed as pixies on the other:

 

Add to this the fact that their roadies are all dressed in superhero outfits, and you have all the ingredients for a very unusual evening indeed. The last time I saw them, a girl dressed as Wonder Woman randomly wandered on stage in the middle of a song, took a photo, wandered off and no-one batted an eyelid.

[Thants]

I used to like flaming lips up to the soft bulletin but all that shit and the over production of their following albums put me right off.

[Thants]

I've already told him. But will he listen? Noooooooooooo. Or maybe. I'm seeing them at the Festival Hall, are they doing the Albert Hall too?

 

They have announced a couple more dates.

 

Hmm, I may have my halls mixed up. And months, haha. Anyway I'm off to see them somewhere later this year.

 

Got themmmmm. Cheers TK n Waff.

[Joe Le Taxi]

Oh and Hadouken are a good live band as well.

[kopboy11]

Aslan,Leonard Cohen,Tom Waits & Bowie the best i've seen.

[Medazza]

The E Street band are up there without question. They take requests too and have been known to attempt songs they haven't even played or rehearsed for 25/30 years!

[Unrighteous]

Rammstein.

 

What a great spectacle.

[Joe Le Taxi]

These are not my videos but this is what it was like on saturday.

 

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[loadsoftrophies]

The Flaming Lips may not be on many people's lists of the best bands on earth, but their live shows are legendary.

 

Correct and....

The Go team

Polyphonic spree

Underworld back when Emerson was there.

The white stripes

Massive attack

Jurassic 5

Beck

 

Loads more my my brain has no memory.

[Joe Le Taxi]

Eh? How come the videos have gone white? They were working a minute ago.

[Karl_b]

Two of my favourite gigs were last year. I saw (with the big bad Prof) both Rival Schools and Frank Turner at the Cockpit in Leeds and both absolutely ruled. I thought I'd never get the chance to see Rival Schools so when they announced a reunion tour I was all over it.

 

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Frank Turner was one the best crowds I've ever been in, incredible.

 

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